1“Small boy， come and photocopy this document for me，” was one of the orders I was anticipating to hear on a daily basis during my My expectations were totally I was given crucial and time sensitive assignments that required me to stay in the office till about 9pm on some It was almost the end of June and I still did not have an internship lined I knew I should have applied to more companies! All I needed was one interview to prove myself Just as I was about to give up on my search， I received THAT phone call early one Monday “This is Akweley from Strategic African Securities and we would like you to come in for an interview on W” I had been practicing for possible interview questions for weeks so two days later I walked into the SAS office with so much confidence that I had to remind myself to not seem The interview went well and I was offered the job a few days Strategic African Securities (SAS) is a small investment banking firm and just as I had requested in my cover letter， I was assigned to the Asset Management D The first day on the job consisted of a brief orientation comprised of meeting employees and a tour of the The first few hours at the job were used familiarizing myself with the computer system， filing and photocopying， and I remember hoping that the job would become more It did!!After lunch that day my boss called me into his office for a “Ahmed， we want to manage a company’s ¢500 million provident fund， type up a proposal for that and let me have it by ” The sentence sounded so sweet to me and at that moment I knew that SAS was going to provide me with the challenging environment I had been yearning all From that day， my routine consisted of typing letters to clients， engineering proposals and presentations and processing client applications for the liquidation of their After about two weeks on the job I started getting inquisitive about the day to day functions of the other departments so I started passing by Brokerage and Research with My curiosity led me to volunteer myself as a helping hand and so I began doing jobs for the other departments when things were moving slower at Asset M After familiarizing myself with all of the company’s investment products， I began talking to clients and educating them on how the products Although talking to clients was always a pleasant experience it became difficult and confrontational when a share price fell and I had to explain why the client lost I found out that in the business of handling other peoples’ money diligence and patience are two essential attributes to The highlight of the internship was a visit to the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) where I had the opportunity to observe a trading Earlier in the year I visited the GSE as part of a school trip but this experience was This time around I had the opportunity of being on the trading floor of the Exchange and directly interacting with some stock I was especially excited to witness， first hand， a share price increase and the commotion that When an equity price increases brokers immediately make on the spot analyses of its new value and have to make changes to their Some brokers even have to go as far as making phone calls to valued clients to find out if they are interested in buying or selling the During the last week of my internship， another intern and I decided that we wanted to go out with a “bang” and so we organized a presentation for our co- We designated the last day of our internship for the presentation and made invitations which we sent out through e- The presentation consisted of three parts; our expectations coming into the internship， what we learnt and suggestions we had for the I was extremely enthusiastic at the opportunity to finally show off all I had absorbed in two I explained to my coworkers how I was impressed at SAS’s level of professionalism and how I was treated like a regular employee and not some “small boy” Next， I explained to them how I learnt about efficiently saving my money to make maximum gains and how to more closely analyze equities to make the right purchase at the right The most interesting lesson I learnt required me to undertake some research to find out if equities do better than treasury bills in the long It took me about two days to garner all the information I needed but at the end， the hypothesis proved to be Finally I suggested to SAS that they focus on customer service and marketing because I found out， whilst doing research， that there was a large market of potential investors and that SAS only had a small share of the current mutual fund Later on that day a farewell party was organized for My summer internship experience definitely exceeded my expectations as everyday provided me with a new I received some important lessons， not only on the financial sector but also on non-academic My interest in investment banking was solidified and now I am 100% sure of what I want to do in the 2In the summer between my 3rd and 4th year of university (2004)， I worked as an intern at one of Canada’s big banks on the Stock Loan/Prime Brokerage While this is intended to give you a flavour of what you can expect， I by no means think that my experience was The hours: In the first few weeks， I arrived each day at One day， my boss challenged me to arrive at 7 the next Being somewhat competitive， I of course showed up on And continued to arrive at 7am each morning for the rest of the This is an ‘achievement’ I’ve come to be quite proud of (especially considering that I was out most evenings!)!The environment: I worked on the 65th floor of the office tower， surrounded by the Institutional Sales and Trading The analysts sat on the same floor on the other side of the ‘Chinese wall’ Looking back， this was a great and unique experience and My team sat on both sides of a row in the corner of the 65th Most people on the team were on the phone for most of the day and there was lots of Definitely not a quiet work environment (which I loved)The actual work: I was the first intern on the Stock Loan/Prime Brokerage desk at this particular bank， and so they didn’t have anything set in stone for I learned the most when I was sitting near the Just picking up on the way the business worked and occasionally helping with paper I also spent a lot of time making power point presentations and…reading the news The work/life balance: Like I said， I arrived at work at 7 each But， when I look back， I don’t remember being Instead， I remember always being busy and having some great experiences throug work (cruise on Lake Ontario， Dinner at some very cool restaurants， networking at patio drinks， etc)Bottom line: Working at a large bank was a great experience not only for the actual work but for the social These social opportunities doubled as networking opportunities and， in my case， led to a part time job with the same bank when I lived in London， E
I am not sure what kind of article you need， but here is one of the response paper that hit on the social Guilt of inability“Lifeboat Ethnics， Mother Love and Child Death in Northeast Brazil” is a very interesting It is talking about mothers and the entire community’s attitudes toward the deaths of After reading the first page of this article， my initial thought was “why is it dangerous to love your child?” It might be sad and heart-broken to lose a child， but how is it dangerous? What are the risks/costs of loving the child? Scheper-Hughes did not address this question thoroughly through out her Scheper-Hughes mentioned that the mothers’ attitudes over the deaths of their infants puzzled This puzzlement already shows her standards of what things should I do not think she blended into the community to observe things from the perspectives of the community members; instead， she used her own standards as an outsider to judge that The key point the author missed was that everyone， mothers， doctors， government， in this community understand the problem but since they are unable to change it， they justify these deaths rather than grieving over the dead children because they understand that they still need to keep go on in their life They need to save themselves as well as the ones， who they believe could be able to Scheper-Hughes quoted one girl’s words，” that baby never got enough to eat， but you must never say that!” They realized what the problem is， but they refused to believe it or even remind themselves of that problem because they think they cannot improve the They let “nature’ do its As Scheper-Hughes says “the death of hungry babies remains one of the best kept secrets of life in Bom Jesus da Mata” It becomes a best kept secret because nobody wants to remind themselves of their failures; therefore， they buried everything， including their memories with the This community also shows some sort of “masculinity” among these Because the absences of men， mothers were the ones who provide for their They are the mother as well as the father for the The death of a child shows the inability of the mothers to provide enough food for their children， which strikes a chord on their That is why they prefer to believe in the religious belief that their children were not dead; they just went back to their heavenly home with J This belief also shows some guilty of the mothers for unable to take good care of their The mothers want their children to live， but they were unable to provide the enough essential nutrition for Therefore， they think that the children are better off dead and have a happy life in The guilt of the government explains the free coffins and no documentation for a child’s
