Harvey Bear and William Heyser actually have (to my surprise) very little in common. I assumed because they both lived in small areas kind of on the outskirts that they would have had relatively similar experiences with the war but I was way off. To start off with I was surprised at how even though the south lost in the end at how peaceful Harvey Bears life was in comparison to William’s in the way of the war affecting them. Harvey had little to no interaction with the war except the occasional selling/giving of food to soldiers and the faint sound of cannon fire in the distance (according to his journal). On the other hand, William experienced a bit of a roller coast ride in the years during the war. The war was great for William because it…
Blumberg, A., & Davidson, A. (2008, May 9). The giant pool of money. This American Life radio program. Retrieved from http://tinyurl.com/MGMT409GiantPool…
grows at rate n such that Nt = nNt−1 for every period and n > 1 and money is also growing in…
The main points of Debbie Fields’ presentation were composed of a four part recipe that combines to make quality. The first part of the recipe is passion, which means finding something that you love and pursue it. The logic behind doing what you love is that you are going to be more likely to want to complete a goal that involves a passion rather than one that they are not very enthusiastic about.…
In the first article, Garrett Hardin attempts to assert that there is no universal solution to the population problem. His supports this central thesis be explaining that in a world that has finite resources, the population must inherently also be finite. He also declares that the optimum population is less than the maximum. In order to take full advantage of each individuals potential, it is necessary to maximize “good per person” (which is a relative phrase; and to measure the values of the goods, a weighting system would have to be implemented).…
He was a proponent of shifting the economy from one of private capital to one of publicly-owned capital where the members of society would work in mutual cooperation with one another. Although there are problems with his system such as free-riding and lack of incentive to work optimally, he hoped that the morals of society would be able to evolve to a point where fulfilling one’s honor and duty to society would be enough of a motivation to maximize productivity. Unfortunately, this situation is still too idealistic for even contemporary times, as the top 5% of wealth holders possess more than half of the country’s wealth even today. There are individuals such as Bill Gates and Donald Trump that have been able to accumulate wealth by means of using innovative technologies and entrepreneurial abilities. The average standard of living has certainly increased, but it falls well short of Bellamy’s hopes of having a mutually cooperative and fully educated…
Regret is a powerful emotion. By definition, “regret” means to mourn for the loss of someone or something meaningful, or to miss someone or something greatly. It can also mean to wish something never happened. One would want to reach back in time and change their part in the resulting outcome. Regret causes people to experience unpleasant emotions that can be resisted subconsciously. Rebecca Solnit’s essay, “The Solitary Stroller and the City”, and Daniel Gilbert’s chapter, “Immune to Reality”, from his book, Stumbling on Happiness, which discuss strolling through different cities and how the psychological immune system functions, respectively, both reflect on how regret influences a person’s life in different…
3. ^ Hoffmann, Babara (2007-05-15). "Interest compounded at world financial center stages". New York Post. http://www.nypost.com/seven/05152007/entertainment/theater/interest_compounded_at_world_financial_center_stages_theater_barbara_hoffman.htm.…
Today, there is both agreement and disagreement of Thomas Malthus’ essay on the principles of population. Malthus stated that population grows exponentially or at “geometric rate” and food production grows at arithmetic rate, or linearly. Geometric rate grows in a series of numbers (2,4,8,16,32…etc.), which shows that children will grow up and each have their own children, and those children will have their own children. Eventually the base numbers of children will be so high that the population will grow rapidly, out pacing food production. Food production grows arithmetically in a series of number (2,3,4,5,6…etc.)…
In his essay called An Essay on the Principle of Population , the English political economist Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), stated that since production increased arithmetically (2,4,6,8,10) and population increased geometrically (2,4,8,16,32), in favorable conditions the population of a region will eventually increase until there are not sufficient resources to support it. From 800 to 1300, the total production of Europe had increased steadily. Although there had been scattered food shortages in which people died of starvation, for the most part, the standard of living in Europe had risen even while the population had steadily increased.…
There are many problems concerning exponential growth. Recognizing exponential growth is very important because things may become difficult and almost impossible to stop. The main point concerning exponential growth is having an expanding population and not enough resources. This is very bad for the people and the environment.…
Evidence that fever (rise in the set point of the body’s thermostat) is an adaptation…
India is projected to have a population increase of another half billion by the year 2050, but Brown thinks otherwise. Doubting that there will be an increase of a half billion, Brown says the questions isn’t ‘whether it will happen or not’ but rather whether it will NOT happen because of a shift to smaller families or, a rise in food shortages and malnutrition. This is a believable prediction because we are already witnessing a similar situation in Africa, where death rates are steadily increasing due to a lack of control on the HIV epidemic. Africa’s once predicted population growth is extremely unlikely, but Brown says it is for the wrong reason: rising death rates instead of falling birthrates. Epidemics are just one of the many factors considered in population growth trends. Another is that the 6 billion people here today have already over-consumed the Earths natural capital, so forests are shrinking along with fisheries and other things. This over-consumption only inflates the economic output in our bubble like economy, and if we can’t stop this over-consumption the bubble will burst.…
Both consumption and population are integral parts of the crisis the world faces. All of them cannot be ignored since they have a worsening effect on the Earth (Wang, et al., 2014). It is distressing that many people ignore the problems created by increased population on the planet. Pretending that about 80 million added on the Earth each year is inexcusable. According to Mudd (2013), Kenneth Boulding is quoted saying, “Any person who is convinced that the exponential growth will go on forever in an infinite world can only be an economist or a…
At the present date are estimated roughly 6.5 billion people in the world and the figure continues to multiply. In contrast there are a restricted number of natural resources. On the worldwide root the human population has revealed a J shaped pattern (fig 1 and 2) of escalation over the past years, while the availability of natural funds are mandatory for human survival is in slow decline (Cohen J.E.1995).…