Income inequality metrics

The poems Africa and Flying Man by Rabindranath Tagore show the negative effects of man-made destruction. The destruction is the way they have mistreated the people of Africa, as well as changing the way nature used to be, from the peaceful harmonious nature to inventing more modernised technologies, making man seem more arrogant. The focus of the two poems is how man has destroyed the earth with their actions, and the poet does this by using imagery and figurative language. In Africa, Tagore…

In the “Discourse on the origin of human inequality”, Rousseau argues that social inequality is caused by the competitions that originated from individualism, through which people only pursue self-interest and put equality in danger. Rousseau believes that the state of nature does not have much inequality, which is worsened along with the development of human civilization and political institutions and leaves a greater gap between the rich and the poor. According to Rousseau, when human…

Wealth is portrayed a great deal throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”. The narrator, Nick, observes how people react to and change their manners when they are exposed to wealth. Every character has different views on money based on how and where they grew up. Jay Gatsby, for example, views becoming rich as the way to winning over Daisy’s heart and finally being with her. He grew up on a poor farm, never experiencing wealth as a child. Because of his need to prove himself to Daisy,…

While it may appear that city growth was ideal for any group of people at the time- and in turn contribute to moral growth- Swift suggests that growth of cities has caused inadequate public health. Whilst Gulliver is in Laputa he exclaims that he was “surprised to find corruption grown so high... by the force of luxury so lately introduced” which indicates he thinks luxury and selfishness causes corruption; and luxuries tend to come around when empires have grown and developed and therefore…

Before the age of discovery and colonization, England was an "underdeveloped" country in relation to the standards of the developed countries of the period such as Germany, Italy and Low Countries. While the population of France and Italy were respectively over 15 and 11 million, the number of inhabitants in England and Wales were fewer than 4 million. Also, Carlo Cipolla points out that England was more backward than that of most of the Europe continent in terms of the technology and economy.…

communities has been an immense sociological topic for research. The gap between these two signifies the inequality among the individuals in society. It all relates to equity, which is the opportunity equality and outcome equality each person in the groups of society get. The three topics are safety within the neighborhoods, education, and privilege. Safety and privilege correlate as inequalities between the upper and lower-class communities, while education is the institution. One of the main…

The social justice issue being portrayed is inequality. In contrast, “A Worn Path” is a story of an elderly African-American woman who is on a quest. While on her quest, racism is illustrated as the social issue. Lastly, “The Lesson” is a story of two main characters who are being taught the value of a dollar. Economic inequality is the social justice issue in the story. Particularly, these three stories brought to my attention of racism, social inequality, and…

distribute uncontaminated blood products because they believed the economic cost would be thigh. Due to the failure of the system, anybody who suffered from Haemophilia regardless of their status,class, gender or race would suffer the repercussions. The inequality experienced in this situation was a decision made disregarding the importance of human life, and considering it as an ordinary entity in the American system. Almost dehumanising the…

Painter’s historical interpretation managed to grab a lot of attention to reconsider America’s virtue and vice in the Progressive Era. Nell Irvin Painter’s 1987 historical monograph, Standing at Armageddon The United States, 1877-1919, focused on the lives of many citizens concerned with positive characteristics of America. Nell began the monograph with an introduction with a sense of fear to readers by asking if the end is near. This might infer that people were standing near a place of…

others, or effectively divided in two. On the basis of the coding, one particular theme that emerged from both interviews is the emphasis on social inequality to crime and criminal justice. I then went back to the data to re-examine whether the codes fit under this theme overall, and consulted new literature to contextualise this theme. The theme of inequality is based on the responses of both participants who have once or repeatedly discussed the topics relating to that…