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Susan Glaspell, born in 1876 was an American play writer, novelist, journalist, and actress. In her time, she wrote many short stories and plays which began appearing in magazines and journals. One of Glaspell’s best works was a one-act play called Trifles written and performed in 1916. While working as a journalist for Des Monines Daily News, she covered the 1900 murder of John Hossack which is where she received the inspiration for the loosely based play and in 1917 was turned into a short…

“The Bell Jar” by Victoria Lucas (Pseudonym of Sylvia Plath) was first time published on 14 January 1963 in the U.S of America after her death in a same year. This book was written as novel by Sylvia Lucas, but in comparison with her life before this book, we can clearly say that it is autobiographical book, where the author tries to wright her personal story but under different name, Plath choose Esther Greenwood as her protégé in the book. Both of them had experience with magazines and…

Friedrich August Von Hayek was a political economist that possessed a tremendous influence on how people in capitalist societies comprehended the concept of liberty. His viewpoint of freedom did not embody liberal ideals, but “a policy that deliberately adopts competition, markets, and prices as its ordering principles” (The School of Life, 2016). Although he had a substantial career, it was after his retirement, that his influence truly left a mark in the realm of economic theories. In his…

Amartya Sen,( an anccesible and exceptional humanitarian – Jon snow, New Statesman) is Lamont University, Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Economics, at Harvard university. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1998-2004. His many books include Development as Freedom, Rationality and Freedom, The Argumentative Indian, and Identity and Violence. Philosophy Amartya Sen said that Justice should not be in Binary terms – It is a matter of…

An important factor that impacts the economy is the unemployment percentage of a society. Workers are essential in gathering and producing resources that enable supply. As the population increases it causes an increase in demand, the need for supply increases and therefore, a need for efficiency arises. Division of labor is a method that has been implemented to ensure that the members of a society are productive to the economy by providing more jobs that are specialized in nature. The job…

I believe a large percentage of the Abundant Life Center’s membership would have no idea of the day-to-day needs of the marginalized within the St. Joseph area. Even though our own membership reflects a snapshot of the marginalized in St. Joseph, we frequently respond to the these needs on a project-by-project bases, as opposed to trying to building Zion within the context of the lives of those suffering. For example, I remember gathering several children, with a car full of Christmas…

Power is infinite. “Absolute power corrupts absolute” in the novel 1984 By George Orwell speaks of how the government rules all. Those with the power become corrupt and power hungry. The country Oceania is controlled by those who know and how to use power, but not in the best way possible. In the appendix of the novel, Orwell states on a page 309 “Newspeak was the official language of Oceania” readers can infer that Newspeak, the language that every citizen spoke in Oceania, vanished. What…

The famous economist, Milton Friedman, had many economic theories and he would have definitely made huge changes to the economy presented in the Hunger Games because of them. First of all, he was a capitalist, more specifically a “Laissez Faire” capitalist. This means that he would like for the governing body to have little to no regulation and intervention on the economic structure. He also had a monetarist mindset. This means that the only way he wanted the government to control the economy…

Liberal capitalism came about as a human response to the challenge of the Industrial Revolution. Under this form of capitalism, the human economy becomes a self-adjusting system of markets. This means that man adjusted its economy to incorporate the new employment of machinery in manufacture in order to continue to make a monetary profit. Polanyi expresses his belief that liberal capitalism emerged primarily out of fear; machine seemed to supersede human workers, the notion he refers to as…

Should digits on a weight scale determine a modeling career? Models are the society’s way of expressing today’s most current fashion statements. However, to present good fashion one must meet society’s beauty standards right? That is wrong. We should be promoting beauty on all sizes, colors and races. Models should not have a minimum weight limit because it puts a border line on beauty, lowers self-esteem and even though it helps prevent eating disorders it also supports society’s negative body…