LECTURE 17/ 08/ 2012 DR ROCÍO ORTUÑO CASANOVA ------------------------------------------------- POST-BOOM‚ MCONDO‚ CRACK: LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AFTER THE BOOM BOOM LITERATURE: García Márquez‚ G. One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) MANY YEARS LATER as he faced the firing squad‚ Colonel Aureliano Buenda was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses‚ built on the bank of a river of clear water
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to the United States‚ they were ready to take the next step in their lives.”[] For most of the soldiers that next step was to rekindle old flames and start a family. This time period was known as the “Baby Boom” due to the increase in childbirth between the years 1946 and 1964.[] The “Baby Boom” affected American history by producing a counter culture‚ suburbs and the need to reform the social security system. The culture with values and morals that ran counter of society is only one way to describe
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The Railroad Boom The main reason for the transcontinental railroads to be built was to bring the east and west together. The building of these railroads caused huge economic growth throughout the United States. The railroad created opportunities for everyone across the US. “Railroads were the first big business‚ the first magnet for the great financial markets‚ and the first industry to develop a large-scale management bureaucracy. The railroads opened the western half of the nation to economic
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The boom and bust cycles since the Civil War‚ we first prospered after the Civil War with the Industrial Revolution. After we boom‚ the stock market crashes and we go into a depression or recession depending how bad the economy is at the time. Companies then expanded‚ banks flourished by giving out many loans‚ while not being monitored. We go into wars that help us come out of the depressions. These cycles repeat themselves and you will see in this paper. During the Civil War the Northern states
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“The Dotcom Gloom”: The Boom and Bust of the Dotcom Industry Money plops down on the counter to pay for a new pair of shoes. Plastic cards swipe through to purchase a side table. Some people argue that society’s obsession with material goods comes from greed and decadence‚ but really it goes deeper than that. It comes from the noble tradition of capitalism. In the 1990s‚ America watched as the traditional face to face interactions of capitalism changed. It was changed through the Internet and is
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businesses have experienced financial boom and recession. The two businesses I will speak about are: Marks and Spencer’s and Primark. I feel that these two businesses will provide so much information about their experiences of booms and recessions. Marks and Spencer’s was founded in the year of 1884 by Sir Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer in Leeds. Since founding this worldwide organisation‚ they have had over 1010 stores open and fully fundable from the year of 2010. Marks and Spencer’s have been an amazing
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The film Boom Bust Boom by film maker Terry Jones basically sums up to a cartoon film explaining how our economy came to be and how the people made it work. In order to explain the correlation between risks and stability‚ Jones used special animations and puppets to make it more entertaining for viewers to understand the complexity of the economy more easily. Some points discussed in the film‚ such as the bubble‚ were similar to the ideas of Adam Smith‚ because it draws parallels to the idea
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Baby Boom In Canada there are is around thirty- four million people who vary in age. There are people who range from the age of zero to one hundred plus. More people come into Canada every year causing the average ages to go up and down. As our country gets older the people of the country get older as well. The further we advance into the future‚ more things are being discovered throughout the years. The baby boom in 1946 till 1964 has brought in a lot of babies‚ and ever since then they have been
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the boom in America was an electric time for most americans‚ life as just beginning but the life style of many americans led to the great depression. the first world war as the peek for most farmers because europe was in demand of agriculture and food. in order for farmers to meet the minimum requirements for the growing demand for food‚ machinery was invented such as tractors‚ but not all the farmers could afford the expensive machinery. many of the smaller farmers sold their farms to the larger
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It is clear that Mr. Jeavons (the psychologist) is an irrational thinker who relies on his intuitive assumptions rather than logic. Mr. Jeavons does not understand Christopher and underestimates the complexity of his mind. Siobhan acknowledge Chris’s world of quantity and reasoning. As a result‚ she is constructed to understand him better. Mr. Jeavons relies on his intuition to make assumptions about Christopher. For instance‚ he assumes Chris likes maths because it is safe’ and has a straight
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