Wall Street

these days not a week goes by without news that a massive crowd has amassed in the streets of another of the world’s big cities. The reasons for the protests vary (bad and too-costly public transport or education, the plan to raze a park, police abuse, etc.). Often, the grievance quickly expands to include a repudiation of the government, or its head, or more general denunciations of corruption and economic inequality. Aerial photos of the anti-government marches routinely show an intimidating…

There are a lot of good movies but "wolf of Wall Street" is always my favorite. The movie is directed very nicely and actors and actresses acted very nice and it is also based on a true story. It is most focused, comedy and drug soaked movie. and Everyone wants to be rich including me, every human wants more money in life. Most of the people in this world are not happy with what they have. This life is a race everyone wants to get 1st place. Mostly Middle class and lower class people think…

The Shenanigans Wall Street Played I worked as a home loan originator in 2006, through 2007. As a result, I experienced several situations similar to scenes featured in the movie The Big Short, based on the book by Michael Lewis. For example, when the credit market dramatically changed in 2007, I knew the credit market was going to burst. In fact, in 2006, I easily generated over 125,000 dollars in a combination of company fees, origination fees, and yield spread premium. In 2007, the financial…

In 2010, the movement ‘Occupy Wall Street’ (OWS) appeared as a show of force for those affected by the 2008 ‘Great Recession’. One of the main purposes of the movement was to show the ‘American 1%’, that the average Joe was struggling, and to highlight the exorbitant income gained by the big business elite. In the article “Occupy Wall Street Has Already Won” by Eliot Spitzer, he claims that OWS’s goal has already been achieved. That the discussion of the cause has brought to light, clarity has…

As an illiterate adolescent, in a drug infested environment, at age 14 Curtis Wall Street Carroll felt hopeless towards his future, which contributed to Carroll burglarizing an arcade game bowling alley. He was apprehended and detained in a juvenile detention center and later released into the custody of his mother. Sometime afterward this ordeal, Carroll at the age 17 was consequently incarcerated for a robbery and murder. While imprisoned, he came to the realization that money was more value…

inferiority has had a lasting impression on society since early forms of entertainment. Over time, the media has developed a cultural standard and universal definition of what it means to be a man and the relevance of masculinity. In the film The Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort fulfills the definition of the quintessential macho man. His unethical behavior in muting feminism and devaluing the woman has a direct correlation to his increased value in an oversexed lifestyle and materialism.…

The story begins from the adult perspective of Jeannette Walls as she passes through New York City in a taxicab when she happens to see her mother digging through a trash can on the side of the street. Seeing her mom fills her with feelings of guilt as well as dark memories from the past. The first thing she wants to do is try and help her mom get back on her feet, but then again she never really was ever there. When Jeanette's mother, Rose Mary is offered this aid she refuses it and responds…

Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” is a story of class differences; the narrator, a representative of the educated class, is unable to understand Bartleby, a representative of the working class. Melville demonstrates the economic differences between these two classes through the contrast between the narrator’s life of ease and Bartleby’s life of incessant hard work in the beginning of the story. Moreover, power differences between the classes are displayed through…

The Occupy Wall Street movement relied heavily on social media, such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter during its initial mobilization phase. According to Juris (2012), networking outside of centralized, physical spaces contributed to the power and flexibility of the…

When the financial crisis of the late 2000s hit, it revealed evident weaknesses in the U.S. financial regulatory structure. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is a United States federal law that was enacted in July 2010, following the financial crisis, to create financial regulatory processes to limit risk by enforcing both transparency and accountability. We are going to review the major costs and benefits of the new regulation standards and the effect it has had on…