Adam Duritz

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a six volume set written by Edward Gibbon. The six volumes were written from a Roman point of view between the years 1776 and 1788. Edward Gibbon was an English historian writer and a Member of Parliament. Gibbon’s work is considered to be outdated due to the central idea of this popular work. Throughout the set of books, he uses irony and criticism of organized religion. The thesis of his work is the falling of Rome was caused by embracing…

Introduction Vilfredo Pareto graduated from the University of Turin and practiced as a civil engineer before switching to economics, and becoming a famous economist known for his application of mathematics to economic analysis. Pareto’s theories and research have been discussed several times in Praxis with several different applications, including the Pareto Chart, the Pareto Principle, and Pareto Efficiency (relating to Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem and Pairwise Comparison Matrices). The…

From the time America began to the American Civil War, the new nation ruptured and reshaped the social and political norms that the world previously knew. For many years the nation followed British law and remained colonies under their rule. However, they quickly grew tired of British antics and boldly fought for independence to become free from England. The American Revolution brought about patriotic euphoria across the nation and led to the birth of a new country. America immediately chose a…

The success of any group is determined by those who lead it. In Richard Adams’ Watership Down, a band of rabbits led by Hazel leave their warren when one of them, Hazel’s little brother Fiver, feels that some sort of danger is imminent. They encounter several struggles before they settle down and create the Watership warren. An attempt to extract does from another warren called Efrafa, lead by the fierce General Woundwort, starts a rivalry between the two groups. Hazel and Woundwort are…

independence, the third president of the United States of America and a leading figure in America 's development. He was once the governor of Virginia and later he served as The United States secretary of state, then he became the vice president under John Adams. He moved to become a president for two terms, from 1801 to 1809. During his terms as president, America became a striving nation of small independent farmers, to becoming producers and world merchants and becoming the wealthiest and…

“For whoever wishes to save his life [in this world] will [eventually] lose it [through death], but whoever loses his life [in this world] for My sake will find it [that is, life with Me for all eternity]” (Matthew 16:25 AMP). This scripture, throughout the years, has demonstrated to society the true notion behind the pursuit of self-interest. The second chapter within Staplefords’ book “Bulls, Bears, and Golden Calves” discusses the importance of pursuing self-interest both economically and…

Libertarianism believe that to increase political and economic freedom and skepticism to government planning and authority. Friedrich Hayek is an Australian-Hungarian economist and defender of the libertarian ideology. He looks at the concepts of liberty through the idea that the market and competitions and the state is will only interfere in his idea of liberties. He believes that economic planning was very bad, because it did not allow for free markets. This can be seen when he talks about…

Labor migration, as an important fact of economic and social life, could not stay behind attention of scientists and researchers. One of the first serious theoretical foundations of the labor movement should recall to the Neoclassical theory of migration. The basis of this concept, the formation at the forefront of international differences in wage levels. The founder of the theory is J. Hicks and his work "Theory of wages"[4]. He's one of the first scientists who has considered migration as a…

Adam Smith 1. Known as founder of Classical economics, regarded as starting point of classical economics. 2. Described as Father of Political economics 3. He most noted for his work ‘An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of the Nations’ (1776). 4. He is first economist to deal economic problem in systemic manner , hence heis also known as first academic economist. 5. Smith gives the idea “labour is the source of wealth of the nations”, 6. Adam Smith propounded the labour theory of…

In the Bible, the Apostle John proclaims “Sin is a master to whom we become enslaved” (John 8:34). The disciple John clarifies sin can consume one’s spirit completely: tearing a person apart from the guilt of their sins. In the Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne implies a similar concept on how sin is capable of altering one’s character, along with the shame from their guilt. Throughout the Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne utilizes key elements such as diction and rhetorical devices, to convey a…