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    post some comments. Best regards‚ Health is more important than wealth. Let consider‚ health is the necessary condition while wealth is the sufficient condition. We need both of them ‚ in order to live happily . Bus as you can see‚ the necessary condition is always more important. A certain fact is that we can’t buy health with money. Today‚ there are still some deseases which have no cure . wealth doesn’t always make life more healthy and happily . If you are a billionair‚ you

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    English II December 13‚ 2013 Wealth is Not Always Great Money has always had an effect on people‚ throughout history people have always strived to achieve wealth. However being rich and wealthy is not all about money‚ it is about being happy. In the The Great Gatsby happiness is bought because the characters living in East and West Egg have an absurd amount of money. F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays the lifestyle and behavior of wealthy individuals in The Great Gatsby‚ illuminating the corrupting

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    “The Gospel of Wealth” was written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889. He was one of the richest men in American during the Gilded Age. Carnegie had a strong belief that wealthy people should spend their money to benefit the society while they were still alive. He said “The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.”  First and foremost‚ wealthy men had more advantages in the life to enlarge their wealth as well as to share it to the society. They were talent people with a strong ability to work hard in order

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    What principles of political economy did Adam Smith set out in the ’Wealth of Nations’? Adam Smith believed solely the market operates in accordance to the wishes and decisions of free individuals. Smith put forward the theory of the ’economic man’‚ he used this notion to describe human beings as being essentially egotistical and bent on material acquisition. Smith set out in the ’Wealth of Nations’ that there is a natural ’harmony of interest’ between individuals in the market. In his famous notion

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    working class to have a rough employment and living conditions‚ but the higher‚ richer class benefitted with improved living conditions. Irregularity was happening within the social lives‚ the employment‚ and the finances of the people. Andrew Carnegie Wealth and Its Uses 1907 provides a more accurate view of industrialization and its effects because the world during the Industrial Revolution could not

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    more higher and ranked top in the world.Even the wealth gap is not common in western societies‚however‚it is no doubt that wealth gap has threatened the Hong Kong most. With the change of economic mode in Hong Kong ‚it trend to knowledge-based economy rather than manufacturing industry so that a large number of worker are unemployed immediately‚in the other hand‚a lot of high-class people are benefited by the new mode economy.Therefore the wealth disparity has become more serious. As the result

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    Name: Sarah Bekhit 1-How does Carnegie link extremes of wealth and poverty with progress? 2-Why would Carnegie have rejected as impractical and reasonable the argument that he should have paid his workers higher wages than distributing his profits to charity? Andrew Carnegie and the gospel of wealth Andrew to become successful by amassing wealth in the steel industry. He came from a poor family and had little formal education. When the Carnegies immigrated to America in 1848‚ Andrew was

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    Wealth/Poverty/Social Class The question of the United States national budget and any resolutions to this dire struggle are deeply rooted in the controversial ideas presented by Thomas Malthus in an excerpt‚ “An Essay on the Principle of Population” that states‚ “… in every society in which the population increases it will eventually produce more people than it can feed‚ thereby condemning a certain percentage of the population to live beneath the subsistence level” (324). The idea that

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    Wealth does not bring happiness True or false? Nowadays happiness is a very popular word but each of us can define "happiness" differently. Some people argue that without wealth you can not be happy. Which one‚ of us‚ hasn’t dreamed of “money piles”‚ beautiful houses‚ cars and other things like that? But if we could somehow get all this‚ would we really want it? Can we then finally be happy? It is undoubtedly true‚ that people with money have beautiful things and they are usually admired

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    possible answers for this question is the difference between the health of the rich and the poor. Wealthier nations tend to be healthier and have a better life expectancy rate than the poorer nations. There could be several thesis statements that link wealth with physical health. Firstly‚ the problem of primary health care issues has been tackled in developed nations due to which there are better health care facilities available which differs the health issues from the poorer. Poor nations still suffer

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