11/28/17

Today in class we learned to apply close remaining skills to identify modern and romantic qualities. We also learned about framing narratives, which is a story within a story. For example, Frankenstein, Rip Van Winkle, The princess Bride. We distinguished that these stories are very romantic because it shows the value of stories/storytelling. It shows how the (inner) story affects the (outer) bigger picture. It also emphasizes on folk. We also distinguished wealth division, gut feelings, class, access to old and new money.

This connects to the real world because there is wealth division in America today. For example, according to an analysis that excludes pensions and social security, the richest 1% of the American population in 2007 owned 34.6% of the country's total wealth, and the next 19% owned 50.5%. Thus, the top 20% of Americans owned 85% of the country's wealth and the bottom 80% of the population owned 15%.