Natalie Watkins 10-8-2015, City + Metropolitan Econ Essay Responses for Mid-Term 2. From our pantheon of theorists (Ricardo, Marshall, Skitovsky, Schumpeter, Vernon & Hoover, Chinitz, Markusen, Piore & Sabel, Galster, Norton & Rees, Perroux, Christaller, Losch, and Sassen), which theorist (or 2-person team of theorists) do you find most convincing? Why? Be specific, and provide examples. I find Hoover & Vernon to be the most convincing economic theorists. They describe healthy economic growth…
Captain John Smith was born January 1580 they don't know the actually date, in Willoughby, United Kingdom. Cap. Smith decided to have a life of combat and served with the English Army abroad. He eventually had made his way to America to help govern the British Colony of Jamestown. Smith was captured and enslaved, he was sent to what is now Istanbul and served a kindhearted mistress, who didn't want him as her slave, so she sent him to her brothers to do farm work. After receiving harsh treatment…
Orwell reveals the effect Big Brother’s regime is beginning to have on Winston through the imagery present in this scene. In this scene, Winston imagines what the future will hold, especially in regards to O’Brien’s potential as an ally. “‘We shall meet in a place where there is no darkness,’ O’Brien had said to him.” The lack of darkness is used by the author to convey a hopeful tone of voice. The absence of darkness allows for the possibility of light to enter, in this case, darkness…
Individual: Up to 1763 John Smith was an English soldier and adventurer and was the first one to draw the map of the Chesapeake Bay and New England. He went to Virginia and Chesapeake Bay in 1608 and 1609. When the settlers and Smith arrived in Jamestown, he taught them how to farm and work to get the colony growing. There were times where the Powhatan Indians attacked the colony, and, because of that Smith was hurt and had to go back to England. Pocahontas was an Indian who was given to the…
In George Orwell’s 1984, the protagonist is an ordinary man by the name of Winston Smith. Throughout the novel, Winston struggles against the tyranny of Big Brother and the Party, both inwardly and eventually outwardly. However, by the novel’s end, Winston is discovered and broken by the Thought Police; his struggles are proven to be in vain. Still, despite his failure, Winston is undoubtedly the hero of the story. George Orwell’s definition of heroism is “ordinary people doing whatever they can…
Adam Smith and Karl Marx are well renowned economic philosophers. Each has their own ideas that they applied to show how economic systems should work. For Adam Smith, it was his idea of the “Invisible Hand”, one which Karl Marx did not support. Marx spent most of his time criticizing capitalism and Smith’s ideas. Smith and Marx both discuss how an economic system should be run, but their explanations go in different directions. Karl Marx is most known for his writing of the Communist Manifesto.…
Plath’s novel The Bell Jar can be described as one of the most depressing books ever written. Unfortunately for Plath, the novel has part of her story that is roman-a-clef, meaning they are based on her actual life. In 1950 Plath started attending Smith College and in 1952 she became a student editor for Mademoiselle just as Esther does (Scott). Furthermore, Plath describes her experience at Mademoiselle as an “unbelievable merry-go-round month” (Scott). While she was working at Mademoiselle…
Patrick Amy Writing about Literature Dr. Lavelle Midterm March 6, 2015 Sylvia Plath: the Writer, the Pioneer, the Idol. In her brief and productive life, Sylvia Plath produced some of the more notable and controversial work than that of any of her contemporaries. Plath’s distinctive themes ubiquitous in her work enables her to broach a body of material that many other writers are incapable of: her dedication to exploring certain themes that others did not left an ineradicable mark on American…
The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath is about a girl named Esther who is a young women from the suburbs in Boston. She is working for an editor in New York interning at a magazine during the summer. She feels like she doesn’t fit in or belong with society and this is leading to depression. After many suicide attempts, her mother sends her to a psychiatric institution where she meets a female doctor named Doctor Nolan who eventually helps her overcome her problems and depression. I chose the signpost…
Monique Luna Econ 1 Free Enterprise Essay 10/2017 Prompt A free enterprise system provides individuals the opportunity to make their own economic decisions, without restrictions from the government. It allows the supply and demand of consumers to determine the success or failure of an economic endeavor. As a result, some business owners have become successful, while others have not. In an essay, you will choose an entrepreneur and argue whether the free enterprise system was necessary for that…