...In Cold Blood Character Analysis Essay Perry Smith Is one born a murderer or does one become a murderer? That is the question that Truman Capote tackles in his non-fiction novel In Cold Blood. In his 1966 novel Capote relates in detail the true and horrific murders of four members of the Clutter family in 1959 in the town of Holcomb, Kansas, but more specifically focuses on the murderers, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, and their motivation to commit such a cold blooded crime. Out of the two, Perry Smith is the most complex character who displays a natural ability to kill, but who also has been shaped to become a murderer, making a more “likable” character than his co-murderer Dick Hickock. In the first part of his novel entitled The Last to See Them Alive, Capote gives the reader hints that Perry Smith is indeed born a natural killer. When he was jailed in the Kansas penitentiary “Perry described a murder, telling how simply for the hell of it," he had killed a colored man in Las Vegas - beaten him to death with a bicycle chain” (Capote 54). After hearing the story his future partner in crime Dick Hickock “became convinced that Perry was that rarity, "a natural killer" - absolutely sane, but conscienceless, and capable of dealing, with or without motive, the coldest-blooded deathblows” (Capote 55). Perry Smith certainly proved to be “that rarity” when he cold bloodedly killed with a single shot in the head Nancy, Kenyon, Bonnie Clutter, and cut Herb Clutter’s throat...
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...Very “Modest” Irony and Satire Jonathan Swift was born in Ireland in the 18th century during an era that has come to be known as the Golden Age of Satire. As a writer, he was profoundly influenced by the political climate of his times, especially the plight of the Irish poor, which spurred him to write the satirical, social commentary “A Modest Proposal.” The satirical essay addresses the issue of inequality and poverty experienced by the Irish through an outlandish solution that is “beneficial” to everyone. Verbal is present throughout the essay and even in the title. The proposal is far from modest and is rather shocking which Swift does to grab the attention of the reader. He satirically recommends commoditizing Irish babies to improve the economic outlook by selling poor Irish babies to the rich as a delicious food item. Swift’s proposal in his essay is a technique used to highlight a real issue and bring awareness to it by ridiculing the public (reader) through satire. The definition of satire is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, and ridicule to expose and criticize people’s vices. In “A Modest Proposal,” Swift does exactly that through clever social commentary on the issue of poverty among the poor in Ireland through the various forms of satire. Swift differentiates the social classes in his writing through imagery, detailing the differences between the rich and the poor. He states, “Prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their...
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...Global Payment Industry Analysis This essay will focus on the global cards payments industry where Visa and MasterCard operate. Introduction VISA and MasterCard belong to the non-cash business of the global payments industry, an economic sector that is strongly affected by technology and innovation due to the fundamental shift from paper based payments (cash/checks) towards paper-less payments (credit cards, mobile payments, etc). This shift is considered almost irreversible as consumers appreciate more and more the convenience, practicality and security of the electronic money. Similarly for corporations the use of paper-less money brings uncontestable benefits in terms of management, efficiency and security of money flows. The global volume of non-cash transactions is approximately 260 billion (2009 data) and is growing globally at an average rate of around 7%, with Asia-Pacific and Emerging Markets growing a higher rate than USA and Europe. USA represents without any doubt the largest non-cash payments market in the world (40%) followed by the Europe (21%) and mature Asia-Pacific (all together 83%). In terms of future trends, non-cash payments are expected to grow at a very high rate in (37%) in CEMEA (Central Europe, Middle East, Africa) followed by Asia (23%, excluding China and India), BRICs and other mature economies in Asia-Pacific (14%), while Europe and North America will progress with much lower rates. For what concerns cards sub sector, we...
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...THE IMPLICATIONS OF CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN) CASH-LITE POLICY ON FINANCIAL/CORPORATE MANAGEMENT Introduction Owing to the huge cost of cash handling by Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) in the country, the Central Bank of Nigeria introduced Cash-lite policy to drive people towards alternative e-Channels to reduce the handling cost. The policy was introduced last year. It has officially taken off in Lagos with effect from 1st March, 2012 to commence in other states by 1st June, 2012. The Cash-lite policy is aimed at reducing the volume of cash transactions in the Economy through Point of Sales terminals (PoS), web payment, mobile money and Near Field Communications (NFC) transactions. This enables the payment for goods and services via Point of Sales (PoS) without handling cash. The policy stipulates a cumulative daily limit of N150,000 for individual accounts and N1,000,000 for corporate accounts for withdrawal and deposit into a bank account. On exceeding this limit a cash handling cost of N100 for every N1000 (i.e. 10% of the excess amount) is charged. For instance: If you withdraws/deposits N1,000,000 in a day, the initial N150,000 will be processed free but you will be charge 10% handling cost for the excess N850,000, this means you will be paying N85,000 as charges. So, under the cashless policy you will be debited for N1, 085,000 if you withdraw N1, 000,000 and credited for N915, 000 if you deposit N1, 000,000. With the policy, a private/individual account can only...
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...es/Escuelas/mercant.htm http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Mercantilism.html mer·can·til·ism (mûrkn-t-lzm, -t-) n. 1. The theory and system of political economy prevailing in Europe after the decline of feudalism, based on national policies of accumulating bullion, establishing colonies and a merchant marine, and developing industry and mining to attain a favorable balance of trade. 2. The practice, methods, or spirit of merchants; commercialism. The Mercantilists For Europe, the 17th century was "the most horrible century", engulfed by interminable national, religious and civil wars, made memorable for their particularly savage brutality. From ashes and smoke, the national state was formed and enshrined in the Reformation-inspired contractual "natural law" philosophy of Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf. With the rise of the State, the 17th Century marked the ascendancy of two classes of peoples needed by the State: bureaucrats to run it and merchants to finance it. It was from the assorted pamphlets, studies and treatises of these groups of practitioners that Mercantilism developed. In England and Holland, the bulk of the economic writing was done by merchants drawn from their rising bourgeois communities -- thus the term "Mercantilism". In France and Germany, where the bourgeoisie was smaller, economic arguments were articulated largely by state officials -- thus French Mercantilism is better known as "Colbertisme" (named after Jean-Baptiste Colbert,...
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...An Essay on Economic Theory An English translation of Richard Cantillon’s Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Général An Essay on Economic Theory An English translation of Richard Cantillon’s Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Général Translated by Chantal Saucier Edited by Mark Thornton 4 An Essay on Economic Theory © 2010 by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and published under the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Ludwig von Mises Institute 518 West Magnolia Avenue Auburn, Alabama 36832 mises.org ISBN: 978-1-61016-001-8 Foreword Robert F. Hébert Following a century of neglect, William Stanley Jevons, in the first blush of discovery, proclaimed Cantillon’s Essai, “the cradle of political economy.” Subsequent growth and development of economic thought has not really alerted us to the subtleties of this succinct appraisal. A cradle holds new life; and there can be little doubt that the Essai added new life to the organizing principles of economics. But “political economy” does not accurately describe the subject Cantillon addressed. Indeed, he scrupulously avoided political issues in order to concentrate on the mechanics of eighteenth-century economic life. When confronted by “extraneous” factors, such as politics, Cantillon insisted that such considerations be put aside, “so as not to complicate our subject,” he said, thus invoking a kind of ceteris paribus assumption before...
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...Jonathan Swift offers an ironic and gruesome solution to the poverty and famine of the Irish Catholic people whom are being burdened at the hands of the greedy and uncompassionate landlords with the intention of exposing the corruption within the kingdom. II. Topic Sentence: Jonathan Swift’s essay “A Modest Proposal” turns focus on the poor Irish community under the rule of the rich and uncaring landlords. A. Irish beggars have taken to soliciting the people in the streets for scraps of food or clothing in order to provide for their families. B. Swift wrote, “These mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in strolling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants: who as they grow...
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...Tables of contents Part 1 Introduction and Problem Statement 5 1.1Introduction 5 1.2Problem Statement 6 Part 2 Methodology 7 2.1 Theory of international financial center 7 2.2 Theory of bank management mode 8 Part 3 Analysis 10 3.1 Management mode of China Merchants Bank 10 3.21 Industrial structures 10 3.22 Services provide to customers 11 3.23 Source of profit 12 3.24 Financial products 12 3.3 The advantages of China Merchants Bank under the construction of international financial center 13 3.31 History and location 13 3.43 Headquarters circle 15 3.5 The challenges of China Merchants Bank under the construction of international financial center 16 3.52 Competitions from the non-bank financial institutions 17 3.53 Weakness in leading of Shanghai 17 Part4 Evaluation 19 4.1 The transformation of China Merchants Bank 19 4.11 Introduce financial talents 19 4.12Enhance the service satisfaction 21 4.13Adjust the industrial structure 22 4.14 Promote efficiency 22 4.15 Innovative financial products 23 4.2 GFIC analysis and People Factor 24 5. Suggestions 28 5.1 Diversified financial services 28 5.2 Financial personnel policy after the subprime crisis 29 5.3 Make reasonable risk early warning mechanism 30 6. Conclusion 31 7. Bibliography 32 Student statement 33 I hereby declare that the contents of my thesis on 33 Part 1 Introduction and Problem Statement 1.1Introduction In the development of financial globalization...
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...revolts correlated with the seasons but the Dutch Revolt resulted not from famine but from the want for religious and political freedom which Philip would not allow. Philip refused to let Protestantism survive in his territory, he envisioned himself as the last Catholic crusader in a Europe falling to the Protestant domino effect, however, suppression became unattainable igniting the revolt. This revolt by the United Provinces was then successful, this is the case because of Philip II alienation and lack of respect for the nobility, Philip not taking advantage of the revolts weaknesses and lastly Spain’s lack of funds for her armies fighting the revolt. I am going to argue in this essay that Spain’s financial weakness was not the main reason for the success of the revolt. Further to that in this essay I would argue that the main reason was Philip II’s poor leadership. Firstly, one could argue that the main reason for the success of the Dutch revolt was because of Spain’s lack of money. Revolts are extremely expensive things to deal with when they are militarised. Philip, decided to turn to the military to solve the problem very quickly in the case of the Dutch revolt. This meant he spent a huge amount of money on the military effort because it went on for so long (some call it the Eighty Years War). This lack of finance in turn led to serious problems for Philip. One of these problems being the Sack of Antwerp. The principal cause of the sack was the delay in payment due to...
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...The book Under The Black Flag by David Cordingly gives to us a general overview of the historical facts of piracy, as well as the misconceptions and where those notions arose from. This essay will focus on the overview of what a pirate is, who a pirate is, where pirates are located, when pirates occur, and why pirates become pirates, based on the information that Cordingly gives us. To discuss the subject of pirates, one must first answer the question, “what is a pirate?” In this text, many different types of people who would not have been identified by themselves or by their contemporaries as pirates, fall under the overarching term “pirate” through the usage of the term in the title. Cordingly says, “A pirate was, and is, someone who...
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...Contemporarily, global inequality means the extent to which income and wealth is distributed in an uneven manner among the world’s population. With international trade, more wealth is gradually being transferred from poor areas to others. As a result of this influx, the well-off are enjoying luxury yachts, private aircrafts, upscale restaurants and so forth, while only for the bread of every meal are the impoverished working around clock. A rising number of poor people are suffering from extreme poverty, injustice and illness. The most critical problems are those associated with global inequality. The purpose of this essay is to discuss the problems of global inequality, including its causes, and to identify solutions, providing reasons that support these solutions. Section 1: The global inequality, mainly referring to the increasing gap between the poor and rich nations, is an inevitable problem driven by globalization. The number of people whose daily wages were less than 2 USA dollars rose by 350 million around the world during the past ten years (APEC Study Centre n.d., para.1). One of the most significant problems is “the gap in incomes …has grown from 30 to 1 in 1960 to 82 to 1 in 1995” (APEC Study Centre n.d., para.1). According to another report, “the richest 85 people in the world are worth more than the poorest 3.5 billion” (Global Wealth Report 2003). Additionally, the richest one fifth of the world’s population had approximately 78% of the word GDP (Gross Domestic...
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...Oliver Stone’s USA Wesley Kostovetsky 3070 Spring The History Behind Oliver Stone’s Success Oliver Stone is called by many a historian. Some call him a cinematic historian. Others call him a type of public historian. Oliver Stone likes to refer to himself strictly as a dramatist and in some cases a docu-dramatist. Whatever title chosen there is no doubt he has a made a huge impact through his films; though some may argue in a negative way. Oliver Stone has written and/or directed films about the Vietnam War, Kennedy’s assassination, Nixon’s presidency, Wall Street, the military dictatorship in El Salvador, and many other subjects. Stone’s expertise in film lay in what most “Hollywood executives prefer to avoid. Historical and political cinema is supposedly deadly at the box office.” Stone’s films are known to make audiences “uncomfortable” and cause “controversy”. Through four essays, including one written by Oliver Stone himself explains the reason why his films have made huge impacts and controversies; as well as, the differences between written history and history on film, and the life experiences leading to the creation of some his films and his connection to them. Since the beginning of his career Stone has been “viciously attacked” by critics about his films. The main argument by critics of history films is that they are too fictional for a number of reasons. Though containing “numerous authentic elements” and details the invention of scenes, dialogue, and...
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...The relation between imperial state and economic expansion in Sung dynasty Introduction: The economy of China under the Sung dynasty (960–1279) of China was marked by commercial expansion, financial prosperity, increased international trade-contacts, and a revolution in agricultural productivity. This dynasty had one of the most prosperous and advanced economies in the medieval world. Private finance grew, stimulating the development of a country-wide market network which linked the coastal province with the interior. This phenomena can be linked to the Chinese imperial state variously. This essay will analyze this situation in three parts, political environment, development of markets and technology, population growth and urbanization. The political environment is beneficial to economy (e.g. in Hsiao-Tsung’s case): The great economic expansion in sung dynasty was contributed from the stable political environment. In this section the Hsiao-Tsung’s reign will serve as the example case and be analyzed in the following paragraphs. The reason why choose it is that this reign is the most prosperous and tranquil reign in South Sung dynasty, which was depicted as the ‘golden age’ of this dynasty. To start with, generally speaking, the political trend which the political climate became increasingly conservative in its...
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...DRAFT! Rule in Bensalem: Francis Bacon’s Island “Utopia” in his New Atlantis Evan M. Lowe University of North Texas Abbreviations The following abbreviations for Bacon’s works have been employed for in-text citations in the name of textual cleanliness. Each work refers to the cited publication in the bibliography. In cases where applicable (eg. New Organon, Advancement), I have also indicated the place in the text by markers common to all editions -- book number, chapter, section, aphorism, essay number. The page number in the cited edition follows a comma where such information is helpful. AL The Advancement of Learning DA de Dignitate et Augmentis Scientarum Essays Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral (1625) GI The Great Instauration ;NA New Atlantis NO Novum Organum PFB Philosophy of Francis Bacon Preface Preface to the Great Instauration PW Plan of the Work (in Weinberger 1989) WA Of the Wisdom of the Ancients INTRODUCTION Understanding political judgment in Baconian terms necessitates an investigation of the question of who rules in Bensalem, Bacon’s island “utopia” presented in his New Atlantis. Only by answering this question might one know where to look for one who either possesses or is in a position to exercise such judgment. By locating the individual(s) who exercise political power, one might begin to come to an understanding of the qualities, disposition, and capacity – both moral and intellectual – of one who exercises judgment...
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...Introduction The Alchemist written by Paulo Coelho is a striking novel that exceeded my expectations. This essay will begin with a summary of the novel so that the reader may caption a clear philosophical vision it offers. Moreover, the purpose of this paper is to outline the main objective the novel portrays as well as its themes and connections within the text Interviewing In Action In A Multicultural Word by Bianca Cody Murphy and Carolyn Dillon. Also, philosophical views or opinions gained from reading the novel that I deemed to be contradictory to the text will be mentioned and discussed due to the importance of differential views and beliefs. As well, I will consider the options the material this book offers in regards to the influence...
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