Consumer Economy Literature Reviews Samples For Students

"The Gentlemen from Cracow" - Analysis

The allegorical short story "The Gentlemen from Cracow" is a very well-known and important piece of Yiddish folklore; a short story in which the poor villagers of the Polish town of Frampol attempt to deal with their own poverty in very interesting ways. When a drought is followed by a hailstorm, then locusts and other supernatural happenstances, the titular gentlemen arrives to offer these villagers a solution. The story itself is a treatise on conspicuous consumption, especially as it befalls a society that is unused to it. Attempting to transform this simple village into a haven for consumerism has disastrous consequences ...

LITERATURE REVIEW

Advantages of Home Schooling
The first advantage of homeschooling that emerges from literature is the need for family members to bond. According to Arai (2014), keeping children at home rather than at school helps parents to have a close-knit family. Many parents regard homeschooling as an opportunity for them to learn more about their children and for the children to learn more about them. Arai (2014) notes that parents whose children have undergone homeschooling would make comments such as “we’re much stronger as a family now” or “homeschooling has brought all of us together as a family” (Arai, ...

American Life after the Cold War

American family life before and during the Cold War, as well as the changes commenced by the baby boomers have all been the subjects of numerous studies. One of the major acclaimed contributors in this regard is Elaine Tyler May, whose book Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era first published in 1988 contains a detailed analysis of the American family life, perception of gender roles and equality, as well as the results of the Kelly Longitudinal Study (KLS) that gradually reveal the realities of the nuclear families inside life. The central idea of the book is confinement ...