...Ideas: * Class segregation * Increase in gap between rich and poor * People are materialistic more than they are humane * Capitalism’s negative impact on society Conventions: * Colour * Clothing People’s Expressions * Symbolism * Layout * Medium Shot Resource Link: http://rwer.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/the-pernicious-impact-of-the-widening-wealth-gap/#more-14874 Visual texts have the power to convey strong messages while still being able to do so in a light hearted manner, keeping us the viewers informed but entertained. The untitled image published in a word press blog on the 21st January 2014 in an article written on the widening of the income gap, discusses segregation of class, widening gap between the rich and the poor as well as giving a negative impression on the capitalistic system through the use of colour, characterisation, symbolism, layout and positioning of the characters and objects. Class segregation One major idea that is presented in the image is that of the class separation between the rich and the poor, and this is specifically done through the clothing of the characters portrayed in the cartoon. The man carrying away all the cash in the wheelbarrow is dressed up in a smart jacket, hat and shoes, whilst the group of people stuck at the edge of the platform all have clothing that look similar to each other. This in effect is an entertaining yet informative approach to identifying the separation of...
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...between rich and poor Since 2008, the investigated bank, Lehman Brothers has gone bankrupt. It was one of the most significant turning points of the economic crisis of 2008. Because of the economic crisis, the economy of the U.S. has begun to fall. Even though wealthy people lost some of their profit due to the economic crisis, it doesn’t affect a lot for their property. Poor people are most affected by the economic crisis. They have to face a lot of problems, including unemployment and low wages. The economic crisis increased a large gap between rich and poor. In the article, “The Growing Gulf Between the Rich and the Rest of Us” written by Holly Sklar, she agreed that there is a gap between the rich and the poor, and it is rising now. Her argument is strong towards the fact that poverty in America is on the rise. In addition, she mentions that while the poverty is growing, the wealthy people are also on the rise. Sklar is surely right about the gap between the rich and the poor. It is a significant issue for us to know about such inequality. During hard times, the rich still can have their benefit. However, the people who really need money cannot get any help from the rich. While economic inequality has existed over time and occurs in more nations than simply the United States. Some balanced and fair intermediary institution is required to solve the growing problem of debt and poverty in the nation. There is much evidence that proves the growing gap between the rich and poor...
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...after 62 years of independence, Odisha our beloved state is still developing. With thirty districts it is the 9th largest state in the country (155,707 Sq Km) and population wise 11th (36,706,920). It is a state which is rich with all kinds of resources right from minerals, fossil fuel and ores to rich history and culture. The land is fertile and has the capability to produce many Rabi and Kharip crops. Now if we scan the country and try to name the prosperous states, we can count them on finger tips. Among which Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab and Goa may be the front runners. Odisha may not even appear in the first 10. So what makes these states economically better than us despite the fact that we are far wealthier than the others in terms of Natural Resources, history, culture and intelligent brains? To find out let’s have a closer look at the simple strategies adopted by the prosperous states. My father always said, owning a gold brick does not make you rich. You will be rich only when you learn to make a fortune out of it. It is that simple. The prosperous states have done this. Only that in their case, the areas of their strength was their gold brick. Gujarat is strong in entrepreneurship and business sense, Goa is rich in natural landscapes and Punjab is rich with fertile agricultural land. These states have worked on their strengths to develop themselves. When I say the states have done it, I mean the contribution of both government and people alike in the whole process. ...
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...problem was. At the end of the day, its privilege to stumble and fall but then be able to get up and move on. Some others would disagree and say that, even though we are fighters, we lack the ability to adjust and accept the social changes that occurred as the years gone by. Maybe our mentality is probably different from the rest in Europe. We used to be a sole and compact nation of Greek Cypriots. There was a time that the only thing you could hear was the Greek language, the only thing you could see, meet and socialize with was the Cypriots. However, our necessity to evolve, adapt to the new trends and the new order of things changed the way we think and function. It was then when the new ethnicities started to emerge. It began slowly as Cypriots start looking for house cleaners, especially from the Asian countries that would give an extra hand to the household, for minimum wage and ease the way of life in every family. Unfortunately what started as a necessity, fast enough became a trend. And that’s when it all began. The first collision between our ethnicity and theirs. We were not ready back then to accept and respect the difference, between theirs and us. Even though many Cypriot families had a good reason for hiring house cleaners from overseas, some others showed nothing but respect to those that needed the money and would work like slaves to please...
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...holding up. This is a point reverberated by both Holly Sklar in her piece “The Growing Gulf Between the Rich and the Rest of Us” and the publication “The Economist through their piece “Inequality and the American dream.” Holly dismisses this idea by pointing out the fact that we have become a downward rather than an upward mobile society. This is quite evident when you examine the growing gap between the rich and the rest of us. She points out that median household income has fallen for the fifth year running, while at the other end of the spectrum the opposite holds true. She argues that to make it in the Forbes 400, one would have to amass $900 million, an increase of $150 million from four years ago. Sklar states they are bringing windfall profits to companies like Bechtel while they suspend regulations that shore up wages for workers. This is based on the no-bid contract given to father and son team Bechtel, although they had budget overruns and performed a shoddy job on a prior government project. Personally I notice many small businesses are struggling. Many of them would like the opportunity to receive a no-bid project so they can accumulate some earnings. But this opportunity has been disbursed to an already wealthy American. While the basic premise of “The Economist” is that the present model works fine, it too cannot ignore the highly ever widening gap between the rich...
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...it would be completely impossible to get out of poverty - is not a true statement, if you ask me. if you work hard, finish High School and College there is a 72% chance that you will join the middleclass . The Article also says that if you end up in the middleclass you are most likely to spend the rest of your life working a “shitty” middleclass job that you don’t like. But is the US really at fault? Of course, a huge part of the middleclass will continue to stay in the middleclass because not everyone can become a billionaire. In today’s world, it is not an easy task to become super successful in any country, and just because you work the same job for a long time and work hard, it does not mean that you automatically become CEO. It is not that simple anymore; you will have to consider many aspects like social skills, creativity, getting to know the right people, luck etc. I am not saying that the capitalistic world we live in is fair, but there is not much we can do about it - or maybe there is? America is a great place to start your own business because of the relatively low tax rates. Not that everyone who tries to build their own company in America will succeed and become rich, but it certainty is a lot easier than in many other countries. The author might be right in that ‘The American Dream’ might be dead, but the American Dream was created in a time were almost everyone...
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...Stagira, a small town on the northern coast of Greece that was once a seaport. When he turned 17, he enrolled in Plato’s Academy. In 338, he began tutoring Alexander the Great. In 335, Aristotle founded his own school, the Lyceum, in Athens, where he spent most of the rest of his life studying, teaching and writing. Aristotle died in 322 B.C., after he left Athens and fled to Chalcis. Aristotle’s father, Nicomachus, was court physician to the Macedonian king Amyntas II. Although Nicomachus died when Aristotle was just a young boy, Aristotle remained closely affiliated with and influenced by the Macedonian court for the rest of his life. Little is known about his mother, Phaestis; she is also believed to have died when Aristotle was young. Philosophy: Social Issue: ARISTOTLE’S PHILOSOPHY AND THE SOCIAL ISSUE OF POVERTY “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” -Aristotle “The rich man’s wealth is his strong city; the destruction of the poor is their poverty.” Poverbs 10:15 KJV. This verse connotes that rich people have their riches to rely on by that means denying the Glory of God in their lives. And the poor have no such reliance but if they don’t trust God through their hardship, these rich and poor people will be destroyed through criminality. Being without things, having little money, not many material possessions and in need of essential goods, these would describe poverty. Poverty is the highly problematic issue here in the Philippines. With this...
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...in the body ATP (Adenosine triphosphate) is a source of energy for the body and the only form of usable energy in there body. ATP is what converts the energy found in food to energy our cells can use to allow them to function properly. The chemical energy of ATP can be transferred to other cellular materials or be converted to mechanical energy. The energy needed by the body is stored in the high energy bond, to release this energy and allow muscular movement, an enzyme called ATPase breaks this bond, and these leave two molecules of phosphate attached to the adenosine (adenosine diphosphate) and a free phosphate molecule. The food we eat, in the form of carbohydrates, fats and proteins, is used as fuel for reactions in the body that make us 'alive'. To utilise these fuels for muscle action, the body converts them to a common 'energy currency', called adenosine tri-phosphate (ATP), once converted to ATP, it can lose its chemical energy and it becomes ADP. We all need energy to move our body. In order to get energy, we need to eat right, then put ourselves to motivate for every day. If we have no energy in our body, we are dead by now. Glucose is a simple sugar that provides the body with its primary source of energy. This type of sugar comes from digesting carbohydrates into a chemical that the body can easily convert to energy. The carbohydrate is broken down into glucose by enzymes in precise stages that allow energy to be released so that it can be used by the person,...
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...Quite by accident, I found the essay On Dumpster Diving by Lars Eighner on the pages of Seagull magazine. The first lines of it captured my interest considerably, for as I hadnever read about dumpster diving or scavenging before. On Dumpster Diving is a piece of large Eighner’s work called Travels with Lizbeth (1993), which was based on his ownexperience of homelessness.The author engages me by telling the origin and meaning of the term Dumpster Diver , presenting his survival guide with specified rules and regulations. Dumpster is a trademark of garbage loading onto trucks system. Dumpster diving involves persons voluntarily climbinginto rubbish bins (dumpsters) to find valuables or simply useful items, including food andused clothing. Eighner writes that the life of a beggar traveling without any money opened hiseyes to the fact that all those containers with waste are real “supermarkets” for the poor, andthey are not only a source of survival, but also a depositary of high-quality and diverse food.Anyhow, there is a risk in eating such findings. According to Eighner’s experience, takingfood out of dumpsters should involve three simple principles: “using the senses and commonsense to evaluate the condition of the found materials, knowing the Dumpsters of a given areaand checking them regularly, and seeking always to answer the question, “Why was thisdiscarded?” Narrator advises to avoid such foods as game, poultry, pork, and egg-basedmeals. Soft drinks...
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...Name Professor Course name Date On Dumpster Diving Quite by accident, I found the essay On Dumpster Diving by Lars Eighner on the pages of Seagull magazine. The first lines of it captured my interest considerably, for as I had never read about dumpster diving or scavenging before. On Dumpster Diving is a piece of large Eighner’s work called Travels with Lizbeth (1993), which was based on his own experience of homelessness. The author engages me by telling the origin and meaning of the term Dumpster Diver, presenting his survival guide with specified rules and regulations. Dumpster is a trademark of garbage loading onto trucks system. Dumpster diving involves persons voluntarily climbing into rubbish bins (dumpsters) to find valuables or simply useful items, including food and used clothing. Eighner writes that the life of a beggar traveling without any money opened his eyes to the fact that all those containers with waste are real “supermarkets” for the poor, and they are not only a source of survival, but also a depositary of high-quality and diverse food. Anyhow, there is a risk in eating such findings. According to Eighner’s experience, taking food out of dumpsters should involve three simple principles: “using the senses and common sense to evaluate the condition of the found materials, knowing the Dumpsters of a given area and checking them regularly, and seeking always to answer the question, “Why was this discarded?” Narrator advises to avoid such foods as...
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...is not already observed. People tend to eat foods that they know can satisfy their thirst of hunger. A desired food which is usually eaten for you can just have it instantly. Not enough vitamins and nutrients for our daily intake of foods can harm us and even an excess of it. Obesity can be one of the major problems which a person may encounter for having this poor nutrition. Best fat burning foods such as: Foods that contains high level of...
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...The Never Ending War Between Equality and Equity “Equality is giving everyone a shoe, whereas equity is giving everyone a shoe that fits.” - Unknown We fight for equality thinking it will benefit us, but it will only bring chaos due to the differences in others. We often believe equality as being the ideal society compared to an equitable society. However, in the story “Harrison Bergeron,” Kurt Vonnegut demonstrates to us that enforcing equality in our lives won’t be beneficial. In Vonnegut’s narrative, he enhances his story by including symbolism and imagery to exhibit the contrast between the reality of equality and equity in a society. As an illustration of this idea, Vonnegut includes a large amount of imagery to display...
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...Genetic engineering is a very new and undiscovered topic. Bioengineers have been experimenting with cells in petri dishes, trying to clone cells and mutate them. Scientists have even figured out how to change human DNA before it's even born. Doing so allows them to change physical features, abilities, and prevent certain diseases such as alzheimer's. I imagine that genetic engineering is very helpful and could potentially further our society. However, it is illegal to change or mutate DNA in a child in the US. Specifically modifying or editing gene cells or embryos so that a child has certain features are called “designer babies.” Designer babies could be of great help to society. For example, if the next generation is biologically smarter,...
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...The Wolf of Wall Street: A Sermon on Luke Luke 16: 19-31 depicts Jesus telling a parable directed to those who view themselves as loftier than others. Jesus discusses two men in his story- a man named Lazarus and a rich man. One man leads a comfortable life, while the other struggles through poverty. The parable teaches us the way the men live their lives on earth will affect their lives after death. One man resides with Jesus in the kingdom of God, while the other suffers in Hades. The ultimate message of this parable is that not everyone is rewarded with the kingdom of God, but only those who follow Moses, the prophets, and him. This message is applicable in everyday life and is demonstrated in many modern day situations, such as those that arise in the movie The Wolf of Wall Street. Jesus’s message not only applies to the rich man and Lazarus, but to every one of us in our daily lives. To put this in perspective for younger minds, I have examined Luke 16: 19-31 in the popular movie The Wolf of Wall Street, a comedy that dramatizes life of a stockbroker who is obsessed with greed and money. In the beginning of the film, the main character, Jordan Belfort, starts a career on Wall Street and loses his job soon after on Black Monday. At this point of the movie, he is unaware of the “rules” of Wall Street, representing a character of humility, innocence, and modesty. He starts from the bottom, digging for jobs and finds one selling low value stock by deceiving his customers...
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...Does the process of Globalisation help or hinder wealth creation in developing countries? Globalisation – the procedure of creating an integrated global economy, polity, and society – is an inevitable subject of much of today’s academic literature. It’s a term used in all fields, ranging from economics, sociology, and politics. Scholars address questions of what globalisation is, how it is occurring and who benefits and who loses out (Mold, A. 2007: 67). Some argue that it has helped the world, and more specifically, developing countries. On the other hand, others argue it has held back economic growth and wealth creation in developing countries. This essay will compare between these two arguments; and of course, resulting in my answer in the conclusion. But first, the causes will be described briefly, and consequences of globalisation will be examined in greater detail. After looking at the general impact it has made, it will specify on developing countries. To show evidence, case studies will be used, such as in Argentina, China, India, Morocco and sub-Saharan Africa as a whole; perceptibly linking to the explosion of globalisation that has shrunk the world. It was not until the 1960s that the term – globalisation - started to be widely used by economists and other social scientists. The phrase has since then attained general use in the mainstream press by the later half of the 1980s. Since its initiation, the concept of globalisation has stimulated frequent competing...
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