Beneath the Wraps

                        As I have mentioned in my online-themed posts, there is a daily checkpoint question given each day.   For the most part the questions will be on the class subject of that particular week. The basic classes (the ones given to brand new students) will often throw in questions about finances and career choices. The economy class I had recently taken was/is a basic class.             I had originally decided to approach my assignment from a different angle as I had asked my instructor about non-profit organizations during one of the lectures.   I had wondered it any would be considered oligopolies and so had pulled up references for that.   I had actually tried three or four approaches before I had about 20-30 references.   I knew I would not end up using them all and actually ended up go...

          I have now completed my economics course.   My instructor has completed grading all of my work, and so I will go ahead and share what I have turned in.           On my first post this month I shared a video of a phone service parody.   This is the discussion that went with it:       "How many of my classmates remember the landline and payphones? Funny how perspective changes from being a child to being an adult. Our responsibilities are not the same, and therefore we view the world in a different way. For example, I never personally had to wait for AT&T to come out and install or repair a telephone, but my mom did. Back then we didn't have the option of cell phones or even provider plans for that matter. The Bell System had a monopoly all across the nation with its "Bell" trademark on every phone booth. Every household that had a phone receiv...