Adam Duritz

was considered as a form of currency to pay taxes. A body of white officials operated as bureaucrats, who also handed their own orders down the chain of command. As a matter of fact King Leopold II himself condoned the use of violence or terror. Adam Hochschild alludes to this when he notes that Leopold and other officials ordered the archives to be destroyed so no one would know what happened. The legal framework and edicts by Leopold allowed for an increase in both the viciousness and…

Milton depicts the fall of Adam and Eve as the biggest tragedy of human history. In his epic, his tragic and serious tone stay constant, some might say there is a hint of sadness portrayed to. In Beowulf, the most prominent literary device used was alliteration. For example, in the…

Despite the extraordinary development of the world in the 200 years I have not been around, with tremendous technological and ideological advances that brought about wealth unheard of back in my time, it is disheartening to see that some mercantilist ideas and practices are alive and well. As a reaction to the problematic repercussions those practices had on the common workers, Robert Reich wrote a book entitled “Saving capitalism” in which he describes them and calls for a “reorganization of…

After fighting in the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763), Britain was left with an immense debt on their shoulders (Chapter 4). It was up to George Grenville to help reduce this debt and save England from a disastrous future (Chapter 4). His plans were set into motion when parliament passed acts that they hoped would raise money to pay off the debt (Chapter 4). However, they did not foresee that these actions would lead to the American Revolution. Although the change in British imperial policy…

In order for a novel to be considered Gothic literature it has to have certain elements. Milton’s Paradise Lost exudes gothic characteristics. The first is Pandemonium. When Satan and his followers are banished to Hell, together they create Pandemonium. Gothic literature is really all about intense emotion and the confusion between good and evil. Powerful emotion is clearly evident in Paradise Lost as there is a constant grasping or pushing and pulling with good and evil, God and Satan. The…

John Milton writes an epic that tells the ever captivating tale of good versus evil from where he believes is the beginning, the Garden of Eden. To do this however, Milton first lays out what had transpired before God’s creation of the Earth or of Adam and Eve to the fall of Satan and the angles who chose to follow him. In this Milton presents the idea that evil had been present before the creation of the world in Satan and by his fallen followers. The parallel of the evil in Satan and the good…

beings best interests. For example, telling Adam and Eve not to eat of the tree of life or you shall surely die (Holy Bible). God never mentioned anything about what it means to die or about the serpent coming around and giving his opinion on the trees meaning. Action Step: I want everyone to review where the beliefs they have come from. I. Introduction A. I will discuss three elements of the King James Version of the Holy Bible, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the Great…

Temptation is like the big bad wolf in Little Red Riding Hood. It has the appeal of something good, but when toyed with, it’s actually far more dangerous and evil than we expected. The lure of darkness is tempting, enticing, like the aroma in a chocolate factory. But how do we deal with temptation? In order to know how to deal with temptation, one must know exactly what temptation is. Temptation is defined as a desire to do something, especially something wrong or unwise. Some are tempted with…

William Easterly argues in his book The Tyranny of Experts that the support of autocratic dictatorships does not promote economic or political development in a more efficient way than what allowing a democratic and free regime to flourish would promote. He presents the idea that development experts who try to implement policies through dictators in order to promote the economic well-being of nations fail to support the economic or political well-being of individuals due to four things that…

Involuntary unemployment is a neat phrase. It is the notion that one, despite having the proper skills, bodily-health and desire to work, can be thrown out of employment. If one were to believe that having a capitalistic system necessitates involuntary unemployment, that would put you firmly in the laissez-faire camp of the classical economists. It was exactly this school of thought which Keynes did intellectual battle with. Keynes saw classical economic thought as an imperfect, to say the…