Jada Pinkett Smith

Though Adam Smith was not an economist, he is often known as the “father of modern capitalism.” In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith described an ‘Invisible Hand.’ The phrase was introduced as a force that helps the supply and demand of goods in the free market to reach equilibrium. Smith suggested that when everyone works for their own interest in a free market, the economy will thrive. He assumed if the government would leave the community alone to buy and sell freely among themselves, the…

John Smith sought adventure. William Bradford sought freedom. Both men had adventurous lives. But John Smith is still better. John Smith was born into a farmers family. He didn’t want to be a farmer, he sought adventure. So, he ran away to become a sailor at thirteen. His parents stopped him, however, and shipped him off to become a merchant boy. John quit at age sixteen, shortly after his father died, and his mother re-married. He became a mercenary, and became a good soldier. When the war he…

“He has won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother” (Orwell 298). Is it true victory, or has he just lost the most important battle? Winston has finally completed all three stages of becoming pure. He will soon be killed and taken out of his misery. The reader can only hope that the secret he had to keep hidden, even from himself, will reach the surface of his mind before he dies. Winston is the beacon of hope throughout the story. He shows that one can have his own ideas even when The…

I have long been fascinated by the way politics and economics influence individuals and how decisions made by political leaders can change the course of history. I am intrigued by the historical development of political and economic thought, as evidenced when studying the history of China. Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom provided me perspective on the connectivity of economic and political freedoms needed to strengthen democratic institutions. I also enjoyed Thomas Piketty’s Capital in…

Winston's consumption of victory gin occurs throughout the whole duration of the novel, but holds great symbolic value. In part one, Winston describes the taste of victory gin, “like nitric acid, and moreover, in swallowing it one had the sensation of being hit on the back of the head with a rubber club.” (Orwell. 5-6) Gin, along with other forms of alcohol can be used for many reasons, to feel good, or even to forget. The symbolic value within victory gin in part one shows how Winston wants…

Laissez-faire benefitted Americans by promoting hard work and progress. Laissez-faire allowed corporations to basically have complete freedom in the market place. This lead to social darwinism in America. The idea favored those who worked the hardest. It was how some of the richest men of the time made it. It was also what lead to the vast majority of Americans working as laborers. However, this was theoretically their place. They didn’t work as hard so surely they didn’t deserve to be part of…

The “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath is a novel about a girl named Esther Greenwood. The novels setting first begins in New York City. There Esther and eleven other girls works for a fashion magazine. A flash back to college is seen when Esther tell about how when she dated a man like her age named Buddy Willard. Esther believed that Buddy and his family was great but later she feels betrayed by Buddy when Esther ask and Buddy says yes, this scares Esther since she has never been intimate with…

high school. Her academic and literary successes continued after her admission to Smith College in the fall of 1950. The recipient of several prestigious scholarships, she performed impressively in her college courses and published her works in several national magazines, earning, among other accolades, a summer guest editorship in New York City with Mademoiselle in 1953. Despite her collapse, Plath returned to Smith College, graduating summa cum laude in June of 1955. For the next two years,…

of a Native American chief who falls in love with the leader of a group of English settlers. The movie sets Pocahontas as a playful, spiritual, waterfalls jumping and living girl that was the daughter of Chief Powhatan. Who falls in love with John Smith, was a Captain that thinks the Indians are “savages” whose lives can be made better by English ways of life. Chief Powhatan is a leader who opens to new ideas. Who does not go charging off into battle at the drop of a hat. Chief does want to…

A hypothetical to ponder; is commercialism in fact beneficial for society from the façade it depicts to be? The topic of the aforementioned has been in controversy since “The era began in the early 1980’s, when Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher proclaimed their conviction that markets, not government, held the key to “Prosperity and Freedom”…” (Sandel 494). Which allures to query, if that be the case how can the United States Government be self-succor when the stock market crashes? How will…