Essays Tagged: "Wall Street"

Preparing for war.

peoples -- these twofeatures characterize the foreign policy of United States imperialism atpresent.Wall Street's dollars and marines are extending their domination over evergreater sections of the wo ... American republics has becomenothing more than a tragic farce in view of their increased bondage to WallStreet. The Havana Conference, which was called in the name ofPan-Americanism, was only the inst ...

(5 pages) 179 0 4.1 Mar/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Specific Policies

How Money Killed in Shakespeares plays

How Money KilledMany of our friends at Wall Street have serious heart problems; some of them even die years before they should because of t ... ven die years before they should because of the stress that is brought on by the money and greed of Wall Street. Money is also evident as a health risk in Macbeth and The Merchant of Venice, both writ ... ent as a health risk in Macbeth and The Merchant of Venice, both written by William Shakespeare. On Wall Street people are driven by the greed of the people they represent, their own greed, and a gene ...

(3 pages) 51 1 3.3 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

The National Debt in the US

n dollars. In 1919, at the end of the World War 1, the debt skyrocketed to 25.5 billion. When the Wall Street fell apart in 1929, the United States fell into something that was called the Great Depr ...

(2 pages) 145 0 3.8 Feb/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

The growth of New York's Business

the Erie Canal, the invention of the telegraph, thedeveloped of the railroads, the establishment of Wall Street andbanking, the textile, shipping, agriculture and newpaper industries, thedevelopment o ...

(5 pages) 108 0 4.2 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

"A Civil Action", by Jonathan Harr and it's effects on civil law.

is utilized every day, by every type of person, from the average blue-collar worker to the average Wall Street broker. There is a multitude of ways that the legal system is put to use. One such way i ...

(7 pages) 115 0 3.3 Nov/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville.

work entitled Bartleby the Scrivener, the narrator is an elderly lawyer who works in his office on Wall Street. He proves to be intelligent, even-tempered, and conscientious. The unnamed lawyer posse ...

(1 pages) 123 0 3.4 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Law and Regulation, The Apitome of American Capitalism? The Emergance of Wall Street and New York as an International Financial Icon 1900-2002. Steele's novel "The Great Game"

seems to be the epitome of American capitalism. But this was not always the case; in the beginning, Wall Street was a ruthless environment with almost no laws or regulatory measures. Fraud, bribes, in ... hroughout John Steele Gordon's novel "The Great Game", a line is drawn that allows us to observe as Wall Street emerges, in the beginning, as a secondary market with few regulations; it was vulnerable ...

(7 pages) 92 0 3.5 Mar/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

What caused the great depression?

New York Stock Exchange dropped drastically. The financial crisis, which was due to the collapse of Wall Street, led to the Great Depression. The tumble was caused by forced liquidation of large broke ... result of mishandling and judging of the economy by the governments. In 1928 before the collapse of Wall Street, American president, Herbert Hoover, had declared that the United States would soon see ...

(3 pages) 180 1 2.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Economic History

The Stock Market Crash of 1929.

"Wall Street Lays an Egg!" That's what the front page of Variety Newspaper said on the morning of Oct ... istory. Let me tell you a little about that... First of all, how many of you own stock or shares on Wall Street?(Pause.) All, or most of you, probably don't. Well, work with me and picture for a minut ...

(4 pages) 104 0 1.4 Aug/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The Film Wall Street Ethics Paper.

This is an ethical review of the film Wall Street (Stone and Weiser). It examines ethical dilemmas Bud Fox faced and what made him vulnera ... y, it will take a look at factors in the film that relate to the Enron and WorldCom cases.The film "Wall Street" is about Bud Fox, an ambitious rookie stockbroker and Gordon Gekko, an aggressive and r ... it. He had to do the right action that produced the most good for the community.How does the film "Wall Street" relate to the Enron scandal? The Enron Company had been one of the most successful comp ...

(5 pages) 194 0 4.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

How airplane travel was invented

ction and returned to Yale. To start the first aviation club, after college Trippe tried to work on Wall Street. But he soon realized his true calling was with planes. He opened the first airline in 1 ...

(1 pages) 29 0 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Response to the industrial revolution.

light bulb that would last for a long time thus changing the world so that now large buildings and Wall Street could now be lighted up with electric. J. P. Morgan was one of the earliest to use this ...

(5 pages) 60 0 3.7 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Politique du 11 septembre 2001

que l'attentat a été effectué. « Dans le downtown de New York, se trouve Wall Street qui nous propulse dans le monde des affaires à l'aide des twin towers (WTC), les ... e siège de plusieurs compagnies d'importance mondiale.Les quartiers d'affaires de Manhattan (Wall Street, Rockfeller Center) abritent la plus grande concentration bancaire du monde, ainsi que l ...

(9 pages) 31 2 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Raising capital in the global economy

market, one has to assume that, for some reason, return on equity can remain sustainably so high.On Wall Street, it is indeed fashionable to point to the current high ROE as the explanation for the le ... make recessions less likely. This belief is perhaps best epitomised in the following quote from The Wall Street Journal in 1996:"From boardrooms to living rooms and from government offices to trading ...

(7 pages) 186 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Markets & Exchanges

The Collapse of Enron

ng users to buy gas or electricity from a number of producers. Before long it was the sweetheart of Wall Street as analysts heaped praise on the firm for its unique approach in bringing high-tech, com ...

(4 pages) 151 0 4.2 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Insider Trading and White Collar Crime

seen in examining the case involving insider trading and Dennis Levine and the Scandal that rocked Wall Street. In it, Levine makes use of his social network, by gaining inside information on mergers ... ity who player central roles in mergers and acquisitions. His success depended on these networks on Wall Street, but they could not be implemented by anyone but him. He was the one who could make the ...

(6 pages) 211 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Black Mountain Herb - Part 1

1.I suppose I should explain.They call me and my wife marketing geinius' now, and will tell you on Wall Street that we saw it coming when others did not. I do not think so.Getting rich was never our ...

(6 pages) 26 0 4.2 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Significance of food and wall tropes in Herman Melville's "Bartleby".

ric disorder to him. During the second reading, the author's commitment to certain objects, such as walls and food in any representation, and specific feelings, such as sadness, solitude, melancholy, ... ems to be insane to the reader.I see the parallels between Bartleby's behavior and the condition of Wall Street society's spiritual life of that time. Material wellness becomes much more important tha ...

(2 pages) 32 0 5.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Frankfurt market crash - 20th of October 1987

FRANKFURT, 20th of October. The sharp fall in prices that hit the New York's Wall Street on Monday triggered, on Tuesday, a large selling-wave in all the international stock mar ...

(1 pages) 35 1 3.5 Nov/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Alfred Hitchcock

ious, were being put together. Censorship regulations were being formulated for the first time, and Wall Street began to take a more prominent, powerful role in film making. It was the era of short si ...

(7 pages) 56 0 5.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Directors