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Greed in Literature, 2004.
An analysis of the theme of greed in "The Destructors" by Graham Greene and "The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence.
1,025 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper explains that greed has always been a powerful motivator, and greed is one of the main themes in these two works, which seem quite similar at first glance. A closer reading brings out the dissimilarities in these works, but ultimately points to greed as a powerful destructive force in our lives and that society reveres money and possessions above all else.
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"Initially, these two short stories seem quite similar. They are both set in Great Britain, and they both have young boys as their main characters. At first glance, they seem as if they might be stories about growing up in different worlds than we are used to, but underlying this first look are some dark and disturbing themes about how greed can destroy, and how destruction simply for the sake of destruction is a form of greed all its own. Both stories also illustrate how a love of "things" or possessions can become a destructive form of greed, too. Greene notes this in his story, and shows how young juvenile delinquents view possessions. He writes, "'All this hate and love,' he said, 'it's soft, it's hooey. There's only things, Blackie,' and he looked round the room crowded with the unfamiliar shadows of half things, broken things, former things" (Greene 236). The group of young boys tears down the old man's house because they see it as a symbol of everything they do not have, and a symbol of the possessions they would love to own, but do not. They do not see the old man as a human, and so they must destroy everything that is dear to him. This dark tale shows how the greed (as the young boys see it) brings about ultimate destruction, and in this, it is very like "The Rocking-Horse Winner," for greed is the ultimate destruction in that story, too."
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Materialism and Greed Result in 'The Hobbit', 2007.
This paper discusses that materialism and greed result in death and destruction in 'The Hobbit' by J.R.R. Tolkien.
1,533 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 50.95
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In this article the writer maintains that an underlying theme of materialism and its negative effects on people is present throughout the novel 'The Hobbit'. The writer points out that by bringing about the downfalls of all of the novel's selfish characters, Tolkien demonstrates that greed and materialism lead unerringly to suffering, and that true happiness can be found only through selflessness. The writer notes that the consequences of greed can be seen in a multitude of characters, even some who are normally viewed as moralistic, although they are most prevalent in characters such as Gollum and Smaug.The writer concludes that at the end of the novel, one finds that all of the characters who allowed greed to consume them are either dead or in a state of constant suffering.
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" On the contrary, Bilbo never demonstrates this mixing of good and evil; he is entirely untainted, and represents self-sacrifice at its finest. One of the things that makes Bilbo such a heroic character is his incredible selflessness, which is seen throughout the novel. He aids Thorin and his Company repeatedly, without any reason for helping them besides a desire for adventure and the fact that he helps those in need. He attempts to infiltrate the camp of trolls, rescues the Dwarves from the spiders in the Mirkwood, frees the Dwarves from the Elvenking's hold, and confronts Smaug face to face. All of these are acts that put Bilbo directly in harm's way, but he does them because he feels that he cannot stand idly or turn the other way; he takes direct action when necessary, whether it benefits him or not."
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"Greed and Glory on Wall Street".
This paper is a review of the "Greed and Glory on Wall Street" by Ken Auletta, which is about the Lehman Brothers' scandal in the 1980s
1,370 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 0 sources, $ 45.95
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This paper explains that "Greed and Glory on Wall Street," an excellent documentary about Lehman Brothers covering the period from July 1983 to April 1984 with the firm's takeover by Shearson/American Express, is a stimulating political story about two adversaries fighting for glory and money and bringing the company to failure in the end. The author points out that this book clarifies key business issues and some of the economic mechanisms, which were behind financial transactions on Wall Street during the 80s. The paper relates that Lehman Brothers, one of the most important and oldest banks in the United States, initially, was renowned for its conservatory actions, but 'greed' seriously began to take over during the 1980s, and the company started to speculate on Wall Street, going into leveraged buy-outs and junk bonds.
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"The main idea from the course as it appears in the book is related to bonds. As we know from the textbook, bonds are generally used in order to raise capital. Previous to the 80s, bonds were generally rated according to the company's reputability and companies which were known to have difficulties in making payments were listed as junk companies, with bonds that were generally never purchased and which did not help the respective companies from entering bankruptcy."
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Common Themes of Greed, 2006.
This paper discusses the common themes of greed in Graham Greene's story "The Destructors" and D.H. Lawrence's story "The Rocking Horse Winner".
1,091 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper explains that, through exaggerated circumstances, Graham Greene's story "The Destructors" and D.H. Lawrence's story "The Rocking Horse Winner" attempt to entertain, as well as convey, a moralistic message pertaining to greed and human nature. The author points out that major complicated incidents in each story revolve around how characters in each story deal with their problems; both T and Paul, the protagonists, are suffering from the negative impact that greed and this impacts their emotions. The paper relates that the setting of each story is a house, which becomes central to the moralistic message each author conveys.
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"Greed becomes the basic conflict in each story. In "The Destructors", T, a major character, is greedy, which becomes apparent when he becomes obsessed with what Old Misery's house represents. In "The Rocking Horse Winner," Paul's mother, a primary character, is also very greedy, becoming obsessed with having more money. Lawrence and Greene use greed to introduce conflict, which is a realistic problem of life. The irony in each circumstance is that the internal struggle that Paul and T encounter cannot be solved by their attempts. T and Paul choose to deal with this conflict in very different ways and, as a result, experience very different results. "
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"Anatomy of Greed" by Brian Cruver, 2007.
This paper examines the Brian Cruver's book about the Enron scandal, "Anatomy of Greed".
3,778 words (approx. 15.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 104.95
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The paper discusses "Anatomy of Greed", which shows the author's place as an Enron insider and his view of the overall scheme of things in the Enron scandal. The paper explains how Enron was building itself up for years, based on few assets, tricky accounting and a building debt. Higher officials inside Enron were benefiting from this at the cost of employees and others who were depending on stock or employment options that did not exist. The paper reveals that accounting practices that were legal gave Enron the idea that it could hide its dealings. The paper explores how it was fear and greed that led Enron to continue acting unethically until it destroyed the company and many people's lives in the process.
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"Chapter One, entitled "Welcome to the Death Star," explains how Cruver started with Enron. It explains how lucky he thought he was to work for such a highly respect and world-renowned company that was a leader in business. Shortly after beginning, Cruver became aware of many things that may not have been common knowledge to those outside of Enron. Some were light-hearted, like the many comparisons of Enron to Star Wars; Enron headquarters was the Death Star (hence the chapter title), Chief Executive Officer Jeff Skilling was Darth Vader, and Ken Lay was the Emperor."
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'Greed and Glory on Wall Street', 2006.
A review of 'Greed and Glory on Wall Street: the Fall of the House of Lehman' by Ken Auletta.
1,676 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 54.95
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This paper takes a look at Ken Auletta's book 'Greed and Glory on Wall Street: the Fall of the House of Lehman'. According to the paper, the book tells the story of how the old and prestigious company Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb (LBKB) self-destructed from within because of infighting among its leaders.
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"At the same time, the SEC relaxed certain investing rules, which made it tempting to ignore the long term picture -- Peterson's strong suit -- in favor of short-term investment decisions -- Glucksman's preference. But for long-term stability, the company needed to consider the long-term picture when making short-term decisions. Glucksman could not or would not do that. The market turned from bull to bear, and LBKB's profits began to decline (p. 144). Meanwhile, Glucksman nominated Robert S. Rubin, a man who openly stated that he might not be suitable for the position, as President of LBKB, which brought the dislike some felt for Glucksman to the surface. Gradually Peterson and others discovered that significant opportunities had been lost, such as an offer to buy LBKB for three times its worth at the time, which would have been a huge windfall for all of the partners. Peterson didn't hear it because those in the know didn't like him and didn't take the information to him (p. 154). "
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Columbus: Greed and Racial Intolerance, 2007.
A look at Jan Carew's videotaped presentation "From Columbus to Castro - 500 Years of Race, Class and Culture Conflict in Our Americas".
958 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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The paper examines Jan Carew's videotaped presentation, "From Columbus to Castro - 500 Years of Race, Class and Culture Conflict in Our Americas" where he argues that Columbus' relentless drive for riches created a situation where innocent people were brutally exploited. The paper agrees with Carew that the legacy of European discovery was one of human greed, racial intolerance and bigotry. The paper concludes that the ancestors of American whites who sought to diminish others left behind the seeds for racial convolution and unrest today.
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"To begin with, Mr. Carew rightly notes that Columbus did everything he did to aggrandize himself and the country of Spain - partly, it may be presumed, out of patriotism, but surely mostly out of a desire to satiate his own ambitions and to validate the support of powerful individuals in the upper reaches of Spanish society who had reposed their trust - and treasure - in him. In any case, it is known that Columbus was under great pressure to "deliver the goods" by returning to Spain with riches; to wit, his patrons - Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand - eagerly sought to spread Christianity to distant parts of the world, and the royal couple also were very much interested in finding a means by which Spain could compete with its bitter rival, Portugal, for spoils ("Christopher Columbus and the Spanish Empire," para.2)."
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Corporate Greed and Business School Reforms, 2002.
The paper disusses the need for reforms in business school curriculums to include subjects such as business ethics, in the wake of the recent spate of dishonest business practices.
2,513 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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The paper shows that in the wake of recent dishonest practices by Enron, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Xerox, Qwest, Arthur Andersen and Merck, many people are asking how businessmen, believed to be so well educated and leaders in corporate America, lacked the moral courage to seek and state the truth. It shows how business ethics has been thrown to the side as a wild-wild-west form of capitalism has taken hold on America's corporate leaders. This corporate malfeasance has cost thousands of jobs, trillions of dollars in stockholder value, and a skepticism of our once revered free economic system. This paper shows show why a lack of business ethics is such a far-reaching problem in our society and suggests reforms in the business school curriculum to help instill responsibility and accountability in our business leaders. It also shows how consumer education classes would help protect individuals from becoming victims of corporate greed.
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"Everywhere we look corporate America is bombarding us with advertising in the hopes of creating demand for their relatively unneeded products. Britney Spears dancing around selling Pepsi, the Dell Computers ?Dude you?re getting a Dell? guy, and the billboards for SKYY vodka with images of sexy supermodels are used to create desires for individuals to increase their spending and sink further into debt. One of the underlying problems that corporations have had is that even if they bombard us with sexual images that sell products is that our demand can only be as big as our pocket books. Corporate America then came up with the idea of credit cards, which eased the liquidity problems. An article entitled ?Corporate Power and the Evolution of Consumer Credit? appearing in the December 2000 issue of The Journal of Economic Issues, John Watkins, professor of Economics at Westminster College, describes how corporate power has perpetuated the debt crisis in America."
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Greed in "The Great Gatsby", 2004.
A look at the theme of materialism, as depicted by F. Scott Fitzgerald in "The Great Gatsby".
1,259 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper examines how F. Scott Fitzgerald?s novel, "The Great Gatsby", reveals much about the waste and wealth of America in the ?Roaring Twenties.? It shows how, through Jay Gatsby, Fitzgerald weaves a tale of excess and passion that leads to the destruction of the human soul, since Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, embodies the exorbitance of this era and pays the ultimate price. It examines how the greed and endless desire of Jay Gatsby turned out to be more than he could control, despite his grandest efforts.
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"Jay Gatsby is a complex character because he has admirable qualities and despicable qualities. We admire him because he able to attain the wealth he desired despite the fact that he came from a poor family. We dislike him because he was driven by greed and materialism. Gatsby is wealthy, no doubt, but he flaunts it in ways that are tasteless. We know from Nick that Gatsby went to great lengths to redefine himself. For example, we know that his real name is James Gatz and he was from an unsuccessful farm family in North Dakota. He changed his name when he was seventeen--a change inspired when he laid his eyes on Dan Cody?s yacht."
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Globalization: Destroying for Greed, 2002.
A discussion of the effects ecological degradation and social injustice caused by the oil corporations.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 62.95
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This essay will examine the ecological degradation and social injustice created by the oil corporations and the people who subsequently invaded the Huaorani's land and show that this is ultimately a representation of the negative impact of globalization and its effect on many places in the world.
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Wealth and Greed in Society, 2001.
This essay discusses the way desire for personal wealth can contribute to the development or destruction of our culture.
1,120 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, $ 38.95
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Greed in ?The Great Gatsby?, 2002.
An analysis of the theme of the love of money in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
1,619 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper examines F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, ?The Great Gatsby,? and, in particular, looks at how Jay Gatsby is a man driven to destruction by his love for money. It shows how Fitzgerald is able to weave the dream of love with the American Dream with tremendous success and how the novel is filled with warnings of the degenerative effects of money. It discusses how the complexities involved with America's class structure during the 1920s are colorfully depicted.
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"What makes Gatsby?s character detestable is the fact that he idolizes money and becomes extremely materialistic. We can know this because he shows off his expensive shirt collection to Daisy. It is important to note that Gatsby?s materialism is fused with his love for Daisy when Nick says, ?He hadn?t once ceased looking at Daisy and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes? (93). From this statement we can see how his love for money is almost synonymous with his love for Daisy because he cannot separate the two. In addition, it is obvious how Gatsby began to seek approval from Daisy from her responses to his wealth."
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?The Destructors?, 2005.
This paper analyzes Graham Greene's short story about greed "The Destructors".
775 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper explains that Graham Greene's short story "The Destructors" demonstrates a deeper and more disturbing level of greed, which does not always mean wanting things that someone else has; it can sometimes mean destroying those things as an attempt to erase what they mean. The author points out that the protagonist T's character first form of greed is removing the house and his second form of greed is maintaining his image in the image; destroying the house achieves both objectives but it will not ultimately solve T's problem. The paper states that Greene masterfully combines humor and horror to relate that people are the result of what they know and they deal with life based on that knowledge.
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"I was surprised that T only wanted to destroy the house and not take anything from it. I thought this was fascinating on Greene's part because it is so unpredictable. While the others think of ripping off the old man T tells the others, "I have a better plan" (Greene). In addition, when he begins tossing out orders, we are told, "it was as though this plan had been with him all his life, pondered through the seasons, now in his fifteenth year crystallized with the pain of puberty" (Greene). Here we see another aspect of T's personality. He wants to be recognized for something and for a gang member, there are only so many ways that this can occur."
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Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo".
This paper examines the way greed affects three characters in Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo".
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This paper explains that, in Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo", the three
characters--Nostromo, Gould and Decoud--are attracted to the silver but have very different reactions to this pull. The author points out that Nostromo allows it to consume his entire life, Gould lets it ruin his marriage and Decoud lets it destroy his life. The paper relates that they demonstrate that greed controls people regardless of what people may think and that rarely anything good can come from greed.
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"Another character that is influenced by the lure of silver is Charles Gould. At the beginning of the novel, Gould and his wife share an interest in the mine because of the good that it can bring to the people. However, as Gould becomes more involved with the activities of the mine, he becomes less involved with his wife and the life they share. We are told, "His part, his inclination, and his policy were united in one endeavor to keep unchecked the flow of treasure he had started single-handed from the re-opened scar in the flank of the mountain.""
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"Double Indemnity", 2004.
An analysis of this classic 1940s film about greed and its consequences.
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The 1944 film, "Double Indemnity", starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson, is a film in which greed and desire take over the lives of the two main characters and ultimately lead to their destruction. This paper analyzes the story and characters of the film and examines the role that greed plays in the characters' downfall.
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"As things continue to fall apart, Walter realizes that Phyllis has been using him the entire time. He is determined to kill her before she can do the same to him. The two are now double-crossing each other and it is a matter of seeing which one of them can silence the other first. Phyllis? greed is stronger than Walter?s and while she plots against him using Nino as an accomplice, she does not count on Walter?s survival instinct kicking in, which, although stronger than his greed and desire, cannot prevent him, in the end, from being completely destroyed."
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