The Wealth of Nations

Throughout history, there have been numerous eras of change and revolution in thought and social practise; however, none have been as momentous and influential in changing Europe as the period of Enlightenment that spread across the continent between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With the rise of “enlightened” thought, there was an influx of new writers that brought forth new and stimulating ideas, which caused quite a stir in the conservative areas of the world. Widely acclaimed…

The “Niagara Movement” was a civil rights group that existed in the 1900s in which William Edward Burghardt Dubois or W.E.B Dubois was a co-founder of. As a civil rights leader and co-founder, he decided to give the “Niagara Movement” speech during the group’s second annual meeting. During this meeting, he addresses racial discrimination African Americans have to face and demands full civil rights by appealing to the audience sense of anger while using parallel structure, antithesis and…

During a controversial time in American history there were many differing opinions on the state of our nation. One Senator in particular took a firm stance and voiced his opinion to the world. The growing power of democracy and perceived freedom being pushed onto other nations was argued by Senator Fulbright as untrue to American values. It was our founding fathers who wrote “whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish…

year, there are millions of people at risk of going hungry. We as a nation should be able to help everyone. There are wealthy nations that have high poverty rates. Those poverty rates have risen but with the help of the wealthy in the United States poverty can decrease. I am not saying the wealthy should have to help. I am saying the wealthy should morally want to help. The rich should morally help the poor because it makes the nation better overall. The rich should not be forced to help the…

clear the two most primary reasons for World War I to begin included the fact that Militarism, also known as the armaments race throughout Europe caused mass competition throughout the superpowers. Alliances also caused for a great tension between nations, as the smallest act could create a large…

referred to as The Gilded Age. The Gilded Age is when the nation went from a country that was based on agriculture and rural grounds to that of a very urbanized and mechanized nation. The rapidly increasing wealth and major expansions in industries provided an image of only positive impacts on the nation as a whole. However the name of this time period, The Gilded Age, coined by Mark Twain, perfectly describes the actual impact on the nation. This gilded era shined on the surface, but was a…

War has always been a part of human life and the expanding of every country in the world. It was either war between two countries or war within the country. Many fought to earn independence, some fought to develop its power and some just fought because they were allies to the country at war. No matter what the reason was, war has left a huge effect to how things are today. WW1 and WW2 were two wars that defined the United States, but when comparing the weapons, the survivor rate, and the weather…

also thought that Roosevelt was in favor of the rich and could not help out the poor and realize his promises. Therefore, he organized the audience to build the Share Our Wealth Society to fulfill their dreams. However, the movement was aborted. Herbert Hoover criticized Roosevelt’s New Deal because it harmed the liberty of the nation and he proposed to endow the business with more freedom. However, capitalism had its own disadvantages and it could not always run well. Therefore, moderate…

Wealth, poverty, and social class have been displayed into all parts of the world today. Economist Branko Milanovic’s The Haves and the Have-Nots offers three types of inequalities— differences among individuals in a community, income between countries, and among all individuals of the world. The author talks about income and wealth inequality that exists in several different ways in our daily life through short vignettes and essays, with strong evidence from history and today, in order to…

As Gilpin pointed out capitalism generates surplus. This surplus must be outsourced to somewhere in order to reestablish an equilibrium in the economy. This is partially what makes capitalism so successful as a growth economy, as it allows for wealth to be maximized, although not always equally. This aspect of capitalism, as well as the core concept of maximizing efficiency within…