The Smith Family

Deception Can Ruin You (An Analysis on Macbeth) “Actions speak louder than words and in the tragedy Macbeth, the actions of the central characters are screaming” (Drake). “Macbeth” is a tragic play produced by the well-known playwright William Shakespeare. This play began to spark multiple controversies over Shakespeare’s work. In 1606, this play was officially showed, and Shakespeare made some brave decisions regarding the scenes involved in the play. Although this is a well-known play, only…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

“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…

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…

is about, a person named Will who is “hunting” for a good living and in the process faces struggles. At the end there is a possibility that his “hunting” comes to an end as he finds success. Also in this film, the group of four friends symbolizes family. They rely on each other and they stick up for each other as observed at the bar scene. During this scene Chuckie goes to talk to Skylar and when he does so, his friends move closer so that they can back him up if anything goes wrong. Assuredly,…

Ricardo and Smith agree that both the quantity of labor invested and scarcity determine value in an object. However, Marx and Jevons will direct people to believe that utility is the true determinant of value in which labor plays a role. Marx believes that labor based…

The message of Francisco’s speech from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is that money is good, it symbolizes all of the goods and services the people produce, and it is a tool of exchange in which the people give it value. To begin with, Francisco believes money is good. He states “money permits you to obtain for your goods and your labor that which they are worth to the men who buy them, but no more”. Money is good because it allows the people to get goods and also receive money from the goods they…