Traditional Clothing The traditional clothing of Nesbitapolous looks a lot like what the Native Americans wore. The basic design is leather shirt and pants or a leather dress. However, the difference is that Nesbitaplous clothes have celtic designs either stained into the leather or beaded on with green beads. The only colors of beads found on the leather are green, blue, and purple. Any other colors would have been considered offensive because they are not the true colors of Nesbitapolous. They didn t wear shoes typically because it was always warm enough to not have any. When they did wear shoes, they were just thick bark with leaves strapping the shoe around their feet. In cold situations, they just wrapped fur around their feet. The leather clothing is very thin. In hot temperatures, the people would just get their clothing wet and it would keep them cool but it kept them from sun damage. The leather would keep them warm in cold temperatures. The leather came from any big game animal they could find. They wore this clothing for everyday work, and any celebrations. The clothing creates the culture of a celtic indian. The design on the male clothing signifies the four seasons and the symbol on the women s clothing signifies the tied knots of love and family. Now people of Nesbitapolous have the same fashion as the other world. Many clothes are imported. Instrument The instrument I created is called the Bazinga. It is a mixture between a guitar and a horn. It is the size of a violin and it sounds like a cello. The strings cover little holes and when a person blows air through the instrument, they pluck the strings and they cover the little holes creating unique sounds. The air then travels out the end of the horn on the side. The Bazinga was created by the Natives of Nesbitapolous and has been around for a long time. The guitar is made of wood, usually cherry and the bell and mouthpiece are made out of brass. The designs on the wood are celtic designs. It is played like a saxophone and a clarinet. With the bottom going down. Vehicles The type of vehicle designed in Nesbitapolous are hover cars. The brand name is Vroom. The hover cars work in my country because the roads have magnetic fields that allow the cars to hover over the roads about two feet. Normal cars can also drive around on the roads and cars are imported from all over the world. But hover cars are more popular. They are extremely efficient because the magnets allow them to move without more gas. Gas is still used but not as much. The car is very flat looking with one window over the top of the car. The window is able to dim or brighten by pushing a button to help people see. The car is still built like normal cars except for the added magnetic technology on the bottom. The cars do not have tires but they have very small wheels on the bottom in case the car stops working and the car
lands on the ground. These cars limit chances for wrecks as well because a person cannot overcorrect the steering wheel and cannot go off the roads. Though people can still collide with each other, the elimination of off road wrecks and rolling wrecks has decreased the amount of car wrecks. It is also safe for pedestrians because they can just fall under the cars easier and won t get ran over. Mug The mug I made is just a traditional mug from Nesbitapolous. Mugs were the main item that the natives drank out of. They are made out of natural clay from the dirt of Nesbitapolous. They were the easiest to make and the easiest to drink out of. They could hold hot water and coffee or cold water and alcohol. They could hold all drinks and though they are easy to break, they are durable and easy to make again. The natives would place some sort of glaze made from Ox urine that would make the mugs become more durable. When the mugs became more and more vast and durable, Nesbitapolous started trading them. Currency The currency of Nesbitapolous is very different looking. The coins are shaped like a square and the different values are 1 lash, 7 lash, 15 lash, 25 lash, and 1 loot. The paper money is oval shaped. The different values are 3 loot, 7 loot, 10 loot, 15 loot, 30 loot, 60 loot, and 100 loot. 100 lash make up 1 loot and the money has high value because it is made from pure silver that is a main source of Nesbitapolous and the paper money is made from the rare Bazing trees with weaves of silver inside. In order to save its money, the government will not trade the lash or loot with any other country. They will only trade goods. 1 loot is worth $5 of American dollar. Everything in Nesbitapolous is a little more expensive as well. It is an elaborate country. The wallets are oval shaped as well with little square pockets to place the coins. Thought the wallets are a little inconvenient, it helps people to not carry as much money in public so harly anybody gets robbed.
Economy A. N.
We need leaders who have the courage to be honest with voters, and voters have the strength to accept the hard work of economic renewal. The thing that makes an economy thrive and do well is the people. Economics is the careful management of wealth and resources of a country that directly relate to the consumption and production of goods. The economy is important to understand because economic fluctuations can affect all or specific industries which can then affect an individual's job. Understanding the economy will influence career choices and it will help people in making right investment choices. The economy had to start somewhere with someone and throughout time people have changed it a great deal. Economics is a social science that deals with production, consumption, and distribution of goods throughout a region or a country. The economy is determined by how a country is thriving financially. This of course is determined by the people of an economy. For most people, economics are very difficult to understand and because of this, economic crisis (debt) is a very easy problem to create (AEAweb). People believe that we must spend in order to prosper. But according to Peter D. Schiff, a seasoned Wall Street prognosticatory, the ideas of most people and economists are completely backwards. In his book How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes he explains in a story how an economy works. He explained that in order to start a major breakthrough of an economy to improve living standards, a person must take risks and go through underconsumption. These ideas can seem repulsive and nobody wants to do these things. However, these ideas could work in ways that create productivity in certain areas. Though the ideas for new capital may not work, these ideas could increase income of an economy. In his book he portrayed these ideas while describing the risk and underconsumption for his character
Able. Able wanted to do other things besides catching fish all day and because he could only catch one fish for himself a day and he needed that fish to eat, he was going to have to take a risk in order to build a net to catch more fish. In order to do this, he had to under consume to complete the net. In the end it worked and he started catching double the fish (Schiff, 2010). Though it doesn t always work like this in the economy, it is the only way to figure out if an idea will work. People put in the effort to maximize the availability of limited resources to meet as many demands as possible. Certain people taking risks is what got the economy where it is today and in order to make the economy grow, people need to find better ways of producing more stuff that people want. Economics are important to society because it is the base study of how a country or region will work and it determines the different cultures of different areas. While each area is trying to maximize their countries economy each place is creating their own items with their own resources that are native to their country. Therefore, creating a culture. For example, bagpipes are a native instrument to the Scottish culture. The people who invented bagpipes probably took a risk in making this unique instrument. However, once it was built it changed the economy in the country or empire because the country now had something that no other country did and it made a tradeable item or a sellable item. Back to Schiff s book we can see this concept. He created an island called Bongobia where there was a great number of bongos. They were native to the country of Bongobia and there were plenty to go around. In another island he created called Dervishia they were very successful in tanning oil production. When the islanders met, they formed a trade. Each country changed their own economies by trading with each other. Both of the countries living standards rose because they had new things to give to the people of
their islands and each country gained a cultural item because when the people think of Bongos, they will think of Bongobia and when they think of tanning oil, they will think of Dervishia (Schiff, 2010). It is the same with bagpipes in Scotland. When people think of bagpipes, they think of Scotland. While countries keep creating new objects and keep introducing their native inventions to the rest of the world, they will continue to grow and benefit from trades or they will gain profit from selling their products. Then after the products are dispersed to other regions, people will think of the country the item came from, when they think of the item. The economy is important because the people are continuing to maximize production which then maximizes the ability to thrive. Once an economy is established (which, again, is started by someone taking risks and going through underconsumption) then different ideas and assets are created. Schiff discusses in his book that after Able created his fish net and doubled his productivity, then his island mates started to push him to loan them some fish so they could build their own nets. This made a tough decision for Able. What if he gave them a fish and for some reason they did not repay him? This means he must take another risk. However, the island mates made a deal with Able. For every fish that he loaned them they would pay him back two. Once he decided to make the loan, the islands productivity was increased because the island doubled their fish. This also created credit. Schiff says in his book, The use of credit is the perfect example of how economic freedom works to everyone s benefit. Collective results will be a success almost always as long as borrowers and lenders are free to strike their own terms. Since the island s economy doubled, the islanders were able to expand their economy (Schiff, 2010). They were able to discover new things and do things they would rather do than catch fish. They even made bigger nets that
caught multiple fish. Once this economy boomed, people from other islands heard about it. They came flooding in. When more people came, more ideas for their own leisure started to blossom. Because of all the people that came and the fish production was increased, each person started to collect their own savings of fish. This then helped to conceive the idea to form a bank. The bank is the place where the islanders could bring their saved up fish as well as take out more loans. After the bank was created to help people make even more suitable inventions, then a government was formed. In Schiff s book he created a government that is in charge of finances. When the government started to spend and spend the island s fish in the banks, they had to come up with ideas to prevent the fish from running out. So they created fish notes. These fish notes were currency given in place of the fish. The fish were also scientifically altered to add more in the bank. The government kept spending the fish and were slowly running out. While the altered fish started to get smaller and smaller the people (from other countries as well) started to get curious. They eventually figured out that the government was falling into debt. However, this problem was put on hold once a hut boom took place. People on the island started spending fish that added up in the bank which pulled the island out of debt for a short time. Then after that ship sailed away, the island started going into debt again. They did not have enough fish for the fish notes they handed out. They then started trading the notes internationally for fish. This brought their debt back up a little, but once the trading island realized how worthless the notes were, they cut the trade. The island became deep in debt and could not find a way to get out. This then required some more tough decision making. Schiff based his book off of the United States. He notes that before 2002, we had never seen federal deficits of this magnitude (now exceeding $1.5 trillion annually), and we had never experimented so radically with ultra low interest rates
and manipulation of credit markets (Schiff, 2010). He makes it very clear that the more that the government spends, the less the people spend, therefore making it very easy to fall into debt. He also makes it clear that the U.S. can get out of this but it may take awhile of smart decisions. The economy is very important because it is the management of wealth and resources of a country and it can influence a country's culture and environment. People need to understand that the only way an economy can change and be successful is if people are willing to work to make it great. Understanding the way an economy works can help people understand what they need and should do to make the economy prosper. Imagine where the world would be if we were still catching fish with our own hands.
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