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    I have conducted an interview with a sixty-two-year-old nurse to develop a better understanding of non-sharable problems and of rationalization. I was surprised with the understanding of these terms my interviewee had without really hearing the terms used often in her life. She told me of encounters she has had personally with rationalization and non-sharable problems, and she also told me of stories of co-workers and friends who faced similar issues. The main thing I took away from the…

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    I. (Attention-getter) The Titanic was on her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK, to New York City, US. The Titanic was considered to be unsinkable. But, on her maiden voyage the Titanic struck an iceberg that resulted in the deaths of over a thousand people. II. The Titanic had 2,603 passengers on board. Out of those 2,603 passengers only 705 of them survived. The Titanic had 20 lifeboats and could carry 1,178 out of the 2,603 people that were aboard. III. (Credibility Statement) Ever since…

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    William Easterly argues in his book The Tyranny of Experts that the support of autocratic dictatorships does not promote economic or political development in a more efficient way than what allowing a democratic and free regime to flourish would promote. He presents the idea that development experts who try to implement policies through dictators in order to promote the economic well-being of nations fail to support the economic or political well-being of individuals due to four things that…

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    capitalists, nor aristocrats, too kindly. Thus, in order to avoid the mounting of aristocratic and capitalistic heads upon pikes, the system should be reformed to employ those who are qualified for and desire employment. Most of the economists following Smith in the school of classical economic, notably David Ricardo, that Smith’s moral sentiments were not in fitting with the field of economics, and abandoned Smith’s moral reasoning. In its place, we are left with the iron law of wages (Ricardo…

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    get a job as a war correspondent, “And that was it wasn’t it? There was no relevance in the war- not in 1955, even less now in 1974. Nothing he did then mattered now. The skills you learned were in modern parlance, not relevant, not transferable” (Smith 12). Archie feels as though the slightest amount of importance he felt within him was his time during the war. However, in a time where people really didn’t want to know about war anymore, the war seemingly didn’t matter anymore, therefore he…

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    the time presented resonant ideas that helped to better infant industries. Adam Smith, who was a physiocrat and key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, wrote his most famous work, “The Wealth of Nations.” A few years later, Alexander Hamilton was appointed the Secretary of…

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    On December 8, 1980 John Lennon was shot directly across from Strawberry Fields, by the Dakota building where he and his wife lived. In John Lennon 's memory, Yoko Ono, Lennon’s wife decided to create a memorial in his honor. She wanted to commemorate John Lennon as a rock legend and a peace activist, so Ono created the John Lennon memorial in Strawberry Fields, Central park. John Lennon’s memorial is an effective memorial because of its background, location, design, my individual experience,…

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    Nancy and Kenyon, by 27-year-old Richard Hickock and 30-year-old Perry Smith (Garden City). The two killers, Hickock and Smith, knew each other from their time spent in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas. It was during their first stay in prison where Hickock heard of Herbert Clutter from a prison cellmate and learned that the family was rather wealthy (Dick Hickock). Upon release from prison, Hickock contacted Smith and they began making plans to rob the Clutter family (Capote).…

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    The physiocrats were a group of French economists whose ideas were developed in the wake of the economic and social disorder that was, at least partially, due to the effects of mercantilist policies (Huh, 2016). Physiocratic thinkers such as John Law, Richard Cantillion, and perhaps most notably, Francois Quesnay made lasting impressions on economic thought and were instrumental in establishing the idea of the free market. Unlike the mercantilists, the physiocrats largely believed that the…

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    division labor and capitalism than you think. This essay will analyze all the negative consequences of the division and labor and capitalism arguments by Smith, Marx, and Durkheim. In Adam Smith’s book “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” Smiths argue that the division labor destroys “intellectual social and martial virtues”. Smith also argued that capitalism is a free market of trade, governed based on competition and individual which wage will be determined…

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