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    the majority of the authors intending too, create a complete picture of what America was like in the early nineteenth century. The first historian to attempt an overarching theme of the west was Frederick Jackson Turner in his Significance of the Frontier in American History. For years, Turner’s vision was

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    presented with. Buck in The Call of the Wild begins his transformation into a beast when he is thrown into the grim terrain of the north. Along with this, the American people during the Frontier were shaped by the open land in the west that they were forced to adapt to. In the Call of the Wild and Turner’s Frontier Thesis, both Buck and the American people’s identity were shaped because of the surrounding geography. Initially in the story, Buck had it easy. He was born a domesticated St. Bernard/Scotch

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    New Frontier Philosophy

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    According to “the more factor” of Laurence Shames, the frontier belief that “America would keep on booming” has rooted deeply in American’s way of life while it still influents the American people in the twenty-first century. This could be reflected in two aspects, which are the motivation of advance and the desire to own more. On one hand, the “new frontier” philosophy pushes the American people to achieve progress in different areas, which is well embodied in the advancement of technology. In the

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    Frontiers Of Love Themes

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    paper I chose to write about the books Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Frontiers of Love by Diana Chang. Although one book is a work of fiction and the other is a memoir the two books discuss central moral issues involving main characters in their use of theme. Ayaan in the book, Infidel discusses her life and religious upbringings. Her neglectful father and her abusive mother along with an arranged marriage. In the book, Frontiers of Love, Diana Chang discusses the racial issues in her culture. The

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    have to be a frontier, or as described by Webster’s Dictionary, “A span that forms the margin of stayed or industrialized territory.” American past has been in a colossal degree Tethe past of the settlement of the Outstanding West. Expansion of the United States can be drew from the early of those who stayed in Jamestown. They had made the early frontier of America, the foreign frontier. Supplementary clusters came to this large earth alongside its seeming endless frontier. The Frontier, that was ever

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    with the concepts of “wilderness” and the “frontier.” Concepts of wilderness and the frontier have greatly shaped the perception of the West. Perceptions of the frontier and wilderness have changed over time; first, Turner’s frontier thesis described the frontier and wilderness an uninhabited land of opportunity; second, new historians challenged Turner and claimed wilderness and the frontier were merely constructs of society; lastly, concepts of the frontier and wilderness expanded past the American

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    The definition of the efficient frontier says that “the efficient frontier represents the set of portfolios that has the maximum rate of return for every given level of risk, or the minimum risk for every level of return.” I plotted standard deviation on x axes and Returns on y axes to interpret efficient frontier. Exhibits also include these and the graphs you asked for as graph2: In our study, we concentrated on the optimal portfolios, the one which has the lowest volatility or risk, for given

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    Instructions for Efficient-Frontier Construction a. Estimation The goal is to obtain the raw ingredients – expected returns, standard deviations and correlations. Historical data are used for this purpose. As a rule of thumb, five years of daily data are probably right (one year should be the absolute minimum). Keep in mind the following: 1) make sure to use the adjusted close prices to calculate returns (so that you won’t have large, spurious negative returns due to dividend payments or splits)

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    "The Frontier in American History" was one of the most famous essays by Frederick Turner in the nineteenth century. In this essay, Turner expressed his thoughts about how the frontier set up and created unique American characteristics. He explained the idea of American exceptionalism, which states that America is different than other nations in the world. The development of America included many significant events, and our nation 's identity was made up by many factors, not just only the frontier

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    The Impact of the American Frontier American frontier is the border area of settlement of their descendants of American counterpart. The American civilization was established a long time ago, but even later the American West held a great attraction for some of the men. However, the frontier began when colonists settled on the east coast of the continent the 1600s.The values represented the American frontier that are important such as Self-Reliance and Rugged individualist, American macho, Inventiveness

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