The Wealth of Networks

insight about all the question I asked and the responses I received, ending it off with the list of facts I learned and knowledge I gained throughout the interview. For my sales manager interview I was fortunate enough to interview Chad Keaton, a wealth management advisor and a managing director of Northwestern Mutual. Mr. Keaton graduated from East Tennessee State University in 1989 with Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing. Moreover, he joined Northwestern Mutual in 1993 and now it

driving the Mercedes would appear to have money, probably has good credit, and will most likely not have issues buying the vehicle of their choice. Having wealth has its privileges: education opportunities, superb health care, and the ability to purchase/accumulate assets to help contribute to one’s overall wealth/worth. One privilege, wealth brings is educational opportunities. These opportunities give the privileged

of the best television shows are great because of their accurate replication of the sociological elements found in the real world. Breaking Bad, arguably one of the best shows ever made, accurately depicts the role of social stratification, social networks, deviance, and sanctions in our society. In this masterpiece, the main character, Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher receives a cancer diagnosis. Realizing the financially troubling situation he would be leaving his family in, he decides

to successfully keep the Union troops supplied and fed. The Confederacy was left in ruins in the wake of the war, with little to no monetary funds to reconstruct the region. With the loss of their slaves, white plantation owners, lost most of their wealth, state governments were also hindered by crippling debts. Enormous plantations were broken up into lesser farms that could be tended to as single-family farms in exchange for a portion of the crop, this gave birth to the term sharecropping. Cotton

“accident” that changed the world. Columbus’s discovery of the Americas created a whole new avenue for competing European states to jockey for world dominance, and most importantly, for wealth. In order to gain the power that Spain, France, Britain, and Portugal so greatly desired, an intercontinental trading network called the Atlantic Slave Trade was established. The need for cheap labor and the desire for large profits brought slaves from Africa, to North/South America. Slavery began to take a new

interview Chad Keaton, a wealth management advisor and a managing director of Northwestern Mutual. Founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Northwestern Mutual, as a middle west based company, started up with the earliest life insurance services in 1857. Even though, Northwestern Mutual has always been prominent for its life insurance products, the innovation and diversity in various financial services of business are undeniably more attractive to me. Risk management, wealth accumulation, wealth preservation and

Caribbean. They controlled both the islands and the sea during the 1500's, which is accurately nicknamed "The Golden Age of Piracy." Begining with British Protestants, piracy spread throughout the New World like wild fire. Notorious criminals in search of wealth overseas, known as pirates, lived harsh lives and left a major impact on Caribbean history. Many factors led to the outbreak of piracy in the Caribbean. Conflicts in activities of everyday life, such as religion, were motives for pirates. Inspired

such as my teachers, doctors, and family members. The most prosperous people in life have a collegiate background. Society has influenced the next generation in many ways, such as finding better job opportunities, higher standards of living and networks that could be approached.

Mongol Empire, lasting from the 13th to the 14th centuries, exerted considerable political, social, and economic influence on conquered regions such as Eastern Asia and Russia. For example, as a result of the Mongols revitalizing long-distance trade networks such as the Silk Road, both China and Russia experienced the exchange of cultures, technologies, and diseases. However, Mongol influence on China quickly diminished after the collapse of the Mongol Empire whereas the influence of Mongol expansion

The vast wealth inequality in America (and the rest of the world) has been cited as a problem by Obama in many of his State Of The Union address, the Chairwoman of the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen, and many other liberal politicians and economists. Their talk about the problem of how the “1%” help perpetuate the wealth inequality has brought this issue to the forefront of society. In America, many citizens believe firmly in the idea of equality. The fact that some people have more money than they