Upward Bound

period is that the great explorers of this time were motivated by three things, gold, God, and glory. It is now over four centuries later and the seas and terrain have since been mapped. With little left to be found on Earth, man has turned his head upwards into the final frontier, space. However, while the destination has changed, for the most part the reasons have not. The Spanish sought gold, which could be understood more broadly as economic return off their ventures.…

Food trucks have proliferated into the United States Cities and those of other countries around the world. Recently I was in Egypt, and I couldn’t resist tasting the delicacies that were displayed from the many food trucks around. The package was indeed tasty, but the excitement did not last for long. I had terrible stomach pains that had to be attended to at the nearby hospital. I was admitted for five days in the hospital as the stomach issue was checked. This experience made me do a…

Lumina Foundation Financial Standing and Management Educational nonprofits in the United States exist in a space in which they may generate enormous change in the current culture. Educational nonprofits come in as the second most populous type of nonprofit in the United States, behind only religious organizations. Even with such prevalence, only a bit more than half of the nearly 212,000 educational nonprofit organizations operate in the financial space where the IRS Form 990 is required.…

a society where progress is the servant of our needs, or a society where old values and new visions are buried under unbridled growth. For in your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time. But that is just the beginning. The Great Society is a place where…

A light drizzle tapped the roofs of houses, and the heads of people. A large storm came in a few days ago from the east and the remnants are still lingering throughout the air. Cold, and muggy, the air clings to the faces of bystanders. The paper white breath of people stay in the air for a split second and disappear after only a few milliseconds. Wind dashes throughout the town. Weaving in and out of alleyways, through the streets, and over the top of buildings. Smoke billows from chimneys.…

From a young age, girls typically dream about their wedding day long before they meet their Prince Charming. However, Shakespeare’s tragic portrayal of marriage in Macbeth has the power to ruin their imaginary weddings. Macbeth displays a chaotic world when the most respected man becomes disrespected as shown by the king being betrayed by one of his most honorable soldiers, Macbeth. This chaos reaches Macbeth’s respectful and loyal marriage to Lady Macbeth. Such chaos in their marriage stems…

Rist on Tooke In 1938, Charles Rist’s History of Monetary and Credit Theory from John Law to the Present Day (translated by Jane Degras, New York: Augustus M. Kelly Publishers: 1966) in which he reviews Tooke’s contributions to economics. Rist (1874-1955) was a French economist, who was of the Banking School as opposed to the Currency School. [Under the gold standard, banking philosophies generally fell into either the banking school or the currency school. The banking school “holds that as…

Rochel Gertsberg Term paper Both The Invisible Man, by H.G. wells, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, describe men who are attempting to escape responsibility and consequence. However, both of these novels portray how man cannot change nature painlessly; such a change comes along with suffering. The theme of man’s actions being irreversible is also portrayed. After changing themselves, they are unable to undo what they have done. Ironically, that which…

Throughout this essay I am going to explore and discuss the UK civil rights Movement starting with the Abolitionist Movement and how it impacted social reform, later moving on to the topics war and mass migration concluding with key figures involved in the civil right Movements during 19th century. More often than not the Civil Rights Movement is associated with the fight for social equality in the USA. The deprivation and ill treatment of black people in America holds long history of abuse…

The vast size of the human population today in our modern time bring with it an almost arbitrary phenomenon, that most people do not seem to understand and accept. It is of course the phenomena that allows some people to live in huge mansions with a fifty meter pool in the backyard, and there are human beings who are forced to dwell in the many tunnels and sewers under major cities and who have to beg for their food. It is an extreme example of course, but is not farfetched at all. It is a…