Riser Analysis

“The home is the wellspring of personhood. It is where our identity takes root and blossoms, whereas children, we imagine, play, and question, and as adolescents, we retreat and try. As we grow older, we hope to settle into a place to raise a family or pursue work. When we try to understand ourselves, we often begin by considering the kind of home in which we were raised” (Desmond 2016, 293). Evictions! The root of poverty? Matthew Desmond’s novel “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in America City, portrays the lives of tenants, landlords, and house marketing on the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee. Desmond gives the reader overwhelming evidence and revealing testimony illustrating the major impact of inadequate housing on individuals, local, and national level. Desmond’s analysis and observation of his case study enables him to portray the reality of poverty, and to persuade the readers that evictions are a major consequence, and primary contributors in the relentless cycle of poverty. Desmond build his argument using two Aristotelian rhetorical appeals, ethos, logos and inductive reasoning to illustrates the importance of ending the cycle of poverty.

The area that she was living it was to expensive for them to afford the house. She could not afford with only one jobs. That is why she was looking for a second job. It was difficult to find a stable job. The jobs she got didn’t pay enough money.

In the song it say “ you brake into the door of my heart and you pulled me”(out of the dark). So, it saying that God will do whatever he have to do to get you. Than it goes on to say “out of the dark, out of the dark into the light”(out of the dark). That God pulled you out of the darkness and to the light. There is sin, brokenness, pain, and hopeless in the dark. But God step on and try to help. It’s also say “you're never too broke” (out of the dark). Don’t think God won’t be there. No matter what you have done he will anyway be

We have been losing money, Noah couldn’t stay anymore, mom and dad have worked a lot more, we don’t have that much food, and the worst thing about it is that we don’t spend as much time as a family anymore. I’m Taylor Bloom and that is my story, about living after the Great

One of the metaphors is hold me. God is not actually holding her, yet she is meaning that he is taking care of her. Another metaphor in “Hold Me” would be her mentioning how he flipped her day around. God is not physically flipping her day around, but it means that he took her day from being sad to being happy. The lyrics also symbolize God. In the song he is mentioned is you, but she is actually meaning God. The song uses many hyperboles. The song says, “But, all I have is my voice and this guitar.” She has many more things like an arm, a head, a house, a car, etc. The song also states, “I love you more than the words in my brain can express.” She can say, “I love you,” or even, “I love you tremendously.” There are many ways that she can express, and say her love for

Ironically, the Homeland generation is the first to experience homelessness rates rivaling those of bygone times. We have to look back to the 1930s depression years to see a Gini-coefficient as high as it is today. To this generation the American Dream is a pipe dream and the idea of “upward mobility” an illusion that will be viewed through the lens of vintage nostalgia. Several generations feel the effects, but only the Homelanders grow up in a time after the terror, after the crash and after our trust in the institutions supposed to keep us happy were shattered. From Occupy and Piketty they learn the cruel realities of economic distribution, which reveals that their bounty in life might not be determined so much by their willingness to work hard as by their kin or by chance. Gone is easy credit and sub-prime financed McMansions. Instead we get multigenerational households and multifamily dwellings. Gone are the gas guzzling Hummers and its reputation as status symbol. Instead we see a new generation of parents who may be content using the subway or car-sharing networks. And while rich kids celebrate their birthdays more extravagantly than ever, a new crop of children, sensitized to world problems, often find meaning in

That is the thing that makes the song so relatable in light of the fact that everybody needs to be glad. They need to carry out an occupation that makes them upbeat, need a partner that makes them cheerful or even need stability or a blend of all. Happiness is more vital than the vast majority willing to admit, if an individual is happy they can be calm with everything else that is happening in life. Again, Kid Cudi stating his lyrics as “People told me slow my roll, I`m screaming out f*** that; Lookin` ahead no turnin` back; If I fall, if I die, I know I lived it to the fullest… and missed some bullets”. In other words, this song had some tragic verse and this particular verse concentrates on how accomplishing is imperative yet the trip may not be simple or as captivating of course. There will be numerous parts of life that are not clear or are disingenuous, but rather it is all justified, despite all the troubles. The chorus defines this by starting, “I`m on the pursuit of happiness and I know, Everything that shines ain`t always gonna be gold And I`ll be fine once I get it, I`ll be good”. Correspondingly, Kid Cudi using his life and his fame to describe that despite the fact that he needs satisfaction he may not get it and is content with that regardless of the struggle pursuing it. He even shows regret for his substance mishandle driven way of life with the lyrics,

lyrics and melody are often based on a life lesson with a broad look at life as a whole. In the song

A core tenet of the American dream is home ownership. At the turn of the century, young adults were buying homes. However, since the bursting of the housing bubble and the resulting mortgage banking crash, the rate of younger Americans purchasing a home has fallen sharply. Many millenials – those born between 1981 and 1997 – want to own a home, but doing so is financially beyond their reach. Half of recent college graduates have no full-time job (Kadlec, 2014), and those that do may be described as underemployed. The increasing diversity of that demographic is positively correlated with the downward trend in personal economic health (Drew, 2015; Myers & Simmons, 2017). The worsening financial strain leads young adults to postpone marriage and family, which also reduces the need for them to own a home. In fairness, the problem faced by millenials is only a microcosm of that faced by the populace as a whole. Home ownership for the population as a whole is the lowest it has been in over 20 years (Fry & Brown, 2016).

An idea that interested me in the song “Fix you” by Coldplay was how you will always have someone to lean on no matter what. When Chris sings “lights will guide home” he is using personification in this line because saying the lights will guide them is a human thing to do, as people guide each other which I think Chris is trying to demonstrate when he sings the lyrics “lights will guide you home.” It shows life itself because no matter how big the mistakes you make, no matter how bad life may seem, there will always be someone that will have your back. This reminds me of my friends who are always there for me whether its for when I’m feeling down or if I’ve had a bad day. These lyrics also emphasize that everyone goes through rough patchs in their life and they should let people try to help them. When my dog died this year, I didn’t take it well and I was distraught, but it made me going through the loss easier

In the beginning, there is a boy in a tunnel entrance and a train is quickly moving towards him. He jumps against the wall and you see a hand reaching out from one of the cars. I believe this to be symbolic of cattle going to be slaughtered. As the video progresses, we are shifted to a scene where a teacher bullies a student for not paying attention. This is addressed lyrically with the phrase ‘dark sarcasm’ which basically means that they mock the children in a rude way. Later on in the video, we see the students marching into a tunnel and as they come out, they no longer have their face, which is symbolic of conformism and how schools strip the individuality of our youth. They fall into a meat grinder, where they are then literally all grinded into “the same thing”. There are constant notions of sadism, which is evident through the dark imagery. The video ends on a more hopeful note, where the students are now reclaim their individuality by rebelling. They knock down the wall and refuse to become another brick in the wall, living in a society where bullying is accepted in

The song tells us to enjoy every day like it’s our last, and not to get caught up in the disappointments of daily life. We never know what day could be our last, and we should do our best to enjoy all the gifts that life has to offer us. We should take chances, enjoy the moment, and live with no regrets so we can truly be happy. This message is so applicable to our lives so many people focus on what’s coming next or what happened in the future, but we should learn to enjoy today. After all, we’re not here for a long time, we’re here for a good

This photograph represents Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (KJV) All of us in this photograph are Christian Women who grew up in the church. This was my mother and grandmother dream of us being educated women, now it has surpassed all their hopes and dreams. The reason I believe is because God is a big God. God will show you a life bigger than yourself. As student affairs professional, developing students, it will be my responsibility to make sure each student realized that social justice is all our responsibility. When one of us is oppressed we all our oppressed. Life is not about just me it is about all of us. Faith and God or in something bigger than yourself will play a very important role when life get difficult and sometimes it will. For me trusting in something bigger than myself like God gives me hope in the tough times in life when I feel more oppressed than privileged. In America the freedom to worship God openly is a privilege.

Both the song lyrics and the video have a core ethos that they share. The trend of ethos in the video is somewhat more noticeable than the ethos in the song because of the visuals provided, but still just as complex. Whereas in the song the writer is simply stating that he wishes he could turn back time, in the video, he brings the audience back in time with him to see the things that he experienced as a child.

When discussing millennial home buying habits, researchers will reference the dot com bust of the late 1990s and early 21st century [that] struck the technology industry”(“Dot Com Bubble”) which costed $5 trillion in losses- that’s five times the U.S. national deficit in 2011 (“U.S. Debt Visualized”). That’s like holding a cup full of water where each drop is worth one million dollars. That might even be an understatement, but the amount of money lost due to the dot com bust cannot be ignored- it was a big deal. There is no doubt that this stock market crash affected the number of homes being sold, and millennials face the aftermath of it. However, every generation prior also dealt with market crashes. The Great Depression in the 1920’s, the Wall Street Crash in 1929, the recession in the late 1930’s, the list goes on and on. Let’s not forget all the panics that happened in the 18th-19th century, alongside the mini crashes and