Inequality For All Summary
In the opening minutes of the documentary Inequality for All, there is a clip of Jon Stewart showing how bad it really has become. The United States is below the countries like Iran, Cameroon and Nigeria in terms of income equality. We are ranked 64th as a nation in terms of the equality of income between the classes that the United States has. Robert Reich, is a professor at University of California-Berkeley and has worked for the Clinton administration as the United States Secretary of Labor; he narrates the story along. One of the stats that grabbed my attention was the talk about how the top 400 richest in America were making more than the bottom 150,000,000 combined. It is easy to see that the documentary mostly speaks about how the middle
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class has been stripped of the right to work towards the American Dream. American dream referring to the ideals in America, through hard work upward social mobility can be achieved. The class struggle between the rich and poor are becoming worse every year and this documentary Inequalities for All points out the critical facts about this free-for-all called our economy.
In the beginning of Animal Farm, Major, an old boar calls against the humans, saying how they are evil.
After Major dies the two younger pigs starting to share his philosophy known as Animalism. The two younger pigs Napoleon and Snowball eventually become the leaders of the farm as major once was. The two pigs engage in a rebellion against the owner of the farm Mr. Jones and other workers soon after the farm is renamed animal farm and seven commandments are made up on the side of the barn. The more important of the commandments is ‘All animals are equal’ and ‘four legs good, two legs bad.’ The farm is running efficiently until Napoleon becomes power hungry and asserts himself as the leader of the farm. They soon have an idea for a windmill, they being production but after a storm their windmill had buckled. Soon, to assert power, Napoleon said that it was actually Snowball that tried to destroy the windmill. Napoleon takes attack dogs and puts them on Snowball and anyone who doesn’t agree with what Napoleon has been doing around the farm. Soon after that happens Mr Fredrick, owner of a bordering farm attacks the windmill trying to claim the farm. The humans lose and the animals take casualties and many were wounded. After many years, the pigs look like humans by walking upright. Those first commandments become one single expression, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than
others.”
class has been stripped of the right to work towards the American Dream. American dream referring to the ideals in America, through hard work upward social mobility can be achieved. The class struggle between the rich and poor are becoming worse every year and this documentary Inequalities for All points out the critical facts about this free-for-all called our economy.
In the beginning of Animal Farm, Major, an old boar calls against the humans, saying how they are evil.
After Major dies the two younger pigs starting to share his philosophy known as Animalism. The two younger pigs Napoleon and Snowball eventually become the leaders of the farm as major once was. The two pigs engage in a rebellion against the owner of the farm Mr. Jones and other workers soon after the farm is renamed animal farm and seven commandments are made up on the side of the barn. The more important of the commandments is ‘All animals are equal’ and ‘four legs good, two legs bad.’ The farm is running efficiently until Napoleon becomes power hungry and asserts himself as the leader of the farm. They soon have an idea for a windmill, they being production but after a storm their windmill had buckled. Soon, to assert power, Napoleon said that it was actually Snowball that tried to destroy the windmill. Napoleon takes attack dogs and puts them on Snowball and anyone who doesn’t agree with what Napoleon has been doing around the farm. Soon after that happens Mr Fredrick, owner of a bordering farm attacks the windmill trying to claim the farm. The humans lose and the animals take casualties and many were wounded. After many years, the pigs look like humans by walking upright. Those first commandments become one single expression, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than
others.”