Regulatory economics

Do you know of anyone who has dropped out of high school and has suffered from not receiving a full education? Well according to Monica Potts’s essay, “What’s Killing the Poor White Women?”, it is the lack of education that decreases women’s life expectancy. She tells of a women’s story, Crystal Wilson, who passed away, at a younger age, when there seemed to be nothing wrong with her. When the doctors and police officers looked into her background, they came to find out that not receiving her…

My short term goal is to receive my Bachelors degree in Business Marketing. My long term goal is to go to law school to obtain my JD, or to go to business school and obtain my MBA. I also look forward to becoming a investor and opening my own small business so my parents can retire. My parents are the driving force in my goals and educational aspirations. Coming from a low income family has taught me to work hard and to be tenacious. I want to not only make them happy, but to ensure I have a…

Historians like all people, have general knowledge and understanding of all domains such as the sciences, business and politics. However, historians unlike most people use facts of general knowledge to help other people connect concepts together to create a general understanding of a topic. For this reason, historians’ present facts to people that helps them to come up with solutions to their current issues. Mostly, the historian has been an important role for centuries because they not only…

It’s no longer a secret that we do not have the full control over our personal decision-making process. Even though we often say the last word about situations that directly influences our circumstances, it would be inaccurate to claim that other agents’ opinions and persuasion techniques do have any impact on our actions. In fact, we are constantly being persuaded into tasting meals that otherwise would not be on our plate by corporate companies, politicians, and even our own family members and…

In the aftermath of the enlightenment, which led to a revolutionary use of human reasoning over God’s will, the colonial religious society was in desperation for a revival to restore dependence towards God. Among the revivalists came Jonathan Edwards, a puritan reverend, speaking a sermon to a Christian congregation in Connecticut with the purpose of turning people back to God and persuading them to repent, through fear of what would occur if they chose the otherwise. Edwards effectively…

In the play Richard the third by William Shakespeare a war has just finished, and two houses are entering a time of peace with one, and other. Yet Richard is strongly opposed to these times of peace that the end of the war has brought about due to his deformed physical nature, and his psychopathic tendencies Richard despises this time of peace, and he is determined to ruin it for everyone. Richard is quite brilliant with his manipulation of people without letting on the slightest clue as to what…

Self-imprisonment often takes the form of isolation, and therefore requires some form of action to escape from. The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor and Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett express the effects of isolating oneself through their respective main characters. William Trevor delves into the traumatized aftermath of a young girl who ran away, which caused her parents to believe she was dead. They subsequently abandoned their home and, thus, their only child who refuses to leave…

When somebody gains power in society, they often use it for either good or evil. Leaders of today’s world, artists, and even literary characters who wield enormous power have used it for either constructive or destructive purposes. Constructive power is when a person benefits a society (promoting a cause, helping people in need, bringing attention to an issue, etc.) Destructive power is when a person either does harm to a society out of hatred or just to benefit themselves (committing genocide,…

The film Margin Call by J.C. Chandor has a lot of different themes running throughout that makes one question their own career path. Some themes would include job satisfaction, ethics, and reasons for choosing a job. The focus of this essay will be mainly on job satisfaction since that seemed to come up quite often throughout the film. The three characters from the film that will be mentioned in this essay are Eric Dale, Sam Rogers, and John Tuld as they are the center of the theme, good or bad.…

When we communicate, not only do we want other people to understand the message, but also we try to affect their beliefs or actions by using persuasion. Communication always involves at least one message, transmitted by a source, via a medium, to a receiver, within a situational context (Simons, 1976). Persuasion is a way of communication to influence other people to make them to do actions, pursue goals that they would have not otherwise. It differs from other ways to influence for three…