Essays on Greed

“Keep your life free from love of money and be content with what you have, for he has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you,” is a line from The Bible’s Hebrews 13:5. Hebrews is a letter to the Hebrews by Paul the Apostle in the New Testament. Paul is writing about one…

Oil-for-food is a program between the United Nation and Iraq to allow Iraq selling its oil to get food and other basic needs. After Iraq invading Persian Gulf War in the early 1990s, the United Nation had been imposing economic sanctions on Iraq including the oil shipment. Years of sanctions had led to a serious…

People are the synthesis of natural and social relations. Inside a person always have good sides like generous, brave,… and bad sides such as greed, selfish… A good person will refrain from bad things to show his face well. Human personality is a collection of good sides and there is no place for greed. Greed…

The differences and similarities between greed and incentive go way back in time in our history. The wants and needs by humans and trying to pursue their goals are making a bold statement in history now, and from years ago to years in our future. From to the stone age to now, the world has…

Greed is one thing that everyone in the world has in common. The right kind of greed can make you happy, but the wrong kind can make you selfish. Lady Macbeth’s temptation of power and greed pushes herself and Macbeth to insanity, this reflects modern society through people never being satisfied with themselves and the…

Money is said to be the root of all evil, and simultaneously, a great escape from the consequences following the villainous acts committed by one who has been corrupted by wealth. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book, The Great Gatsby, Greed plays a major role in the way many of the characters act towards one another….

Erich Fromm one said, “Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.” Greed has an effect on someone people would have never thought possible. People become so thirsty for something unattainable, without a care in the world of who might get hurt…

The gold rush started in 1896 and men were buying dogs to help them find gold. Greed drives people to do stupid, idiotic things. One of the dogs who was bought was Buck, a powerful Saint Bernard, who once lived in a worry-free land, Santa Clara Valley. Buck lived with zero anguish about life and…

In the world we live in, people naturally have tendency to choose to help themselves rather than help others. The affliction in which people choose themselves over others is known as greed or being greedy; and greed is known to be one of the seven deadly sins. Greed is like an obnoxious disease that has…

All by accusations itself, over 200 people were killed during the Salem Witch Trials. The Salem Witch Trials were such a malevolent time frame that it forced citizens to sacrifice societies needs for themselves. In this play, The Crucible, Arthur Miller effectively portrays Reverend Parris as a greedy and conceited man which motivates him to…