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over their challengers. In this paper, the incumbency advantage will be examined through the lens of James “Jim” McDermott’s continual reelection in Washington’s 7th Congressional District and Sharpe James, the longtime mayor of Newark. James’ incumbency advantage is especially interesting in the context of 2002 mayoral campaign, where he was nearly unseated by Cory Booker. Both McDermott and James served their constituents for over 30 years and developed sizable incumbency advantages, though in some

The documentary titled Street Fight, produced by Marshall Curry, follows a candidate for the 2002 election for mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Cory Booker and his opponent, Sharpe James. Street Fight mainly unveils the power of politics and what holds power over politics itself. However, the video also reveals several factors which influence and impact politics from the choices of real people on the streets of Newark. Of these factors, the video focuses on the tactics in which each candidate promotes

Street Fight is a documentary film by Marshall Curry. The documentary film is about the Election in 2002 with Cory Booker versus Sharpe James, who was both running for mayor of Newark, New Jersey. This documentary mainly focuses on Cory booker and how he goes about this election. Cory Booker is a 32-year old, Rhodes Scholar/Yale Law and an elected councilman for the city's poor in Central Ward. This film takes place once again in the year of 2002, month of April and May in Newark. At the start

based on the 2002 mayoral race between Cory Booker and Sharpe James for the city of Newark. Much like the title, the film is centered on a battle against poverty between the two candidates that takes place on streets of Newark. Throughout the film, both candidates exhibit behaviors of Power and Leadership, but in distinct ways. Cory Booker, the challenger, has traits of leadership that Mayor Sharpe James does not possess, but in the end, Mayor James’ power advantage over resources is how he defeats Booker

cities longest serving major running for a re-election James Sharpe. During the entire documentary there were multiple points regarding politics and political power. In the beginning of the movie it was noted that some citizens were afraid to support Booker because they feared being targeted and possibly losing their homes or businesses. Even though Booker attempted to beat the Sharpe, he was nowhere near as entrenched and politically connected Sharpe. With the stark difference in the demographics each

Ideally, governmental policies aim to defend citizens of a specific territory by setting laws that promote and implement egalitarianism. Although the federal government of the United States is said to strive to construct a homogeneous nation when it comes to equal rights and opportunities for its citizens in different states and cities, there have been numerous historical occurrences that demonstrate opposing aims. Often times in American history, unselected natural characteristics such as race and

0084 | 0.0188 | 0.0220 | 0.0190 | 0.0130 | 0.0159 | 0.0137 | Standard Deviation | 0.0224 | 0.0244 | 0.0255 | 0.0324 | 0.0355 | 0.0349 | 0.0280 | 0.0306 | 0.0305 | Jensen's α | -0.0016 | | -0.0010 | -0.0006 | | -0.0013 | -0.0012 | | -0.0013 | Sharpe | 0.1614 | 0.2619 | 0.1976 | 0.4499 | 0.4996 | 0.4208 | 0.3281 | 0.3950 | 0.3247 | Treynor | 0.0044 | 0.0064 | 0.0054 | 0.0170 | 0.0177 | 0.0163 | 0.0107 | 0.0121 | 0.0107 | Bond Fund Overall Performance (from Jan.1, 1991 to Dec.31, 1997) Compared

REVIEW OF LITERATURE Barua and Verma (1991) provided empirical evidence of equity mutual fund performance in India. They studied the investment performance of India’s first 7year close-end equity mutual fund, Master share. They found that the fund performed satisfactory for large investor in terms of rate of return. Ippolito (1992) expressed that fund/scheme selection by investors is based on past performance of the funds and money flows into winning funds more rapidly than they flow out of losing

Portfolio Management Module Conveyor: Dr Andreas Hoepner Project Submitted by: Harsh Shah (23873670) 1. Executive Summary 1.1. Research Purpose: When an investor considers to investment money, the first challenge that almost every investor face is numerous options to choose from stocks, bonds, mutual funds & so on. “Equity is one the key asset class which beats inflation in the long run.” (The Times of India, 5th Feb 2015). “Equity mutual funds help

(LULU) and Molina Healthcare (MOH). For our choice of fund, we analyzed USA Mutuals Vice Investor (VICEX). Finally, for the index, we analyzed the S&P 500. We took the historical data from yahoo finance and used Excel to find the Standard Deviations, Sharpe Ratios, HPR's, and regression analysis for each of the securities listed above. The Beta of the individual security, LULU is about 0.15, while the Beta of the portfolio, VICEX, is about 0.82. This means that for every dollar the