One Nation‚ Slightly Divisible Although the United States is one nations is which people contain similar beliefs‚ they also have many differences in ideas. An excellent example of this was brought about by the 2000 election for president‚ in which the map of the United States was split into two categories: Blue America and Red America. Blue America represented the states that supported Al Gore‚ while Red America represented the states that supported Bush. The states obviously differed on who
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meaning of America simply varies by the person. One person could say it’s a place of freedom. Another person could say it’s a place for prosperity. It all varies by the person. Even though American citizens may have different meanings of America‚ they are still Americans living in one nation. This idea is similar to what Scott Brooks wrote about. Scott Brooks‚ The author of the article “One Nation‚ Slight Divisible”‚ says that America is split into two nations. He explains how America is split into Red
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David Brooks began his essay “One Nation‚ Slightly Divisible” by dividing America into two sections: “Red America”‚ the republicans‚ and “Blue America”‚ the democrats. Brooks discussed the differences between the two groups. He described how “Red America” was made up of farmers and rural communities‚ while “Blue America” consisted of big cities with many stores and businesses. As Brooks looked at the red and blue sections of the electoral map‚ he was interested in the reasons
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One Nation‚ Slightly Divisible by David Brooks Sixty-five miles from where I am writing this sentence is a place with no Starbucks‚ no Pottery Barn‚ no Borders or Barnes & Noble. No blue New York Times delivery bags dot the driveways on Sunday mornings. In this place people don’t complain that Woody Allen isn’t as funny as he used to be‚ because they never thought he was funny. The people here don’t buy those little rear-window stickers when they go to a summer vacation spot so that they
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A Rhetorical Analysis of David Brooks “The Abortion Memo” “Without pro-life voters‚ Ronald Reagan never would have been elected. Without the single-issue voters…‚ there would never have been a President Donald Trump” (Brooks). David Brooks‚ author of “The Abortion Memo‚” published in February 1‚ 2018‚ in the New York Times‚ argued that while Democrat leaders are prioritizing late-term abortions‚ Republicans who are pro-life are dominating in the United State more than Democrats. David Brooks
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systemic racism in the United States‚ David Brooks‚ in his article “The Uses of Patriotism‚” calls Kaepernick’s actions “extremely counterproductive” as it creates a “crisis of solidarity.” To Brooks‚ sitting during the national anthem demonstrates a lack of gratitude to America’s ancestors and their legacy‚ and the loss of a sense that “we’re all in this together.” Throughout the article‚ he emphasizes on the importance of patriotism in the maintenance of the nation. He cites that the American
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The New York Times article‚ “Harmony and the Dream‚” David Brooks provides the argument that the world social classes are divided into individualists and collectivists. He goes further to give the idea that that the division is misconstrued result of economic turmoil or just world perception. Brooks shares facts about several social experiments with the contrary ideologies and social responses between Americans and Asians. He continues by linking the lack of human interaction‚ with the downfall and
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This Rhetorical analysis essay was very difficult for me to get started but once I did I made many changes before I came into class with my first draft. I started by making a web trying to get my ideas onto paper so that it would eventually make it easier to organize into a paper. I have a hard time with organization so I thought pulling quotes and basic ideas I wanted to bring up in this essay would make it flow a little better. I started out by using the Faigly book to and looking at the layout
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Different opinions from Barbara Ehrenreich and David Brooks Barbara Ehrenreich‚ the author of Nickel and Dimed did an investigation about living conditions of workers who were regarded as unskilled and low-wage employees. Ehrenreich also wanted to figure out how millions of women are able to survive on $6 or $7 an hour after welfare reform (Ehrenreich 1). The article The Limits of Policy by David Brooks discusses the importance of government policy and how government policy will affect people’s
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become the Prodigal Sons as David Brooks analysis in the article called Prodigal Sons written on February 17‚ 2014. The prodigal sons is a story about a family whose father gives inheritance to his young son. The young son leaves the house but older son stays to help his father. Afterwards‚ the young son comes back to his father with no money. David Brook believes the middle and upper classes are older son and lower classes are young son. America’s society defend Brooks’ idea of Prodigal Son occurring
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