Unintended Consequences Essay

restore the country back to the way it was pre-Depression. Another fault was the projects and committees- often they were inefficient, using too much material, space, and labor, and contributed to the national debt doubling in just two terms. Unintended consequences riddled the New Deal- economists agree that by creating jobs, others were destroyed. The massive gap between the rich and poor remained big. Finally, a large increase in taxes alarmed many citizens; a 79% increase in tax top marginal rates

result, many people do not visualize the unintentional consequences of time travel. In “A Sound of Thunder” Ray Bradbury discusses time travel with along with the possible unintentional consequences. Bradbury often reminds the reader of unintentional consequences with the setting, protagonist, and other minor characters. Bradbury includes at the least three settings in his story in which one setting is a result of unintentional consequences. One setting is in the current time (276). At the

compelled to close their doors, as America embarked on a very controversial era known as the Prohibition Era. Prohibition was being implemented on a national scale now and being enshrined in the Constitution no less. What followed was a litany of unintended consequences throughout America. Did prohibition really help America, or did prohibition trigger a landslide of problems in America? In the beginning of the Prohibition Era, the supporters of the alcohol ban were met with a pleasing decline in arrest

In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, she explores the idea of emulating God, but also the consequences of neglecting the results of discovery. If Mary Shelley was alive right now, she would be against many ideas of emerging technology, especially genetic engineering. Although her position isn't explicitly stated, she urges the reader not to tamper with creating life. A new technology that is emerging in science is stem cell research. I think Mary Shelley would reject this idea to

Unintended Pregnancy: An American Epidemic This year in America, over one million teens will become pregnant. More than 80% of these pregnancies will be unintended (North Carolina PRAMS 2009). Unintended pregnancy is commonly defined as “a pregnancy that is reported to have been either unwanted (that is, the pregnancy occurred when no children, or no more children, were desired) or mistimed (that is, the pregnancy occurred earlier than desired)” (CDC 2015). Though some teen pregnancies are intentional

Throughout the stories told in both Mohawk Saint and The Unredeemed Captive, the unintended consequences of attempting to convert the American Indians to Christianity are powerful players in the unfolding events. When these Christian groups arrived in the New World, they came armed with the word of God that they wished to share among a group of people that have never before encountered the concept of Christianity. While eventually these relationships improved and Christians and American Indians began

The political boundaries existing between states hinder the co-existence of humanity in several ways. These borders exist due to several reasons such as political and economic segregation. The increase in human interaction across the world necessitates setting of policies or frameworks that enable efficient interaction of humanity. The boundaries created by political powers are a major hindrance to the progress of humanity as one as they exist to serve certain specific quarters of the population

small municipal programs, and some are large programs like Canada Pension Plan - Disability (CPPD) or the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP). One of the issues with so many levels of government getting involved is that there are unintended consequences when these programs overlap. For example, as CPPD provides more funds for living a municipal program could effectively work against this goal by raising the rent that this person pays (many people pay rent in social housing based on their

Hanging out with the wrong crowd leads to unintended consequences. It does not matter how smart I am, if the people around me are not smart then I will be judged the same as them. An individual’s own self-importance is overlooked when the whole crowd is involved. That is the lesson that I learned this summer. I obtained the knowledge of the importance of personal responsibility as to who I surround myself with. I did not realize the importance of having privileges’ until I lost them. I learned that

6. Ethiopia Throughout our lives we tend to focus in the people that surround us, people in our neighborhood, city and country. We might know a few facts about different countries, but 90% of the information that we think we know is from movies, television, school, books, etc; it means that we are probably very far away from the reality. We live in a bubble were we think that everyone else has a life not very different from ours. You might hear about hunger, diseases or political issues in other