Occupy Wall Street
Moral Implications

Economic Implications

Utilitarianism

Kantian Ethics

Virtue Ethics

CRITICAL ANALYSIS

IIOGRAPHY

Occupy Wall Street is about moral and economic vision; it is not about policy demands. Therefore we cannot ask for certain yes and cannot compromise on the other because all moral, social, economical and behavioral values are interlinked and if one is detached then the whole chain comes in broken pieces. All we need in to publicize our internal and external issues in public which have ruined the roots of the American Nation. This is the time to recollect and think alike with unity regardless of racism or class discrimination. We can now jot down the pieces into a complete story that our leaders kept us busy in such petty issues and did their part steadily and neatly to accumulate power, wealth and resources. The best way is to keep going with maximum positivity and one single goal to eradicate wealth disparity and…...

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Bibliography:

Gelder, S.R.V. ( November 7-2011), " This Changes Everything:

Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement," California, Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

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Greenberg, M. (January, 12, 2012), " What Future for Occupy Wall Street?," Retrieved, Oct 16, 2012,  http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/feb/09/what-future-occupy-wall-street/?pagination=false

Occupy Wall Street movement began on September 17, 2011 in Zuccotti Park in New York, NY. It has continued to be in session in multiple cities around the world, with no set end date in sight. he primary goals of the protest are to raise public awareness of corporate greed, banking sector malfeasance, corruption, and extreme income inequality. he general feeling of the American populace is that the banking sector never suffered for its mistakes in 2008, and has since then been one of the only sectors of the American economy still earning a year-to-year profit. he commonly adopted term for Occupy Wall Street is the slogan "he 99% versus the 1%." his is in reference to the immense growth of the upper class in the past twenty years, while the middle class has seen their economic status stagnate for decades, and in some cases even shrink.
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The Liberal media has taken a much more proactive approach to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Embracing a sit back and watch approach, these media outlets provide their cameras to individual protestors to hear their complaints, and are often far more open to allowing the protestors their time to speak their mind. Liberal media has an inherent support of these sort of movement, as their main concern is with the protection of the less fortunate, which includes many whose vital life services have been cut by state and federal governments in the past few years. There is a definite trend of a stagnant middle class in America, and the liberal media wants to tie the middle class's interests to those of the Occupy Wall Street movement, in a bid to legitimize the movement to the public. This is difficult, however, as many protestors are simply too extreme to be effective symbols for mainstream America. The primary activist type pulling full time activity at Occupy Wall Street is the opposite 1% than the most wealthy 1% of Americans. This subset has felt excluded from the American dream, and has a fiery opposition to the mainstream success of the well-suited bankers on Wall Street. The average American, however, values the business smarts and previous strong success of America's executives, so there is a problem in regard to the portrayal of the executive as a source of greed and evil in America's corporate environment.[footnoteRef:5] [5: Hwang, Hyunseo. (2006). Media Dissociation and Internet Use in Antiwar Participation. Mass Communication and Society. 9(4). Pp. 461-483.]

Conclusions

The paper has analyzed how the Wall Street protests started, and how they have affected American society from a larger point-of-view, taking into account not only these protests but also studies done on the process, and protest relation to political participation and free speech. The paper has thus striven to analyze everything from definitions of political participation and protests, to media coverage and the expansion of the current example. Though the findings on this topic are ever changing, one aspect is certain: protests can have an impact, and can effect change, even if the latter is slow to take place.

Occupy Wall Street Movement and its Implications as a New Form of Protest
"We are what democracy looks like!" that is a major theme that is represented through the Occupy Wall Street movement (Benjamin 1). Essentially, the movement is a new adaptation to older nonviolent protests styles. It encompasses elements of older traditions, like the use of nonviolent sit ins and marches; however, it proves much different from more traditional protests based on its inclusion of the middle class, and the diverse movement objectives that are not so easily packaged into a neat media story, but are being translated through individual user media outlets. The movement is meant to encourage a new way of thinking about democracy, and how we should live our lives in an era that is trying to deny us that very right.

Occupy Wall Street has been taking action on the streets of New York since September…...

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References

Barber, Benjamin. "Occupy Wall street: We Are What Democracy Looks Like." Huffington Post. 2011. Web.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-r-barber/occupy-wall-street-we-a_b_1079723.html 

Jenkins, J. Craig & Brents, Barbara G. "Social Protest, Hegemonic Competition, and Social Reform: A Political Struggle Interpretation of the Origins of the American Welfare State." American Sociological Review. 1989. 54(6):891-909.

Oliver, Pamela E. & Maney, George M. "Political Processes and Local Newspaper Coverage of Protests Events: From Selection Bias to Triadic Interactions." American Journal of Sociology. 2000. 106(2):463-505.

Rushkoff, Douglas. "Think Occupy Wall Street is a Phase? You Don't Get it." CNN. Web.  http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/05/opinion/rushkoff-occupy-wall-street/index.html

riot disruptive movement "Occupy all Street" place New York City. The discussion MUST include: 1. A chronological description 2. engaged commentary (opinionated) 3. theoretical interventions.
e live in a world today that is seen as being clearly a sign of discrepancy between the different standards of living, between the rich and the poor, between the highlife and the low life in the society. Some analysts consider that the different levels of development have defined this era of globalization and the social tragedies that this dissociated development create throughout the world.

There have been numerous attempts to try to draw the attention to these discrepancies, done by both the international community and the non-governmental organization in time. The results however, although these aspects are well-known in terms of statistics and well-known at the level of the political decision makers, have not been significant enough for action to be undertaken at the global…...

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Works Cited

NBC News. (2012). NYC settles lawsuit with Occupy Wall Street for $350K. Retrieved April 20, 2013, from  http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/09/17677150-nyc-settles-lawsuit-with-occupy-wall-street-for-350k-lite 

Occupy Wall Street Movement. (2013). We are the 99%. Retrieved April 20, 2013, from  http://occupywallst.org 

SORKIN, A.R. (2012, Sept 17). Occupy Wall Street: A Frenzy That Fizzled . Retrieved April 20, 2013, from New York Times:  http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/occupy-wall-street-a-frenzy-that-fizzled/ 

Stelter, B. (2011, Nov). Protest Puts Coverage in Spotlight. Retrieved from The New York Times:  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/business/media/occupy-wall-street-puts-the-coverage-in-the-spotlight.html?_r=0

The conversations here are held away from the political interferences and entanglement that is usually seen in the other forums.
Points in opposition of the movement

The Platypus Affiliated Society (2011)

According to The Platypus Affiliated Society (2011), the participants in this movement have succeeded in arranging for the smaller supportive issue like the accommodation, venues, transport communication and such like smaller issues, but the bigger dilemma remains to be the meeting of the long-term goals that they may be having. One issue that is overlooked is the means of debating their concerns out in a structured manner that can be subjected to debate for administrative decisions to be taken.

The participants and the organizers in particular have not been able to think of how this movement can affect the society further than just the space that they occupy.

Heidi Morrison (2011)

Another factor is that they are involved in championing for too many agenda…...

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References

Chris Selley, (2011). Occupy Movement. Retrieved December 1, 2011 from  http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/tag/occupy-movement/ 

Heidi Morrison (2011). Occupy Everything. Retrieved December 1, 2011 from http://www.thenewsignificance.com/2011/11/29/heidi-morrison-occupy-everything/

Occupy Davis (2011). The Importance of Occupy Davis. Retrieved December 1, 2011 from  http://occupydavis.org/2011/the-importance-of-occupy-davis/ 

San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, (2011). The Occupy movement Demands

Goffer made over $300,000 from the illegal deal. As the case expanded, 13 others were also charged. Altogether, they had acquired approximately $40 million or more in profit during the years 2006-2009 (Krantz). And the list could go on and on.
Conclusion - How Does Illegal Insider Trading Affect the Market and Economy?

Unfair advantage. Violation of transparency. Disruptive of a properly functioning market. Investors no longer invest. It begins with the first one and ends with the last. Trading in the market, whether by a professional or an amateur is based on skill and luck. One investor can perform better in the market because he or she learns how to acquire more skill in analyzing equities. But, if one person has an advantage such as inside corporate information no one else has, and he uses it to trade, he now has an unfair advantage (Heakal).

Transparency is now violated in the…...

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Works Cited

Heakal, R. "Defining Illegal Insider Trading." n.d. Forbes Investopedia . 18 December 2009 .

Hoffman, D. "Martha Stewart's Insider Trading Case." 1 July 2007. allbusiness.com. 18 December 2009 .

Krantz, M. "On warpath, SEC charges 11 with illegal insider trading." 15 July 2009. usatoday.com. 18 December 2009 .

ProCon.org. "Should Insider Trading by Congress be Allowed?" 11 August 2009. ProCon.org. 18 December 2009 .

What the Occupy Wall Street movement is doing, is questioning the entire system itself.
A good example of this can be seen with the Occupy Wall Street Oakland chapter. What happened was the city had removed their camp near City Hall Plaza. This is in response to reports of: deaths, drug use and unsanitary conditions. At the same time, the resources of the police department were stressed to the point that they were unable to deal with possible issues affecting the safety of the community. This is when the police raided the encampment and dispersed the protestors from the area. In response to what was happening, the Oakland chapter decided to begin occupying foreclosed homes and privately owned vacant lots near City Hall Plaza. As, they are trying to illustrate how: the risky activities of bankers contributed to the financial crisis by staying in these locations. This is significant, because…...

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Bibliography

About. (2011). Occupy Wall Street. Retrieved from:  http://occupywallst.org /about/

Bailout Statistics. (2009). Capt Karl. Retrieved from: http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2009/01/22/bank-bailout-statistics-the-score-board/

Just 21% Favor GM Bailout Plan. (2009). Rasmussen Reports. Retrieved from:  http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/auto_industry/may_2009/just_21_favor_gm_bailout_plan_67_oppose 

Organizational Symbols and Culture. (n.d.).

Mill and U.S. Constitution
None of the issues being raised today by the Occupy all Street (OS) movement are new, but rather they date back to the very beginning of the United States. At the time the Constitution was written in 1787, human rights and civil liberties were far more constrained than they are in the 21st Century. Only white men with property had voting rights for example, while most states still had slavery and women and children were still the property of fathers and husbands. Only very gradually was the Constitution amended to grant equal citizenship and voting rights to all, and even the original Bill of Rights was added only because the Antifederalists threatened to block ratification. In comparison, the libertarianism of John Stuart Mill in his famous book On Liberty was very radical indeed, even in 1859 much less 1789. He insisted that individuals should be left totally…...

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WORKS CITED

Dahl, Robert Alan. How Democratic is the American Constitution? Yale University Press, 2003.

Kaplan, Lawrence. S. Alexander Hamilton: Ambivalent Anglophile. Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2002.

Main, Jackson Turner. The Antifederalists: Critics of the Constitution, 1781-1788. University of North Carolina Press, 1989, 2004.

Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London, 1859.

1st Amendment Issues
A highly controversial decision rendered on January 21st of this year by the Supreme Court, affirming the right of corporations and other organizations to enjoy consideration as "persons" and the 1st amendment protections afforded by that status, threatens to undermine the foundation of this country's democratic process. With their closely contested 5-4 decision in the case of Citizens United v. FEC, the high court's conservative members have effectively shattered existing precedent regarding the ability of corporations to channel shareholder funds to political campaigns. In their effort to protect the duly granted right of individuals to contribute money as a form of political speech and expression, the justices in the majority have effectively opened a Pandora's box of unintended consequences. By extending the rights held by individual citizens of this nation to corporate conglomerates and multinational entities, the Roberts court has redefined the menace of judicial activism once…...

Unfortunately, their American dream is more often than not the American nightmare. It does not provide living wages for their families to live on. Their blood, sweat and tears build the companies. The leaders attempt to evade paying the workers their fair share by moving to other states where they can pay less money. This is exactly what Universal Manufacturing does by moving its operations to Mississippi. It goes there to pay less money and avoid the unionization that is the only weapon that the workers have in their struggle to organize and get more money and better working conditions. Mega corporations in the time of globalization do exactly the same thing, but just on a much greater scale in the time of NAFTA when selling out to lowest bidder and making people into commodities that can be sold over international borders has been raised to a high art.
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Adler, W.M. (2000). Mollie's job: A story of life and work on the global assembly line. New York, NY:

Scribner.

But this, instead of helping the people, often misleads them. Thus, the media must put profit last, and public good first, a thing which it has found hard to do very often, according to Riley, and one which is no exception today.
How Media Portrays Occupy all Street: Two Sides of the Coin by Jessica Layne

The last of the articles gives another way in which to look at the movement through the media's eyes, and elucidates both the positives and the negative, which is a bit of a contrast from the two previous pieces and which is why this article is included here. As with any contentious issue, it is thus important to examine these two sides. Layne, the author of this piece argues that the media has 'two sides' and that "one side celebrates the protests like tea parties while the other side thinks that everyone who attends [the…...

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Works Cited:

Layne, Jessica. "How Media Portrays Occupy Wall Street: Two Sides of the Coin." TV on PC Reviews. Web. 07 June 2012. .

Riley, Boots. "Occupy and the Hostile Media." San Francisco Bay Guardian. Web. 07 June 2012. .

Smith, Jackie. "How Elite Media Strategies Marginalize the Occupy Movement." Common Dreams. Web. 07 June 2012. .

Some jammers still retain low-tech methods to spread their message utilizing nothing more than a magic marker.
The most important thing about cultural jamming is that it is a response demanded by the people. People are tired of being told what to wear, how to look, what to buy and they don't want to be classified into categories by corporations. Corporations have more influence on an individual's day-to-day than other major institution. They are the new creators of norms and values. Corporations tell what is beauty, what is fashionable or "cool," everything is being dictated to the people. The public on the other hand are lagging behind economically while big banks and corporations gain record breaking profits year after year. Jamming is the people's emotional response to corporate domination. It is an effort to be heard in a society that is increasingly finding it difficult to focus.

Jamming is not an…...

Abstract
Engaging in a Bartleby, the Scrivener analysis essay is bound to test one’s patience. It is one of the most inscrutable works of Herman Melville. While Melville is perhaps most famous for his nautical adventure tales, this paper delves into the enigmatic cogs and wheels that make this short story a piece of eternal literature. Eternal literature transcends the constraints of time and relatability, touching upon themes and symbols that are indelible to human existence. This paper summarizes the major events of the short story, briefly addresses the main characters, and examines the more predominant themes.



Introduction

Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville is one of his most elusive and compelling short-stories, one that most critics deem to be his ultimate masterpiece. One of the main reasons that critics herald it as such a masterpiece is because it can be interpreted in so many ways—as a supernatural tale, as a psychological projection,…...

Public dialog in a network age can cover a lot of topics. The network age is filled with a plethora of varying interests, ideas, subjects, and issues. Some of which relate to privacy, piracy, and even technology. People often forget what an impact the Internet has made in the last couple of decades, even in just 8 years. ANON came into existence, social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter came into popularity, and the recent concept of content creators has shaped the way people view and accept media. ith all these innovative ideas that came out, what kind of impression has it left on the public? hat were the origins of some of these topics? And moreover, has the Internet shaped the identity of people in the last decade?
Several events within internet history have made public dialog important. People need to discuss and analyze things in order to fully understand something…...

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Works Cited

Abelson, Harold, Ken Ledeen, and Harry R. Lewis. "Naked in the Sunlight." Blown to bits: your life, liberty, and happiness after the digital explosion. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley, 2008. 19-29. Print.

Auerbach, David, and Gabriela Coleman. Here Comes Nobody: Essays on Anonymous, 4 chan and the Other Internet Culture. N/A: Triple Canopy, 2012. Print.

Castells, Manuel. "Occupy Wall Street: Harvesting the Salt of the Earth." Networks of outrage and hope: social movements in the Internet age. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2012. 156-177. Print.

Lanier, Jaron. You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto. NYC: Vintage, 2011. Print.

The Great ailroad Strike of 1877 was the nations' first major rail strike and witnessed the first general strikes in the country's history. The strikes and the violence it brought about temporarily paralyzed the country's commerce and led governors in ten states to mobilize sixty thousand militia members to reopen rail traffic. The strike would be broken within a few weeks, but it also helped set the stage for later violence in the 1880's and 1890's, including the Haymarket Square bombing in Chicago in 1886, the Homestead Steel Strike near Pittsburgh in 1892, and the Pullman Strike in 1894 (1877: The Great ailroad Strike, 2006).

There have been many protests in American history against corporations, industrialists, bankers, Wall Street and the economic devastation their unregulated activities including the 19th-century labor movement that featured thousands of strikes and protests. The current protest that can be compared to that of the Great ailroad…...

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References

1877: The Great Railroad Strike. (2006). Retrieved from  http://libcom.org/history/articles/us -rail-strikes-1877

Hogarty, R.A. (2001). Leon Abbett's New Jersey: the emergence of the modern governor.

Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society.

Mullen, S. (2011). The Strikes of 1877 & 1886: Historic Precedents For Occupy Wall Street.