Agent Smith

get a job as a war correspondent, “And that was it wasn’t it? There was no relevance in the war- not in 1955, even less now in 1974. Nothing he did then mattered now. The skills you learned were in modern parlance, not relevant, not transferable” (Smith 12). Archie feels as though the slightest amount of importance he felt within him was his time during the war. However, in a time where people really didn’t want to know about war anymore, the war seemingly didn’t matter anymore, therefore he…

the time presented resonant ideas that helped to better infant industries. Adam Smith, who was a physiocrat and key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, wrote his most famous work, “The Wealth of Nations.” A few years later, Alexander Hamilton was appointed the Secretary of…

On December 8, 1980 John Lennon was shot directly across from Strawberry Fields, by the Dakota building where he and his wife lived. In John Lennon 's memory, Yoko Ono, Lennon’s wife decided to create a memorial in his honor. She wanted to commemorate John Lennon as a rock legend and a peace activist, so Ono created the John Lennon memorial in Strawberry Fields, Central park. John Lennon’s memorial is an effective memorial because of its background, location, design, my individual experience,…

Nancy and Kenyon, by 27-year-old Richard Hickock and 30-year-old Perry Smith (Garden City). The two killers, Hickock and Smith, knew each other from their time spent in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas. It was during their first stay in prison where Hickock heard of Herbert Clutter from a prison cellmate and learned that the family was rather wealthy (Dick Hickock). Upon release from prison, Hickock contacted Smith and they began making plans to rob the Clutter family (Capote).…

The physiocrats were a group of French economists whose ideas were developed in the wake of the economic and social disorder that was, at least partially, due to the effects of mercantilist policies (Huh, 2016). Physiocratic thinkers such as John Law, Richard Cantillion, and perhaps most notably, Francois Quesnay made lasting impressions on economic thought and were instrumental in establishing the idea of the free market. Unlike the mercantilists, the physiocrats largely believed that the…

division labor and capitalism than you think. This essay will analyze all the negative consequences of the division and labor and capitalism arguments by Smith, Marx, and Durkheim. In Adam Smith’s book “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” Smiths argue that the division labor destroys “intellectual social and martial virtues”. Smith also argued that capitalism is a free market of trade, governed based on competition and individual which wage will be determined…

on two female protagonists, rather than revolving the story solely around a Captain Smith character and other male characters and their adventures. The main female characters, Magawisca and Hope Leslie, give the original story a new meaning as their exploits take an innovative and empowering stand. Magawisca relates to the origin myth as she directly parallels Pocahontas. In the original tale, Captain John Smith is set on a rock to be beaten to death by Chief Powhatan and the rest of the men in…

Adam Smith Background In the world of economics, Adam Smith stands out as dominating, central figure. Numerous commentators have often referred to him as the founder of modern economics; essentially the reason why free trade exists (Schumacher, 2012). But as Henry (2000) provides, the position occupied and articulated by Adam Smith in the development of economic theory is of precarious enjoyment, mainly because some of his works essentially contain dangerous elements that are evidently innate…

The two theorists I will discuss are Adam Smith and Karl Marx, who are both very prominent for their ideas and theories. But are very different in their approach and views and both lived through very different times. Smith lived during the thriving industrial revolution in the 1700s while Marx lived in a bleak London with poor living conditions in the 1900s. Smith focused on the individual, one of his theories was the division of labour which was ground-breaking it has been used as a model in…

Karl Marx is one figure held central to economic theory and practise, born in 1818, his two most popular books, The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital. (The History Guide. 2008) Marxism more recently is the term attributed to Karl Marx, it can be visually observed to compose the substratum of communism. David Ricardo another central figure in economic theory, born much before Marx in 1772, he was an adherent of Adam Smith’s work, his key theory, the labour theory of value developed in the 19th…