Middle Classless

Dave Mahorney
WRIT 122
Manning
5 October 2006

Middle Classless

The disappearing middle class has been a subject of intense debate over the last decade. Many speculations have been made about the cause. Arguments range from outsourcing to unfair tax breaks. The arguments being presented, however, do not address the major issue facing the middle class. Perpetual education is the cornerstone of success and too few people have grasped that concept. The waning of the middle class is the effect of an incomplete or lack of college education.

 

Riding the Techno Cycle

Dave Mahorney
WRIT 121
23 February 2006

Riding the Techno Cycle

Most people remember the internet bubble that began before the turn of the last millennium. That bubble soon burst just a few years after it began. Many people can recall that their investments, IRAs, or 401k took a big loss when the bubble burst. The reason for the loss was many people had money invested in small businesses as a general fund. The small businesses that the portfolio managers were investing in were new dot com businesses. The market fell as a result of these businesses not creating enough revenue. This caused the loss of a significant amount of money from the average person’s investment. It in turn created an apprehension toward investing in new technology. However, booming technology bubbles and their bursting tendencies are a cyclical trends inevitable in the United States’ economy.

 

Success Is Excess

Dave Mahorney
WRIT 121
Dr. Campbell
17 April 2006

Success Is Excess

Albert Einstein once said “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” (Brainy Dictionary par 1)
The value of success is a measurement of bank accounts, flawless physiques, lucrative-corporate positions, material toys, notoriety and physical prowess. Too often hard work and diligent service are regarded as meaningless qualities. The value of a virtuous accomplishment is overshadowed by the fallacy of a glamorous life.

 

What are self interests?

The words define themselves. Most will look at these words and deem them selfish, unsympathetic, and even inhumane. Is that because we lack trust of human nature to react or take action in accordance with their own interest that may benefit others? First “coined” by Adam Smith, “the father of economics,” these words describe a basic fundamental principle behind capitalism. I believe that self interests can take on more than just the selfish satisfaction of raw human urges and instead become the edification of one’s existence as it relates to others and nature. We know that the feeling attained by helping others stimulates our personal growth, but it is so hard to quantify that it rarely becomes a need that must be fulfilled within ourselves. Perhaps an educating or quantifying of this necessity is in order for the masses. I have started to see more substance to self interests in the past several years. Environmental awareness, social awareness by Bill Gates at the World Economic Forum, and even shows like Extreme Home Makeover and American Idol’s Give Back have made an impact on the self interests of many that effect their fellow mankind. One might say that these reactions are not self interests but purely propagated motivation and not necessarily selfless acts. I’ll leave you to speculate on Bill’s quote from Adam Smith’s “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”,

“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.” and then continue… “Of this kind is pity or compassion, the emotion we feel for the misery of others, when we either see it, or are made to conceive it in a very lively manner. That we often derive sorrow from the sorrows of others, is a matter of fact too obvious to require any instances to prove it; for this sentiment, like all the other original passions of human nature, is by no means confined to the virtuous or the humane, though they perhaps may feel it with the most exquisite sensibility. The greatest ruffian, the most hardened violator of the laws of society, is not altogether without it.”

“help someone… today!”

 

Hello world!

Wow! It took me way to long to do that graphic!! Now I am to tired to post anything of significance… So world you will have to tune in next week… “Same Bat Time. Same Bat Channel.”

davy

“help someone…today!”