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    not make the laws and decisions of a nation. Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement that began September 17, 2011 and has gained actions in over 1,500 countries worldwide.The author says that “[They] call occupy wall street a constructive failure because in failure it revealed the limitations contemporary activism... [though] it did achieve some things and did have some positive outcomes”(“Occupy black lives matter”). Occupy Wall Street aims to fight back against the corrosive power of major

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    years after the financial crisis, increasing foreclosures. Occupy Wall Street arose in response to the middle class people who are getting battered by economic forces beyond their control, while elites in the private and public sector prospered. In this paper, I will examine Occupy Wall Street’s confrontation on the U.S. wealth inequality and its protest in New York, participants and its attempt to encourage equality. Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is a leaderless resistance movement. People had joined the

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    economic change and originated from the actions of the Occupy Wall Street movement (source #7). The focus is on the Occupy Wall Street movement that was launched on September 17th 2011 and was catalysed by Adbusters activist Micah White. White created a web page about the corruption that was happening surrounding the financial crisis in the United States leading to the most recent recession. Large corporations based in the area of Wall Street have a great deal of wealth and in turn considerable influence

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    Leyeles’ poem “Wall Street”, is from the perspective of Wall Street itself. It talks about how it has become one of the most powerful cities of all time. Its control of the American people is only to be rivaled with the control of Ashurbanipal, Alexander, Tamerlane, and Bonaparte. An obvious connection to Wall Street is what people go there for, money. In the first and third stanza, the color “yellow” comes up to describe money and how much of an influence it has over people. In the first stanza

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    Occupy Wall Street’s opposing expression of the disparity between the wealthy and the poor may have begun in good faith by utilizing the Freedom of Speech and General Assembly amendment rights, but the strategies some of the protestors have demonstrated are resulting in adverse reactions against themselves. The Occupy Wall Street movement will assuredly cost affected cities in the double digits of millions of dollars. Increases in payroll, overtime, and business expenses will inadvertently backfire

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    particular, the Wall Street Journal, is deemed to be unreliable attributable to its failure on meeting several criterias; providing all sides of a story, obtaining unbiased stance, and finally providing straight news or just plain commentary. The Wall Street Journal was first found on July 8, 1889 by Charles H. Dow of Dow Jones & Company. Initially, the newspaper was named Customers’ Afternoon Letter and then later converted into Wall Street Journal; which was derived from the original street in the midst

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    Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville is tragic and is written in the mode of realism. The short story starts off with the narrator, who is a lawyer at the Wall Street in New York, describing the other workers or scriveners working at the lawyer’s office at the time. The three characters are Turkey, Nippers, and Gingernut. Turkey works well in the morning and Nippers during the night. Gingernut is just an errand boy. Then the lawyer starts describing Bartleby as “A motionless young man one morning

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    'The Wolf of Wall Street’. Dark and Violent are two words that epitomise Martin Scorsese’s films, like 'Taxi Driver’ and 'Goodfellas’, yet his latest release, reflects a very different style to Martin Scorsese’s film, 'The Wolf of Wall Street'. However, this new tone shows Scorsese's willingness to dive into his own unexplored areas of film, which is incredibly exciting. ‘Casino’, following mobsters, is evident of a far more serious film, and however 'gangster’ Jordan Belfort is throughout the movie

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    to the work, not that he is incapable of it (as the lawyer mistakenly assumes by the glazed over look in his eye). He simply prefers not to. He would rather do nothing at all, he would rather engage in his "dead wall reverie," untroubled by the trivial tasks of living. And what of the wall? A stark, flat, limitation-blocking out the light and hope of the day. To another, it might be disheartening. The sun's rays trickle down meagerly to meet the scrivener's eyes, but it isn't hope that Bartleby seeks;

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    asks why not an apartment? Since her income is so low, she can’t even afford the two month down payment (“Serving in Florida”). Corporate greed is so excessive, it makes it immensely difficult for people to simply live a comfortable lifestyle. Wall Street; the epitome of greed amongst the wealthy. It is based

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