Summary Of Hirsch's Poem Mergers And Acquisitions

When Cohen’s audience listens to or reads the poem they can notice that a lot of pathos is being used. Immediately upon the first lines she addresses to the spectators “How do I tell you about human created hunger/ hopeless, no-end-in-sight/ when, perhaps, you just had a good meal/ and feel full and warm inside” (8-11) The audience here feels fault and sorrow within them. Cohen is saying that people say they

First, the diction of the poem is very violent. The words used are harsh and show that the speaker is engaged in a war against his desire. For example, on line 14 it states, “Desiring naught but to kill desire” (Sidney 14). The word kill is very intense and shows that the speaker feels that the only way to destroy their desire is to murder it. Thus, ending the fight they are stuck engaging in. This idea was earlier introduced in line 6, which says, “With price of mangled mind, thy worthless ware” (6)[.] The words mangled and worthless are further proof of this battle. Desire is leaving their mind in a mess, as is shown in the word mangled which gives off the image of something being tangled and unable to be separated. Likewise, because his mind is a mess, his thoughts are seemingly useless as shown through the use of worthless. The wares, or valuable objects, in this case are the speaker's thoughts and ideas. Their constant battle with desire has left their thoughts to be filled with nothing but thoughts of desire and those trying to subdue it, thus leaving his mind

This was very common for Rockefeller and the article that George Rice writes to demonstrate the impact that big companies had on the people and their attempting to create a successful economy through businesses. They focused on monopolies and controlled the railroad sand prices, which many consider dangerous since they could not advance in the world as seen through RIces attempt. It weaken the possibility of becoming a “a self made man. “ Similarly those in the economy that focused on selling steel and oil such as samuel

However, some may come to the deeper meaning of this text that the author was trying to get across. Some being the flaws of Capitalism and the “American Dream”; Social Darwinism, only the financially “fit” survive; and how Socialism could be the answer to those who need support financially. These issues have trailed the United States for many years, one example of a result of these issues is the creation of the Black Panther Party in the 1960’s; due to African American’s limited rights, inability to find a good paying job, and cold hatred towards the government. However, because of the ignorance by the majority of upper-class citizens, they would interpret the book as an attempt to persuade others to look down on Capitalism due to the struggles portrayed in the book in result of corrupt rich folk.

Throughout the poem the speaker mentions things that relate to consumerism in America. An example in the poem that speaks about consumerism comes from lines 1-4

Life is not always easy, at some point people struggle in their life. People who are in lower class have to struggle for a job every day and people who are in upper class having their own problem to deal with. These ideas are very clear in Mary Oliver “Singapore” and Philip Schultz “The Greed” and Philip Levine “What Work Is”. In Singapore a woman works at airport and her job is to clean bathroom and in The Greed Hispanic get a job first before white and black because they take lower wages. All three poems deal with class in term of the society. The moral of the poems is that people don’t understand the perspectives of each other and by assuming, it just leads to more hatred. The author of Singapore, the author of The Greed and the author of “What Work Is”, poem have similar perspectives of survival in lower class.

Through written form and literary techniques, the book feed elaborates on many ideas that Anderson puts forth to the responder, one idea that is evident in the book is the idea of morality using it to show that corporations are in fact evil. Morality is the ability of humanity to distinguish between right and wrong, and once we have lost this capability we symbolically lose the core of our humanity. Anderson influenced by his social context where money is power writes “We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.” The repetition of the word “we” and the high modality used in the

The struggle of an individual in a class alienated society is emphasised by presenting two disparate classes: the bourgeois and the proletariat. The bourgeois are describes by the narrator as ‘titans and their gigantic wives’ who ‘drink barrels of champagne and bellow at each other wearing diamonds bigger than I feel’. The exaggeration used adds to the cynical tone to mock the elements of the bourgeois, but also suggests the hollowness of their wealth and how they possess greater than the narrator can grasp. The narrator in comparsion feels like a ‘cockroach’ shown in the description; they ‘just want to see you run around their money…they know they can’t threaten you with the tip, to them

No matter how much we have we always want more, making us out to be very greedy. This particular lyric relates to The Minister’s Black Veil because the minister's wife leaves him when he refuses to take off the veil. This makes her out to be greedy as she is only thinking of herself. I believe this comes to show, that unfortunately, more often than not, people will always do what's best for themselves, and not think about others.

In the wake of the recent financial crisis, many commentators attempted to analyze the roots of the conflict from a political or economic perspective. Anthropologist Karen Ho, a veteran of Wall Street as well as an academic, attempted to understand the reason that Wall Street behaves the way it does in her 2009 anthropological study of American finance entitled Liquidated: An ethnography of Wall Street from a cultural perspective. The central paradox with which Ho begins her book is: " the economy experienced not only record corporate profits and the longest rising stock market ever, but also record downsizings," further concentrating the wealth in America (Ho 2009: 1-2). But how can corporations grow richer as the American public as a whole grows poorer? Corporations no longer view themselves as responsible for taking care of their employees, creating good products, or serving their original mission. Instead, the focus is on generating shareholder wealth (Ho 2009:3). Shareholders, not the larger public, have become the symbolic and real focus of firm strategy. The shareholder "symbolized and 'stood in' for the whole of the corporation and became the sole locus of concern and analysis" during the time Ho conducted her study in the late 1990s and continues to this day (Ho 2009:175)

Richard Powers’ work Gain is a tour de force of whatever it is. I say this, rather than describing it as merely a novel, although that is precisely what it is, because Powers has herein created something more than your typical story. In this work, two seemingly unrelated paths are set on ambagious paths which will ultimately culminate in their intertwining. On one path we are presented with the apotheosis of a specific corporation’s development, and on the other is the idiosyncratic life of an individual living in a place where this corporation has its hand on virtually everything. Herein Powers has presented what is probably the most riveting illustration of a fictional corporation’s rise. In fact, it is so engrossed in detail that parts of it rival real corporate histories, such as The Great A&P and Nature’s Metropolis. The central question here is derived from more than everyday consumers being buffaloed by Machiavellian corporations. Rather, Powers ascertains the question of how have we come to be where we are? In doing so, Powers destroys the illusion that geography is solely composed of maps. His illustration of how a corporation can grow, and in seeming reaction to that growth an individual woman can wither, permeates the very texture of our lives. You see, it is this mode of production, for which we all possess profound disdain, that is the source of our everyday living and experiences. Long before you or I were born, business had already replaced nature as the

The sounds of the morning had been replaced with grumbles about cheating houses, weighted scales, snakes, skimpy cotton, and the dusty rows” (492 Angelou). Having a negative tone fits the theme of the story, which is to do whatever it takes to get a living, because finding a

It shows our generation as lacking spirit and recognized by consumerism. The economic element plays a huge role in this film. The director is trying to prove that society cannot survive without material possessions. We are built on consumerism. The more possessions a person owns, the greater the economy is. The movie shows that consumers are attached to material possessions and that materialism and consumerism go hand in hand. Society has adopted the values that possessions are the highest value in life and that the only way to be successful is to have a large amount of nice material possessions. These items control the people that society has become and people spend their whole lives trying to find their identity through material items.

In the last stanza it describes how money can corrupt anything even the very religious people. Basically the poem being based on how life was in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.

Similarly, “the crowd roars past,” (Lau, 20) features the word “roars” to solidify in the reader’s mind this picture of mindlessly creatures in search of more food. Another example of diction is shown in the line, “we gorge on dumplings and waffles,” (Lau, 18) this sick, grotesque word “gorge” plays with senses, allowing the reader to imagine and even relate to how the market goers feel as they indulge in all food within reach, even past the point of filling their hunger but instead satisfying some other emptiness within them, sadness, boredom or in the speakers case, guilt. Imagery