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The characters’ view on money reveals how they use their ambition to gain love from others, while a few do so through generosity. For instance, during Thanksgiving, Adam emphasized that he didn’t ship the lettuce to New York “for a profit,” but as a game to see if he could succeed in providing people with fresh lettuce (543). When Cal tried to give Adam the money to make up for the losses, Adam refused because his conscience wouldn’t allow him to take the money. Adam is morally disturbed because he just wants to aid others and places no true value in money. On the other hand, all Cal was doing was “trying to buy”Adam’s love (543). Adam refusing Cal’s gift, made it seem that Cal did

Money is something many people want greatly, it’s also an object that can cause clouded judgement, and lead to many different arguments. Norma and Arthur are faced with the choice of pushing the button or not which causes them to fight a lot: “Norma looked disgusted. ‘Murder’”(Matheson 108). Norma wanted to push the button and didn’t feel guilty about it, but Arthur thought it

“The people of the village disliked the fact that we always had plenty of money to pay for whatever we wanted…I knew they talked about the money hidden in our house, as though it were great heaps of golden coins…there were plenty of rotting hearts in the village coveting our heaps of golden coins…but they were afraid of

Bridgeford-Smith, Jan. "MONEY, MORALITY and MADNESS." ["America's Civil War"]. America's Civil War, vol. 28, no. 4, Sept. 2015, pp. 46-53. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=khh&AN=103267901&site=hrc-live. Accessed 13 March 2017

William Hazlitt, in his essay about money, expresses his ideas about wealth while utilizing parallel structure and polysyndetons to demonstrate how striving for wealth contributes to a lower quality of life and afterlife.

Q. What does this reference to the Devil and treasure suggest about period attitudes about wealth?

In “On the Want of Money”, a 19th century text, William Hazzlit presents a strong position on the role of currency in society and the ironic relationship between man and his status through use of rhetoric; such as but not limited to syntax, repetition, and imagery. In doing so, Hazzlit strengthens his argument and gives more weight to his claims that support the idea that in possession of money and lack thereof man is miserable in his ways. Ownership leaves man alienated from friends and family, to be commemorated by a lonely, seldom frequented monument of massive proportions. Austerity dictates lives, limiting those in pursuit of wealth to a constant, consuming search. In summation, the concept of money is hopeless

Money is the life force of all of society. In every aspect, money determines the value of good, services, and even people’s lives. As we breathe air to function, society relies on finances to function. And if society, the unity of humanity, relies on money, than the leaders of society want to limit and control it to withhold their power over humanity. They do this by limiting what can be bought and sold, while also controlling how much different things cost. These limitations allow our leaders to control our money and, through that, our value and influence to society.

John E. Stapleford, Professor of Economic Development at Eastern College in St. David’s, Pennsylvania, expresses that morals and financial aspects are the ground-level points of this book. Stapleford likewise makes the substantial point that both financial matters and morals created as branches of philosophy. He further watches that throughout the years, barriers between the two disciplines have created with most financial experts maintaining a strategic distance from any express specify of the moral ramifications of the monetary speculations and ideas tended to in mainstream financial writings. Stapleford tries to address this situation

Dana Gioia was once a business executive before become a writer, poet, and critic. He is much recognize, acclaimed, and awarded. President George W. Bush named him Chairman of the National Endowment for Arts in 2003. Money is a poem that is included in Dana Gioia’s book”The God’s of Winter.” This poem talks about something that everyone is very familiar with in their own way, money. No matter who you are, you know what money is and what money can do or cannot do for you. Dana Gioia illustrates in continuous metaphors that money can be earned, saved, shared, wasted, abused, and used, and that spending money is the prime objective of mankind.

The excerpt from “On the Want of Money” by William Hazlitt is an outcry to humanity in response to the realities of a world that revolves around currency. Hazlitt implores his audience through his rhetoric to reflect on what they deem to be important, and to realize that their desires can be the very thing restraining them from attaining their ambitions. Through the use of irony, hypothetical examples, and figurative language William Hazlitt warns of the dangerous paths the pursuit of money can lead to, and the ultimate demise of anyone who takes these paths.

-There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it (pursue it), when it does not even benefit them. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty! {Ann

The Root of All Evil is Money In a delightful tale written by Geoffrey Saucer, called The Canterbury Tales there is a sinful character by the name of “The pardoner”, I know instantly the thought that comes to mind is that he extends pardons to criminals. However in this tale he is one of most egregious criminals of all them all. He makes a substantial living from selling relics from the church to people who believe that these inanimate objects will bless their lives. These individuals that the pardoner encounter makes donations to the church for these relics, the money is meant to be a donation to the church, however, he pockets the money for himself.

The Axial Age (for purposes of this paper, and in our reading) span from 800 BC until 600 AD, and saw the rise and fall of empires, the invention of coinage and markets, and the birth of countless philosophical and religious schools of thought. From studying this innovative and tumultuous time period, one may come to several conclusions on how material gain and spiritual thought may be closely linked. Here, the pursuit of ‘profit’ became the pursuit of ‘social good’; the lines between civic and marketable gain became blurred, forever changing the attitudes of peasants and the rich alike. The Axial Age was a crucial period in our history in which leaders learned how best to manipulate their populace, philosophical thought took root in the rational ratios of the cosmos, and market economy became not only a medium in which to acquire that which one needs to survive, but the bedrock upon which our society is built. I plan to support the idea that coinage and the rise of religion during the Axial Age is supported by explaining the following concepts from our reading: that the calculation of debts, market economics, and a fundamentally different system of trading allowed a space for new philosophical thought to emerge, that the pursuit of profit became synonymous with the pursuit of personal betterment, that governments realized it was crucial to suppress the total economic gains of its citizens, and that religion was in part founded to placate the poor, listless masses.

The speech that the character Francisco d’Anconia gave in the book Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand spoke about how that money isn't truly the source of all evil. Instead, it is a tool that is made for the honest working man.