Heir apparent

James Dimon, a member of the New York Fed board and CEO of JP Morgan, saw $391 billion of Fed emergency lending sent his company’s way (“Century of Enslavement”). The Federal Reserve has not looked after all of its responsibilities correctly and has apparent conflicts of…

Pride and Prejudice, written by Jane Austen, is a love story that provides insight into the social manners of two people and follows them as they gradually change into better individuals. Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet live in a society in which social status plays a large role in relationships, and before they can experience love together, Darcy and Elizabeth must investigate their own flaws and overcome the pride and prejudice instilled in them. Their relationship and marriage is an…

Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who never once dreamed of going on an adventure, suddenly got chosen by Gandalf to become the fourteenth member of Thorin and Company's adventure to reach the Lonely Mountain and take it back from Smaug. Bilbo is a Baggins, the heir of a thoroughly respectable and conventional family through his father, but his mother was a Took, an eccentric clan of hobbits noted for their love of excitement and adventure. Despite having more money, the Tooks were less respected than the…

In the eighteenth century, reputation and power were some of the most important issues facing society, particularly the two ends of the spectrum: the upper-class and the criminals. Pursuing greater social status led many high class individuals and families to neglect basic human necessities such as love and comfort for the appearance of perfection and the gains of a influential or wealthy reputation. Much like the pirates, reputation was the key to everything that the higher classed individuals…

Desiderius, the incorporation of Lombardy and Bavaria into the Frankish kingdom, and the integration of the Frisians and Slavs. Once a war was initiated, Charlemagne remained resolute in bringing about a permanent and definitive conclusion. This was made apparent during the war fought against the Avars, which lasted eight years. The monarch would only cease fighting after the capture of the Hun’s hoard and completely annihilating the enemy. His victories and resoluteness can be seen in the…

points out a number of parallels between the story and other, broad Talmudic traditions, all of which leads one to conclude that Nero entered the annals of Jewish history and consciousness as an archetypal representative of Roman hatred of Jews. His apparent continual reemergence, and the widespread belief that he would appear again decades after his death, surely contributed to an existing sense of perpetual threat. It could not have helped this societal paranoia to see masses of gentiles in…

Jung argued that the unconscious could also be a source of creativity (Cherry, n. d.). While the official break from Freud came when Jung resigned from the International Psychoanalytic Congress, the hostility growing between the two was readily apparent in the letters they exchanged (Cherry, n. d.). At one point, Jung scathingly wrote, "...your technique of treating your pupils like patients is a blunder and In that way you produce either slavish sons or impudent puppies... I am objective enough…

This Lord takes a wife in hoping that “heirs would follow in his stead” (20), indicates that he married his wife purely for his own gain. He feels that she is “a fine award” (23) and “love[s] her loveliness” (24) which illustrates his objectification of her as he only values her for her beauty…

Insufficient knowledge or information in a country or group can bring about prolonged and unjust control of a person or government. This is all displayed in George Orwell’s 1945 novel, Animal Farm. Animal Farm alludes the events of the Russian Revolution and Russia’s times under Joseph Stalin to animals on a farm in England. In the book, the animals of Manor Farm are inspired to start a revolution to overthrow the cruel authority of Mr. Jones, the human they work for. After their successful…

This discussion shall focus primarily on the idea of Emile Zola’s novel The Ladies’ Paradise ([1883]2012) and how gender stereotypes are examined within the consumer society of the nineteenth century. The essay shall explore the theory of Karl Marx and consumerism, as well as the idea of femininity being a spectacle itself within society. The first example of feminine identity being represented within The Ladies’ Paradise ([1883]2012) is the idea of women as a commodity: ‘It was Woman the shops…