Boom and bust

Frederick Jackson Turner’s work is described by some as the single most influential piece of writing in the history of American History. From his perspective he laid out a theory to catalog his ideas and thoughts regarding the story of America and the move West. His argument entails the belief that every American generation returned “to primitive conditions on a continually advancing frontier line as the “meeting point of savagery and civilization”. His analysis attempts to categorize the past…

“They had dreamed of freedom; of a chance to look about them and learn something; to be decent and clean, to see their child grow up to be strong. And now it was all gone” (Sinclair 1906, 138). This is the bleak picture painted in Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel The Jungle. A disturbing critique of turn-of-the-century industrialism with pervading themes of poverty, anti-corporation, and socialism. A commentary that exemplifies the Progressive era and the embodiments of freedom that came with it.…

Force3: The threat of substitutes The threat of substitutes exists, the buyers could use public transport if not able to buy a car or maintain one. Airplanes are also being used very often for long and short journeys. Force4: Buyer power Buyer power is one the horizontal forces that influence the appropriation of value created by the industry. The buyer has power as there is a competition in the market which offers same products. Low cost of switching between suppliers. Force5:…

Consider the role of the narrator in both Benito Cereno and Bartleby. Follow your leader – three words that echo through both of these texts and symbolise Melville’s role as a narrator in distinct ways. His narrative diction in Benito Cereno and Bartleby is mechanically impressive but speaks volumes as to how he felt in relation to the new capitalist society America was rapidly evolving into and the problem of slavery to which the old America was clinging to. In these texts the lawyer in…

The baby boomers represent the largest generation in American history consisting of about seventy-six million people [Gillon, 2004]. The special name for the boomers is derived primarily from its enormous size in comparison to the smaller generations that came immediately before and after that time period [Gillon, 2004]. There was not one previous generation that had been developed on such expansive hopes or had been so confident in their ability to change the world. According to Gillon [2004],…

Introduction Political freedom is a benefit that is often overlooked and undervalued in most western democracies. Many other countries do not have the same benefit. Some suffer from political repression as a means of governmental control. In some cases the political repression is because of government corruption. The literature shows that countries with a pointy resource have high levels of corruption. A pointy resource is the primary resource that brings in the vast majority of a countries…

1 Charlie According to the great state of Nebraska I am a marijuana addict. Despite the fact that I was caught with a little less than an ounce of weed and in order to actually become a marijuana addict you'd need to smoke enough weed every day to kill Tommy Chong. But at least now the Government doesn't care. After the war and 30 years of regression socially, the U.S. Government managed to convince the public again that public enemy #1 was 'dangerous' drugs. Needless to say I am now a proud…

Powderly William Graham Sumner John P. Altgeld Samuel Gompers What was the impact of the transcontinental rail system on the American economy and society in the late nineteenth century? 2) How did the huge industrial trusts develop in industries such as steel and oil, and what was their effect on the economy? 3) What was the effect of the new industrial revolution on American laborers, and how did various labor organizations attempt to respond to the new conditions? 4) The…

Businesses’ are operating in a troubled economy. The troubled economy cannot be pinpointed to any specific region of the world. Companies must consider economic trends that affect its industry (Pearce & Robinson, 2004). Now, more than ever, managers must consider the general availability of credit, the level of disposable income, and the propensity of people to spend (Pearce & Robinson, 2004). One needs to look no further than the shipping industry to understand how growth has slowed.…

According to Barry M. Richman and Melvyn Copen “Environment factors of constraints are largely if not totally external and beyond the control of individual industrial enterprises and their arrangements. These are essentially the ‘givers’ within which firms and their managements must operate in a specific country and they vary, often greatly from country to country.” According to Glueck and Jauch “ The environment includes outside the firm which can lead to opportunities for or threats to the…