Post # 4

Here are two paragraphs from Essay #2

Economic inequality is a topic being brought to light more and more these days. There have been a host of essays, articles, and books written about the subject. There was even a documentary movie made about being born rich.


I think that people should be concerned about ridiculous economic inequality, when it means that some people don't get a fair shake. There are hedge funds and other tax craziness that cost the government lots of money with seemingly unfair tax reductions. Krugman said: "The nonpartisan Urban-Brookings Joint Tax Policy Center estimates that letting the Bush tax cuts expire for people with incomes over two hundred thousand dollars would be worth about $140 billion a year starting in 2012. That's enough to pay for the subsidies needed to implement universal health care." It looks like the money gained from fixing those loopholes would go a long way towards balancing things out a bit.

Post #3

For Mike in "Who Built the Pyramids" it seemed as though he was good at his job but he would like to get more recognition for his work. To him it meant he was able to provide for his kids so they could have a chance to do even better in life. In the film "Born Rich" there were a variety of people who were born into families who have a lot of money. The people interviewed had varying opinions and perspectives on being rich and what it meant to them.

One thing Mike said that was also echoed by some of the interviewees in "Born Rich" was that they each felt very separated from the other kind of people. Mike felt that they were different, and some of the people in "Born Rich" felt the same way. There was a nightclub in "Born Rich" were only kids who wanted to spend a whole lot of money in the nightclub were allowed to enter, therefore those same kinds of kids ended up seeing each other. Mike spent many of his off hours in Taverns with other people who performed similar labor jobs.

The two texts together indicate that some people in different "classes" in America felt separated from the other.

#2

The folowing is a paragraph from draft # 1 of essay #1

There was even a case when some workers in a Wal-Mart store succesfully joined a Union. These workers worked in the Meat Cutting section of one store. Within two weeks Wal-Mart announced it was cutting it's Meat Cutting departments nationwide. They also fired 4 workers who voted for the union. This seems to show that Wal-Mart is even willing to fire many workers to keep a union from forming anywhere in their company.

Blog post #1

Hello my name is Mwani Ngemi.

I was surprised to hear that Wal-Mart goes to the extraordinary lengths that it does to stop unions from forming in all of their stores. The tactics they used for that seemed really underhanded. I had heard that Wal-Mart does not treat it's employees too well but I didn't know exactly how they were doing that besides giving them low wages.