Is Greed Ever Good? | Advanced 2: "Is Greed Ever Good?
Posted on May 14, 2013 by Sara Vergel
Years ago a great movie on the 80s excesses in the US was released, Wall Street, a story of a corporate takeover artist who took over one company at a time. Small stuff compared to the financial engineering that brought down the world’s financial system in 2008, followed by global economic depression.
Is greed the real engine of human progress? Given all the current events around the “Occupy Wall Street” protests, let’s revisit the “greed is good” speech by the movie’s main protagonist: Gorden Gekko (played in 1987 by Michael Douglas). Here are his words in court:"
!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English
Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition
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