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Pocahontas and John Smith, 2007.
An analysis of the relationship between Pocahontas and John Smith.
790 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 8 sources, MLA, AU$ 30.95
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This paper discusses the various accounts of the relationship between the Indian girl, Pocahontas and the English Captain, John Smith. It discusses exactly what their relationship was and how they related to each other. The paper looks at John Smith's account of the events and people surrounding Pocahontas and discusses how this compares to the popular Disney version of their relationship.
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"Perhaps the most romanticized event in history is the meeting and relationship between Indian girl, Pocahontas and English Captain, John Smith. What exactly was their relationship? Disney Productions tells us in their movie titled "Pocahontas" that the relationship between the two people were of that of a romantic type, portraying the two as highly attractive twenty something's, leaping through forests and frolicking in the fields."
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Captain John Smith, 1990.
This paper examines the role of Captain John Smith in colonial Virginia.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 50.95
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"The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of Captain John Smith in colonial Virginia.
John Smith was an English soldier, explorer and colonist who was a founder of Virginia. He is a colorful, near legendary figure in American history and has been the subject of a long and lively historical controversy. His name evokes a popular image of a swashbuckling, romantic hero who saved the infant colony of Jamestown from internal and external menaces and who himself was rescued by the Indian maiden Pocahontas (Gerson 12). Some 19th-century historians belittled Smith and his role in the founding of America, claiming that the heroic exploits described in his narratives were invented to promote himself. Modern historians, however, have been able largely to substantiate Smith's writings, while putting legend in its proper perspective. A superb ... "
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Adam Smith and Karl Marx, 2005.
This paper examines the writings of Adam Smith and Karl Marx by reviewing their positions on joint-stock companies and Adam Smith's famous deer-beaver argument.
1,410 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 49.95
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This paper explains that Adam Smith thought that the separation of ownership and control raised serious questions about the management of joint-stock companies and led him to analyze the agency problem. The author points out that Adam Smith and Karl Marx agree that an advantage of the joint-stock company is that it allows entrepreneurs to put together large sums of money and capital; furthermore, Marx concludes that the joint-stock form leads to a "tremendous expansion in the scale of production and enterprises, which would be impossible for individual capitals." The paper states that Karl Marx would have called Adam Smith's hunters simple commodity producers with each hunting with his own relatively simple weapon in a forest, which is open to all, and satisfying his needs by exchanging his excess catch against the products of other hunters.
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"Competition is another quantitative aspect of economics. One first needs to examine the conditions under which exchange ratios would correspond exactly to labor -time ratios. We begin with Adam Smith's famous deer-beaver example, "If among a nation of hunters, for example, it usually costs twice the labor to kill a beaver which it does to kill a deer, one beaver should naturally exchange for or be worth two deer. It is natural that what is usually the produce of two days' or two hours' labor, should be worth double of what is usually the produce of one days' or one hours' labor.""
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Emmitt Smith, 2004.
An analysis of the life and achievements of professional athlete, Emmitt Smith.
3,294 words (approx. 13.2 pages), 9 sources, MLA, AU$ 100.95
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This paper discusses the career of professional athlete, Emmitt Smith. The paper contends that there are some who say that Smith is only a football player and should certainly not lay a foundation of any significance in our culture. The writer of this paper believes otherwise and aims to prove that Emmitt Smith is and should continue to be a cultural icon for his many achievements.
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Introduction
Cultural View
Sporting Icons
Emmitt Smith the Person
The Dallas Cowboys
Conclusion
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"These revenues that are generated in a direct or indirect manner by the professional athletes like Emmitt Smith also are an example of how important they are in the realm of the current trends towards globalization for both business and cultural views of the world. "One specific focus of these debates is whether or not the new international economic, national, and cultural alliances, in conjunction with an ever-expanding mediascape, are contributing to a standardized, homogenized, and globally shared culture. The emergent, simulated cultural space and experience, which are largely, but not exclusively, driven by the machinations of American-mediated popular culture, are seemingly demonstrated by the universal presence of commodity-signs such as CNN, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Nike, Baywatch, the Disney Corporation, the NBA, and the focus of our analysis, Michael Jordan. While it would be a mistake to deny the global ubiquity of this ever-expanding economy of cultural artifacts, it would be equally erroneous to suggest that an increased circulation of commodity-signs inevitably leads to the creation of globally homogeneous or "Americanized" patterns of popular cultural existence." (Sands) "
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Adam Smith and "The Wealth of Nations", 2006.
An overview and analysis of Adam Smith's economic theories and how these theories influenced the development of capitalism, socialism and communism.
1,640 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 5 sources, APA, AU$ 57.95
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This paper discusses the underlying theory of Adam Smith's book "The Wealth of Nations", explaining that Smith saw labor, not money, as a nation's greatest asset. The paper further explains that this view strongly reflected the economic situation of the time brought about by the Industrial Revolution and then goes on to explain that Smith saw competition as a natural outcome of the specialization bred by the division of labor. Next, the paper explains how Smith's views were later elaborated upon by other economic theorists and how these theorists, as well as Smith, ultimately influenced the political philosophies of capitalism, socialism and even communism.
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"1776 was not only the year of the American revolution, more meaningful to us in this country, of course, but also the publication of "Inquiry into Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith, who had spent most of his years either in France, or working on moral issues as a professor in Scotland. The book has set the standard for what has become the modern science of political economy. Its basic contention is that "national progress is best secured by the freedom of private initiative within the bounds of justice." (Enc. Am., p. 111) Before Smith, the basic economy of the Western world was built around agriculture. This was the beginning of the industrial Revolution, and the old economic ideas were becoming outdated. For example, the economists who preceded Smith believed that the farmer was the only true producer, and the landlord (whether it was the farmer or another landowner) was the manager and superintendent of production. The step that was taken prior to Smith was the recognition that it would be more efficient for a single farmer to hire some help, especially craftsmen who were specialists in the things the farmer was inefficient in. This, then, was really the beginning of "labor" recognized as an important aspect of a nation's wealth."
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Captain Ahab, 2001.
This essay explores the complex character of Captain Ahab in Herman Melville's famous novel, Moby-Dick.
755 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 28.95
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This essay focuses on the character of Captain Ahab in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick. This essay attempts to humanize Ahab by exposing the motivation behind his behavior, and placing him in his environment as a reactor to natural events. The paper looks at Ahab as a mirror reflection of the ugliest parts of humanity. By suggesting that Captain Ahab is in some ways a reflection of humanity, this essay attempts to humanize his monomaniacal characteristics. Ahab is the captain of the Pequod, but this essay also suggests that he is the captain of the novel, steering the fiction from beginning to end.
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"Captain Ahab appears to be a communion of man and man's perception of alterity. Man naturally detests and abhors all adverse characteristics to which he cannot deny he is akin. Captain Ahab seems to be the imperfect reflection that most would rather not acknowledge as their own. He is the modern "Everyman"-molded to encompass the raw nature that makes him human and intrinsically aligned with the industrial, religious, and economic paradigms characteristic of the nineteenth century. Captain Ahab is as mysterious and complex as all humanity, and one can no more hate him than he can hate himself. He is composed of "a thousand bold dashes of character" (Herman Melville's Moby-Dick MD 67) which makes him a virtual collage of human experience. He is a captain, an ever-branching tree of morals and virtues, and a deep mystic ocean many fathoms deep."
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Anna Nicole Smith and Human Tragedy, 2008.
This paper explores the parallels between the life and death of celebrity Anna Nicole Smith and the story "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
1,330 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 3 sources, APA, AU$ 47.95
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The paper looks at Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1984 short-story "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" and compares it to the death of Anna Nicole Smith. The paper shows how Anna Nicole Smith's descent to premature death and the terrible treatment of the 'old man' in Marquez's story finds both figures at the center of a mocking and self-interested public. The paper discusses how Anna Nicole Smith's life as a confident, attractive and engaging centerfold star was directly implicated in the suffering which afflicted her, caging her in the same fashion as the old man in Marquez' story. The paper also highlights man's capacity for indifference to suffering by showing how Smith was viewed simply as an entertainment commodity to be consumed and then forgotten when the fancy passed.
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"The death of Anna Nicole Smith in early 2007 is a self-evident tragedy insofar as a 39 year old woman of no seemingly imminent physical decrepitude was found dead within a year of her 20 year old son's death by drug-overdose and the birth of a new baby daughter. But there is another level of tragedy in her story which is of a more sociologically troubling nature. Were it that some level of human interest, identification or empathy had accompanied Smith's captivity by the public eye, perhaps her death could be viewed, as most autopsy reports have indicated, as not being the result of foul play. However, all evidence is to the contrary, with her young passing indicative of a suffering, a self-abuse and an inner turmoil which went unattended by those so seemingly enthralled with the tabloid-worthy details of her life. There is literary parallel to her story in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1984 short-story "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings." A parable which is damning in its account of human curiosity, it suggests that this impulse is twinned with a short-attention span to render man a creature virtually incapable of compassion."
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A Comparative Study Between the Economic Philosophies of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, 2003.
The following essay compares the economic philosophies of Adam Smith and Karl Marx with reference to their historical works.
2,270 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 75.95
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This essay compares the philosophies in Adam Smith's 'The Background to the Wealth of Nations' and Karl Marx's 'Communist Manifesto' & 'Das Kapital'. The way in which both Smith and Marx agreed upon the importance of capitalism for unleashing productive powers, amongst other similarities, is discussed. In addition the contradictions in their philosophies, such as their reasons for expanding markets, are also highlighted.
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"Smith and Marx both agreed that capitalism required expanding markets. Smith believed this was so because jobs could not be divided too much without a large market. The money that went to paying wages came from profits. There always had to be an expanding market, so that there could be more profits or else there would not be more jobs."
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Lillian Smith's "Strange Fruit", 2002.
Examines how Smith's "Strange Fruit", written over 50 years ago, embodies racial problems that still remain unresolved today, yet takes a hopeful humanistic tone, despite its tragic story.
1,493 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 52.95
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This paper discusses the novel "Strange Fruit" by Lilian Smith, published in 1947, showing how Smith builds her novel around the inability of both whites and blacks, to let go of age old prejudice and bigotry. Also analyzed are the ways is which Smith's themes and character depict not only southern racial difficulties, but also offer an optimistic vision of life as it might be, if humans could learn to live beyond limited color perceptions, and allow every individual to reach out for and embrace their own sense of acceptance, purpose and love in the world.
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"It's Maxwell, Georgia, a town where, according to appearances, people know their place. The whites, pretending only good will toward inferiors, treat the blacks like sub-human beings. The blacks, while on the surface behaving like they are too dumb to notice, only show respect for the whites out of fear. A young white man, Tracy Deen, who always disappoints his self-sacrificing mother, returns home from World War I. It is obvious that he loves Nonnie Anderson and she loves him, but he is white and she is colored. The respected position of her family in the town, and the fact that she has a college education, count for nothing."
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Adam Smith, 2005.
This paper discusses Adam Smith's influence in the areas of the behavior of the market, income distribution and future growth.
965 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 36.95
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This paper explains that, in the area of market behavior, Adam Smith believed that the availability and cost of labor, rather than the seasonality of weather, contributes to the overall economic picture in his assertion that "labor, not nature, was the source of value." The author points out that, in the area of wealth distribution, Smith was not nearly as interested in the rise of this middle class of shopkeepers as in his promoting the idea that entire nationals can profit. The paper relates that, in the area of future growth, Smith believed that everybody gradually became better off as the division of labor increased and made the community wealthier.
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The Behavior of the Market
Income Distribution
Future Growth
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"It seems obvious, then, that the look into the future was one of constant (and perhaps consistent) pessimism for Ricardo who saw the "wealth" of the nation as being the land, and the land's productivity being stretched thinner and thinner, and the results becoming more expensive. For Smith, he tended to perhaps overlook this struggle of land, landlord and a rising bourgeoisie in favor of the greater good for the greatest number of people in the long run. Ricardo's future sees the capitalist as being squeezed on two fronts: higher wages to be paid to the workers, and second having to pay increased rent for the land, because land has become dearer."
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Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations", 2005.
A critical assessment of the theory of value and distribution as presented by Adam Smith in Book I of "The Wealth of Nations".
2,360 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 14 sources, APA, AU$ 77.95
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This paper examines how "The Wealth of Nations" is undoubtedly a great work, even though Adam Smith's theory of value and distribution represents one of his lesser contributions to economic thought. It discusses how Smith's riddle of the diamond water paradox clearly describes the reasons for his support of an objective theory where he failed to grasp the concept of marginal utility. It also shows that while some commentators argue that Smith purports a cost-of-production theory for value rather than a labour theory, his emphasis is clearly on labour as he measures the cost-of-production in terms of labour.
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"In the 17th century, William Petty abandoned the idea of subjective value and attempted to appoint an objective theory of 'natural value', the actual price of any commodity fluctuating around a natural price. Natural value, according to Petty, was deduced using the factors of production (land and Labour). Adam Smith's publication, The Wealth of Nations, in 1776 signified the beginning of the Classical School, which also directed value debate towards an objective theory. Smith contemplated, but discarded the notion that demand is a function of 'utility'. The utility argument suggests that the more useful something is, the more satisfaction it gives consumers, consequently, they will pay more for it."
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Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes, 2006.
An overview of the contribution to economics of Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes.
2,588 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 83.95
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There have been numerous philosophers and even thinkers in economics who have put forward their theories. This paper discusses two major philosophers of economics, Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes. It looks at how Adam Smith, known commonly as the father of modern economics, influenced the growth of economic theory and the evolution of modern, market-based societies. It also discusses how the second great revolution in economic thought was by John Maynard Keynes and how his theory of Employment, Interest and Money bestows to academia a different way of looking at the aggregate economic universe.
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Introduction
Adam Smith
John Maynard Keynes
Conclusion
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"Smith was in support of free trade. He derived his support for free trade among nations by centering it on the obvious desirability of trade among individuals: "It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy". Though Smith is usually thought to have relied on the Theory of Absolute Advantage to gain his support for free trade. According to Smith, free trade not only extended the extent of the market and, thereby, permitted greater division of labor; free trade also increased productivity by allowing countries to specialize in what they do well. In Smith's view of the workings of the market system, any short-run deviation of the market price from the long-run price would activate the forces of competition which would ultimately take the market price to its long-run level."
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Sidney Smith Hall Examined as Modern Architecture, 2008.
An examination of Sidney Smith Hall in Toronto as modern architecture in relation to two other buildings, Villa Savoye in Poissy and the German Pavilion in Barcelona.
1,250 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 45.95
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This paper approaches three examples of modern architecture that seem dissimilar at first, Sidney Smith Hall at the University of Toronto, the Villa Savoye near Paris, and what is known as the Barcelona Pavilion. The paper holds that despite their different purposes, they are similar structures according to principles of the modern movement. To conclude, it states that Sidney Smith Hall is significant in a Toronto environment much given to the preservation of architectural heritage, but that has often failed to appreciate its examples of the modern style.
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Introduction
Sidney Smith Hall, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street
Villa Savoye, Poissy, nr. Paris 1920-1930 (Le Corbusier)
German Pavilion, Barcelona Exposition, (Mies van der Rohe)
Concluding Remarks
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"As an example of the International Style much pursued by the modern movement, one realizes that the same structure with minimal adjustment could be placed anywhere. (See Khan 1998) Erected in any country in the world, Sidney Smith Hall would offer the same economy of line combined with a feeling of spaciousness and accessibility, its terrace areas suited to the climate of a central Canadian city as much as entirely different settings. This theme of universality was a favourite of both Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier as discussed below. (Padovan 45-48) As a contribution to the international style, Sidney Smith Hall may have shown its ongoing adaptability in the 2003 enclosure of one terrace that was opposed by some but does not seem to have altered greatly the sense of access the architect intended."
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Joseph Smith and the "Book of Mormon", 2005.
A biographical account of Joseph Smith, author of the "Book of Mormon" and founder of the Church of Latter Day Saints.
6,366 words (approx. 25.5 pages), 18 sources, MLA, AU$ 157.95
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This paper first describes the upbringing and early childhood influences that may have contributed to Joseph Smith's founding of the Mormon Church. Next, the paper describes the visions Smith had that made him believe he should establish a new religion, his religious beliefs, and the eventual establishment of the Mormon religion and church. The paper also discusses the influence of Brigham Young on Mormonism, the basic doctrine espoused in the "Book of Mormon", the elements of Freemasonry and occultism within the Mormon religion, and the controversial topic concerning who truly authored the "Book of Mormon" and whether it is an original manuscript.
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"Joseph Smith, Jr. was the fourth child of Joseph Sr. and Lucy Smack and born in Sharon, Vermont on December 23, 1805. The Smith family lived under arduous and unstable financial circumstances that compelled them to move in and around New England several times in those years (Wikipedia 2004). One of Joseph's legs got seriously infected when he was 7 years old and the doctors wanted to amputate it but the Smiths refused. He later recovered but he had to use crutches for several years and limped for the rest of his life (Wikipedia)."
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Smith and Nephew, 2004.
This paper is a complete business analysis of Smith and Nephew, a leader in the health care marketplace, specializing in high-tech solutions in the fields of orthopedics, endoscopy, and advanced wound management.
5,350 words (approx. 21.4 pages), 6 sources, APA, AU$ 141.95
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This paper explains that Smith and Nephew has shown great strength in its industry and has restructured many aspects of its business strategy by halting development in slower growth areas and revitalizing itself with higher margin and technological growth areas, thus focusing on orthopedics, endoscopy, advanced wound management, and rehabilitation. The author points out that Smith and Nephew's key weakness lies in its in-house development pipeline, which has provided little evidence of successors to the company's aging portfolio. The paper concludes that the company's stock has outperformed its medical devices sector competitors in the recent past; however, the company's margins expansion has remained slow in the high-growth reconstructive equipments market segment.
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Macro-environment
Political, Social and Environmental Factors
Economic Factors
Technological Factors
SWOT Summary
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
Industry Environment
Resources, Mission, Goals, and Ethics
Corporate Level Strategies
Business Unit Strategies
Strategy Implementation
Strategic Control
Financial Ratios
Profit and Loss Account
Valuation Measures
Financial Highlights
Conclusion and Recommendations
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"Smith & Nephew applies innovative, cost effective solutions to provide real benefit to healthcare professionals and their patients through improved treatments and reduced healthcare costs. This is supported by a broad range of education and training programs designed specifically for healthcare professionals and a highly skilled sales force. A key element of the company's corporate strategy is the partnership role it has with leading surgeons, scientists, other healthcare professionals and health service providers to work towards better outcomes for patients. The company's staff plays a key role in this and the highest standards of service provided by its sales team demonstrate this."
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Marx and Engels vs. Adam Smith, 2005.
This paper compares the writings of the Marx and Engels vs. Adam Smith by which Marxism and capitalism are understood.
1,630 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 57.95
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This paper explains that the more politically incendiary words of Marx and Engels regarding communal ownership and Adam Smith's notion of an invisible capitalist hand, which sets all excesses of the market right, are what are remembered best by history. The author points out that Marx and Engels saw all of human society in a continual cycle of polarized class warfare between the haves and the have-nots. The paper relates that Adam Smith's defense of Capitalism, written in praise of industrialization, saw the division of labor as a boon from the consumer's and the capitalist's point of view, if not the workers.
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"In contrast, Chapter 7, Volume 1 of "Capital", Marx suggests that it is really the production of the labor in crafting goods that conferred the value upon the material means, turning it the metal by the worker's sweat and toil into a pin. Throughout this capitalist enactment of conferring value upon raw materials, the factory owners did nothing but provide the raw materials, pay the labor and while away the day. The capitalist owners experienced no wear or tear upon his or her body, by simply owning the factory and hiring the workers to work at the factory. The worker worked harder than the property-owning capitalist, but made less money in profit."
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