In the first few chapters of The Call of the Wild, there is a near immediate death; a sweet but naive dog named Curly. She didn’t die because she was sweet, but because she was weak. The Call of the Wild was written by the naturalist Jack London in 1903. Naturalism is the belief that people are largely shaped by heredity, instincts, and their environment. London applies this idea to his animal characters, including the main character Buck, showing how their behavior changes i

A Study in Scarlet was the original Sherlock Holmes story, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in England in 1887. The story is divided into two parts. Part One ends with the case solved and the murderer caught in London; Part Two begins with a flashback, taking the audience four decades into the past in Utah. By the end of the book, it becomes clear that this flashback is the murderer’s explanation for his crimes. Jefferson Hope, the murderer, forces the audience to sympathize

As I prepare to write a post concerning the study of Economics & American culture, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or previous post and might interest you further. Unhampered Market Economy - Prices of Consumer Goods How is the economy hampered? Is an unhampered market preferable or even attainable? Is a gerneral medium of exchange such as fiat paper money more or less beneficial to the economy