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they were actually causing. Mental illness can’t be forced out of a human but it can be helped if the person can trust others and them self. Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 27, 1932. In 1950 Plath won a scholarship to Smith College. While she was a student, she spent time in New York City during the summer. A Fulbright Fellowship brought Sylvia Plath to Cambridge University in England. While studying at the university's Newnham College, she met the poet Ted Hughes.…

Sylvia Plath’s 1963 novel “The Bell Jar”, briefs the story of an amazing, gifted poet, Esther Greenwood, whose falling apart piece by piece due to the pressure of society. Throughout the novel Esther gave many signs on how she's slowly falling apart. When working for the Ladies’ Day magazine in New York, Esther develops a mental illness. An illness that makes her unable to sleep then leads to her not being able to read and write. She then tries to commit suicide multiple times due to the lack of…

Karl Marx, a theorist who examined the societal values and orders, ultimately came to the conclusion that human history was composed of a level of struggles between different classes. The main motivator for humans is “historical materialism” which is associated with wealth, gain, and resources. Marx believed that when factories were created with no progress and investment, the workers just ended up getting poorer and poorer until there was no incentive to work. To fix this problem, Marx came up…

The Industrial Revolution by T. S. Ashton is a story of the emergence of industrial civilization. Ashton was an English economic historian. He was professor of economic history at the London School of Economics at the University of London, and Emeritus Professor until his death in 1968. The Industrial Revolution (1760–1830) is his best known work, and put forth a positive view of the benefits of this era. The industrial revolution has been attacked and opinioned by many. Some say it the cause…

President John F. Kennedy once said “conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” The concept of conformity and individuality is clearly illustrated in the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. Like most dystopian societies, Fahrenheit 451 contains a damaged society in which the people watch excessive amounts of television on wall size sets, listen to music on seashell radio sets, and drive extremely fast, not afraid to hit animals or people. The masses never think…

Solow-Swan model The Solow-Swan model was named after Robert (Bob) Solow and Trevor Swan, or simply after the more famous of the two economists as Solow model. This model is remarkably simple and has also shaped the way we approach economic growth as well as the field of macroeconomics. Before the advent of the Solow Growth Model, one may fail to appreciate the intellectual breakthrough that it was; as then, the most common approach to economic growth was with reference to the Harrod-Domar model…

Adam Smith theorized about the birth of the division of labor. His observation and explanation made it much more possible to identify how societies naturally move towards capitalism and the implications it has on societies. Jean Jacques Rousseau also theorized at great length about the progression of mankind and the motivation that led to the creation of government. Rousseau and Smith shared similar beliefs about how societies were formed and how the division of labor came to be. However, they…

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” Adam smith wrote this robust statement in his book The Wealth of Nations in 1776 (para. 203). Adam Smith was a brilliant Scottish social philosopher, who forever influenced economics with his book The Wealth of Nations. In this book Adam Smith wrote about many different aspects of an economy, consequentially, he wrote a metaphor that has shaped his legacy tremendously. The metaphor he wrote dealt with the “free market”…

Capitalism and industrial revolution background. In 1751, he was nominated to be a logic professor in Glasgow university, then the next year he changed into a moral philosophy lecture. In 1759, he published “The theory of moral sentiments”, the studies let Smith create a sensation of his reputation. Aiming at how human communicate through middleman and bystander with interactive sensation between each other. After 17 years, his representative literature “The wealth of nations” was considered to…

‘The theoretical basis for market economies was developed by classical economists such as Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Jean-Baptiste Say in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.’ A market economy is established by constructing law and order, creating a labour force, distributing public goods and promoting competition. Countries described as having market economies allow market forces to drive most of their economic activities. In a market economy, distribution and exchange is controlled by…