Essays on Greedy

1. The Financial Crisis: Avoidable but Inevitable Theoretically, the financial crisis could have been avoided as investigation findings revealed . Under the circumstances however, the crisis was an inevitable consequence of everything that was going. The Federal inquiry concluded that the 2008 financial crisis could have been avoided. The crisis was the result of “widespread failures in government regulation, corporate mismanagement and heedless risk-taking by Wall Street”. It was the result of “greed, ineptitude or both” on the part of government and the private sector. Among the persons found responsible for the crisis included Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and, ...

Advantages of debt financing

There are numerous benefits an organization stands to enjoy due to debt financing. These advantages include the potential for greater investment on returns due the borrowing capability. Additionally, the opportunity cost is justified during the low-interest rates which can make the business to borrow more.

Disadvantages of debt financing

The growth and development of a business that relies heavily on borrowing can be limited, additionally, there need to pay a constant monthly interest that can be costly to the business. Apart from the need of paying interest, there is the problem of cash-flow which can increase when the business is responsible for paying ...

1. In the first chapter of the novel the author uses specific imagery with a certain aim, but it is only understandable after reading a couple of chapters of The Lathe of Life. By giving a detailed description of the landscape at the beginning, LeGuin creates a contrast between nature and urban scenery, between animal and human life in future of 2002. After a further reading of the text it becomes understandable that the jellyfish, the ocean and the continent are symbols and bear some meanings. The jellyfish is associated with the main character George Orr, the ocean symbolizes ...

Introduction

Activism by university students has always been discouraged by administrators with many of these activists finding themselves on the wrong side of the law. The 1960’s were characterized by racial discrimination and the oppression of the rights of students from free expression. These protests were considered acts of massive civil disobedience and most students who were found participating in such activities ended up in jail. It is during this period that Mario Savio joined the University of California, Berkeley and used speech to mobilize his fellow students to participate in peaceful sit-ins to demand free speech rights. Activists ...

Introduction

This essay will use sources from six key films, and written text in order to describe, discuss, and analyze how society picks on people with less power over time. The sources used in this essay, depict a narrative where there is an underdog, and a person in a position of authority over them. They highlight the underdog’s struggle to align themselves with the values of society, and to be recognized as equal members within it. Each of the narratives discussed in this essay depicts people who are used, and discarded by society. These underdogs are seen as outcasts ...

There is an old saying in china says: When a man is near death he speaks from the heart. It means when you really face the death, your words became soft and kind-hearted. It is the kind of phenomenon that people regret after they lose something wonderful. The selfish person donates all their belongings to the charity. The mean person treats others well and show them kindness. The mad man becomes gentler. In Chekhov’s” Rothschild’s Fiddle”, he illustrates a selfish and greedy man becomes soft-hearted and regrets his choices when he faces the death directly. Yakov, the ...

The book “Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Families and the Making of the Third World” by Mike Davis is relevant within the circles of world economics. It illustrates the relationship between global political economies and climate patterns. Specifically, the book ties economic events with the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The author creates comparisons between ENSO occurrences with various factors. Critically, the book considers the aspect of time in different countries. The ideas presented in the book explore the implications of colonial interests in world history. This also includes a focus on the creation of economic philosophies that surround ...

Article Analysis

The cries of the goblin merchants give the story its haunting quality. Lizzie is more sensible than Laura, so she is more protective when it comes to heeding the cries, and she ends up protecting Laura.

Repeating Lizzie’s warnings over and over again provides an “aural lesson” for the reader, as well as for Laura.

There is some disagreement as to whether the nature of the cries is local in context or provides a larger comment about the class war. Rossetti’s poem is somewhere between the sounds of the streets around her and the literary evocations of that city that transform sounds into words. London had a reputation for being filled with a huge array of noises ...

Greed -Nutrition

Bio Sociology as a discipline gives human beings the opportunity to be inquisitive of behavior and things in their environment. Every behavior and action traces its way back to the human anatomy and the environment. The act of greed did not find its way in the modern society without some prehistorical conditions attached to it. Presently, biology has worsen human greed making it difficult to distinguish greed and self-love as regards to healthy living championed by proper nutrition in the modern life.

Mimetics of Greed

In his wok in examining various aspect of the biologic and information theory, Rhymer (2003) presents a ...

Win as much as you can is a game that needed a group to follow a given set of rules to either make as many wins as the best decision they would make. The game that an individual group would either choose X or Y. X represents a win whereas Y represents a loss. There were five small groups each with four individuals.

During the game, trust is built from the outcome of the application of the rules of the game. The ‘You’ in the exercise represents the group leader. He is the one that decided on what to choose. The group failed ...

Introduction

Avatar is a film story written and directed by David Cameron. The story is about a paraplegic marine known as Jake Sully who goes on a mission to the moon after his brother is killed in a robbery. He is taken to a new world to a new world of the Pandora. It is there that he learns of the greedy capitalist corporate in the name of Selfridge parker who was planning to terminate the Na’vi people of Pandora.

His main greedy mission is to mine the precious minerals scattered in the woodland. The corporate billionaire decides to fix Jake with a surgery that will ...

1) In what ways did American culture become more democratic in the early nineteenth century? How did the social and political status of women and African Americans change in relation to the status of white males?

American culture became democratic after 19th century because in the past the whites, and males were the only who owned property and be leaders in the society. Early 19th century was a year of revolution where the vi9ews of everyone were going to be considered. Voting rights also changed from the property owners and included everyone. An increasingly famous form of social and politics ...

Traditional narrative often paints Latin America as a defenseless victim of international lust for power. Latin America has habitually been thought of as a poor region full of merry people being always exploited by countless empires or armies of greedy people willing to sack their seemingly endless resources. The fact that this region full of hard working people and vast resources, is still one of the least developed areas in the world, might lead anyone to believe they are under a permanent spell cast by the great world powers, especially the United States, that condemn them to eternal poverty. Many would claim ...

In order to get a clear picture of how Plato would respond to this dilemma, it is important to establish the facts about this case. A woman named Lisa Krawchuk qualified for welfare assistance because of her low income. The welfare authorities required her to report any changes in her income for the period that she received the benefits. She agreed to that condition, reported an increase in her income after her husband got a part-time job and the welfare office reduced her payments accordingly. Lisa failed to report that she was benefiting from a student loan and the welfare office withdrew ...

The Declaration of Olympe de Gouges

Olympe de Gouges was a woman born on 7 May 1748 and died on November 3, 1793. His original name is Marie Gouze. She was a political activist as well as a playwright whose works reached a very large audience. In addition to that, she was an abolitionist and a feminist. Her achievements span from her times up to today. She still inspires very many people with her works. Today, people celebrate her as one of the earliest famous activists whose demand that French women receive the same rights as men gave her a wide popularity. In 1791, she wrote ‘The Declaration of the Rights of ...

Introduction

In a free market structure, the price of commodities is determined by the market forces of demand and supply. Price determination, which is either a reduction or an increment, is determined by the availability of goods and services and the availability of demand in the market. When the commodities supplied are higher than the quantity demanded, prices are likely to be lower whereas when the demand is greater than supply, the prices of goods are likely to be higher. An equilibrium price was attained when the rate of quantity required is equal to the amount provided in the market. On the ...

Human beings have always been relentless in their pursuit of property. In many occasions, the amount of property that an individual possesses defines his stature in the society (Ostrom & Hess 6). It is for this primary reason that humans have since time immemorial devised various means and ways of acquiring property. There are two main types of property. These are private property and public property. Greater interest is however shown in private property. As mentioned, human beings have always desired to as much private property as possible and over time, some philosophers have attempted to explain how the desire ...

Overview of the case study

The following case study analysis an unstable government led by greedy and self-centered leaders. It shows how most government officials take advantage of their positions and ranks to control for their own personal gain without caring about the life of a normal citizen. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing has the responsibility of printing government currencies, but its management and staff contributed to its downfall. The issue was very serious that even the media went ahead to publish articles accusing Bureau management of fraud. The printing machines failed over the weekend, and the management could not look for a solution to ...

Are U.S. CEOs Overpaid? Is it right to put a cap on the wages top American Chief Executive Officers (C.E.O.) can earn? This paper analyzes the ethical issue of wage caps on extremely high paid C.E.O.'s. It is my opinion, that in our free market society the top C.E.O.'s. deserve what they earn. This essay will begin by analyzing the articles The Care and Feeding of the Truly Greedy: CEO Salaries in World Perspective and The US Executive Pay Model: Smart Business or Senseless Greed. Then conclude with my opinion on the situation. Lisa Newton believes that in ...

Background

Economics is a branch of social science that focuses on studying how individual, households, and organizations work. These individuals are collectively coined as economic actors, agents, or players, as their collectively movements influence how the overall economy works. The study of economics also deal with how these economic players manage resource—especially natural resources which are considered to be scarce or limited; how they use, buy, and sell alternative commodities, all in an effort to arrive at their desired ends. An individual, one of the economic factors we have mentioned, may, for example, go to a supermarket to buy goods for ...

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INTRODUCTION “He [that is, Antonio] hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million—laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies—what’s his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes?” (Merchant of Venice, 3.1.42-46) The above lines were borrowed from the famous speech made by Shylock in William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. This speech by Shylock was his attempt at demonstrating his humanity and to encourage the audience to sympathize with his condition as a person ...

Introduction

This literary comparative essay gives an insight of differences and similarities that are revealed in “The Rocking Horse Winner” and the “Hamlet”. “The Rocking Horse winner” is a story that is based on the social status and desire for money as the main themes. The story is authored by D.H. Lawrence who focuses on the story of the young boy, Paul, who thinks that by winning his mother love, he has to search wealth though gambling His mother thinks that they would be rich if Paul would be lucky. Paul asks his mother why they are happy and the mother ...

Childhood and Education of Moliere

Molie was born in the year 1622 and was the eldest child of a merchant. He lost his mother at a very early age. After the death of his mother, the father of Moliere married another woman and moved to another house, located in Paris. In order to pursue education, Moliere was sent to the Jesuit College of Clermont. In the year 1641, Moliere became a notary. The family background, education and profession of Moliere allowed him to pursue a promising future. The information about Moliere’s childhood shows that his childhood was comfortable. He pursued education in one of the finest ...

Animals have always been used in fiction literature to display the character and nature of human beings. People have diversified characters, which can be best defined by specific behaviours displayed by certain animals. In the story of Pi, the tiger has been used to display the strong, dangerous and daring nature of Pi character. The articles, Little red riding Hood and The company of Wolves tell the character of the wolf and how the animal has been used to represent the devil or the beastly acts of men on women. The two animals, the tiger and the wolf not only ...

Bilbo Baggins was a hobbit who became the key figure in the story The Hobbit: an unexpected journey and played a significant role in The Lord of the rings trilogy. He was an ordinary hobbit who lived in his hole, used to have several tasty meals a day and had a habit of smoking a pipe. However, Bilbo, as every hobbit, has something common with an average human – his character is changeable as well as humans. This essay is devoted to the issue of how Bilbo’s character was changing since the moment he found the ring and until he passed it to his ...

Introduction

‘King Lear’ is one of the luminous literary works of William Shakespeare. Shakespeare wrote this tragic play several centuries ago. ‘King Lear’ portrays the bitter truth of the society and various noted intellectuals consider this play as a rare literature that has ever been witnessed. George Bernard Shaw writes, “No man will ever write a better tragedy than Lear” (Shaw 23). This paper intends to argue for the possibility of greed of a family member or any person to destroy the whole family. In ‘King Lear’, greed is the cause of family tragedy hence the paper will argue on the positive and ...

‘Charlie and the Chocolate factory’ is one of the famous novels of silver age. It is written by Roald Dahl (Dahl 02). He was born in 1916 in Wales of Norwegian parents. His initial education was from England and then he started to work in Africa for the Shell Oil Company. After the ‘immense bash on head’, he started writing and during the World War II sustained as a RAF fighter pilot. He is considered as one of the most well known and most successful writers of children literature. Roald Dahl found the ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ as ...

A concept can be thought of as a lens that can be used to see a phenomenon or explain it. If the contents of the concept varies, the lenses are changed, and the same phenomenon might appear different to the observer as well. The concept of Nature sometimes is used without being defined but, according to some philosophers, it encloses at least three different meanings , and each can be considered a different glass through which the world can be observed and even defined. Some authors see nature as an inherent quality of all objects, as something that generates them or gives them ...

Macbeth As A Tragedy

One of the most prominent themes in the story of Macbeth is ambition. Once the main character gets a taste of power, he does almost anything in order to keep his seat of the throne. This is representative of human nature, in a way where people are always very paranoid and greedy. Although at first, he wanted to leave things to chance, or fate, he soon convinced himself that this isn’t the best way (Shakespeare, 1.4.4). He grew impatient and also hateful. Instead of allowing things to fall into place, Macbeth wanted to take things into his own hands, of ...

Political theory can be defined as an orientation that typifies the thinking of a nation. Various theories have been advanced to try and explain why states behave and act in a manner which they do with regards to their political relations others at international levels. This submission seeks to briefly but critically analyse some of the theories of international politics and will then seek to give an explanation as to why there is more than one theory of international politics. Classical realism theory is a political theory that avers that all states of the world are more concern with power more ...

Long before we had books and places to store information, people used story telling as a form of passing their message from one generation to the next. Most of these stories were used to teach about national pride or the great works of their various gods and this gave rise to myths and legends. As time went on these stories also began to change to make them fit whatever the current generation was. The early Greeks were experts in the use of myths and many of their myths are still being read and studied and made into movies today. Today, ...

Changing Context of Work

1: Herod, A. and Aguiar, L. 2006. Cleaners and the Dirty Work of Neo-liberalism. Antipode, OX4 (2DQ), pp. 425 - 433. In the political-economic realm, the past two decades or so have been dominated by two words: neo-liberalism and globalization. According to this article, janitors and cleaners are among the occupations that endure the most probabilities of enduring injuries. The article has further analyzed research done in the US and Australia which indicates that this category of workers are ranked as the fifth going by the possibilities of enduring injuries. Despite to this, they are also victims of ...

Changing Context of Work

1: Herod, A. and Aguiar, L. 2006. Cleaners and the Dirty Work of Neo-liberalism. Antipode, OX4 (2DQ), pp. 425 - 433. The work of a cleaner has been featured in many Hollywood movies and the most common one being Maid in Manhattan. While these movies indicate that cleaners and janitors can possibly integrate with the rich, cleaners are actually fifth in ranking of occupations that endure most probabilities of injuries. This has been recorded in Australia and the US. Janitors and cleaners endure harsh conditions and low pay as well. With neo-liberalization, government regulations on workplace have undermined protection ...

Introduction

The American culture bears both the qualities which can lead to heroes and those which can lead to some people becoming villains. There are cases leading to prominent figures becoming villains such as Jeffrey Skiing and Kenneth lay’s financial misdeeds and accounting malpractices at Enron (Messner & Rosenfeld, 3). There are also stories about heroes such as Milken who is famous for his innovative spirit and bottom-line fanaticism. The American culture is encourages creativity, courage, confidence, energy, intelligence and the use of innovative solutions to solve conventional problems (Messner & Rosenfeld, 3). This culture is diverse and supported by a vibrant ...

The Brothers Grimm are responsible for some of the most famous fairy tales that are still read to children to this day. Although many of the fairy tales have been sanitized and changed for today’s children, the original stories are still masterworks of literature, often referenced and alluded to in other pieces of fiction and nonfiction. In “Rapunzel,” “Hans and Gretel,” and “The Little Peasant,” the Brothers Grimm utilize different types of symbolism, but regardless of the type and purpose of the symbolism, they use symbols that are easily grasped by the reader and serve to further the ...

Claudius and power

Quest for Power is one of the main agenda that Claudius had in his mind as he lived. He had purposed that he will not see his grave before occupying the coveted seat of the king. Claudius who is a character in Shakespeare's hamlet has been displayed to love power and would do anything to have it. This was done not considering the pain it would cause to him or to those around him, all that mattered to him was to get the position and maintain it. As we shall analyse in this paper, the greed that Claudius had did ...

Pocahontas is a Disney animated feature that follows the story of a Native American Motoaka. She is the daughter of the Powhatan Confederacy chief in the early 17th century. It is the 33rd film in the Walt Disney Animated Classic series following known hits like Beauty and the Beast, Alladin and The Lion King. It was released in theaters in 1995 and is the first film based on a known historical character. However, it did not follow the actual historical account of the Native American’s encounter with the British settler John Smith who had sailed in search of gold in the “ ...

These letters by John and Abigail Adams describe the important political, philosophical, economic and military issues that were first and foremost in the minds of the American people around the time of independence in 1776. Abigail Adams in particular was concerned about the abolition of slavery, the rights of blacks and women, and better economic and educational opportunities for the poor. Both were strongly opposed to tyranny, despotism and aristocracy, both in Britain and among the gentry and the Loyalists at home, and thought that armed rebellion and a declaration of independence were necessary in this struggle for liberty and ...

Abstract

The works of Oscar Wilde are both entertaining and humanizing. The stories are usually critiques of the rich or wealthy in society. They also seem to a reflection of Wilde’s own life and circle. A prevalent theme in Oscar Wilde’s works is the hypocrisy of the rich which result in the abuse of themselves and others, especially the poor or less privileged. This theme is particularly apparent in many of works. Analyzed in this paper are Oscar Wilde’s novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray; short stories, The Devoted Friend and The Model Millionnaire; and the poem, ...

ABSTRACT

The United States was founded on the principle that all persons had natural rights to life, liberty and property, which is to say that the Framers of the Constitution accepted the theories of John Locke rather than Thomas Hobbes. Government did not simply exist to maintain law and order and keep the masses under control, but to preserve, defend and guarantee the rights of the people. By popular demand in the 1780s, the Bill of Rights was also added to the Constitution, which stated expressly which rights were guaranteed to the people and what the exact limits of government ...

Essay: Corporate Ethics after the Financial Crisis of 2008

Corporate Ethics refer to the acceptable moral practices in business. It includes moral principles, values and codes of conduct that determines the behavior of group of individuals in satisfying their customers’ needs. It also entails honesty, straight forwardness, trust, fairness and other core values that surround decision making business transactions or deals. Corporate or business ethics consider other business stakeholders’ interests during various business transactions. Corporate ethics and business success are therefore inseparable. Upholding corporate ethics is one of the best ways by which companies can ensure their maximum benefits. Managements should not give higher priorities to their ...

Positive and Negative Views Concerning Lawyers

The public view of lawyers comes from a number of sources. The news, television shows, movies, books, and personal experience influence people’s beliefs both in positive and negative ways. There are many examples both positive and negative that fuel people’s perceptions about the legal profession. On the negative side, the legal profession has earned a bad reputation because people believe lawyers are greedy, because people find the idea that lawyers defend criminals to be reprehensible, and because the language lawyers use is seen as too difficult to understand. On the positive side, groups like the Innocence Project and the ...

Copperfield is the title of one of the most famous books authored by Charles Dickens. David Copperfield was published in 1850 at the time when industrialization was at its zenith in the United Kingdom. Many analysts argue that David Copperfield is a semi biography of Charles Dickens and the events in the novel are intertwined with real events in Dickens’s life. This novel explores the journey of a young boy called David Copperfield from his boyhood to adulthood. For the purposes of this essay, we examine the unnamed character waiter. We study how he reinforces themes and motifs of the ...

"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 ...

Influence on Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R Tolkien’s fascination with old tales and sagas began at an early age. At sixteen, he was already able to read Middle English and Old Norse, and read the story of Sigurd in its original language (St. Clair 3; ch. 1). Tolkien even translated the saga of Sigurd the Volsung from the original Icelandic language into English verse, which he titled The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (Burns n.p.). His most famous works, The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, owe a great deal to his passion for and extensive knowledge about sagas like Sigurd ...

John A. Allison Lecture

at Troy University

Economics: Financial Crisis John A. Allison Lecture

John A. Allison is the former Chairman and CEO of BB&T Corporation. He is a Federalist and admires Ann Rand the author of “Atlas Shrugged.” His favorite book is “Atlas Shrugged.” He listed many reasons for the financial crisis.

He said that the financial crisis is the fault of the government. He blamed the government for creating a bubble that burst. In his opinion the independent financial institutions that were bailed out should have been allowed to fail. He is very disappointed in the government’s actions because he said, “ ...

Euler circuits

In a graph proposition, an Eulerian trail refers to a graph that moves to each edge precisely once. On the same note, Eulerian circuits (Eulerian cycle) refers to Eulerian trail that originates and stops on the one vertex. This was first applied by Leonard Euler whereby he stated that appropriate condition for the presence of Eulerian circuits is that the entire graph vertices have even level, and illustrated without confirming that joined graphs with having even degree entails Eulerian circuit. Euler tour within an undirected graph refers to a cycle, which applies every edge just once. When such a cycle is present, the ...

Now in the early twenty-first century we tend to associate racist attitudes with out-moded and old-fashioned beliefs. The Merchant of Venice and Othello can, therefore, present challenges to modern readers and audiences because, to a certain extent, Shakespeare presents relations between the different ethnic groups in a negative way: both plays contain characters with extremely racist attitudes which modern audiences are likely to find objectionable and highly offensive. The burning issue for readers and audiences is how far Shakespeare endorses the racist attitudes of the societies he portrays. This essay will show that, although both plays contain characters with racist attitudes, ...

Dante’s Inferno presents the reader with a series of ‘circles’ that depict different layers of hell – each designed for a different sort of sinner. These circles are designed to hold and punish particular types of people for eternity. In this essay, I will choose three literary characters and discuss which circle of Dante’s hell is pertinent to them. The characters I have chosen are Okonkwo from Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, who I believe belongs in the first layer of Dante’s hell – ‘limbo’ – because he does not accept Christ as his personal saviour and, whilst he is ...

The term freedom can be used by individuals in various aspects. In speech, freedom is the right to speak freely; in movement, freedom is the ability to move freely; and in society, freedom is the absence of slavery and captivity. A country on the other hand may look at freedom as the right to self rule, without any interference from another country. Human actions, when not restricted or monitored properly, can greatly result in lack of freedom. Susan Faludi in her article “The Naked Citadel” writes about men who do not want the citadel to go coed. She discovers ...

In Madame Bovary, Lheureux is one of the only examples of a character who is actually morally reprehensible through and through – while the rest of the characters all have their reasons for doing what they do, and they believe they are doing the right thing, Lheureux merely does things for financial gain, not caring at all about what happens to Emma or any other person that stands in his way. Lheureux is the perfect example of a minor character who helps to represent the depravity and selfishness that Emma starts to lose herself in as she attempts to buy herself into ...

In “Madame Bovary,” Lheureux provides an example of a character who is morally reprehensible on every level. While the other characters each have their reasons for acting as they do, and believe they are doing the right thing, Lheureux acts purely in the interest of financial gain. He does not care at all about what happens to Emma or anyone else that stands in his way. Lheureux is a minor character who represents the depravity and selfishness that Emma starts to fall foul to, as she attempts to buy her way into the upper class and into happiness.

From the beginning, ...