My Gloriously Useless Degrees In The Humanities Summary

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The 2012 article, “My Gloriously Useless Degrees In the Humanities”, focuses on the unstable nature of the job market, and its contribution towards the negative outlook on arts/humanities degrees.This article comes one year after the occupy wall street movements, people during this time were angry, and questioned the distribution of wealth in America. The author, Katrin Park, does not seek to answer the questions brought upon by the Occupy movement, but rather she recognizes that her argument has a platform, and that it may resonate with a similar audience. To create a foundation for her argument, Park displays her familiarity with the Kairos in which her article is born out of. I found her establishment of the articles’ kairos in paragraph

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