In this essay, I will be examining the significance of the Wall Street Crash (WSC) by exploring its impact in socio-economic and political impacts on Germany up to 1934. This will include exploring its significance in terms of unemployment political crises, the rise of Nazis as the largest party and ultimately both the enabling act and the early stages of Gleichschaltung, up to the NOTLK and the death of Hindenburg as well as the Army oath and how this affected the German people. I will also…
There are many reasons to hate Manhattan's Wall Street. It's the home of miserable bankers on the brink of mental breakdown, expensive lunch options and of course, the dreaded 1%ers. But black people have a whole other reason to hate Wall St and it's about time we all learned about it. THE DARK HISTORY OF BLACK PEOPLE AT WALL STREET Go to Wall Street today and you'll see shiny buildings and crowded stock markets. However, a different type of trade existed in the 1700's but back in the 1770's.…
At first glance the men in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort have an extraordinary amount of similarities in their lives. Starting to ease into the similarities, we can see that characters from both works are consumed by the temptation of greed, both are set on the American dream full of money and pleasure, and are both hypnotised by love and result to affairs. Yes, they do have their differences. For instance, one being sentimental and…
The article I chose, written by Shan Wang for Nieman Lab, focused around paywalls, specifically centered around the Wall Street Journals and their paywalls. A paywall is when an online media outlet charges a fee for access to their news content. The article discusses how paywalls are negative because casual readers are at a disadvantage. They are unable to test out a news source before committing to a payment. The article then describes two types of paywalls: hard and soft. Hard paywalls allow…
Taking place in the city of Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma, many African American scholars, engineers, doctors, lawyers, inventors, bankers, teachers, and businessmen emerged from the momentous " Black Wall Street", creating a group of intelligent wealthy high-profiled individuals. The influential " Black Wall Street" was short-lived in its significance due to the 1921 race riots in Tulsa. At that time, many people of the white race were opposed to African Americans and their high achieved level of…
culture. Now many Black Americans hold resentment towards officials, we should trust and rely on which is leading to many movements such as “Black Lives Matter” which could be a cause and set back in developing a new America. The destruction of Black Wall Street was the first reporting of an American city bombing from the air by the United States government. Greenwood symbolized threats and high power to anyone who did not want African Americans to prosper. In defense, Greenwood was incinerated…
In the essays two wonderful stories are shared and then compared from their differences and similarities. The first story is “A Women on the Street” by Jeannette Walls. The second story is “What is Poverty” by Jo Goodwin Parker. “A Woman on the Street” is about a daughter that is willing to help her mother with financial problems, yet showing humbleness, self-appearance, and hopelessness. “What is poverty?” is about a woman that is telling you about what poverty means to the individual, yet…
The Occupy Wall Street and Gezi Protests are both recognized as defining movements in the 21st century. Both movements advocated for social change in an oppressive government, and though the outcomes of each were marked by failures, they still continue to have a lasting impact. Occupy Wall Street and the Gezi Protests both share similarities in the structure and resistance of their movements. However, they also have their differences ranging from how the movements began, and who was there to…
The short stories, “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” by Herman Melville and “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka, exemplifies the ideology that a man’s importance is directly equal to their usefulness in society. In “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street,” Bartleby is described through the perspective of his employer who becomes exasperated by the overtly mysterious scrivener. In “The Metamorphosis,” Gregor Samsa finds himself transformed into a cockroach and cannot…
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act took its cause on the twenty-first of July 2010. It contained several rules and regulations designed to end risk taking, fraud, and greed that dominated the 2008 financial crisis. Despite its very detailed information, the Act did not end up achieving the goals it was set to accomplish. Immediately after being enacted, it caused a sharp division in parties. It only passed the House with a single Republican vote and three GOP…