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    Ariel, a collection of Sylvia Plath’s poems released in 1965 after her suicidal death, transmit melancholy and agony to anyone who reads it. This depression in her poems was caused after her husband, the poet Ted Hughes, left her for another woman. Plath’s writing style has always been criticized for being excessively autobiographical and because of her continuous suicidal suspicion. However, Plath has never been criticized for the irony of the poem “The Applicant” compared to the rest of her…

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    Topic: Combating Corporate Globalization Step-by-step “Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all” - John Maynard Keynes (Quote investigator) Introduction Multi-national corporations seize their unregulated political power to maximize profit via unfair trade agreements and deregulating financial derivatives at the expense of human rights and tax paid by the general public. Corporate globalization reduces…

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    each other when they lack in resources and also are inefficient to satisfy their own wants and needs. The production of goods and services in countries that need to trade is based on two fundamental principles, first analysed by Adam smith in late 18th century. Adam smith focused on only one factor of production i.e. labour. The other important principle is comparative advantage by David Riccardo, who also considered labour as the only unit of input. There are many advantage of trade, few of…

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    Adam Smith was born in July of 1723 in Scotland and died on July 17, 1790 (1). He wrote his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, in 1759 but is best known for publishing The Wealth of Nations in 1776 (2). Primarily because of The Wealth of Nations, he is one of the best known economists in the world and much of his work was based on how psychology affects economics, which was much of the focus of The Theory of Moral Sentiments (3). Because of this, his work is sometimes considered a…

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    Colliding Colliding of cultures, national, regional, ethnic, religious, and institutional involving characters in stories are often used by authors. Such collisions, can cause conflict and also reflect the moral of a story. In the novel 1984, by George Orwell, is a great example of a well-set collision in a story. Winston, the main protagonist, has many cultural collisions making him the most important and relevant character in the story. The most dominant cultural collision Winston has…

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    Karl Marx and Adam Smith couldn’t be more different in their views on how economic growth could improve the material well being of the working-class. Marx believed economic growth came at the backs of the proletariat, and that most growth is horded by the bourgeois, only beneficial to the capital elite and added to commodity fetishism. While, Adam Smith believed greater national output was beneficial to everyone, raise all boats with the tide, and increase the wages of the working class, too.…

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    beginning “the Society of Fellows” and Nerman McCorvey wants a legal abortion is little hard to understand. But selling a house and some example is very understandable. In my opinion, morality and economic are communicant. Just like author mention Adam Smith, who wanted to be a moralist but he became an economist. What interested him is how social changes can affect a people. and economic is changing people’s behavior and mind. In the first chapter. the author mentioned some example to talk…

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    “What is democratic socialism, American-style?” an article written by Peter Dreier and published on CNN. This article target audience is anyone who wants to understand what democratic socialism is and how have American practiced it. He goes on to say that the united states biggest equal rights movements such as: woman suffrage, child labor laws, consumer protection laws and the progression income tax law were lead by socialists. Dreier uses a combination of rhetorical questions, One Sentence…

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    The Triangle fire was a horrific landmark disaster that occurred on March 25, 1911, killing 146 factory workers. David Von Drehle depicts the accounts of the harsh conditions and circumstances that the women in the garment industry, specifically at the Triangle Shritwaist Company, had to endure that led up to the fire. As well as the aftermath and the court case rulings. In Triangle: The Fire That Changed America, he touches on the strike in 1909 igniting a labor movement versus the unethical…

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    Most people in their years of school have cheated in one way or another, whether it be using your phone on a big test, the cliche form of writing the information on your arm, or forgetting that you had a homework assignment and copying off of your friend five minutes before the bell so that you don't get a zero. As you read those examples you probably either said whoops I've done that but its not that bad or you looked at those and thought they were so wrong. This process is called your morals,…

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