The American dream is dying, claims US News's David Brodwin.The formula used in this article is one used across many fields. This formula is the CER formula or claim, evidence, and reasoning formula. In this paper the author uses a strong thematic statement as his claim, social economic research as evidence, dramatic writing to evoke emotion, as well as to reason to strengthen the statistics he uses.
The American dream first and foremost, in this writing, is an expression of the idea that anyone can climb the rungs of the social economic ladder and be the epitome of the American “rags to riches” motif. The first lines of this writing establish the author's opinion, that life is a game, and that even when playing by the rules, American …show more content…
The emotional aspects of this paper a clearly defined in the beginning of this article by evidencing the reason for the economic research. Brodwin states that the research for this paper was conducted by economists, because of the “Politically explosive resentments,” of the stagnated American worker. Reason is given for emotion, therefore; sympathy, and understanding come into play.
Any statement or claim, regardless of the field involved, requires evidence. In this writing, the author uses college papers to establish facts and figures that evidence his claim that the American dream is dead to most. The way this is validated in this writing is the statistic that the all American workers are having a harder time than ever climbing the economic ladder, and that ways of getting ahead in the past are now becoming obsolete. From this paper we learn, according to Carl and Wiemer that, “If in you were in the bottom 10 percent of wage earners in 1993, you had only a 6 percent chance of clawing your way into the top third 15 years later. And the reverse is true: If you were in the top ten percent in 1991, your chance of falling to the bottom third is only 5 percent” Shown through statistics, the article shows definitive proof for its claims that their is low mobility in the US economy. It is the logical explanation that helps to further the argument that American dream is becoming more and more out of reach to many. Another reason that economic advancement is becoming harder, is the because the feature that has been crowned king of getting ahead, education, is no longer the aid it used to be, again, making it harder for people to take a conventional path to get
The American dream first and foremost, in this writing, is an expression of the idea that anyone can climb the rungs of the social economic ladder and be the epitome of the American “rags to riches” motif. The first lines of this writing establish the author's opinion, that life is a game, and that even when playing by the rules, American …show more content…
The emotional aspects of this paper a clearly defined in the beginning of this article by evidencing the reason for the economic research. Brodwin states that the research for this paper was conducted by economists, because of the “Politically explosive resentments,” of the stagnated American worker. Reason is given for emotion, therefore; sympathy, and understanding come into play.
Any statement or claim, regardless of the field involved, requires evidence. In this writing, the author uses college papers to establish facts and figures that evidence his claim that the American dream is dead to most. The way this is validated in this writing is the statistic that the all American workers are having a harder time than ever climbing the economic ladder, and that ways of getting ahead in the past are now becoming obsolete. From this paper we learn, according to Carl and Wiemer that, “If in you were in the bottom 10 percent of wage earners in 1993, you had only a 6 percent chance of clawing your way into the top third 15 years later. And the reverse is true: If you were in the top ten percent in 1991, your chance of falling to the bottom third is only 5 percent” Shown through statistics, the article shows definitive proof for its claims that their is low mobility in the US economy. It is the logical explanation that helps to further the argument that American dream is becoming more and more out of reach to many. Another reason that economic advancement is becoming harder, is the because the feature that has been crowned king of getting ahead, education, is no longer the aid it used to be, again, making it harder for people to take a conventional path to get