Wealth condensation

The United States of America, a country alleged to be the land of opportunity. Designer clothes, fame, power and abundant wealth, the American dream. This dream is deceivingly masked as viable. Thus, it is relentlessly pursued by a materialistically ambitioned society. Unforgivingly, our society is scrutinizing and has become discriminately split into social classes. Classes based on those who have and those who don’t. Further, these social classes are categorized as: The wealthy upper class,…

Joyce’s portrayal of Dublin in Dubliners is certainly not one of praise or fanfare. Rather, Joyce’s Dublin is a slumbering and pathetic portrayal of a metropolis in which her citizens cannot exercise the ability to break free from the city’s frigid grasp. Therefore, the Dubliners struggle to carve out a distinct identity that contains meaningful aspects of human life. Somerville states that “Dublin has suffered a sickness of the heart,” an assentation that certainly captures the undertones of…

barely makes ends meet in sustaining a living, the fact of the matter is, the inequality economy has and will corrupt the middle class, which is the heart of the government system running as to the “Virtuous Cycle.” Ultimately, causing the existence of wealth and poverty or the rich and the poor in our nation. In the video of Inequality for All, that shows evidence of the decreasing wages, personal debt, an economy that relies on consumer spending, and the increase…

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was set in the 1920’s, a time of mixed fortune where a select few made millions while the common people in society were very unfortunate. As people started to value wealth on the dawn of the Great Depression, the poor became poorer and the rich disregarded their existence. Social classes became even more separated as the newly rich fought with the old money for power. The thirst for opportunity was still present, but the traditional American Dream was…

With a culture preoccupied by the belief that material gain constitutes fulfillment within life, it is becoming increasingly common to view the act of living as the need to obtain wealth. This inane form of existence is a result of the capitalistic system in which our Western world is governed. An essay that effectively expounds the circumstances leading up to the current economic disparity among the classes is Edward McClelland’s, RIP, The Middle Class: 1946-2013. In the U.S. today, the need…

Watch any beauty pageant and a common theme that one will notice is that a lot of people center on the want for world peace. Many people over the years have debated how to attain just that. Some would say that the secret is to end all wars. Other people would say the key to unlocking world peace would be to end poverty. Thomas More’s work Utopia explores the dynamics of what a perfect world would look like. His work is an ambiguous piece of literature that causes the reader to question if a…

Wealth and Poverty: Kuyper vs. Conwell Poverty: general scarcity or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. It is a complex concept, which includes social, economic, and political elements. Poverty has been existent since the start of civilization, and continues to be a present problem across the globe. It is a controversial subject in which there are countless opinions on how poverty should be approached. Some view it as an individual problem in which it…

“The Singer Solution to World Poverty,” Peter Singer discusses multiple scenarios where individuals are put in situations where they must decide between their needs and others. He believes individuals can save the life of another by sacrificing some wealth or material possessions. This simplistic solution to a problem that has present for decades fails to address certain issues. One such problem with his solution is the variability between the circumstances people undergo and changeable nature…

A brick wall of freezing air hits your face as you walk down a seemingly clean and populated part of town. Your pace shifts as the weather on this particular day seems like the coldest in ages and yet you start to warm up as you near the epicenter of a part of town that seems to glow with its radiant warmth. The sidewalks are clean and well maintained; the shops are vibrant and lively with people enjoying the day. As you enter the Metropolis you are only greeted with a harsh and cold flurry of…

I am thinking of two very specific people, out of like 9,000,000,000,000 people in the united states, both of them have made a fortune and been very famous, but only one of them live up to my standards of success. My definition of success, which very well may vary from yours, is someone who has a lot of fortune and fame that was not handed down to them. First, my definition of success is someone who is very famous, and they also, have made a lot of healthy money at it. Second, George…