Adams

John Adams John Adams, the second president of the United States of America, wrote a letter to his wife Abigail Adams stating, “A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” (July 17, 1775) This shows his dedication to the process of a new form of government, different from the rule of the British monarchy, although some believed he was a monarchist. He also felt that religion and morals helped with building a nation of free…

Adam Smith Adam Smith was a Scottish political economist and philosopher. He has become famous by his influential book The Wealth of Nations in which he details the first system of political economy. At the age about fifteen, Smith proceeded to Glasgow university, studying moral philosophy “the-never-to-be-forgotten” Francis Hutcheson. Adam Smith argued about the trade of goods between countries. Like for example if England produces goods of wool at lower cost than he can trade with France…

Adam Smith, the father of microeconomic theories, puts faith in a virtually unregulated, free market that maximizes the dynamic efficiency. In his view, an ideal system of market should be based on free competition, increasing size of market, and considerable capital accumulation. He believes the production function is an increasing return to scale that would expand the market, lead to internal and external economies of scale, and ultimately, lower the cost of production. With the foundation of…

Classical economic theories started developing during the late 18th century in England with Adam Smith. The theories of the classical school ended the mercantilism and dominated economic thinking till late 19th century. It focused on economic growth, economic freedom, and free competition. Adam Smith is the greatest economic thinker of all time. His work changed the economic thoughts of his time. Like other early economic writers, Smith also was not just an economist. In addition he was a…

When most people think about revolutionary people in history, they don’t think about John Adams. And even more people don’t think about Abigail Adams, either. Though women didn’t have as big as a role as the men did back in the 1700’s, Abigail went above and beyond with making sure she wasn’t the stereotypical housewife. Alongside of her cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the kids, and with her husband gone most of their marriage fighting the war for independence, she proved that she was…

The story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is one of the oldest and best known in the West. The power that this story has comes not just from the Bible, but also from its depiction of evil, of people 's impulses, and of its presentiation of temptation. In the Bible the Garden of Eden is described as perfect. Because the serpent tempted Eve to want to be more perfect, humans fell and became imperfect. This story is now often used in modern advertising, which also promises improvements in…

artists in Germany and around the world. He has created many world-renowned pieces of art and this paper will be going into detail the history behind one of his most well known. In this piece of artwork, titled Adam and Eve (Fig 1), he used an engraving method to depict a scene involving Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. This piece was created in 1504 in Dürer’s homeland, Germany. Throughout the scene, many different symbols appear which come together to form an interpretation of what…

Fall and Expulsion from the Garden of Eden illustrates the biblical story of the Temptation and Fall of Adam and Eve found in the Book of Genesis. The Tree of Life stands in the center of the painting, dividing it into two contrasting scenes; the left representing the Temptation of Adam and Eve, and the right depicting their expulsion from Eden (Fig. 1). The passage begins with God warning Adam and Eve that they will die if they eat the fruit from the tree, as indulging in the fruit will expose…

We find Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Satan approaches Eve disguised as a serpent and asks Eve if it is true that God has said that they cannot eat of any of the trees in the Garden. Eve replies, “We may eat of the trees in the Garden, but God said we may not eat of the tree in the middle of the Garden, we cannot even touch it or we will die.” Satan lies to Eve and tells her they will not die. He tells her that God just does not want them to be like Him and know good from evil. What…

Adam Smith is often believed to be an economist due to his theories on the economy but he was at heart a philosophical theorist. As we have learned in this course, Smith had theories about the way the economy worked but he attached these theories to human nature and how humans organize and make sense of the social world. In his book The Wealth of Nations Smith discusses the division of labour, and its relation to supply and demand. Additionally he discusses the innate nature of the desire for…