Investors are often irrational, and the stock market is unpredictable. The three-day crisis that began on May 28, 1962, clearly demonstrated how strange the behavior of Wall Street bankers can be, and how much investor decisions depend on their emotions. On the morning of May 28, after six months of decline
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(301 words) Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin was born in a simple family in Novosibirsk. The future hero of the USSR showed independence in decisions and resourcefulness as a teenager: by the age of 20, without leaving his hobby for airplanes, Alexander had mastered several working specialties. And already in 1933 ...
: A young prince from an eastern country comes to the Soviet pioneer camp, where he makes friends and changes his worldview. Having become king, he decides that the people of his country will live freely, as in the USSR. In the pioneer camp "Spartacus", located on the Black Sea coast, Prince Delihyar should arrive ...
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak is without a doubt one of the greatest figures of Russian literature of the 20th century. Starting his career as a futurist poet, over time, Boris Pasternak moved away from this genre, not sharing the slogans about the isolation from the work of 19th-century figures, which allowed the author to reveal ...
(288 words) The story of B.L. Vasilyeva “And the dawns here are quiet” is known for her heroines who did not spare their own lives for the sake of defeating the enemy. The work teaches us true patriotism, courage and heroism. Thanks to the mastery of the author, the described events do not leave anyone indifferent....
Many people think that literature died in Russia, with the collapse of the Union of Soviets. Indeed, it is now very difficult to immediately name a Russian poet or prose writer, without thinking about it, or not searching the Internet. However, this is a big mistake. Good authors on Russian soil have not yet been translated....
(336 words) An integral part of Gogol's Russia was undoubtedly the world of bureaucracy. Bribe takers, embezzlers and corrupt officials together formed an entire estate, a small world for their own, known to us only from the pages of books. One of the classics who have made the greatest contribution to the creation of stereotypical ...
For four years, Alexander Trifonovich Twardowski wrote the poem "Vasily Terkin", which became the most famous work about World War II. In the center of the plot is a simple soldier, Vasily, with an unusual life story. For 30 chapters, the author tells the reader about the difficult military ...
After the death of her husband, the young baroness found herself in very cramped circumstances. Therefore, she is forced to encourage the courtship of the little-sympathetic and far from her circle businessman Turkur, who is in love with her and promises to marry. It is not clear how far their relationship has gone, but the fact is that the Baroness ...
: The sacred spirits show the hunks his past, where he became greedy, the present, where no one loves him, and the future, where he will die alone if he does not change. The miser is changing and becoming generous. Stanza I. The spirit of Marley The old gloomy miser Ebensar Scrooge has long loved no one and nothing but his own ...
Author: · Published · Updated Sometimes life is extremely difficult and incomprehensible. Unfortunately, there are no instructions for doing the right thing, so questions like “forgive - don't forgive?” or "revenge - forget?" become rhetorical. It became the basis for many literary ...
In the autumn of 1919, Andrei Startsov arrived from the Mordovian city of Semidol to Petrograd. He was mobilized in the army and arrived at the duty station. But instead of the expected dispatch to the front, Andrei is left a clerk at the headquarters. Soon Rita comes to him - a woman with whom he was close in Semidol and who is now ...
The source of the tragedy was the biography of Emperor Titus in the book of the Roman historian Guy Suetonius Tranquillus, "The Life of the Twelve Caesars." Emperor Titus wants to marry the Palestinian Queen Berenice, but Roman laws prohibit marriage to a non-Roman woman, and people may not approve Caesar's decision. Act ...
He was six feet tall, perhaps one or two inches shorter than the build of a strong man, and he walked right at you with his head bowed and staring intently from underneath. He held on as if stubbornly insisted on his rights, although there was nothing hostile in this, he seemed to relate this to himself equally, ...
London, mid-sixteenth century. On the same day, two boys are born - Tom, the son of a thief John Kenti, huddled in the stinking dead end Yard of Garbage, and Edward, the heir to King Henry the Eighth. All England is waiting for Edward, Tom is not really needed even by his own family, where only a thief father and a beggar mother have ...
Professor Maria Vladimirovna Kovaleva, director of the Institute of Information Machines, who lives with her two adult sibling sons, feels that she is tired of everyday life and decides to somehow diversify her existence, for example, to cut her hair and change her hair. Waiting for the line at the hairdresser, Maria Vladimirovna ...
Charm is more than manipulation; it encourages action through emotions. Sometimes people are so pleasant or charming that you sincerely want to help them. This means that you are fascinated. The higher the goals and the less money you have, the more useful the charm is to conquer people and motivate ...
: On the eve of World War I, Sherlock Holmes catches and delivers a Kaiser agent to Scotland Yard. The action takes place in August 1914. An agent of the Kaiser von Bork talks with Baron von Herling, the first secretary of the embassy. Secretary says von Bork will be arriving in Berlin soon, where a startling ...
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