Eat The Rich Chapter Summaries

In the first few pages of Chapter Three, Kingsolver talks about heirloom vegetables and says “these titles stand for real stories.” What is meant by the title is heirloom plants give off seeds that end up being saved and used for many generations (112). Those seeds have history behind them; family stories that span over several years. For example, on page 144 Kingsolver talked about this heirloom seed exchange in Iowa where one of the founders’ grandfather left a pink tomato plant that his parents brought from Bavaria in the 1870s. The seeds are comparable to a family heirloom. Both get handed down from generation to generation and have a story of what the meaning of the object is and how it all got started.

Chapter 5 from On The Rez informs the reader on different cultural as well as historical information regarding Native Americans. Frazier explains historical information that pulls emotion from the reader. Throughout the book, Frazier continues to bring up Native American traditions, conversely, chapter 5 explains situations different tribes went through. Reading chapter 5 in On The Rez has changed my opinion of the reasons behind Frazier’s book.

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This video Kids for Cash is about young children being sent to juvenile detention. Talks about the cruelty of the punishments. I heard one example of a girl creating a myspace about the vice principal. The girl and her friends created a parody of the principal. The girls talked and bullied and other kids left comments which she was arrested.

On Every Front: The Making of the Cold War In the first chapter of the book, the author describes the devastation that the world saw after World War II was over. Paterson describes recollections about individuals like Winston Churchill who surveyed the rubble upon conclusion of the war. One excerpt I found interesting was when the prime minister entered what was left of Adolf Hitler’s chancellery. Churchill noted that his marble desk now was in a thousand pieces. The same day that Churchill surveyed Berlin, United States President Harry Truman got to look at the former Nazi Capital.

The textbook, Just Practice by Janet L. Finn and Maxine Jacobson, it describes several topics that pertains to social work, that includes theoretical perspective on social justice, engagement, teaching and learning and finally action and accompaniment. This paper will summarize the Just Practice textbook, chapters five through eight and go over in great detail about each topic and how each one is related to social work and/or social justice.

Waiting til’ the midnight hour begins outlining the front runners of the civil rights movement. The chapter Starts in april 1957. It mentions a horrific scene of Johnson X after being assaulted by police officers was screaming allah prayers. Angry mob in the beginning james hicks editor of major newspaper contacted Malcolm X. Malcolm X was then advocating for him and that he receive the correct medical attention. Furthermore, if he did not receive this, he showed that he could be every militant being soldiers in military style lines.

The Working Poor travels into the forgotten America. It is a book about people and places that most us have never thought about. We have our debates about these people, their lifestyles, how they raise their children and where they work but we don't really know them and for the most part don't care. How many of us notice "the man who washes cars but does not own one, the clerk who files cancelled checks at the bank but has $2.02 in her own account or the woman who copyedits medical textbooks but hasn't been to a dentist in a decade?"(Shipler,3) With this book, Shipler takes you into their lives, it allows you to understand some of their choices and their lack of options. The Working Poor makes you understand what it is like to work hard,

In Matt Taibbi’s book The Divide, the criminal justice system is revealed to have become a form of social control over the poor. Taibbi refers to this divide between rich and poor as “two systems in a vacuum,” where there are two separate systems depending on whether you’re rich or poor that people seem to accept. When looking at both systems in comparison, however, the system makes no sense. An example Taibbi uses throughout his book is the legal process of petty crimes, such as drug dealing or just sleeping on a park bench overnight, where, due to minimum sentencing laws, people have had to serve a minimum 20-year prison sentences. These are people that are poor and desperate enough to sleep on a cold park bench, but instead of giving them

Predictions: My predicted of this chapter was that it was going to say the same thing that I was thinking. But guess not. But as I started reading further into the book it give you some interest ways to so what or who care. But my real prediction was that the writer of this book” they say I say “was give us permission to literally saying who care and starting an argument with the writer of the book.

His critiques in the text include portraying the extremely harsh working conditions faced in the capitalist manufacturing industry; as well as, showing the levels of political corruption that were prevalent in capitalist systems and telling of the absolute levels of wealth inequality and the differences between socioeconomic classes that were relevant to

Craig Mullaney definitely made many challenges for himself and accepted challenges from others with no questions asked. Being the thriving Valedictorian of his high school class and earning other prestigious accolades he stood out from the other entire student. But at West Point, Mullaney would be intertwined with hundreds of other classmates with the same, if not more achievements, making it seemingly impossible to be any kind of a predominant student.

The plot structure not only forces people to reevaluate their views on capitalism, the American Dream, and opportunity itself, but furthermore advocates social change. The book implicitly suggests communist ideals through the characters of Tom and Casey. Casey, in his questioning of Christian dogma, begins to reevaluate equality, in the terminology of what is holy.

In A Capitalist Manifesto, Gary Wolfram provides an explanation of how free market systems work in society and highlights their benefits compared to socialist economies. The first chapters of the book are an introduction to microeconomics: how marginal analysis, supply, demand, market equilibrium, opportunity cost, and profits work. According to him there are three fundamental advantages to a market economy: it allocates resources efficiently, consumers determine wages and therefore income distribution is fair, and finally it’s the only method of organizing society that is consistent with individual liberty. He explains that socialism is an economic system that is is unable to provide a decent standard of living for people and that it cannot survive, giving as an example the fall of the Iron Curtain. The reason is that

Capitalism and Freedom, written by Milton Friedman, seems to focus significantly on the connections between the economics and politics, and the effect that those have in various aspects of society. This relationship was referred to throughout the book, and the topics Friedman discusses ranged between governmental control of money, to foreign policy and trade and the effect that has on our economy. Through the course of the book, Friedman constantly refers to his “classical liberal” view, which focuses on the freedoms and power of the individual in society. Friedman shows his support of this view during the book using the idea of a laissez-faire government. For Freidman, government involvement in issues regarding society should