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    Susan Glaspell, born in 1876 was an American play writer, novelist, journalist, and actress. In her time, she wrote many short stories and plays which began appearing in magazines and journals. One of Glaspell’s best works was a one-act play called Trifles written and performed in 1916. While working as a journalist for Des Monines Daily News, she covered the 1900 murder of John Hossack which is where she received the inspiration for the loosely based play and in 1917 was turned into a short…

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    “The Bell Jar” by Victoria Lucas (Pseudonym of Sylvia Plath) was first time published on 14 January 1963 in the U.S of America after her death in a same year. This book was written as novel by Sylvia Lucas, but in comparison with her life before this book, we can clearly say that it is autobiographical book, where the author tries to wright her personal story but under different name, Plath choose Esther Greenwood as her protégé in the book. Both of them had experience with magazines and…

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    Friedrich August Von Hayek was a political economist that possessed a tremendous influence on how people in capitalist societies comprehended the concept of liberty. His viewpoint of freedom did not embody liberal ideals, but “a policy that deliberately adopts competition, markets, and prices as its ordering principles” (The School of Life, 2016). Although he had a substantial career, it was after his retirement, that his influence truly left a mark in the realm of economic theories. In his…

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    Amartya Sen,( an anccesible and exceptional humanitarian – Jon snow, New Statesman) is Lamont University, Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Economics, at Harvard university. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1998-2004. His many books include Development as Freedom, Rationality and Freedom, The Argumentative Indian, and Identity and Violence. Philosophy Amartya Sen said that Justice should not be in Binary terms – It is a matter of…

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    "The Matrix" is one of the most commonly known blockbuster films released in the year 1999. Viewers commonly identify it by its fascinating video effects as well as the unreal (yet real in the movie) acts performed in its scenes. The idea which I aim to explore in this essay dwells on the usage of cinematographic elements, the theme of fate and the stylistic use of literary elements within the film as well as in the scene where Neo meets Morpheus. The movie is well known for the advanced…

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    theories started developing during the late 18th century in England with Adam Smith. The theories of the classical school ended the mercantilism and dominated economic thinking till late 19th century. It focused on economic growth, economic freedom, and free competition. Adam Smith is the greatest economic thinker of all time. His work changed the economic thoughts of his time. Like other early economic writers, Smith also was not just an economist. In addition he was a philosopher, a political…

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    An important factor that impacts the economy is the unemployment percentage of a society. Workers are essential in gathering and producing resources that enable supply. As the population increases it causes an increase in demand, the need for supply increases and therefore, a need for efficiency arises. Division of labor is a method that has been implemented to ensure that the members of a society are productive to the economy by providing more jobs that are specialized in nature. The job…

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    with occasional theoretical variations, each classical economist shared similar thoughts and advanced these hypotheses of former writers. Discussed by the most influential classical economists Adam Smith and David Ricardo, one specific distinctive of classical economics is its theory of wages in which Smith and Ricardo consider wages steady at a minimum level of subsistence. On the other hand, Karl Marx and his critiques of political economy in Das Kapital lead people to wonder whether Marx…

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    I believe a large percentage of the Abundant Life Center’s membership would have no idea of the day-to-day needs of the marginalized within the St. Joseph area. Even though our own membership reflects a snapshot of the marginalized in St. Joseph, we frequently respond to the these needs on a project-by-project bases, as opposed to trying to building Zion within the context of the lives of those suffering. For example, I remember gathering several children, with a car full of Christmas…

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    inputs for profit. (Investopedia) Adam Smith describes capitalism is based on self-interest. Capitalism is not central planning but supply and demand in the market economy, which is characterized by competition between producers. 2. How does the pursuit of one’s self-interest (“greed”) serve the common good? Self-interest is a behavior in the way that is most personally beneficial. On the other hand, common good is the benefit of all people or in a group. Adam Smith says that it is possible to…

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