Wall Street

The Occupy Wall Street movement can be analyzed through the lens of Karl Marx and David Harvey. Harvey critiques the idea of self-regulating markets, or neoliberalism, because not everyone has an equal opportunity in the market and without any state intervention it becomes unfair to those stuck at the bottom. Marx writes about the class struggles between the proletariat and the bourgeois. The bourgeois have purchased the labor of the proletariat at a minimal price and therefore have alienated…

Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of how the lower classes people can be empower to protect themselves and also to gain equality. Though the outsiders argues that they are powerless to change their situation, and occupy wall street argues that people could fight for their rights by voices and actions, but both show that action makes changes. In The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton argues that for the lower class is hard to improve their lives. Ponyboy’s parents died in his…

“Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street” narrates a story of a peculiar man, Bartleby, who initially works as a “subordinate clerk in the Dead Letter Office in Washington” (29). Every day, he holds the responsibility of handling cart-load of “dead letters” and “assorting them for the flames” (29). One day, a sudden change in administration forces Bartleby to forsake his position at the office. In search for a job, Bartleby appears in front of a lawyer’s “office threshold” (6), hoping to…

Wolf of Wall Street with the highly talented Leonardo DiCaprio as the notorious Jordan Belfort. The wolf of Wall Street can be used as a visual to show the different topics we talked about in class. This movie is based off of Jordan Belfort a white collar criminal on the streets of long island. There are many instances where what we discussed in lecture/discussion. Crime is now a big seller at the movie theatre and I believe that it can have an impact on a youths mind. The wolf of Wall Street…

The greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa,Oklahoma housed one of the most successful black economies in American history. The area is now commonly referred to as’’ The Black Wall Street’’. Most of the business and homes were burned down in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. The team’’Nero Wall Street’’was coined by none other than famed African-American author and educator, Booker T Washington. At the time, the greenwood district was home to dozens of prominent African-American businessmen. Greenwood…

is a group of individuals who are not successful and unable to reach the American Dream, they make up the other half. New York City is the home to both groups of people. Yet, media only displays the successful individuals, as seen in the movie Wall Street. The movie displays the life of Bud Fox and Gordon Gecco, who are the fortunate few to reach this point of success. The other half of life in New York City is not seen through media but…

Occupy Wall Street was a local and international movement that began on September 17, 2011, in Liberty Square Manhattan Financial District, that caused the recession. This people-powered movement raised awareness that there was social and economic inequality worldwide. The argument was that the 1% of the wealthiest Americans were paying less for their taxes than the average Americans. There needed to be a reduction within the gap between the rich and the poor. This angered Americans and…

Drugs, greed, hookers, and a giant scam. This would be an accurate way to summarize the "professional" life of Jordan Belfort also known as the "Wolf of Wall Street". Mr. Belfort, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, is the main character in the film The Wolf of Wall Street, a film by Martin Scorsese based on the real life memoir of Jordan Belfort. He is a man consumed in himself and Scorsese makes his viewers want to embody his lifestyle. So how was he able to present and glamorize a life filled with…

One of the characterizing elements of the occupation on Wall Street was the General Assembly meetings held nightly at 7 p.m., “The diversity of the crowd was immediately apparent. Those sleeping in the park, with grimy demeanor and clothing that signaled the rigors of camping out, stood next to smartly attired office worker, who had apparently dropped by on a detour from their evening commute.” (Writers of the 99% 26). Despite the difference within the ever growing crowd of demonstrators the…

January 25, 2011, marked the day in which Egyptian citizens took to the streets to demand change in their government. Over the course of eighteen days, the protests began to turn violent; security forces used tear gas in an attempt to gain control over the citizens. The Egyptian government initially blocked citizens from accessing Facebook so that they would not be able to organize protests. By January 28, the government issued an Internet ban to keep protesters from organizing demonstrations.…