10/30

On Monday October, 30th our objectives were to identify tactics that make an argument effective and to analyze how modernism reveals more complex relationships through romanticism. We started off the class by receiving bagels from one of the people from the winning group of the game, Finn. That was a very kind thing to do and it also related to our topic of romanticism. It showed the higher class(winning group) sharing their wealth to the lower class(losing teams). It is very uncommon to see in today's world. The one percent don't like to share their money to the poor people. That leads to the next thing we did in class, which was watch a short video and write down things we found in the video to be useful. The video was about the distribution of wealth in America. The video goes into detail about what the distribution really looks like and what people think it should look like. Then Mr.Rivers went over the main idea of the video and put down two questions on the board which were what was the argument and how it was supported. We had to answer on our own and then in our groups. The argument was that the 1% of people had way to much money while the lower 80% had little to no money at all which is horrible. He proved it by giving many charts and statistics of the topic and those supported the statement well. He also gave us information like salaries and jobs to show the difference between everything. Then for the last few minutes of class we started to go over a slideshow about Malcolm Gladwell who wrote the outliers. In the outliers it talks about the American dream and where its coming from. He believes it comes from legacy and opportunity. Legacy being what you were born in to and opportunity being what is given to you.