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“Too big to fail” is a term used to describe a company that has become so essential to the economic success of a country that the government of that country must take excessive measures to prevent that company from ceasing to trade or going bankrupt (Amadeo, 2016). In this case, company is plural and the country that took those extreme measures was the United States of America. The 2007-2009 financial crisis caught the world by surprise and led to a renewed interest in understanding the inner…

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were fought to gain independence. The concept of salutary neglect is similar to the concept of laissez faire. Laissez faire is a “policy of minimum governmental interference in the economic affairs of individuals and society” (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). Both, salutary neglect and laissez faire stress how little involvement from authority figures can result in loyalty and higher accomplishments. Although the British colonists rejected England’s laws through salutary neglect, they…

research covered many different areas varying from perception to memory. Her most famous contribution came with her account of memory which explained the difference between what she deemed personal and impersonal memories. In her article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica she defined personal memories as “used strictly, it denotes an individual’s recall of his own life story. His memory knowledge is what he can recall of events which happened to him in the past.” whereas impersonal memories are…

The rise of Russia as a socialist, totalitarian nation under Josef Stalin would not have been possible without Vladimir Lenin’s economic and social policies. After the revolution in 1917, Lenin led the communist, Bolshevik party that controlled Russia. It will be argued that Lenin’s New Economic Policy (NEP) was an instrumental step in the foundation of totalitarian Russia. It will be shown through the increased economic stability, the introduction of laws to gain further dictatorial control of…

and their neglect for and thus cause of conflict towards the lower classes. With formalism, form and technique used within a piece of writing are emphasized and observed in an effort to alter language for the creation of art (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). To distinguish the rich, or governmentally favored class, from the poor, King made use of advanced vocabulary, elongated and flowing sentences, parallelism, analogies, and additional sophisticated devices to display a more…

from experiences. In 1689, political theorist John Locke published an essay in which he took Aristotle’s beliefs a step further. Locke introduced a belief that the mind is equivalent to “white paper, void of all characters (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica)” but is still cognizant. An example of the Tabula Rasa theory would be playing a musical instrument. In elementary school, a student begins to learn the fundamentals of playing an instrument. They learn how to play all the notes on a…

Can you imagine being forced to use different, but identical facilities due to your skin color? Take this situation except the supposedly identical resources were significantly worse for those with colored skin and it accurately represents the state of the United States for the century following the Civil War. Due to long standing discrimination towards blacks as a result of slavery, many efforts were made by political figures to disrupt and halt the ability of blacks to integrate seamlessly…

If abortion ever becomes illegal, women will be forced to take irrational measures to terminate their unwanted pregnancies. Found in Pro-Choice Action Network’s article, Misconceptions About Abortion, some women find unskilled practitioners that will perform the procedure, but they commonly perforate the uterus, misjudge the length of gestation, and no not fully complete the operation. Therefore, instead of only one life lost, two lives would be lost if abortion were illegal. Another unsafe…

The “Beats Generation” defined a movement that influenced a generation of freethinking. The “Beats generation” was derived from the literary term of Beat. From the website of Encyclopædia Britannica, it’s biography entry on Jack Kerouac explains the definition of Beat, “meant “down-and-out” as well as “beatific” and therefore signified the bottom of existence (from a financial and an emotional point of view) as well as the highest, most spiritual high.” This movement and its message that says…