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Actions: Economic Ascent

Parent Term

  • Economic

Sibling Terms

  • Accounting
  • Auction
  • Banking
  • Bargaining
  • Barter
  • Blacksmithing
  • Bootlegging
  • Borrowing
  • Bribing
  • Buying a house
  • Buying a shop or store
  • Carpentry
  • Competition
  • Delivery
  • Frugality
  • Getting a receipt
  • Gifting
  • Hiring / employing / offering a job
  • Horse trading
  • Impounding
  • Indebtedness
  • Investing
  • Lending Money
  • Offering to buy
  • Offering to sell
  • Partnership
  • Paying
  • Purchase
  • Receiving money
  • Renting
  • Scamming
  • Scheming
  • Selling
  • Selling a house or place
  • Selling land
  • Share-cropping
  • Stock trading
  • Taking without paying
  • Trading

Tagged Events

"Tomorrow", 103 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Ascent | Emotional›Love | Verbal›Storytelling | Work›Sawmilling
Cultural Issues: Economy›Poverty
Themes and Motifs: Character›Honesty | Character›Responsibility | Character›Trust | Character›Work ethic
Relationships: Hierarchical›Employer-employee
Aesthetics: Diction›Racist term | Diction›Rural vernacular
Absalom, Absalom!, 209 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Ascent
Cultural Issues: Economy›Wealth | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
The Town, 135 (Event)
Environment: Public›Town Square
Actions: Economic›Ascent | Economic›Delivery | Economic›Hiring / employing / offering a job
Cultural Issues: Mass Media›Newspaper
Themes and Motifs: Money