Analysis Of The Article 'Are You One Of A Kind?'

In this world we can find roughly seven billion people. Sure, science may prove that people share similar traits and personalities, but no two people are exactly the same. We all have different life experiences. With these different occurrences we can infer that we all have different levels of privilege.

In the movie Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and in Wealth, it compared the lives of four individuals, Taylor, Young, Anderson, and Turner, in different locations, race, and socioeconomic background. The scale of difference between this group of people is that it goes from financially stable and healthy individuals to individuals with lower income and poorer health. This wealth-health gradient reflects that those who have easier access to healthier lifestyles (i.e. running outside without the concern of safety) are more likely to have a higher life expectancy than those who are in living environments that are not as developed and lack healthier options of nutrition. The difference of the average life expectancy scaled down from Jim Taylor whose neighborhood had an average life expectancy of 80 years, Young’s 75.3 years,

The video then goes on to identify who the one percent is, including celebrities and political figures. It even goes on to compare the amount of work done by the 1percent in comparison to those in the middle class. All of the data is presented in such a simple manner so that many can understand the issue of wealth inequality throughout the United States.

In the article, “Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meaning of Gender,” the author, Aaron Devor, is trying to convince his audience that gender shapes how we behave and relate to one another. He does this by using an educational approach, describing gender stereotypes, and making cultural references. These rhetorical devices serve his larger goal of getting readers to reflect on how their childhoods formed their genders. “Maleness and femaleness seem “natural,” not the product of socialization.” (Devor 527) Throughout his article, he makes us wonder whether or not gender is recognized through socializing.

People Magazine’s audience comprises of mostly women, and the articles and advertisements within the magazine prove this. Such types of passages consist primarily of gossip, however, there are some informational reads in the magazine. One advertisement in the September 18 issue of this year is a safety message from Tide. While the advertisement is a safety message, it is obviously still trying to sell the product: Tide PODS. The target audience of this advertisement is more specific than People Magazine; instead of only targeting women, Tide narrows its audience down to parents. Tide's advertisement uses some pathos, but it heavily draws its appeals from ethos.

Demonstrate how the major events that take place in The Outsiders affect the values and attitudes of 3 main characters.

People are often told to be themselves as a way of embracing their uniqueness. This seems to not be true since conformity and lack of individualism is a big issue with society. The issue of what led Christopher McCandless, main character from Into the Wild by John Krakauer, to go on a search to find himself. In the author’s note of the novel, Krakauer introduces the term ‘schools of thought’. In the case of this book, there are two; one being that some people said it was a suicide mission and the other being that others disagreed saying he was ambitious. The story demonstrates one man’s attempt to define a lifestyle and find meaning in his life that came from something outside materialistic and civilized contemporary

Also, everything in society is unequal, a person can sit at a desk and order people around all day, without moving, and earn a salary of at least $60,000, while the individual or individuals who get stuck with all of his work, are getting paid around $25,000 a year. Yes, everyone starts out at a low on the totem pole job at a company and they work their way up the food chain to get to the job they want, but the lower class gets deemed lazy and or a high school dropout if they are seen waiting tables or working at a fast food place or retail store past the age of 25-30. Just because they are working twice as hard as the executives and other people higher up in society, and get paid twice to three times less than them, does not mean they lack normal human emotions.

In the story “Confronting Inequality”, written by Paul Krugman, Krugman introduces the rising issue of inequality, explaining how it is and has been an issue ignored by a majority of the population. Krugman uses various views and points from external sources that support the issue he claims people had begun to ignore. His main points are usually references to other people or actual facts and statistics that affect the inequality problem; such as an article called “Income Inequality Without Class Conflict” written by Irving Kristol who tried to argue the opposite, viewing the statistics on tax rates and benefit systems, as well as mentioning markets having a major impact on inequality, creating a massive reduction.

For a variety of reasons, it is easier for the monied classes to access quality health care when needed and, in general, lead healthier lifestyles. People of higher socioeconomic groups have been shown to live longer (Scrambler, 2012). Beginning with higher infant mortality rates, lower socioeconomic groups often face a lifetime of challenges to good health and longevity.

Utilizes statistics experiences of others, including herself, to bring to light the harsh reality of Americans facing poverty and debt despite their daily hard work

Chapter three of Freakonomics by Steven Levitt lays out an argument against the population’s capacity to hastily believe conventional wisdom. Commencing the chapter with anecdotes about faulty statistics and facts provided by so called “experts,” Levitt sews a seed of suspicion in the reader’s mind. Citing anyone from homelessness experts, to women's rights activists, to police departments, Levitt walks the reader through erroneous proclamations by individuals who drive the common knowledge of everyday people. After introducing each fabricated fact, Levitt not only invalidates each one respectively, but also goes on to explain why each expert provided such bogus information. To summarize Levitt’s commentary, each expert holds different motivations

That top portion manipulates the facts because they want the rest of America to believe that there is little inequality in the society. This causes a massive misunderstanding by the majority of the population where they underestimate the adverse economic effects of inequality and overestimate of the cost of taking action. There are also many misconceptions concerning the government which include the overestimate the ability of government to fix their inequality problems and the failure to understand what the government is doing to fix society’s problems. Despite the seemingly obvious facts, “only 42 percent of Americans believe that inequality has increased in the past ten years,” (Stiglitz 185) this believe is due to the optimism when it comes to social mobility, most Americans believe that there is a way to “cheat” or overcome the inequality. This idea that hope is necessary for a society to be controlled is consistent throughout a lot of governments and even literary works as well. In Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games trilogy the dictator like President Snow makes a point to say that hope is the only thing stronger than fear. This is true in society today, it is easier to rule and control people who think that things will get better

In the article “The Go-Nowhere Generation,” the Buchholzes argue that the present generation of youths has taken a turn for the worse, losing the sense of spirit that were once synonymous with people of their age and settling for meager jobs in their hometowns instead. The target audience of “The Go-Nowhere Generation” is educated older adults and parents, who are most likely to share the authors’ views. The authors implement a series of comparisons, which include statistics and descriptions, between the past and present generation of young adults to illustrate their position. However, though the authors make several valid points that are supported by solid evidence, the article falls short of being truly convincing due to its narrow views

“The social positions that individuals occupy help to determine who they are, what they think and do, where they are going, and what happens to them” (pg.256 Social Inequality). The film The One Percent spoke of inequality and served as an example regarding how the rich remain in control of political policies that allow them to acquire more wealth while limiting opportunities for the poor. “It easier to cleanse the earth of these people and send them to the far reaches of the universe” (Class film). This type of mentality has attributed to the reduction of positive life chances among the poor population. Many underprivileged individuals were denied safety (community police), education, and housing based on bias. “Those with lower levels of