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    It has become clear that by studying the interactions between the states and the market but the two have some hold on each other. While Smith argues that the role of economy is to self regulate and promote competition and the role of the state is to protect the public stay removed from the market system, Marx believes that the states should act as a mediator in the markets where the market is dependent on the aggregate household behavior. Keynes argues that a free market without any intervention…

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    and of the plants and animals that dwell upon the earth. Second, is the creation of all these same parts inside the Garden of Eden. God is clearly setting aside the Garden of Eden as a lush paradise for his chosen servant, Adam and, by extension, Eve. God 's decision to make Adam is portrayed as a final grand act, a piece de resistance if you will. For all the living creatures created before then, God simply said “Let it be” and it was. It would appear that He put quite a bit more thought into…

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    Does God Limit Knowledge?

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    education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. (Oxford Dictionary pg. 1) God limits the knowledge of his doings a great amount in the Hebrew Bible, but specifically in the Old Testament. In the Old Testament, many stories, such as Adam and Eve or Job, reveals how God limits knowledge from his people. The question is, why does God limits knowledge from his people? God is said to know everything and the world and loves his people; so why keep them in the dark from certain…

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    Shortly after the ratification of the Constitution, George Washington unanimously won the presidential election of 1789. Striving towards a nation of unity, Washington set up a cabinet of four strong individuals in order to inaugurate a system of both balance and credibility. Although Washington was strongly against political parties, it wasn’t long until they began to emerge. Filling the cabinet with tension, Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of Treasury, and Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State,…

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    Capitalist Economy

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    Why We’re All Poor When man first walked out of Africa, it marked both a cultural and technological revolution. From 10,000 BCE onwards, man learned to harness the power of fire, bone, stone, and even animal hides and natural dyes. In this time, however, arose what some people claim to be the greatest of human achievements: Capitalism. In fact, the earliest records of trade for profit come from the Indus River Valley civilization, which formed in what is now eastern India more than a thousand…

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    Abigail Adams was a women’s rights advocate who through her letters to her husband she encouraged him to “remember the ladies” in the new government (UShistory.org, 2014). The creation of a new form of government was a chance to include women as equal to men.…

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    Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine both were visionaries in their day, understanding that the world around us was more than just dirt and rock but that there was a divine infinite universe in front of us to explore and all you had to do was look up. While both of these men could be found laying the bricks for the age of enlightenment in the colonies and paving the way for a new country, free of British rule, they were also vastly different in individual temperament. Benjamin Franklin and…

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    Free will is an extremely important concept in John Milton’s Paradise Lost that greatly impacts the fateful decision made by Adam and Eve. Many questions are raised in the face of a notion such as free will, which prompt the reader and Milton to understand God’s logic and Adam and Eve’s reasoning for turning their backs on it. God makes his new creations “just and right / sufficient to have stood, though free to fall,” and, therefore, obtain the explicitly stated ability to turn against…

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    Smith analyzeDiscussion Essay 2: Adam Smith During his time as a moral philosopher Adam Smith coined the phrase “mercantile system”. He used the term to describe the new economic system based on the merchant trade using gold and silver. Trudy Mercadal describes mercantile as a “term to refer to an economic policy designed to enrich a nation by increasing exports and decreasing imports...” which “...sought to create a beneficial balance of trade with two purposes: attracting commodities like…

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    portray his beliefs concerning this question of justifying the ways of God to men. The answer to this question, at least for John Milton, revolves around the events in the Garden of Eden, concerning the two infamous and yet highly regarded individuals, Adam and Eve. In answering the question many atheists and skeptics pose to Christians, why do evil things happen if there is a God who loves us unconditionally and is capable of making things right, Milton takes his readers back to the Tree of…

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