Exploring The Underground Trading Systems

Sociological three paradigms, Symbolic Interactionism, Social conflict, and Structural functionalism are all evident in everyday life. These three theories are associated with the study of societies. Each of these three theories were shown in the movie, Trading Places, a american comedy made in 1983 that illustrates the advantages of different social classes by making a banker and a homeless person trade places. Before I start to analyse the movie to each theory, I will first start by explaining each theory for a definition and to have a better understanding.

Africa’s trade networks experienced many continuities, in their culture, and changes, in their trade economics, from 1000 C.E. to 1750 C.E.

Over the course of 200 BCE to 1450 CE, trade networks have continuously spread religions while changing how the civilizations traded for their goods and what types of goods they traded.

The Silk and Sea Roads were the most important and efficient trade routes in all of history.

The Silk Road is a trading route on the continent of Eurasia that stretches from the vast coast of China all the way to Eastern Europe. The trade route was at its greatest use from 200 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E. The society that began the Silk Road was the Han Dynasty in China in approximately 200 B.C.E. The Han Dynasty facilitated trade in the east, while the Roman Empire facilitated trade in the west and in Europe. The two empires traded many goods, as well as cultural aspects of each society’s way of life. From 200 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E., the Silk Road changed in terms of trade, such as what items were traded, and contact with civilizations, such as what societies made use of the Silk Road. Although these changes affected the efficiency of trade

The trading networks of the 17th and the 18th centuries, probably the reason America is here and why we’re Americans. That is because this trade was a new type of trade, international trade or involving the whole world in one network, mass production, diversity, and mixing of cultures. As a result of such trading networks the western hemisphere was now being populated more heavily and the first colonies where starting to form. Documents 2, and 4 describes how Chinese greed for silver changed a lot of old patterns, documents 3, 1, 5, and 6 discuss how silver affected distribution of money, the economy, and methods of payment, documents 7 and 8 discuss the impact of silver on the world and the controversies it aroused.

This year around the April 15th deadline, tax-paying Americans should have realized that they were paying more in taxes than they should have. More and more people are evading the International Revenue Service, employers and workers alike. Americans are reverting to the underground economy, where tax-evaders, illegal workers, prostitution, and drug rings are abundant. This type of hidden income made by these activities go unreported in the national income, and has become accepted as the status-quo all over the world. The Underground economy is difficult to control, but can be managed with well thought out tax plans, and more severe punishment.

On May 18th, my group combined performances with the other groups in the class to create one cohesive presentation on the stories from Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives edited by Peter Orner. I will be exploring the multiple many positives and negatives of the performance as well as the surprising elements which helped me expand my knowledge on performance studies.

The Underground Railroad is a fictional novel written by Colson Whitehead that was first published in 2016. This is WHitehead’s sixth novel he has written. However, this book is his first one to have won a Pulitzer prize award. I chose this book due to its connection with the slave time period and, after reading the novel, I would encourage others to read this novel as well. Colson creates an escapist approach to explore the legacy of American racial trauma. The Underground Railroad provides many thematic topics such as subtle forms of oppression, freedom, and the roots of violence. Colson uses symbolized references in his novel related to the Bible, the underground railroads, the Declaration of Independence, and the Gulliver’s Travels.

What was the triangular trade? There are many people who do not know what it is or who all this trade concerned. As one could guess the triangular trade mainly involved the trade between three different countries. There was many different things traded in the Triangular Trade. Thing could be anything from crops such as to wheat and corn to other good like sugar. Throughout this trade people even traded slaves. Another well known name for the Triangular Trade is the Slave Trade because all of the exchange of slaves from Africa.

While Colson Whiteheads, The Underground Railroad (2016) memorializes slavery, it also broadens our otherwise unrealistic views of American history. The novel follows a young slave girl, Cora, on her historic venture through delusional America on the Underground Railroad, shortly after the congress passed the Compromise of 1850 (285). As Cora travels north, she discovers that every state individually expresses different attributes of slavery (68). The Compromise of 1850 forced northerners to return all found fugitive slaves back to the south (TC1850). During an interview with David Bianculli, Whitehead mentions that the default view of slavery consists of strict slave catcher’s and master’s interpretations, rather than the historical aspects of slavery (8 Aug. 2016). This observation allows him to focus on a fictional storyline that derives nonfictional events in history. In, The Underground Railroad, Whitehead emphasizes an alternate view of the American history pertaining to the institution of slavery.

In Notes from the Underground the man has been secluded for twenty years but the stories he tell are from many years before. That makes one infer when he is speaking about being underground he is talking figuratively. The underground man is self-contained. He says when he sees or hears others speak it is as “listening through a crack under the floor.” When he communicates to others, he pictures himself approaching "out into the light of day. “ When he hesitates between wanting associates and favoring his seclusion, it is a choice between the actual world and his imaginary world underground. The underground man seems to speak of being better and more intelligent than most, but yet seem to be below others if he prefers to be under the ground.

Though the magnitude of our trade today is unprecedented to history, its foundation can be linked to The Silk Road. The Silk Road is referred to an ancient network of trading routes that started around the 2nd century B.C, reaching its zenith around the time of the Tang dynasty (6th-9th c.) and declining in the late 14th century B.C. . Its origin dates back to the Han Dynasty where the Silk Road was used to reach out to surrounding cities and empires to develop alliances for trade. The original purpose for The Silk Road was to link China to Europe through trade and for political reasons, but later on merchants discovered that the route provided safer travel for carrying merchandise from place to place. Not long after merchants and nomads

Silk was an important item that was traded and began during the Han Dynasty. The Silk Road was a network of trade routes and the first marketplace that allowed people to spread beliefs and cultural ideas across Europe and Asia. Merchants and traders of many countries traveled technologies, diseases and religion on the Silk Road; connecting the West and East. They also imported horses, grapes, medicine products, stones, etc. and deported apricots, pottery and spices. The interaction of these different cultures created a cultural diffusion. The road consisted of vast and numerous trade routes that went between China and Europe.

As technology has propelled forward in our exploration of knowledge relating to computers and their science it is understandable that there are still areas of this field which may yet remain unexplored. One particular field being the Dark Web, which has been defined as an area of the deep web which has, “been intentionally hidden and is therefore inaccessible through standard [web] browsers.” (Brightplanet.) Although this web has evolved over the course of many years, possibly dating back to the 1990s and the development of onion routing, it has advanced itself into an industry which no one could have ever predicted. Further as well delve deeper into this developmental occurrence known as the Dark Web, I feel that we must ask ourselves how this has evolved into what we know it as today and whether or not it represents our future or past in dealing with the internet activities.