Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The Article about "The Peddler as Hero" by Frank Chodorov

       Frank Chodorov was born on the lower East Side of New York and brought up on the lower West Side. He was middle class, neither poor nor rich. From his early experience he remembered nothing, but only the toy that his father brought him from one of his trips, because he was a man who was peddling. This toy meant a lot for Franck because it was the one that he ever had. Some years passed and peddling has long since gone out of style in that country. So he decided to help building the American economy. He continued this process until he had saved enough to buy a horse and wagon. After that he found a burgeoning community that gave promise of supporting a permanent or resident peddler. Frank built a shack and produced things that people wanted and brought his wife to help him. He built another room to hold more wares, meanwhile moving his wife and children to a more comfortable house. And when he died, but he left his heirs a department store.
      That practice has gone by the boards these days for one reason: the income tax absorbs the savings of the entrepreneur before he can even start his/her business. The tax-collector gets the collection that might have been turProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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       The life of the old middle-class man, Frank Chodorov, was by present standards, rather prosaic, even humdrum, being enlivened only by plans for expanding his business. His dreams were to serve the community better ans raise his store up. Among the modern middle-class men, in terms of income and the station in life they have attained, there are two categories that deserve special attention: the bureaucrats and the managers of the great corporations. The idea that attracts the attention of the politicians was the income tax; the socialists and populists advocated, which is in all men's hearts, but the politicians took to it because more taxation means/ brings more power. And getting and exercising power is the principal business of the politician.  
       The young people, those who were born or got their rearing during the New Deal era, do not question that concept of freedom, and the professors of economics, psychology, jurisprudence, sociology and anthropology write learned books in support of it. From now on nobody can help consider on the future. When the present generation, well inured to the Welfare State,  have grown old, even as this book speaks lovingly of the ethic of the peddler class.

Monday, April 25, 2011

My Accomplishments And My Goals......

    Today I would like to list some of my goals that I am planning to achieve in the future, and some which I already reached.
      As I planned in month and a half I will finish my 10th grade in high school with all straight "A", or may be just with one "B".  I already talked to the consoler about my next classes that I want to take. Those some classes will help me to be prepared for my career and increase my knowledge.
     After a couple of month I would like to apply for the work even if it would be helping in the school. That work also will help me to better communicate, explain and understand people/clients. Next in my 11th grade I will search for colleges/ universities and apply for the scholarship. Also by working hard try to keep my straight "A"s because colleges are looking from your 11th grade GPA.
     In conclusion, I hope by reading my goals and achievements will encourage you to improve yourself and work better as me.   

Friday, April 15, 2011

Some Questions About Your Achievements.....

What Have I Gained So Far This Year?

1.  Have I earned more money in the first 3 months of this year than I did this time last year?  How much money have I earned?
2.  How did I earn this money?
3.  With the money that I have earned or received so far this year, what have I purchased?  Of these purchases, which ones, if any, serve my business or job interests?
4.  What specific productive and valuable skills have I learned so far this year that I am most proud of?  
5.  At school, where have my best efforts been applied?
6.  What objectives will I accomplish between now and the end of the school year that will serve my goals building my career and or business?
7.  So far this year, I am most proud of ______.



                                                                  My Answers
1) I didn't earn money in last three month yet, but I had earned some in my last year. I earned pretty much amount that I can spend for myself, and save for other needs
2) I eared this money by working hard, organizing and helping teachers in school.
3)  With money that I earned last year I have purchased new ipod for myself to enjoy the music, but this tool doesn't relate to my career. 
4) I have typing skills, how to work with numbers and getting more in accounting, how to create your site and get some profit from it.
5) My skills of presenting, organizing, setting up the events, art skills, and of course decorating.
6) Accounting, career  awareness, some art classes, marketing in the college and etc......
7) So far this year, I am so proud of that with my class we are getting more in accounting, so at the end of this year I will be able to know how to use specific formulas to calculate the amounts.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

The Biography and Achievements of Jeff Bezon

      Jeffrey P. Bezos was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His mother was still in her teens, and her marriage to his father lasted little more than a year. She remarried when Jeffrey was four. Jeffrey's stepfather, Mike Bezos, was born in Cuba; he escaped to the United States alone at age 15, and worked his way through the University of Albuquerque. When he married Jeffrey's mother, the family moved to Houston, where Mike Bezos became an engineer for Exxon. From an early age, Jeffrey displayed a striking mechanical aptitude. He also developed intense and varied scientific interests, rigging an electric alarm to keep his younger siblings out of his room and converting his parents' garage into a laboratory for his science projects. In high school in Miami, Jeffrey first fell in love with computers. He entered Princeton University planning to study physics, but soon returned to his love of computers, and graduated with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. He stayed in the finance realm with Bankers Trust, rising to a vice presidency. At D. E. Shaw, a firm specializing in the application of  science to the stock market, Bezos was hired as much for his overall talent as for any particular assignment.      J      Jeff met his wife, Mackenzie. Mackenzie drove while Jeff typed a business plan. The company would be called Amazon, for the seemingly endless South American river with its numberless branches. They set up shop in a two-bedroom house, with extension cords running to the garage. Jeff set up three Sun microstations on tables he'd made out of doors from Home Depot for less than $60 each. When the test site was up and running, Jeff asked 300 friends and acquaintances to test it. The code worked seamlessly across different computer platforms. On July 16, 1995, Bezos opened his site to the world, and told his 300 beta testers to spread the word. In 30 days, with no press, Amazon had sold books in all 50 states and 45 foreign countries. By September, it had sales of $20,000 a week. Bezos and his team continued improving the site, introducing such unheard-of features as one-click shopping, customer reviews, and e-mail order verification. The business grew faster than Bezos or anyone else had ever imagined.
        Amazon moved into music CDs, videos, toys, electronics and more. When the Internet's stock market bubble burst, Amazon re-structured, and while other dot.com start-ups evaporated, Amazon was posting profits. In 2010, Amazon signed a controversial deal with The Wylie Agency, in which Wylie gave Amazon the digital rights to the works of many of the authors it represents, bypassing the original publishers altogether. This, and Amazon's practice of selling e-books at a price far below that of the same title in hardcover, angered several publishers, as well as some authors, who see their royalty rates threatened. But it appears that the advent of electronic reading devices is increasing the overall sales of books, which can only benefit readers and authors alike. By mid-2010, Kindle and e-book sales had reached $2.38 billion, and Amazon's sales of e-books topped its sales in hardcover. With e-book sales increasing by 200 percent a year, Bezos has predicted that e-books will overtake paperbacks and become the company's bestselling format within a year. Having already revolutionized the way the world buys books, Jeff Bezos is now transforming the way we read them as well.