Working electrode

Although the Sioux people have changed since the 1890’s, they are still faced with many hardships. Today, 97 percent of the Sioux population live below the federal poverty line. Most have household incomes ranging between $2,600 and $3,500 per year. One of the main reasons for this is because of the white man taking their land and forcing them onto reservations. Dwight Jon Zimmerman in his book, the Saga of the Sioux, describes the plight the natives faced when the white man decided they…

Roshni Parikh Ms. Henry AP Lang & Comp Set: 3 19 October 2017 Kozol’s Mastery of Argumentation In this passage from Shame of the Nation, a nonfiction book published in 2005, author Jonathan Kozol highlights the growing divide between minority high school students and students in affluent school systems. Kozol appeals predominantly to ethos throughout the passage, analyzing possible causes and effects of the current disenfranchisement present in the United States education system, in…

In the 1970s, Louis Althusser wrote Ideology and the State Apparatuses as a way to explain how social systems form people by using the idea of ideology. Althusser was a French Marxist who was interested in the idea of structuralism. Through this, Althusser attempts to answer his central thesis of how people are constructed by ideology by addressing two separate theses. The first is based on the idea that “the object… is represented in the imaginary form of ideology” while the second focuses on…

In a capitalist country, it is to be expected that every family or individual will see the world from a new perspective. In her 2005 memoir, author Jeannette Walls recounts how her personal worldview was shaped throughout her childhood and continues to change during her adult life. Walls’s blatantly truthful memoir begins with a deceptively hopeful outlook of the future. With tax collectors or the like on their tails, the Walls family is forced to make a speedy escape—otherwise, they would not…

did they know that working in a factory would be worse than having no job. The first industrial revolution was…

In the beginning of the industrial revolution, cleanliness has become a social standard. Being clean has been ideal for its representation of health, hygiene, perfection and civility. Modern society has evolved at a faster pace and rejected the concept of dirtiness of humans and houses. In industrial design, cleaning could be described as streamlining which involved simplifying objects to be efficient, modern and organised. The production of cheap commodities was high in demand because it…

perception of poverty held by many Americans is appeared as weak, flawed, and an unfixed problem in society. But with a change in perspective, there could be a chance that poverty can decrease and we can build a stronger community at the same time. In The Working Poor written by David Shipler, he discusses the barriers that low-income families face but gives reasoning to why our society can promote hope and change. Even though there is a stereotypical opinion of how low-income families don’t…

Books are an ancient form of entertainment that have lived on for a boundless amount of generations. Inherently, a book has more than just words, it gives every reader a different experience because there is always an abundance of ways to analyze the words. Furthermore, Karl Marx, an influential nineteenth century economist utilizes books to explain his socioeconomic method of analysis called, Marxism. One part of Marxism states the imbalance between the proletariats (lower class) and the…

have different ideas of what business is, I will prove that by comparing members of the upper class such as Darden Restaurants and members of the working class such as the employees of the Red Lobster. Members of the upper class are wealthy members of society. There is a stereotype that the upper class wants nothing to do with the middle class or working class. The members of Darden sees shutting down this particular location as strictly business, not taking in all the challenges the employees…

taking advantage of the large working class. During this time, there was a group of people known as “muckrakers” who attempted to expose this corruption in the big industrial businesses through literary works. One of the best known muckrakers was the author Upton Sinclair. Sinclair used his novel The Jungle to expose the corruption and unsanitary conditions of the meat-packing industry. He gave honest and sometimes gruesomely vivid descriptions of all of the working conditions that would concern…