All that glitters is not gold 2010/12/18 James Campbell The basis on which good repute in any highly organised industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength‚ and so of gaining or retaining a good name‚ are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. -- Thorstein Veblen‚ The Theory of the Leisure Class‚ Dover Books‚ 1994‚ page 52 ONE of the laments of contemporary political theory is the recognition that modern-day society
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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
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costs for everything affected many families financially‚ including mine. Trying to cover all necessary costs to survive seemed to be difficult as the years passed by. Inequality becomes a problem when ‚what we consider middle class‚ families are severely struggling just to survive. Many of us are unaware of the reality of how money is distributed in the United States.
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Is it possible for African American suspects in the U.S. today to receive a fair trial with an all-White jury? Why or why not? We are told that the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution states that we have the right to an unbiased jury when it is a felonious trial‚ but what is considered neutrality? This question has been one that the Supreme Court has asked time and time again‚ and they have stated “that the jury must be drawn from a representative cross-section of the community” (Taylor
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Wes Kleinsorge English Composition Ms. Cunningham 23 September‚ 2011 All About Happiness The word “Happiness" to me means something or some certain event that brings joy and good feelings to someone. The dictionary definition describes Happiness as: a mental state of well being characterized by positive emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. Happiness is a combination of freedom‚ enjoyment‚ and accomplishment. One of the aspects of happiness is freedom. Having the feeling
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Exterminate all the brutes. This simple‚ but frightening sentence taken from Heart of Darkness‚ was what influenced Sven Lindqvist’s book‚ Exterminate All the Brutes. In this book‚ Lindqvist brings attention the connection between the holocaust and imperial colonialism that occurred in Europe and the nations in which Europe colonized. The ideology behind this book‚ is not that the holocaust was a unique genocide in and of itself. Lindqvist brings attention to the idea that Europe is deeply rooted
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code to accommodate the language localization issue. Did PayPal make the right move in going global in all languages simultaneously? Why or why not? What are the upsides and downsides to this method? I believe PayPal acted appropriately in rolling out all languages at once. Their plan potentially saved money in the long term and created a core advantage. If this had not been done all at once‚ the cost of re-visiting the code and implementing more changes later may have exposed more costs.
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they were living in a motel. That is an environment no 15 year old girl should have to live in. However‚ soon her best friend asked her parents if the girl could move in with them and they became the girl’s family. This incident illustrates that not all families are conventional.
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All Over but the Shoutin’ All Over but the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg is an autobiography that starts from Mr. Bragg’s impoverished childhood in a family that included an abusive‚ alcoholic father‚ an incredibly powerful angel of a mother and his two brothers‚ and follows him through his Pulitzer Prize-winning journalistic career at the New York Times. The author states at the beginning of the book that readers will laugh and cry reading it. He was right on the money with both of these points. The
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“EXTERMINATE ALL THE BRUTES” Sven Lindqvist’s “Exterminate all the Brutes” explores the idea that genocides have been deeply rooted in European thinking over the last century. It is written in the form of a travel dairy and a historical examination of European racism over the past two centuries. Lindqvist argues that the harrowing racism that led to the Holocaust in the twentieth century had its roots in European colonial policy of the preceding century. The act of genocide itself is not a new
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