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    The Kray twins were infamous gangsters in London during 1960’s. Ronnie and Reggie Kray were born on the 24 of October in Hoxton, east London. The twins were notorious for their gang and its violence also for narrowly avoiding being sent to prison many times. Although many people know the things the Kray twins did when they were already famous no one really knows what made them become gangsters. The Kray twins were Irish, Jewish and Roman Gypsy. They were identical twins. Reggie born 10 minutes

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    what tamed it, it was now time to focus on long-term economic growth. (Krugman:2008) On 15th September , 2008, Lehman brothers went under. In the following weeks, the Federal Reserve (FED) and the United States treasury nationalized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac(the two largest mortgage companies) and they took over the

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    Fannie and Freddie remain two of the largest financial institutions in the world, responsible for a combined $5 trillion in mortgage assets. The primary function of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is to provide liquidity to the nation’s mortgage finance system. Fannie and Freddie purchase home loans made by private firms (provided the loans meet strict size, credit, and underwriting standards), package those loans into mortgage-backed securities, and guarantee the timely payment of principal and interest

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    Reforming the Housing Market Today, because of the way congress has structured GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac undermine market discipline and actualize reverse incentives, leading to immoral behavior by market participants. The promise of market discipline is its ability to identify risk and deters immoral behavior. The 2008 financial crisis was induced by the dissolution of market discipline and rampant immoral behavior. Thus, to safeguard against another financial crisis congress should address

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    Crisis - Policy Reactions 1) What are the causes behind the U.S. Subprime mortgage crisis? Is one cause more responsible than another? The first and more important factor that lead to the subprime mortgage crisis was governments creation of Freddie and Fannie. This move by the government to intercede the private financial industry sector eventually lead to the US government being the largest lender of mortgages in the US. In addition to the flawed notion that government should determine who

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    Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil Borrowers with a lower credit score were considered as risky and were called ‘subprime borrowers’. Therefore the interest rates on these loans were higher than the rates given to borrowers with a higher credit rating. In the 1970s it was very difficult for these borrowers to avail loans. They had to apply through conventional lenders for loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). The procedure was long and tedious

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    The ’Bohemian Rhapsody’ from QUEEN was written in 1975, and re-released in 1991. The author was Freddie Mercury. This literary work is very interesting for me examined by psychological approach. The entire text has a male centred structure, the dominant persona is male. There are several names and characterizations such as ’poor boy’, ‘killed a man’, ’Galileo’. All of these references show the dominant gender in the text. Although there is a less strong female presence as well such as ’mama’ and

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    like Holden, just in a more cognizant way. He also tried to ignore the pressure, but couldn’t without being emotionally affected which we can understand from the lyrics: “Turned away from it all like a blind man/ Sat on a fence but it don't work”. Freddie Mercury says that, “Pressure pushing down on me/ Pressing down on you, no man ask for/ Under pressure that burns a building down/ Splits a family in two/ Puts people on streets.” We can understand that he is aware of isolating effects of pressure

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    Bohemian Rhapsody

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    Culture System," in The Interpretation of Cultures, (New York: Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, 1973): 90.In this essay, I will argue that Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody uses various religious visual representation techniques to express the narrative of Freddie Mercury battling between his sexuality and his affiliation with his religion. The song was produced to use differing genres in order to represent

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    provided. But, he did do this ignoring what others said and did this as no one else would do it, by himself. Thoreau had best described the idea of individualism back in his time and the time of the transcendentalists. However, the famous lead singer, Freddie Mercury, of the band Queen had also described this belief quite

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