Blog 22

          In the Firefly series we see that Jayne’s greed occurring throughout the different episodes. His greed has made him make bad decisions throughout the series but luckily other crewmember have been smart enough to not listen to him. In The Train Job episode he wanted to leave behind Mal and Zoe to finish the job. He would rather risk their lives and get paid than go and look for them. Luckily the rest of the crew refused that but the crew can’t save him every time. I am doing my paper on the Ariel episode and he ends up turning Simon and River in to the Alliance for money. No one knew what his plan so no one could save him from making the mistake. He turned in two of his crewmembers so that he could make some money and we see things like this everyday. For my real world connections I talked about Pete Rose and how he made bet on baseball. Pete Rose was a professional baseball player who already had unreal amounts of money but he bet on baseball because he wanted more. He did that over 20 years ago and it still haunts him until today. You can also connect it to the recent economic downturn. Greedy Wall Street investors were a big contributor to the recent economic decline. They are both articles about how a person’s greed can affect them and people around them. I think that they are both pretty good examples and I hope it helps support my argument.