Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker was born on August 18, 1934. He was the youngest of 7 children to Don Melchor Clemente and Luisa Walker. He was a professional baseball player for 18 seasons (@BaseballHall). Many people held racist views towards him as a colored player, the most influential in baseball history, because he broke barriers for Latin American players, he helped on an off the field, and he was a MVP caliber player for 12 years. He was one of the best to ever play and will forever be remembered.…
Smith, Adam (1776). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Book 2- Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock.…
Adam Smith, An inquiry into the Nature and causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1776…
Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 at Shadwell, Virginia. His mother was Jane Randolph Jefferson; his father was a landowner name Peter Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson attended College (1760-62) of William and Mary. In 1769 he began six years of service as a representative in the Virginia House of Burgesses. In 1770 he begun building Monticello on the land he inherited from his father. It took years to build it, but according to an Internet article Brief Jefferson, when he married Martha Wayles Skelton on January 1, 1772 part of the Monticello mansion was ready to be lived in. Mr.…
On January 11th 1757 Alexander Hamilton was born in the British West Indies on the Island of Nevis(“Alexander Hamilton: Biography”). At this time, the caribbean was a desolate place of famine and disease. Alexander’s mother was Rachel Fawcett Lavie, the wife to John Lavien a farmer. They had a son together named Peter, Alexander's step-brother.…
Comparative advantage according to Ricardo was the mathematical proof that if two countries both specialize in a specific good, and can out produce the other in that good, then that country has a comparative advantage. If those two countries then trade, they will both come out with more than they would if they tried to create both goods by themselves. Smith also had the basis of this idea in his book The Wealth of Nations, where he states, “if a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage " (Smith Wealth of Nations). Ricardo takes Smith’s ideas and builds on them to create a more solidified theory on international trade between nations. Ricardo also believed that the labor theory of value showed how wages and profits were able to determine prices for products that were then able to determine rent. Ricardo spent a lot of time showing how this system worked, as he used multiple models to calculate his findings. Marx on the other hand looked at the labor theory of value as production prices equal to capital and living. Marx relied on prices as the end result, just like Ricardo did, but not in the same sense. Ricardo used a method that determined the value of the…
South American Leader Simon Bolivar, who was the most important leader during South America's successful struggle for independence from Spain, collectively known as Bolivar's War. Together with José de San Martín, Bolivar is regarded as one of the Liberators of Spanish South America. Simon Bolivar's political legacy has of course been massive and he is a very important figure in South American political history. He was a great admirer of the American Revolution and a great critic of the French Revolution. Bolívar described himself in his many letters as a "liberal" and defender of the free market economic system.…
Born on January 26, 1813 in Santo Domingo, Juan Pablo Duarte is considered one of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic. In 1801, his parents left the Dominican Republic when Haitian troops, under the leadership of Toussaint L 'Ouverture, took control of Santo Domingo. They fled to Puerto Rico and resided there until the Spanish regained control of part of the country in the War of Reconquista in 1809.…
Rodriguez faces a few tensions in his personal experience such as being a "scholarship boy" as oppose to a well rounded student and and his life at home compared to a more friendly home environment. Rodriguez says that "I was a very good student, I was a also a very bad student. I was a scholarship boy, a certain kind of scholarship boy. Always successful, I was always unconfident. Exhilarated by my progress. Sad. I became the prized student - anxious and eager to learn. Too eager, too anxious - an imitative and unoriginal pupil." ( Rodrigues #283 ) Rodriguez describes himself here as imitating his teachers too much and being a perfect student instead of thinking for himself and taking in the knowledge he is given by his teachers and analyzing it and putting it to use. He is unoriginal and and uninteresting compared to a student who can use their knowledge in their own way and gets more involved. The other tension Rodriguez faces his the tension he has with his family, mostly his mother and father. At home his mother and father both support and encourage what he is doing very much but they didn't like the fact that he would always be in his room and the fact that the only thing he was involved with was school. "He permits himself embarrassment at their lack of education." (Rodriguez #286) This quote shows that Rodriguez's amount of knowledge of the english language and other subjects he had compared to his parents and therefore he was somewhat embarrassed by them and it created a tough home environment to live in because he didn't communicate much with his parents. This contrasts the home environment where their is a strong relationship between the family and their is communication.…
Simón Bolívar (1783-1830), often called ‘El Libertador’, was a Venezuelan historical figure who led the fight for independence in Colombia, Panamá, Venezuela, Ecuador, Perú and Bolivia. He was also influential in subsequent revolutions in Latin America and the Caribbean. His legacy is commemorated by statues, squares and streets all over the world, and NYC is no exception. An equestrian statue of Simón Bolívar can be found in Central Park South and 6th avenue.…
Vasco Nunez Balboa was a very significant explorer that was born in 1475 and died in 1519. Balboa was born into a deprived Spanish family in Spain and sailed for Spain. He is most remembered for his expedition in 1513 to Panama from Spain hoping to make a new discovery to impress King Ferdinand, on the expedition he found the Pacific Ocean and claimed the ocean and all the land bordering it. He died in 1519 because he was charged with treason against Spain and beheaded although, he was really innocent and just framed by a friend. I think that Vasco Nunez Balboa should be part of your new series of stamps featuring famous European Explorers because I believe that Balboa deserves to be honored considering, that he was a man of his country who sailed and claimed land for his country and his important and rememberable discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Also I think that’s the least he is owed considering, that Balboa was not guilty but still found guilty for treason against Spain although, he was really innocent and framed by a friend. Even though his unfair death is not our fault I still believe that he is owed that and deserves to be honored for his discovery. I think that all explorers should get some kind of appreciation and deserve to be honored for their discoveries especially Vasco Nunez de Balboa.…
Thomas Jefferson, the third of eight children, was born on April 13, 1743 in Shadwell, Virginia. His father was Peter Jefferson, who was a Welsh descent, was a planter and surveyor for sometime, and his mother was Jane Randolph. Peter and Jane married in 1739. In 1745, his family moved to Tuckahoe and lived there for seven years before they returned to their home after his father was appointed to the colonelcy of the county. Peter Jefferson died in 1757 and the Jefferson estate was divided between Peter’s two sons Thomas and Randolph. Thomas inherited approximately 5,000 acres of land and between 20 and 40 slaves.…
Hello kids, my name is Vasco Nunez De Balboa. Most of you should know a little about me because you studied about me but any way I am here to give you more information about me and my explorations. So everyone fasten your seatbelts!! We are going back to the world in the 1400’s.…
Anne Robert Jaques Turgot, baron l' Aulne, was born in Paris on May 10, 1727 to a noble French family of Normandy. Following in the footsteps of his ancestors, who had furnished the state with numerous public officials, Turgot would achieve public renown as Intendent of Limoges and later as Controller General of all France. Although Turgot ended his public career in unfortunate circumstances, being dismissed by Louis XVI for ineffectiveness, his political theories became a major influence in the remaining years of the Old Regime. The depth of Turgot's economic thought was not recognized at the time because it largely went against what the ruling aristocracy wanted to hear. His clairvoyance is much more fully noted in light of the last two centuries. Furthermore, Turgot was one of the King's last controller-generals before the French Revolution ended the monarchy. When his political and economic ideals are considered against this backdrop their importance as well as their contradictory nature become apparent.…
Cesare Beccaria, a criminologist and economist, born on March 15, 1738 in Milan, helped form a society called “the academy of fists” that was dedicated to economic, political and administrative restructuring. Beccaria was inspired by Addison and Steele’s literary magazine, “The Spectator” to write his first full work, “On Crimes and Punishments” and nowadays people have started to use his ideas, which are truth in sentencing, quick punishments and abolishment of death penalty. He was inspired by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele and because of their literary magazine, he published his treatise, “On Crimes and Punishments”, which was the first effective statement of philosophies governing criminal punishment, in which he argued that the efficiency of criminal justice depended more on the conviction of punishment than its cruelty, at 1764, which condemned torture and death penalty that also marked the high point of the Milan Enlightenment.…