Internship: Equity Resources, Inc.

STEP Category: InternshipsThis presentation details my transformational project with STEP under the 'Internship' category. The summer of 2019 I had the opportunity to intern at Equity Resources, Inc., an esteemed Ohio mortgage firm. I worked in the Closing Department on a variety of tasks with my main responsibility completing Verbal Verifications of Employment. I also had the opportunity to manage my own pipeline of work in which I updated and validated important realtor information to ensure future business for the company. Each week I participated in a professional development seminar given by a leading executive in the company on topics to improve professionally, personally, and prepare for future career endeavors. The Ohio State University Second-year Transformational Experience Program (STEP)Academic Major: International Studie

Reading The Road with Paul Ricoeur and Julia Kristeva: The Human Body as a Sacred Connection

Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road confronts readers with a question: what is there to live towards after apocalypse? McCarthy locates his protagonists in the aftermath of the world’s fiery destruction, dramatizing a relationship between a father and a son, who are, as McCarthy puts it, “carrying the fire.” This essay asserts that the body carrying the fire is a sacred, incandescent body that connects to and with the world and the other, unifying the human and the divine. This essay will consider the body as a sacred connection in The Road. Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutics and Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic approach will help to explore what is sacred. In addition, their works elucidate the body as a present site of human connection and sacredness while calling attention to what is glaringly absent yet hauntingly present in McCarthy’s text: the mother. In the aftermath of destruction, primitive, sacred connections become available through the sensual body, highlighting what is at stake in the novel: the connection of body and spirit. The essay will attempt to show that McCarthy’s rejection of a redemptive framework, or hope in an otherworldly reality, shrouds spirit in physicality symbolized by the fire carried by the body. This spirit offers another kind of hope, one based on the body’s potential to feel and connect to the other. The thought and works of Ricoeur and Kristeva will broaden a reading of McCarthy’s novel, especially as a statement about the unification of body and spirit, contributing a multidimensional view of a contemporary problem regarding what sustains life after a cataclysmic event

The SO(2r)2\boldsymbol{SO(2r)_2} string functions as q\boldsymbol{q}-diagrams

We discuss our conjecture for simply laced Lie algebras level two string functions of mark one fundamental weights and prove it for the $SO(2r)$ algebra. To prove our conjecture we introduce $q$-diagrams and examine the diagrammatic interpretations of known identities by Euler, Cauchy, Heine, Jacobi and Ramanujan. Interestingly, the diagrammatic approach implies these identities are related in the sense that they represent the first few terms in an infinite series of diagrammatic identities. Furthermore, these diagrammatic identities entail all the identities needed to prove our conjecture as well as generalise it to all $SO(2r)$ level two string functions. As such, our main objective is proving these series of diagrammatic identities thus extending the works mentioned and establishing our conjecture for the $SO(2r)$ level two string functions.Comment: 39 page

New String Theories And Their Generation Number

New heterotic string theories in four dimensions are constructed by tensoring a nonstandard SCFT along with some minimal SCFT's. All such theories are identified and their particle generation number is found. We prove that from the infinite number of new heterotic string theories only the {6} theory predicts three generations as seen in nature which makes it an interesting candidate for further study.Comment: 18 pages, 1 table and no figure

Competitive effects of US and international acquisitions: examining the abnormal returns to rivals of acquisition targets

In the context of interconnected businesses and financial markets, we examine the competitive dynamics and the stock price discovery process of international acquisitions, and we measure its effects on the US market. To achieve this, we analyze a sample of large international and US acquisitions, and we compare its effects on the stock price abnormal returns of US-based rivals. This aims to improve our understanding of the information content of international mergers announcement. We observe that international and US target acquisitions generate positive abnormal returns to the US-based rivals, but the effect is statistically significant only for US target acquisitions. We also observe that international deals are related to lower abnormal returns to the US rivals during the run-up period. The abnormal returns to the rivals during the run-up period are positively related to the abnormal returns to the targets. Also, we observe that smaller deal values are associated with higher abnormal returns to the rivals during the run-up period. We do not identify statistical differences to the rival’s stock price abnormal returns when targets are publicly listed vs unlisted. We highlight several deal-specific and firm-specific characteristics that are statistically significant to explain the abnormal return to the targets, but that are not significant to explain the abnormal returns to the rivals. These include: the acquirer public status, the proportion of cash in the transaction, the premium paid, the horizontal nature of the deal and the identification of the target as Initial Industry Target. The abnormal returns to the targets are consistent with previous studies. Targets of US and international acquisitions earn significant positive abnormal returns. US targets earn on average significant higher abnormal returns than international targets. Also, we observe that horizontal mergers are associated with higher abnormal returns to the targets than nonhorizontal mergers. Targets identified as Initial Industry Target realize significant lower abnormal returns. Finally, other deal-specific characteristics appear related to the abnormal returns to the targets, including the deal value, the acquirer public status, the proportion of cash in the transaction and the premium paid

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