Sunday, April 25, 2010

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.

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  1. Prof. T.April 25, 2010 at 2:34 PM

    Good connection - what do you make of this, given how many people think of the United States as a place without a rigid class structure? Do Mike and the people in the film see this as a good or bad thing? Do they think it's inevitable?

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  2. Mwani.NgemiApril 29, 2010 at 1:46 AM

    If people with alot of money feel like wasting it in a nightclub or if a beer drinker wants to go out to a tavern, that's their choice. The amount of money they posses or choose to use does not necessarily denote their actions or hangouts. I don't think Mike or the people in the film see the things they do as a good or a bad thing, I think they just see at as the things they choose to do.

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