Pyc370 Week 1 Reflection

During the Great Depression in 1929, there was Fernando Francisco the farmer with his only alluring and style 16 year old daughter Nancy Francisco at their barn. On a Tuesday morning in October 29, 1929, Fernando rocked back and forth, while glimpsing through the newspaper. Something caught his eye, it was this “The stock market has just crashed today, Wall street is in a panic and wiped out millions of investors.” After reading, Fernando went straight to the front of the entrance, and started to make billboards.

Many people believe the Stock Market crash and the Great Depression are one in the same. In the nineteen twenties the Dow Jones went from sixty to four hundred. People became instant millionaires. Trading became America’s favorite pastime and a quick way to get rich. There were Americans mortgaging their home and investing their life savings in stock such as ford. However, there were many fake companies that formed to deceive the inexperience investors. Many investors did not believe that a crash was possible; they all thought the market would always go up.

Every day people lose money, whether it is from playing the lottery every night to gambling. In comparison, other people win lots of money by participating in legal gambling as some call it, but we economists call it “The Stock Market.” The Stock Market is where more than half of the people in the United States invest their money. People have been investing in The Stock Market since the 1800s. The Stock Market has led to many American’s becoming rich overnight but has also created many who have lost it all. The Stock Market Crash occurred on October 24th, 1929. On October 24th, stock prices had plunged and continued to plunge until October 29th, otherwise known as “Black Tuesday.” On “Black Tuesday the stock

Americans in the late 1920s received plenty of this type of encouragement from political leaders and assumed financial experts. Galbraith mentions the optimism of Calvin Coolidge as he was leaving office, the commitment of bankers such as Charles E. Mitchell to keep the boom going, and the ingenuity of John Jacob Raskob to include the average person in the market. He even points out Irving Fisher’s assumption that “Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.” The lay person already infected with the belief that anyone could get rich in the market now had the financial means and the support of informed intellectuals behind them. The choice to buy on margin seems to have been forgone conclusion to these people who were now buying into the dream everyone was selling them.

Drafting a final paper allows you to put together all the research you have conducted into one form and analyze it. Until I took this class, I honestly did not know half of the element involved in a proper research paper. I only knew the very basic components and not the fine details. I have learned that the fine details are the most important. Those details are what separates your paper from good to being great.

I feel that this semester of WRIT 300 has taught me a lot the writing process and the different learning outcomes for the WRIT 300 course. This semester I thought was going to be very difficult because of this class, since I feel that writing is my weak point. I feel like I would have rate myself for the beginning of the course on how well I feel about writing on a scale of one to ten. I would give myself in the beginning of the semester a five. Therefore, I will be describing how I have done on each learning out come and how I have improved from the beginning to the end.

“Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal. “I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system—that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up. I am confident that you gentlemen will review without passion the evidence you have heard, come to a decision, and restore this defendant to his family. In the name of God, do your duty.” (109-110, e-book) In this essay the main discussion will be based upon how Harper Lee uses literary means as a way to present the way characters respond to cultural stereotypes and how it affects the deliverance of justice. The novel of “To Kill a Mockingbird” is conveyed and narrated to us by a young girl, Jean Louise Finch (Scout) who is raised by a single father living in the small, congested town of Maycomb, Alabama. The novel is established upon the foundation of racial prejudice, stereotyping and injustices in the 1930’s.

During the 1920s or the “Roaring Twenties,” there was monumental social and political changes. The nation’s total wealth more than doubled, so there was lots of money to be spent and that's exacting what the American people did. One opportunity available for spending newly gained wealth was purchasing stocks from Wall Street , the banking district for the NYSE. For a while, buying stocks was something only the rich upper class could participate in but a new method of purchasing shares called “buying on margin” allowed the middle class to buy shares of stocks by borrowing the money from a broker

The Stock Market is a vast and confusing setting. It has influence on many aspects of the economy like pensions, bond markets, and even retirement accounts. However, many aren 't educated about how the Stock market works, how it affects the economy, the difference between stocks versus bond and mutual funds, nor the amount of illegal activities taking part within the stock market.

12. What advice about investing in the stock market did you find most interesting and/or useful?

Propaganda is performed through print, audio, and visual mass media. It is used for the promotion of the public’s activities in their life such as purchasing goods through market propaganda, and it is also found in politics, foreign affairs, and in many other fields. Most importantly propaganda is depicted in the informercialization of the news, which is connected with subliminal advertising and commercialization of public events and individual promotion such in communication websites. However, there is great debate over propaganda and persuasion that is casted in the media, which I will be elaborating in this essay.

Many people suffer from ‘test anxiety’ even the most confident people can get a little stressed out about test. I do suffer from test anxiety, just the thought of a test can send chills down my spin. There are times when I can just look at a test and want to throw up. But why is my anxiety so bad with test? Well, with me there are many things that cause it but here are a few: whether or not I studied, how many questions there are in a short time period, and even the teachers can cause the stress.

From September 3rd, 2015 to October 28th, 2015, our group was given the opportunity to manage an investment portfolio, with the goal of maximizing the value of the portfolio through acquiring, holding, and selling stock. The beginning cash balance of the portfolio was $100,000, and our group had the ability to make up to 500 trades. During this time period, our group made 20 stock purchases and sold stock twice. At the close of business on October 28, 2015, the value of our group’s portfolio increased from $100,000 to $106,785.33, yielding a return of  6.78% (((106785.33/100,000)-1) x 100)). In comparison to the S&P 500 returned at 7.16% and the Dow Jones having a return of 8.65% (Yahoo).

During the 1920's millions of Americans began investing in stocks for the first time. They heard about how rich people were getting by investing so they all decided to do it. Many new investors entered the stock market using borrowed money. Stock market prices rose steadily as inflated market demand outpaced increases in the capital value of businesses. Investors began to realize that a large imbalance existed between stock prices and the amount of money needed to back them up, and began to sell. On October 29, 1929, great numbers of people tried to sell their stocks all at once. This created chaos in the accounting of stocks and for brokers. The New York Stock Exchange and other exchanges prices dropped so dramatically that this event became known as the crash of 1929. Millions of investors lost their savings in the crash and many were deeply in debt since

My story really starts in the beginning of 1983. I was very much excited about the new year. I was confident that the stock market was going to be great, and money would be rolling in. I, however, didn’t account for the new competition.