Reformed evangelicals do not have a reputation for being ecumenically inclined. The twentieth century saw Roman Catholics, largely as a result of Vatican II, turning their focus toward developing more receptive relationships with other Christian communions. It also saw mainline Protestants engaged in efforts to foster visible unity through the…[Read more]

The early modern period in England is rich in both literature and religious controversy. The age of Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton is also the age of the English Reformation, Civil War, Interregnum, and Restoration. This period in European history, with its Protestant/Catholic polemics and wars of religion, is commonly viewed as the occasion for…[Read more]

An essay assignment sheet and evaluation rubric for a lower-level General Education writing course focused on literary texts.

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A variance/volatility swap is an instrument that allows explicit exposure to the realized variance/volatility of an index, stock, etc., without exposure to other risks commonly encountered with derivatives: delta, gamma, etc.

The current political arena in Nigeria is chaotic. After several months of the February 25th, 2023, presidential election, Nigerians are still not satisfied with the declaration of the controversial president Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The citizens are waiting eagerly for the court pronouncement on the case before it. They have no trust for the judiciary…[Read more]

Zunshine’s essay draws on recent research in developmental psychology and cognitive evolutionary anthropology to examine emotional responses to supernatural events by the child and adult characters of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), as well as to revisit the traditional literary critical view of those responses, acc…[Read more]

We review the equity forward and futures pricing models. Consider an index level, I, at a future time, T. With respect to I, we calculate 1) the forward price, 2) the futures price, and 3) delta.