The Spoils

investors at the cost of farmers and workers in the west. Jackson’s quarrel with the bank got his fame even higher up on the scale for the poorer people, farmers. Of course, you could argue that Jackson was responsible for his involvement in the spoils system. Jackson thought this system was more powerful because more people had a chance to be a part of the government, hence a more varied opinion. Furthermore, this method became very effective, as the president’s after Jackson used the same…

altered. After Andrew Jackson’s bitter election of 1828, he was angry at the previous president John Quincy Adams for the way he ran in office. When Jackson entered into office, he thought the people were against him so he created the Spoils System. The Spoils System was an “official program to remove people from federal jobs and replace them with employees considered loyal to his administration.” (McNamara 2017) So, another words he fired the experienced, well fit and educated employees…

your strengths, share the workload, someone who spoils you and gives you someone to spoil” “The only negative (if it is a negative) is always trying to remember the other person’s feeling, schedule, tastes, etc. A person can never think about themselves anymore. But this right here can be turned into an opportunity to exercise your thoughtfulness and consideration, which can serve to strengthen a person’s relationship.” (par.1). An individual who spoils another person should be thankful that…

dealer of death from afar, “descended Olympus’ crags / […] bow slung over one shoulder / [...] And shot until the death-fires crowded the beach.” (1:52-60) because the Achaens took Chryseis, the daughter of one of his sacred priests, as a rightful spoil of war. Apollo then reigns death upon the Achaen army for over a week until finally they return his…

Professor, Scott Sanders, in his essay about social class and gender equality, “The Men We Carry in Our Minds”, discus his point of view of men and goes in depth about all the hardworking men in his childhood and the pain they went through in paragraphs 10-15. Sanders’ purpose is to show that the men in his childhood worked so hard and no hope to get better or get help. He adapts a hopeless tone by structuring his essay as an illustration and using different writing styles such as using similes,…

Mothers have always said that looking at a screen for too long will rot your brain, so they should not be used for education. Technology has revolutionized the way that people can learn and share new ideas, but online classes are taking the individuality out of education. In his article “Online Learning: The Ruin of Education” Alexander Spring discusses the problems with online classes and how money is apparently worth more than our minds. Spring, a sophomore at Tufts University, emphasizes…

the Gilded Age, otherwise known as the Progressive Era, there was a mass explosion in innovation to generate political, economic, and technological changes. Although there were detrimental changes in American cities during Urbanization, such as the spoils system, political machines, and robber barons, the majority of these changes were beneficial towards the evolution of today’s society, which is demonstrated by technological advances like Carnegie Steel and Edison’s light bulb, revolutionizing…

what he could use before it would spoil. This is highlighted in Second Treatise where he writes “…by placing any of his labor on them, did thereby acquire a propriety in them: but if they perish, in his possession, without their due use; if the fruits rotted, or the venison putrefied, before he could spend it, he offended against the common law of nature...” (Locke 24). However, in Locke’s mind, money could be accumulated and horded because it would not waste or spoil. In these terms economic…

The jealousy of the Walker family towards the outlaw, Kissin’ Kate Barlow’s spoils from her career of bank robbing led the family to spend their lives digging holes in the desert where Barlow supposedly hid the spoils. When Ms. Walker began a juvenile detention camp to continue the search 100 year after its inception, Stanley IV is sent there. Only in that camp that the Walkers established could…

much wealth and power Agamemnon has. For instance, the twelve race horses and the seven women of Lesbos (9.123 – 127) are part of the spoils that have been looted in a war where Achilleus has fought the bravest and the hardest. However, the best spoils are unfairly distributed (1.163-168). Besides, the seven women of Lesbos (9.123-127) have been part of the spoils which Agamemnon has earlier enjoyed. Moreover, the offer of marriage to one of Agamemnon’s daughter and acceptance on the part of…