Valeria Giberti DE English 112 Mrs. Miller 25 March 2011 Analyzing “The Bet” The short story “The Bet”, by Anton Chekhov begins with a banker reminiscing about a party he hosted 15 years ago, where an argument, which debated whether capital punishment or life imprisonment was more humane, sparked a foolish and rash bet. Going along with the topic of the discussion, the young banker decided to cede 2 million dollars of his money to whoever could live in solitary confinement for 5 years. A lawyer accepts this bet but raises the stakes: 15 years of solitary confinement. He would spend those years under the strictest supervision in one of the lodges in the banker’s garden. During those 15 years, the lawyer was given anything that he asked for, which included books, wine, food, music, and so on.
Often their clients are too poor to pay legal fees, but Schlichtmann's firm eats the legal costs itself, hoping for a rich slice of an eventual settlement. Essentially, he's gambling with the firm's money every time he accepts a case. That's why he turns down the delegation of parents who tell about the deaths of their children: He doesn't see enough money in it to justify the risk. (The movie has a hard-boiled discussion of how much various victims are "worth." A white male professional struck down in his prime gives the biggest payoff; a dead child is worth the least of all.)
Bernie Madoff is a lucky man. To be run a ponzi scheme for that long and not get caught is unimaginable. Almost as unimaginable as the fact that not one of his ripped clientele tried to kill him. Money is the controlling force in our nation, and to be stripped away of almost all of it is a punishment all itself. But that affects his wife and family more than him, so 150 years in a federal prison will have to do as a direct punishment for him.
The blogs he wrote made people lose a lot of money. He may not know what means to manipulate the stock market since he was too young. the S.E.C suited him for stock graud('33-7891") because the S.E.C stood in the side of law, which means there was no exceptions no matter age, sex or race. Also, his father supported him while he was breaking the law. He lied, made people lost money and even made chaos in stock market.
"They get to keep their jobs." Pavlo was stuck: He knew customers were taking in piles of cash yet refusing to pay their bills; he says his MCI bosses knew of the chicanery but refused to write off the receivable. Increasingly, he feared for his job and fretted about falling into legal jeopardy. He was drinking heavily--and growing resentful. Even if MCI sold out at a premium, Pavlo wasn't going to get rich like top managers.
Al Capone May 26, 1906, a forty-one year old gentleman by the name of Gabriel Capone was in Brooklyn, new York in front of the kings county court. He was there in order to claim his citizenship, lucky for him the new law requiring immigrants to know literacy would not become a real law for another month or two, because he could neither speak nor read the English language. He waltzed out of the court house a proud American citizen and because of the prevailing old law his wife and children were automatically pronounced American citizens as well. His wife’s name was Teresa, Nėe Riolia and she was eight months pregnant when they immigrated to Brooklyn’s navy district from the slums of Naples the family settled down in one of the biggest Italian
Were they beneficial for the consumer? At first the expansion of big business was good for the consumer by bringing more goods at a cheaper price but as time went on they noticed a monopoly affect in where big corporations, and the greed that ran them, could increase the rates of their goods and the consumer would have to pay or do without. What types of backlash arose due to Big is was do to Business? Many Americans felt uneasy about the rise of giant corporations and their increasing influence over people’s lives. Workers had virtually no bargaining power with their employers and were extremely vulnerable to economic downturns, which left them unemployed at a moment’s notice.
The reason for the people selling all of their stocks at the some time is too complex to explain in the introduction. When they did sell, the buyers would only buy at an extremely low price. Because of this imaginary price drop, the stocks used as collateral for loans were now worthless (in the eyes of the people and the bank owners) and so they demanded real money. The people had plenty of this, but all of it was in stocks...that were rapidly dropping in value because of some ignorant, greedy and bewildered stockholders were buying their stocks for low prices. As soon as everyone found out (thought) the stocks were worth much less, everyone sold and additional cash was needed to pay off all of their debts.
Just write the check and – the house is yours’ (His voice almost breaks) ‘And you – you people just put the money in my hand and you won’t have to live next to this bunch of stinking [blacks]!" (III.i.144). Walter decides that he is going to play the stereotype that Karl Lindner labels him as. He figures selling out and forfeiting his dignity is the only way to earn his father's money back. He wanted to do this because he wanted to get the money he lost back, but by doing that they will lose their dignity.
You you are a disgrace to your father's memory." (Discovering Literature, 1318) Then, Walter decides to joint venture with his friends to start a liquor store using the insurance money from his father's death. His ignorance to the business world eventually costs him all his money. One of Walter's business partners steals his money, and Walter learns from that incident but it comes at a high price. However, Walter's mother thinks although the money is lost, her son has come out as a better person: "He finally come into his manhood today, didn't he?