Distribution of wealth

Earlier this year, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump went head to head in the first presidential debate. This debate was taken place in, Hempstead New York. The debate was about 90 minutes long where they discussed topics such as, achieving prosperity, Americas direction and securing America. The first topic discussed was, jobs. It is said that many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Hillary Clinton wants to “build an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top”. (Hillary…

In the passage, “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor,” Garrett Hardin argues that if the prosperous continue to help the penurious, this will cause overpopulation in the country. Many people are faced with the question of should they help or should they not. Hardin uses real world examples and an extended metaphor to argue his point. The rich countries are viewed as a lifeboat and the poor countries are the people swimming in the ocean hoping to get in. Since resources are scarce,…

Do rich people get off easier when they break the law? Rich people do get off easier when they break the law because they can pay people off to avoid charges, they have more money to get better lawyers which means they will get off the hook, and they are also seen as a privilege person. Rich people get off easier because they are able to pay people such as police to avoid charges. For example many rich people know a lot of people and they are very known. Mostly for being rich so when they…

Hong Kong is an international city, one of the wealthiest places in the world. Many people just focus on how good is Hong Kong, a material wealthy city. However, there are also a large amount of people live in cage house, subdivided unit and you can see beggars, homeless wherever. Hong Kong has a large-scale poverty problem but it seems it does not ring a bell to most of the Hong Kong citizens. Poverty can be defined as absolute poverty and relative poverty. Absolute poverty refers to not…

Greedy Individuals: Hermann and Ivan Ilyich One of the evils of society is greed. Greed becomes a famous theme in many works due to the fact that it gives readers a glimpse of reality, rather than fairytales and romances. However, authors such as Alexander Pushkin and Leo Tolstoy used the theme of greed to expose humans in their materialistic nature. According to Money and Mad Ambition: Economies of Russian Literature by Jillian Elizabeth Porter “traditionally conceived as a sharply negative…

lives of the wealthy as burdened, strained, and cumbersome. Through the title “The Impact of a Dollar Upon the Heart”(1), the content of the poem can be found. This title, also the first line of the poem, begs the question : What is the impact of wealth on the heart? The “heart” refers to the mindset, attitude, and possibly somebody’s values, while “impact” refers to either a positive or negative connotation such as corruption or greed. The speaker goes on to say “[it] Smiles warm red light…

The King of Kites (adapted from prescribed text “The King of Kites” by Judith Heneghan and Laure Fournier) CHARACTERS: NARRATOR 1 NARRATOR 2 ANIL MOTHER FRIEND 1 FRIEND 2 VILLAGERS STAGE DIRECTION: CS- CENTRE STAGE CRS- CENTRE RIGHT STAGE CLS- CENTRE LEFT STAGE USC- UPPERSTAGE CENTRE USR- UPPERSTAGE RIGHT USL- UPPERSTAGE LEFT DSC- DOWNSTAGE CENTRE DSR- DOWNSTAGE RIGHT DSL- DOWNSTAGE LEFT SCRIPT: ACT Scene 1 Setting: Backyard of Anil’s house Characters: Narrator 1, Narrator 2, Anil,…

writer, yet he implies that the mere fact that he is a writer proves he is not among the wise men of society. In another instance, the outcome of Patch’s trial concerning his grandfather’s will was unexpected. Patch, undeservingly, regains all his wealth and societal status without any effort. Rather than heed the advice of his friends to work and “submit to mediocrity” (449), Patch chose to drink and party heavily while awaiting the results of the trial. Even though Patch claims that…

Jonathan Swift’s writing reflects his personality in the sense that it is both playful and serious at the same time. This duality of playfulness and seriousness is especially evident in his pamphlet “A Modest Proposal.” The speaker of this text is not Swift, but instead, an anonymous figure that Swift uses as a vehicle to express his political views, poke fun at the British, and reveal his resentment of British policies toward the Irish. Straightforward and poignant in his assertions, the…

really wanted to attain wealth and luxury, but couldn’t due to the restriction put on them by societal norms. This began the era of bootlegging, gangs and crime all across the country and the decline of morality. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby trying to attain a higher social class can lead to lack of morals demonstrated by Gatsby’s bootlegging, Tom’s Party in New York, and Myrtle’s affair with Tom. Gatsby shows that he was a poor child and wanted to attain wealth and luxury, but…