McKenzie Composition 1 Mrs. Baker February 6‚ 2014 Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor‚ Poorer: Literary 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
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The Rich Keep Getting Richer Robert B. Reich was born in 1946 and is a Professor‚ activist‚ politician‚ and an author. He graduated from Yale Law School‚ John F. Kennedy Government School‚ and was a Rhodes scholar studying at Oxford University. Reich served as secretary of labor in the first Clinton administration and has a reputation of being a "conciliator‚ who can see opposite sides" to every question and solve them (Jacobus‚ 287). He has written many books‚ such as the Next American Frontier
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most deeply held principles with the bored ease of an usher taking a ticket‚” (Broudy). In the world today there are three different classes of wealth‚ the lower class‚ the middle class‚ and the higher class each with different wealth and income. Robert Reich writes about the dilemma that the higher class is becoming wealthier while the lower and middle classes are becoming poorer.
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Robert B. Reich‚ Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor‚ Poorer Reich starts his exordium with a distribution of where American workers found themselves in the early 1990’s in reference to where almost all American workers were just 20 years before. Reich placed most of the workers that contributed to the economy during the Nixon administration as being in one boat‚ analogous to the famous quote by G.K. Chesterton‚ “We are all in the same boat‚ in a stormy sea‚ and we owe each other a terrible
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certain economist‚ Joseph Reich‚ discusses the causes and effects of this uneven distribution of wealth in America as early as 1991 in his essay “Why the Rich are Getting Richer and the Poor‚ Poorer.” Reich’s essay was not only relevant when written over a decade ago‚ but also remains pertinent to the current economic status of America today. To portray the relationship between the rich as they continued to gain wealth and the poor as they continue to decline economically‚ Reich utilizes a metaphor of
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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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was not a negative look towards street crime and poverty and instead it was looked as something that needs to be fixed‚ many more minorities would have jobs‚ putting them in a different environment more likely to succeed and stay out of trouble. A rich white man can commit the same crime as a poor black man‚ and the white man is almost guaranteed to not get charged remotely close to the charge that the black man would receive. With things like that happening ‚ it prolongs the reoccurrence of this
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recent economic times‚ it is clear to see that the rift between the extremely rich and the extremely poor is expanding‚ with those in the middle being stretched to one extreme or the other. There seems to be no reconciliations for this ever-growing disparity‚ as the corporations that used to comprise solely our economy lose national borders. Robert B. Reich discussed this issue in his work‚ Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor‚ Poorer. There are many reasons that go into play and many factors
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Rich get Richer and Poor get Poorer In today’s world people want to be healthy‚ happy and well educated and most want to own some type of capital. They also want to be well paid for the work that they do and they prefer to pay as little tax as possible. While everybody is happier when the rate of inflation is low and when the economy is growing and everyone is getting better off. In booming economic times‚ such as we recently have enjoyed‚ the only problem is that "the rich get richer and the poor
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The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison JEFFREY H. REIMAN American University or the same criminal behavior‚ the poor are more likely to be arrested; if arrested‚ they are more likely to be charged; if charged‚ more likely to be convicted; if convicted‚ more likely to be sentenced to prison; and if sentenced‚ more likely to be given longer prison terms than members of the middle and upper classes.1 In other words‚ the image of the criminal population one sees in our nation’s jails and prisons
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