Writing (Insert Catchy Title Here) [PG]

[Mr. Maul]

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[left][color=#339966][font=Garamond][size=2][color=#2e8b57]This is an essay I used on my GQE. The subject was something like:[/color][/size][/font][/color][/left]


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[left][color=#339966][font=Garamond][size=2][color=#2e8b57]"You have a CD player that your friend Raoule wants to borrow. He says that he will give you guitar lessons in exchange for it. This is known as the 'barter sytem,' which had been used for centuries. Do you think the barter system would work today? Tell why or why not. How would this affect our daily lives."[/color][/size][/font][/color][/left]



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[color=#339966][font=Garamond][size=2]The fact of the matter is that a country cannot revert back to the barter system effectively unless an exact exchange system has been established. Also, what would be bartered with as currency? You cannot use manufactured goods, as the producers of said goods would be wealthier beyond all belief. I suggest we use animals. You cannot manufacture animals. Actually, you can, but you would most likely never break even.[/size][/font][/color]

[color=#339966][font=Garamond][size=2]Now, on the matter of exchange. The cow would have to have the highest value in America, then the sheep, the pig, the goat, and the chicken. A cow would be worth about four sheep or ten pigs or twenty goats or one hundred chickens. Two goats would go into one pig, but it would take two pigs and one goat to make a sheep. A cow could be made of three sheep, a pig, and three chickens, or five pigs, ten chickens, a sheep, and three goats.
[color=#339966][font=Garamond][size=2]Canada would be a different story, as they have a different variety of animals at their disposal. Their most valuable animal would be the moose, then the elk, the beaver, the opossum, and the loon. The moose would only be worth two sheep and about 2.3 pigs, due to the fact that a book over here costs $15.00, but in Canada it costs $24.95 because they don?t work as hard.
[color=#339966][font=Garamond][size=2]The question of lesser and greater animals always pops into mind whenever I discuss the effects of returning to the barter system. What?s a chicken worth? Obviously it?s worth .2 goats, but then again who actually wants .2 goats? That?s when the lesser animals come into play. A chicken?s worth would be determined by a case-by-case basis, for example, one vendor may accept three frogs for a chicken, while another may take forty-seven snails, and yet another wants twelve mice. It all depends on the circumstances.
[color=#339966][font=Garamond][size=2]For much larger purchases, rare and endangered animals would be required. A whale could be worth, say, 100,000 cows, or a white tiger could be 500. All values of greater animals would be based strictly on what country possesses them. Example: An elephant from an American zoo would be worth far more than one from Kenya. The difference would be quite laughable.
[color=#339966][font=Garamond][size=2]The issue of counterfeit animals deserves to be looked at as well. Specialists would have to be hired (a salary of 10 cows a month would suffice) to identify counterfeit animals. Such may include: horses painted to look like cows, midgets in pig costumes, and submarines built like whales. The number one culprits would most likely be crooked taxidermists trying to pass off dead, stuffed animals as living ones.
[color=#339966][font=Garamond][size=2]In conclusion, the barter system would never work because they do that in Africa, which is why they are so poor. They also have AIDS and live in mud and straw huts. The average American probably doesn?t want to be poor, have AIDS, or live in Africa, so bartering will never happen, except after nuclear war.[/size][/font][/color]