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    The Bell Jar is the story about a young woman named Esther Greenwood. Esther is a college student who is working as an intern at Ladies Day magazine in New York City in the summer of 1953. Although she knows she should be excited about this once in a lifetime opportunity, she finds herself feeling restless, isolated, and hopeless about her future. While living in New York, Esther goes on a few dates and on the last date before returning home to Massachusetts she is sexually assaulted. Throughout

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    John Smith was one of the original settlers of Jamestown. But before that he was an experienced solider and diplomat. He fought the Spanish in the Netherlands and the Turks in Hungary. When he arrived to Jamestown he took part in governing the colony and managing relations with the natives. After being saved by a friendly Indian named Pocahontas and helping colonization in the New World, Smith returned to England. There he wrote and told about his experience in Virginia. He talked about the Native

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    In the 1995 (Disney) Pocahontas film I feel that the Screen Shot taken at 6.28 minutes is telling us about the ‘new world’ that the English are about to colonise. Judging from the picture, I feel like the ‘new world’ that the British believe they are conquering is not really a new world at all; but one that is already populated and cultivated by the natives. I learnt through the accompanying song that the natives hold tradition. The lyrics of “O Great Spirit, hear our song, help us keep the ancient

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    John Smith, most people know this name to be man who was the Governor of Jamestown and that he was a hard man. Most people don’t the back story of Smith or how he came to be the man we know today. John Smith was born in Lincolnshire, England in the later 1500s. Smith had a ruff start on life when he had lost his father at the young age of 16. Smith set off to join the french fighting all across europe. One story of John is when” he had been promoted to general, then was fighting in Transylvania

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    Winston believes throughout the whole book that his mind and the power of his mind is more capable of not obeying the party as his fellow people of Oceania. What Winston never seems to find other than one other person out of all the other people he has meet, is that no one else has his passion of hate for the party. Later in the novel when he is being tortured, O’Brien states “You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity. You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one”

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    "23 Things They Do Not Tell You About Capitalism" by Ha Joon Change demonstrates the hidden stories behind the free-market ideology. We were told that if the government intervenes the market, firms would not work efficiently. Hence, the only way to maximize efficiency is to let individuals who know best about how to utilize their own resource to act rationally. This is the belief of free market, which we have trusted and have been told. However, in the real world, there is no such thing as pure

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    If one is interested in reading a disturbingly detailed and factually based novel that chronicles the course and motives of complex crime, read Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences.” If one scares easily, is squeamish or wants to avoid imagining a remorseless, brutal killer around every corner, do not. In his 1965 nonfiction novel, Capote paints a disturbingly vivid picture of the quadruple murder of the Clutters, a highly regarded and semi-wealthy

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    He explained Ricardian theory as arithmetic precession which has ethical and social liberal problems. He said state should protect individual liberty of citizens by which state can enhance with good property rights and ownership. He supported smith theory of division of labor for efficiency. State is important but should not over rule the economic realm. State should create legal and political environment to enhance the self interest separate for market and state. Conclusion: He differentiated

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    Market Economics Market economics is an economics system in which economic decision including the production, distribution and the pricing of goods and services are determine by the private company and business. This economics system is a free market economics that the price are determine by the demand and supply of the products. In other word, the price of goods and services are freely set between the buyer and seller by consent. If the price of the goods and services set by the seller are too high

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    Xin Rui - Adam Smith Adam Smith is best known for two classic works, which are The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). The work of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is considered as his great work and also is the first modern work of economics. Adam Smith proposed that the invisible hand is a very important element in his work. The core of Smith's thesis was that man's natural tendency toward self-interest

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