I really enjoyed the film that we watched class. Robert Reich wasn’t someone that I had heard of before the film and I grew to really like and respect him. After the documentary I did some reading up on him and I liked what I found. While I had a very positive reaction to the film‚ I went home and talked to my parents about it and I was shocked about their reaction. I agreed with everything that he said‚ and while Reich was reluctant to label himself as a socialist‚ I believe that I am and I am
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all in it together.” American citizens view themselves independently of each other economically. Though we may always be united in times of crisis and despair‚ we are a very individualistic society when it comes to earning money. In Aftershock‚ author Robert Reich supports the position of a more efficient system of economics that would more evenly distribute money across the different economic classes. He
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In Robert Reich’s video “Inequality for All‚” he introduces how the wage inequality has been established over the years and identifies the possible underlying causes of the current wage gap among America’s economical hierarchy. I believe that Reich utilized the argumentative strategy of logos very well throughout his call to action. He provided statistics and credible research to help support his argument. I think that it is important for today’s students receiving an education to realize that although
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In the documentary “Inequality for All‚” Robert Reich asserts that while some inequality is inevitable‚ the United States needs to focus on making people less unequal by decreasing the wage gap and making a more stable economy; furthermore‚ he provides eye-opening facts that allow for me to understand how much this inequality will impact the cost of my future education. All throughout history‚ the middle class has fallen deeper into debt in order to maintain their living situations. Since the middle
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The book Saving Capitalism‚ written by Robert B. Reich‚ explains the current economic situation‚ theory’s behind worker’s and voter’s moral‚ and ways to make the American economy work for the many and not the few. Reich examines the effect of corporate influence on the economy. Large corporations tilting the market in a way that would benefit the top and not much else. The old protections which limit the influence of money in government have been undone. Landmark cases which served to limit the amount
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Analysis Throughout the Article‚ Robert Reich talks about the growing gap between the upper half of society and the lower half of society. The main narrator of this article is the author‚ Robert Reich who is telling a story about America’s social classes. Reich uses a metaphor to explain how the economy is going down and up for the rich and the poor. He says that it’s a boat we’re all in‚ “one sinking rapidly one sinking more slowly and the third rising steadily” (1). Reich is referring to the three social
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Nazi rise to power brought an end to the Weimar Republic‚ a parliamentary democracy established in Germany after World War I. Following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor on January 30‚ 1933‚ the Nazi state (also referred to as the Third Reich) quickly became a regime in which Germans enjoyed no guaranteed basic rights. After a suspicious fire in the Reichstag (the German Parliament)‚ on February 28‚ 1933‚ the government issued a decree which suspended constitutional civil rights and created
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Cited: Bhattacharya‚ Saurabh‚ Bhattacharya Anupama. “The Color of Money”. http://www.lifepositive.com/Mind/money/money-value.asp Krystal‚ Arthur. “Who Speaks for the Lazy?” The New Yorker. 26 April 1999. Reich‚ Robert. “Why the Rich are Getting Richer and the Poor Are Getting Poorer” Speculations: An Anthology for Reading‚ Writing and Research. 2nd ed. Ed. Paula Anca Farca‚ Matthew Wynn Sivils‚ Constance Squires. Kendal/Hunt: Dubuque‚ IA‚ 2006. 259-269. Vohs
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was famous for his nonfiction. He wrote‚ “Berlin Dairy”‚ “The Sinking of Bismarck”‚ “The Collapse of the Third Republic” any many others. But it was “The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich” is the one that won him the National Book Award and a special Sidney Hillman Foundation award. His “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich‚” is still read by many people and is being cited in scholarly works for many years. The book is based on Shirer’s own experience from the Second World War. He was the eyewitness
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Aftershock However‚ the situation of feminism in China is very unique‚ because China has had an epic and long-fought revolution for national and social liberation in which changing women’s place in society was high on the agenda. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China‚ the Chinese communist party launched a series of measures of social change that improve and protect women’s rights‚ including abolishing the arranged marriage system‚ banning prostitution and re-educating prostitutes
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