Goodbye, Columbus: Ohio’s War on the Middle Class Rhetorical Analysis Essay “Goodbye, Columbus: Ohio’s War on the Middle Class” is an article written by Mac McClelland, in which she seeks to capture the consequences of the economic downfall for friends of hers and people she meets in Ohio. The article was featured in the November/December 2011 issue of Mother Jones. Mother Jones magazine attracted smart journalist and Liberals. The stated mission of Mother Jones is to produce revelatory journalism that in its power and reach informs and inspires a more just and democratic world. McClelland is well known for being a great human rights reporter, although in 2011 she was considered untrustworthy when she wrote a personal essay about countering her PTSD with rape fantasy roleplay sex, with some journalists defending it and other journalists criticizing it.
The drinking age should not be lowered to 18. Lowering the drinking age from 21 years old to 18 years old could lead to an increase in dangerous behavior such as drunken driving and car accidents, risk of developing alcoholism and people under the age of 21 do not fully understand the dangers of alcohol. A teenage driver and alcohol is a dangerous combination. Drinking and driving accidents are the number one cause of death among teenagers. “Traffic deaths from drunken driving have fallen steadily, with those involving teenagers 16 to 19 declining by 39.1 percent from 1982 to 1990, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)”.
In the same year not a single Japanese child died of gunshot wounds. Great Britain had nineteen deaths, Germany fifty-seven, France one hundred nine, and Canada one hundred fifty-three. (Rubin 352.) Yes, people will continue to kill each other even if we ban guns, but all the evidence including plain common sense, says they can’t do it so efficiently and in such large numbers without the aid of a gun. Rubin is one of many that believe that guns should be made illegal, but if guns are made illegal, how is it fair to those that are safe with guns?
This monograph by Mary C. McComb on how college youth and experts negotiate their class identity as "middle class" during the economic crises of the Great Depression enters this conceptual quagmire, but although she occasionally comes close to tripping a fuse, she emerges with some illuminating pathways. McComb has crafted a tidy research monograph with well chosen cases in order to focus on the formation of a class-based discourse on middle-class identity in a decade when the economic basis of class privilege was undermined by weakened depression-era prospects. Close readings of student newspapers at five colleges and Universities contrast the views of relatively privileged Amherst College men with those of their female peers at Mount Holyoke. She then sets these perspectives against those of less elite collegiate youth at two additional private institutions, but in these cases coeducational schools in urban settings (Washington, DC) with distinctly different racial student bodies-the white George Washington University and the black Howard University. Finally, McComb fills out her research with the case of students from a land grant public university, the University of Michigan, where she was completing the dissertation on which this book was based.
Among the painful experiences she endures, she also has some hopeful experiences; such as, when she is taken to New York and the British get her to document information about the black people who have been sent away. Her literacy skills are invaluable as they write a book called The Book of Negroes. She then heads to Nova Scotia, and then Sierra Leone where she helps the British establish a colony and finally to London where as an old woman she plays a key role helping the abolitionists campaign to abolish slavery by retelling her story and revealing the brutal and unjust ways the slaves were treated. She becomes the “face” of the campaign. The movie The Color Purple that is based on a book by Alice Walker shares many of the same themes as The Book of Negroes.
Edu10002 understanding language and literacy Smitha Rallapalli Student number: 100637372 Assessment Task 1 The topic I chose is about what Emotional help is available for the survivors of Domestic Violence, due to the circumstances being a victim would cause loss of hope. After a good search about the topic I selected four sources that helped me to learn more about my topic. My first source is domestic Violence Support Group a social website (“Domestic violence support group” , 2010) is a Facebook page created in 2010 by Emily and Ally who are victims of domestic violence, this is an active page which has above 20000 likes and more than 130 active participants, this webpage supports people who need advice, both men and women survivors and victims to express their thoughts and feelings and share their experiences, this page helped me to understand more about the topic by using social constructivism theory , it gave me an overview on kind of support available to the survivors by reading and by participating through the social interactions it let me dwell deep into the topic on how survivors thoughts would be, and how they are supported. This page also provide links to Queensland women’s clinic, domestic violence center where the professional help is offered and also the help line, based on the likes and active participants and the links that are provided by the website page, this was a reliable source for my topic. As this was a social website next source I went through is an informative website of Domestic Violence Resource Center Victoria (“Domestic violence resource”, no date) I chose this source because it is a non-profit organization supported by Department of Human Services, Victoria, Australia.
Reid Cannon V00760888 Fallen Women and Rescued Girls: Social Stigma and Media Narratives of the Sex Industry in Victoria, B.C., from 1980 to 2005 1) Describe in a paragraph the various methods or ways of gathering data that the authors used in this study. For gathering data for this study, the authors used two methods. One of the main methods being print media from the Times Colonist, the years of analysis being 1980 to 2004. The other crucial way of gathering information was through face-to-face interviews with the sex workers. These self-reported experiences were the only real way to get the truth on this trade.
There has been no consistent evidence that crowding is associated with mortality, morbidity which is defined as clinic utilization), recidivism, violence, or other pathological behaviors (Gaes 1994). In addressing any problem area, one first must define the terms or operational definitions. The United States Supreme Court on November 30, 2010, heard oral argument in Schwarzenegger v. Plata about whether a federal court in California properly ordered the release of 40,000 prisoners to relieve the severe overcrowding in the state's prisons that has led to inadequate medical and mental health care for prisoners (Equal Justice Initiative, 2010). America’s prisons now hold more than 2.3 million people, and many of the facilities are overcrowded, with serious implications for both health and safety. Since the mid-1970s, the prison population in the nation’s largest state has risen by more than 750%, from about 20,000 to more than 160,000 (Equal Justice Initiative, 2010).
The VAWA created several guidelines to avoid domestic violence, and protect women. These guidelines are creating safe homes and streets for females, equal justice in courts, reduction of domestic violence and stalking, protection and more safety for abused women and children from abroad, and strengthening the already existing laws. The American Journal of Public Health published a case study in 2003 to explore the reasons for domestic violence, and the term Femicide, which is used to explain that a partner killed his or her female spouse, has been created. The homicide of women started to attract more awareness, and the expression Femicide increased the awareness that there is such a thing as domestic violence against women. The case study discovered that there are multiple reasons to be more likely to become a victim of domestic violence.
For example, when we were told not too long ago that only three out of 10 road accidents in the country involved female motorists, it still did not mean that men were worse drivers than women. We can argue about things like this, and on the ideal minimum driving age for that matter, till the cows come home and still not reach an agreement. The fact is Malaysia's minimum age of 17 for obtaining a probationary or P car driving licence, before graduating to competent driving licence two years later, is neither the highest nor the lowest in the world. It is the same as the practice in several other countries including the United Kingdom, although the more popular minimum driving age in Asia and Europe appears to be 18.