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    valuable item that had effected the world and changed it economically and socially. Economically, in documents 4 and 7 it explains how silver flowed and the business of silver itself. Socially, even though in business silver was just business, it brought greed, shown in documents 1,6, and 8 to the people and government and lead to suffering to the people as stated in documents 2,3, and 5. Documents 4 and 7 both show how silver was traded and how silver, and the price, flowed through out the world.

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    Aquinas on Usury 1 The idea of lending money at a cost or interest rate has been a concept that has been around for centuries. St Thomas Aquinas was an early Western philosopher who is acclaimed to be the thought of much of the catholic churches teachings today. Aquinas was against the notion of lending money at interest for various reasons. Following the catholic view on usury often leads to an association with greed and exploiting the person in need of the loan. In today’s society usury is almost

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    that suffered, it was every industry. All the financial suffering was rooted in one of the most essential needs of every human being, housing. Big banks in the middle 2000s were flourishing of the money made from selling the mortgages to big investors. While this was great when the banks were giving money to people who were reliable and were going to pay their mortgages every month. And when the investors were making such a hefty profit they wanted more. This is when Subprime mortgages were widely

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    “We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet”, said renowned physicist and billionaire Stephen Hawking. The idea that greed causes us to care less about others creates a self-perpetuating system of greed. This system creates a few elites who take all the money and power and the many workers who do not receive what they are working to make. The system by NCAA exploits

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    world go round”: money. Money has always been looked at as a major source of evil because it appears to be essential for greed. In the article Understanding Money and the Meaning of Life, the author, Bill Taylor, asks several questions regarding money and how it affects people's decisions and lives much like the lesson taught in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Pardoner's Tale. He answers the questions mentioned in the article, all in the defense of money and says that anything related to money is in fact the

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    from “On the Want of Money” by William Hazlitt is an outcry to humanity in response to the realities of a world that revolves around currency. Hazlitt implores his audience through his rhetoric to reflect on what they deem to be important, and to realize that their desires can be the very thing restraining them from attaining their ambitions. Through the use of irony, hypothetical examples, and figurative language William Hazlitt warns of the dangerous paths the pursuit of money can lead to, and the

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    A Utopia should be a place where everyone feels safe, a place where there is no hatred, no crime , no discouragement, disapproval, or judgement. Everyone should be equal. No one should have to be put into a catagory depending on their popularity, their wealth, their race or even their looks. Everyone has their role and no one should be considered not important. Everyone is truly happy. This is how I want my Utopia to be. In my Utopia, everyone will choose their own job, anyone can be anything,

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    2016 Obtaining more money and things will make us happier un-happy In life we all have specific things that we want or we want to upgrade something we already have which both require money. We develop a craving for money and start to think about ourselves and what we want rather than what the family needs or wants. Craving more money and objects makes us more likely to be un-happy with our lives because we don’t have what we want or we don’t feel wealthy enough. Money often times gets in

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    understanding of her compassion and fight for “Luna”. I believe there is a fine line between using resources responsibly for production and improvement of society as a whole and the abuse of those resources. Typically the abuse comes from greed and the need for money or finances. In the documentary video it did not touch on the financial desperation of Pacific Lumber through a number of their years. The company itself ceased to exist in 2008, it takes a few years for a company to go under, and so I

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    greedy and have two faces. For example parents spoil their child with money and still complain that they don’t get enough money and are greedy, and on the other hand they have everything they ask for but act and preach “earn what you have” when all they get is hand me outs. This is where the love of money can put you in some bad situations. However there are teens that work for what they have and even if it's not not enough money, they are happy with what they got. This is where reading “ The pardoner's

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