A. The sharing economy 1. Explain briefly what the sharing economy is, and outline some of the attitudes to it that is presented in the three texts. The sharing economy is a relatively new thing. The idea is that you have something you share with others. This could be anything from your car, a room, dinner, or your underpants. The attitudes towards this new thing are very different from each other. Some think it is the next best thing like Catharine Hamm in text two. Others are a little bit more sceptic and admits sharing economy has some downsides, like Suzanne Bearne in text number one. Text number three written by Mary Dejevsky has a quite different point of view on this. She thinks it is leaps into the past, and that they will shut out the impoverished and underprivileged, and puts a question mark to who will really benefit. 2. How does Catharine Hamm engage the reader in text 2? Give examples from the text. Catharine Hamm, author of text number two, engages the readers by starting off with telling us she made some …show more content…
Mary Dejevsky believes it is a step into the past, and not the future as it is meant to be. She claims in the subheading that “these supposedly post-capitalist solutions are just as likely to shut out the poor and underprivileged”. I do believe that this is somewhat correct, that it will not help the really poor people. Let us take me for an example. I am not poor, but I care about my money, that is probably also the reason I just hit a hundred thousand in the bank. I would never take a cap, because it is so damn expensive. Therefore, I need to go through the hassle of walking to the bus stop, wait for the bus because it is always late, taking a huge detour, and walking to my destination with rain soaking my shoes and pants, just like they did this morning, and because of that I am just sitting here freezing to death because wet pants are quite
They draw their conclusion from Karl Marx’s view of class and societies. Outside forces prevent groups or individuals from reaching certain goals or ways of living. That outside force is typically the upper class. The upper class have created an exclusive society for themselves that lock in their wealth at the expense of everyone else’s well-being. For example the CEO of Wal Mart, Michael Duke receives a $35 million yearly salary.
Lapore uses Douglass as a motivator in her piece to influence readers to speak up and make a
The main points that she is trying to make is that, to produce a great writing
On the one hand, the author writes of, “[believing] that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income” (The Black Panther Platform: “What We Want, What We Believe”), an inherently communist idea of direct government support. On the other hand, they cite that “it is their duty (the Black community) to throw off such government” (The Black Panther Platform: “What We Want, What We Believe). This contradiction is an indisputable incompatibility of two very different doctrines. One cannot gain the support of a government whilst simultaneously proposing violent ideological opposition to it. Also, capitalism which suggests the need for privatization of funds and no direct government intervention would be completely flipping toward communism if it were to support public aid and support of cooperatives.
The format of this book is a letter to Coates’s son and it is divided into three parts. Although this is meant to be a letter to his son, Coates uses some very complex and advanced language that can be hard to understand for a fifteen-year-old boy. However, I think the way this book was written definitely helps get the powerful message across. The personal aspect helps understand how gender, class, and race impact everyday experiences. Coates tells his son many different stories, some in which are very harsh.
Since 1848 when The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx was published growing questions about whether a communist or globalist society could work were asked. With many theories and attempts to make a perfect society, it has never been done ,but in fiction it has worked out such as in the television series Star Trek. Likewise communism does not always work well in fiction leaving the people poor or mistreated. Such as in the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand which tells the tale of an oppressive communist society that uses its government to keep everyone equal. The society in Anthem has all its rules and controls for the purpose of keeping an artificial sense of true equality ,and by the end of the story Equality would go the opposite route in not having
Readers can infer that poor people were deprived of food and possibilities because of the strong use of pathos and imagery. Also, the substandard jobs were reserved for the poor because they were ineligible of equal opportunities because they were deemed uneducated. Americans still view poor people as being uneducated and wrongfully inferring that as the cause of their poverty. This incorrect thinking leads poor people to have less rights than others because they have to
While everyone has an understanding of freedom, sometimes peoples own definitions can contradict what someone else believes freedom is. During the beginning of the revolution period freedom was saw by many as a concept that only whites could practice. Not even all whites could practice freedom in the beginning; liberty was only for the white land owning men in this time period. Throughout time, slavery began to change the minds of many whites of what freedom meant and you could obtain freedom. This happened through various ways.
The reader can understand that worker can be living like this today with nowhere to go being abused by their boss; work long hours with not much pay and still not have a home to go to due to the lack of finances coming in.
Therefore, it is very opinionated, overexaggerated and biased against Communism. It is not reliable as it is from a Capitalist leader’s perspective and he would say anything to promote Capitalism whether it was factual or
This novel talks about the life in America during those times back in 1937 how many people struggled to live. Many people during those days lost their jobs. There was no welfare state or unemployment benefit. Disabled or old people had to depend on their families or charity and keep working for as long as they could. Everyone was so competitive in order to get a job.
Johnson's term. She brings up how the government realized that this was an escalating problem in the economy that they wanted to fix and they took action. She mentioned programs like “Head Start”, “Medicaid”, “Legal Services”, and “Job Corps”. After giving those examples of actions took she then went on to the truth as to why it didn't work and that's because the government just didn't have enough money to help the programs out simply because they were fighting another war which was the one in vietnam also known as one of the deadliest wars in american history. This was important in her structure of the article because it gives readers a little knowledge on the situation before jumping into it, it builds pre knowledge which will later help go into supporting her
The parts that stood out to me in this book were that the rate of neonatal deaths is higher in the United States than in any other developed country. I found this interesting because the idea that the old-fashioned theory has created some of the modern political beliefs of why a person may end up in a disadvantaged situation. Another part that stood out to me was when Abramsky hypothesized that if funds were spent on programs supporting individuals from the selected groups then less money would be spent on other government funded programs. Lastly, when Abramsky discussed the statistics about Bill Clinton lowering poverty rates from 15.1% to a little over 11% and then when Bush took over, the poverty rates rose again.
The society in this book is basically the epitome of a dystopia. It has a totalitarian government and everything about the world the people live in is a frightening nightmare. The government has completely dehumanized the way people live their lives. People in this dystopia aren’t even actually human any more. They aren’t even born the natural way through reproduction, they are created.
Practically everyone read one or two books, and then there was the occasional student who 'd managed to thumb through five or six. I was one of the last to be called on. “Kayla?” Mrs. Fisher said, prepared to tack on a book or two more. “Twenty-seven,” I’d said, and smoothed out my filled-up reading log.