The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal article sheds light on a community of buyers who want to prepare for the worst case scenario. In the article very wealthy buyers want a sense of safety should a natural or man-made disaster occur. The buyers of these underground condos sight growing concern over health scares, sever weather and terror attacks. It should be noted that these condos don’t just provide the basic necessities, but they also provide the best amenities money can buy. The motivation of their purchases are viewed under four different lenses: Max Scheler, Peter Singer, Adam Smith, and Virtue Theory. Scheler – Scheler would view the purchased of a luxury bunker through the eyes of man’s origin, nature and development of moral values. He believed one’s values are based on experiences that shape a person’s value system. Scheler would feel that each buyer is justified in their purchase simply because their choices reflect a strong belief in…

The article I chose, written by Shan Wang for Nieman Lab, focused around paywalls, specifically centered around the Wall Street Journals and their paywalls. A paywall is when an online media outlet charges a fee for access to their news content. The article discusses how paywalls are negative because casual readers are at a disadvantage. They are unable to test out a news source before committing to a payment. The article then describes two types of paywalls: hard and soft. Hard paywalls allow…

In sweating discomfort of the summertime heat, I filed twelve hours through Hong Kong International Airport with my overweight bags, tired eyes, and a dozen of questions about commitment into medicine deriving from hesitation and controversy. Approaching customs, I noticed the intensity and seriousness on the faces of the customs officers whose responsibility were to check passport and question passengers for reason to come to Hong Kong. As I moved closer to the front of the line, I noticed…

media websites and even though the print industry is declining, USA Today continues to push the envelope of success by embracing change and moving forward with new ideas to reach generational audiences. The internet is said to be the new for environmental change (Gard & Keoleian, 2002). With social media outlets now becoming the preferred method for accessing information, the increasing needs open new opportunities and threats to consumers (Kucuk, 2016). References: Gard, D. L., & Keoleian,…

Name: Wall Street Journal: Assignment #3 This is an INDIVIDUAL assignment. Submit your answers in hardcopy at the beginning of class. Check the syllabus for the due date. Handwritten answers are NOT acceptable. Use Word to write your answers. Chapter 5: Planning 1. There are two basic types of retirement plans available: 1) defined benefit plans, and 2) defined contribution plans. Briefly describe the two types of plans; include at least three features of each. (Not defined…

nearly as successful. It really helps the movie reach a much broader audience than it would have without these animations. Throughout the movie, there are many contrasts, especially between the bankers and the ordinary people. A central argument is how the banking industry has been making money since the crisis while the rest of the world is failing financially. To illustrate this, the movie shows graphs of how much banker’s payment have gone up. When the viewer sees these graphs, there is…

ivy league school; but this can often be a facade or a sign of privilege. An example of an impressive trait often admired by Wall Street recruiters is people who are deemed as “smart”, which can be related to the idea of being impressive in terms of knowledge or education. But this smartness can be fabricated by people who look or dress “smart”, but aren’t necessarily more knowledgable than the rest of society. The manufacturing of such an appearance highlighted by Ho, who claims that “smartness…

drifted away from Puritanism, many ideals continued to be prominent in society. This includes individualism. Several writers from Massachusetts incorporated this Puritan value into their work. One example is Herman Melville and his novella, Bartleby the Scrivener. This story encompasses an older lawyer working in Wall Street with fellow oddly named workers such as “Turkey,” “Nippers,”and “Ginger Nut.” The lawyer hires another quirky worker named “Bartleby,” who proves to be quite a challenge for…

confrontation with J.P. Morgan and the heads of the Episcopal church, Moore realizes that the string of murders were resulting in an immigrant population that was “angry enough to stop showing up on Sunday and coughing up what little money they have. (Carr, 300)” Rather than trying to comfort the immigrant population as churches usually do in moments of hardship, the Episcopal church leaders tried to silence the population with bribes and threats to keep their income flowing. In some ways, the…

New York City's population increased from 124,000 in 1820 to 814,000 in 1860. The population growth resulted in a rapid rise in real estate prices that created a market for tall buildings like those that hem in the lawyer's office. The high cost of space in lower Manhattan also forced workers to search for cheaper housing elsewhere, thus creating the story's austere Wall Street setting that during evenings and Sundays is virtually devoid of human life. The building that houses the law office,…