Krugman Summary

Gail Collins, an American writer known for writing under the opinion pages for the The New York Times, has turned the recent presidential debate, into something comical. In Gail’s most recent articles, “How Could Anyone Vote for Trump”, “The Dark Days of Donald Trump”, “Don’t Take Donald Trump to Dinner”, and “The Debate in One Scary Answer”, her purpose is to show that Donald Trump is not qualified to become the next president of the United States. In these four articles, her audience is the general educated reader that will be voting in the 2016 presidential election. Gail Collins has a recurring pattern of using the rhetorical modes; illustration and description. In addition, she uses the rhetorical strategies; metaphor, dialogue, and contrast

Krugman starts off his essay by painting the picture of his younger days in a rather fair and middle-class American society. The theme of his writing is centered around policies with the power to reverse the extreme economic imbalance the United States has been challenged with. The excessively divided American economy contradicts the basis of America’s birth: “Ever since America’s founding, our idea of ourselves has been that of a nation without sharp class distinctions- not a leveled society of perfect equality, but one in which the gap between the economic elite and the typical citizen isn’t an unbridgeable chasm” (Graff, Birkenstein,

Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Number Date Book Review: Beyond Outrage by Robert B. Reich As a political personality, Robert Reich writes a book that closely relates the deteriorating status of the U.S. economy with the greed of other politicians and the government as a whole. To some extent, Robert Reich pulls out the sense in economy deterioration with the help of pinning the major government policies. Robert Reich 's argument comes out clearly, directly, and at some point presented willfully. From the heading of the topic of the book, what went wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it, a reader can clearly picture the content of the book that is politics and the financial mess that the United States of America is in today. The book provides a clear, simple, and easy to understand information on how the author, Robert Reich relates the cause a bad financial status for the country and how the government and other wealthy people living in America contribute to causing the financial crisis.

​ “Why should we care about high and rising inequality?” (561). Krugman starts his article with a thought provoking question that most Americans want an answer to. He grabs the reader’s attention from the get go. Following this question, he then makes a claim about inequality. Inequality has caused an extreme amount of damage to our society and democracy. He supports this claim by relating it to a Thomas Jefferson quote. “The small landholders are the most precious part of a state” (562). This quote translated means that the middle class is the most precious part of state. Krugman points out how this Thomas Jefferson quote seems irrelevant in our society now because of the high rise of inequality. This high rise has weakened the middle class tremendously. Readers are more than likely going to relate to Jefferson’s quote. Most Americans relate to the idea of America being a society that values the middle class, fairness and

The builder of this seventeen room Greek revival mansion was Stephen S. Speakman. In the early 1840s, the elderly Speakman fell in love with a much younger woman, Sarah Bush, whose father owned a slave-holding plantation in Kentucky. Upon asking her hand

The article “Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By In America” written by Barbara Ehrenreich, who has a PHD in biology, informs the reader about the struggle a low-wage worker in America has to go through. Ehrenreich goes undercover and takes low-wage jobs to experience how a person with minimum wage of $6-$7/hour survives. During her experiment Ehrenreich only uses the money she earns from her job to pay rent, buy groceries,do laundry, pay for phone, and car. Throughout the article Ehrenreich’s purpose is to make high class feel grateful for what they have but at the same time she encourages them to rally support to change conditions for low-wage workers. Ehrenreich uses rhetorical techniques of syntactic repetition, pathos, ethos, and evidence to persuade middle and high class Americans to realize the need to raise the minimum wage in order for low-wage workers to live comfortable lives.

As the 2016 US Presidential Election rapidly approaches, Americans continue to stand divided by party lines, with the moderates being tugged on both sides, with hopes that swaying them will put a candidate in office. However, in this critical moment that recurs every 4 years in the nation’s history, the dichotomy is drawn even deeper between the Republican and Democratic parties, with candidates on either side suggesting radically different solutions to the nation’s problems. Paul Krugman, a famous American economist, would support Hillary Clinton for the 2016 National Democratic Primary and the 2016 Presidential Election due to the unrealistic growth expectations Republicans are promising, the healthy economic policy liberals support, and

In the article “Trump and the Plutocrat’s Hubris,” from the Wall Street Journal, Joseph Epstein writes an objective piece entailing misconceptions regarding the Trump administration. He argues against the preconceived notion that having a lot of money, leads to an effective government. He uses instances from his own life

Throughout the article, Krugman’s diction is displayed in a colloquial manner, often using terms such as “flub,” “wimps,” or “hacks,” in order to not overwhelm the reader and attract a wide-range audience. On occasion, he also dictates formally to highlight the negatives of the current and “incompetent” administration and their lack of commitment. Krugman’s syntax also contains the

Rhetorical Analysis of "Richer and Poorer Accounting for inequality." In Jill Lepore's essay "Richer and Poorer Accounting for inequality" published in N.Y. by (The New Yorker) 2015 discusses the issue of inequality in America and how it is affecting U.S. citizens. Jill Lepore uses logos, pathos, and ethos to describe the

Molly Ball’s uses of argumentative techniques were effective in her article, “There’s Something About Bernie.” With the article written while people's interest in Sanders is rising, the timing aspect of Kairos is fit. It’s written early enough in the election that it’s still a persuadable moment for many, with many people still in a state of uncertainty and willing to change their minds. The article is set up with an introduction of the topic, followed by a narration of the speaker’s time with Sanders, and then proof of his popularity using experiences seeing his crowds of supporters. Refutation follows after that, with the views of those who oppose him discussed, and finally, a conclusion. The style uses proper language, clarity, vividness, decorum, and ornament. This style is used to portray scenarios with storytelling of the experiences that express the excitement Sanders has generated.

Krugman uses facts to drive and support his articles, even supplying the source of the evidence such as the “recent report by the investment firm Lazard,” and this allows the audience to draw their own conclusions, but he does not forget to include his opinions, for instance in his article, “When China Stumbles,” he admits “that [he’s] not as relaxed about this as the above analysis says [he] should be.” This input of opinion often leads to his articles being more emotional. For example, in his article, “Michigan’s Great Stink,” Rick Snyder’s insensitivity towards the public provokes Krugman and he insists that, “you wouldn’t expect controversy about spending enough to provide key public goods like basic education or safe drinking water,” which

The main focus is next year’s midterm elections, which, if won across the board, will create a levelled playing field on the hill for the desperate democrats. However, for such victors, a change must occur. If that change can not commence with the removal of Pelosi, then the democratic campaign rhetoric must be reformed. As representatives complained about the direction of their leadership, Ryan narrowed down what his party should focus on. He argues his party has to focus on economic issues and social

In the article “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich”, Warren Buffet, the chairman For example Buffett states, “And to those who argue that higher rates hurt job creation, I would note that a net of nearly 40 million jobs were added between 1980 and 2000. You know what’s happened since then: lower tax rates and far lower job creation.” Bringing to the attention of the audience that we are in a current financial crisis, and to make matters worse we have a high unemployment rate. Signaling that this is a problem that needs to be resolved by some response from the audience being the government. Another problem Buffett bring to the audience mind is how we the people are losing our faith on our government to handle our fiscal problems as he states the following; “Americans are rapidly losing faith in the ability of Congress to deal with our country’s fiscal problems. Only action that is immediate, real and very substantial will prevent that doubt from morphing into hopelessness.” Again reminding our government that they need to take action not only quickly but also considerable to the public before its too late and the people become hopeless on our government.

Based in Irving Coffman's argument that “If tobacco companies have paid a financial settlement with several states due to the health problems it caused. Then, manufacturers of other legal harmful products such as alcohol and guns should also have to pay financial settlements in return for the problems they cause.” I strongly agree with his point of view in order to help prevent more people from damaging their health, and suffering later on. Moreover, if all the legal harmful manufacturers start to pay a financial settlement, then the prices of these products would raise up, which might help to limited people from buying these harmful products because not everybody can afford what others can. Before, most of the time that I was in my sport