I have read the chapter 7 and chapter 8 of book written by Deborah Stone. In these chapters the author Stone has described the facts about the values of symbols and numbers in development and change of public welfare policies by the politicians. According to Stone, symbolic representation is the embodiment of issue definition in politics. According to the author, a symbol is anything that stands for something else. The importance of a symbol is not characteristic for it, but rather is put resources into it by the general population who use it. The symbols which shape our recognitions and suspend distrust are what make symbols political gadgets. This makes symbols a method for impact and control, despite the fact that it is regularly difficult …show more content…
This book also gives me the understanding of different facts about the policy. DeParle takes a gander at the political and business interests being referred to. Regardless, he is most persuading in his delineation of the individual clash of these women and their youths to remove lives for themselves in the midst of insecurity and even with massive obstructions. I am agreed with DeParle perspective that the legacy of welfare change is substantially more ambiguous. DeParle debunks numerous myths encompassing the old framework. For instance, moderates once contended that welfare advantages compensated and consequently energized out-of-wedlock births in the African American community. One reason the welfare rolls dropped by more than half after the 1996 law is that beneficiaries who were at that point working off the books weren't willing to bear the extra weight of new workfare prerequisites, for example, cleaning public structures or sort mail. At long last, the author considers Wisconsin's welfare-to-work program, once held to be a model of accomplishment. That notoriety doesn't confront investigation. Debasement and wastefulness persistent the privately owned businesses contracted to give caseworkers those charged shepherding previous welfare beneficiaries to …show more content…
Numbers and stories are symbolic representations that are a part of the policies and have been made to remain for something else. Most policy problems are center problems. Impact now and again skirting on intimidation, participation, and dedication are the major types of association. Gatherings and associations are the building squares of the community. Data is never great. A few assets are rare and rivalrous, yet numerous are against rivalrous and bottomless. I believe that the polis demonstrate all the more nearly speaks to the way we make and comprehend public policy. I additionally think that it is essential to remember these two models of society as we proceed with ideas of the author Stone. She utilizes a ton of illustrations from social policy most remarkably, welfare and governmental policy regarding minorities in society in view of her experience and hobbies as a researcher, additionally in light of the fact that we can see the contrasts between these two models obviously in the social policy stadium. That does not imply that we can't matter Stone to other substantive policy territories, and we will do only that as the course advances. So in the wake of taking the look of thoughts of both authors, I can conclude that correspondence,
Like the bike you bought after saving lawn-mowing money for a year, welfare reform was the prized trophy of the conservative governing philosophy. We believed that we’d found the vehicle of social mobility for poor Americans, once and for all. No one should live on taxpayer money without doing some work on their own, right? Everyone agrees, right? Wrong.
She states this reform was introduced 10 years prior to her article being written and then asks, “But, what happened to these women and children once they left welfare?” (Blank, 2006). She immediately answers, “It turns out that those who left welfare did well enough to surprise the skeptics, myself included, but it remains hard to identify all the reasons” (Blank, 2006). Before the reform took place and even some time after, Blank was not for the welfare program.
Chapter Three Summary Slater introduces chapter three with telling us that David Rosenhan was greatly ill towards the end of his life. Slater later tells us that Rosenhan and eight of his friends fake they’re way into different mental hospitals just by saying “I’m hearing things”. In fact, Slater wanted to see how the psychiatrist can see the sane from insane. Later, Robert Spitzer gave Rosenhan rude criticism about his experiment.
After reading chapter 11, it’s sufficient to say Zach Wahls has a very strong sense of right and wrong. During this chapter, he talks mainly about defining “morality” through the use of moments in his life. He uses these experiences to help break down the idea of what is truly immoral and what society believes is immoral. The examples he uses range from simple things like drinking soda and smoking.
In Chapter 14, the nineteenth century is seen as a time of “movement.” During this time period of 1790-1860, one witnesses great western development as well an tremendous increase in immigration from Europe. Population booms causing new social organizations to be founded as immigrants enter the workforce in which factory work becomes much more tires. This leads to the Industrial Revolution which spurs both Northeastern and Western economy as new American innovations arise. With these two major themes of the century, the Transportation Revolution becomes inevitable as both sides of an expanding country connect communal and commercial forces.
Author Dee Brown presents a factual as well as an emotional version of the relationship among the Indians, the American settlers, and the U.S. government. The massacre at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota on December 29, 1890, provides the backdrop for the narrative. In his introduction, Brown states the reason for his work. Thousands of accounts about life in the American West of the late nineteenth century were written. Stories are told of the traders, ranchers, wagon trains, gunfighters, and gold-seekers.
At the time, women were not allowed to vote, and thus had a small impact on the political aspect of their communities. In order the logically support her claim, Kelley used deductive reasoning in order to draw a relation between women’s suffrage and child labor laws. This is supported as she states, “Until the mothers in the great industrial states are enfranchised, we shall none of us be able to free our consciences from participation in this evil.” The author states that since women are loving and heavily supportive of their children, logically allowing them to vote would lead to the creation of better child labor legislature. By using the broad generalization that all women are good mothers, she applies it to the specific case of women’s suffrage in order to support her point.
Octavia Butler uses symbolism to highlight how the irregular occurrence of time travel forces Dana to accept slavery and how her past will “live” in her presence. Dana is forced to assimilate to the past because she has no control over her fate, and her life in the past revolves around slavery. The fact that Dana quickly transitions from the past to the present shows that she is quick to accept this time of slavery even though she is not mentally prepared for it. After Dana is disturbed by the inhumanity that the children show by playing an auction game, she says, “The ease. Us, the children… I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery” (Butler 101).
Molly Dickinson 1/25/17 1st hour The Innocent Who Plead Guilty “Subjective guilt, associated with this sense of responsibility, is thought to be irrational because one feels guilty despite the fact that he knows he has done nothing wrong,” (Sherman 154). Many people, especially war veterans understand that they are guilty for a situation they couldn’t have controlled. This situation happened to the narrator in the “The Seventh Man” when his friend died and the narrator couldn’t let go of his remorse for forty years.
The Welfare Reform Act of 1996 was a landmark legislation that drastically altered how the U.S. government approached poverty. Passed during Bill Clinton's presidency, the reform aimed to decrease the dependency on state support by promoting self-reliance and employment among the populace. This initiative gave birth to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. However, despite the seemingly positive intentions, the Act arguably created a plethora of issues. In fact, many have criticized the reform for its unrealistic assumptions about the reality of poverty in America.
As Davidson blames a “dysfunctional family” (1997) for teenage pregnancies, the Art of Living Institute takes a pride in providing all kinds of support, including education, to promote leaving the welfare system. The third fable Davidson tells about the famous “welfare queen” (1997), who cheated the welfare system and was portrayed as an example by President Ronald Reagan on many occasions. Davidson explains this pure fantasy, as welfare recipients have hard times to meet the ends, especially the single
Nicholas Carr introduces his opinion of automation through an example of the overused system of autopilots during an airline flight and questions our growing dependence to technology that is gradually beginning to complete task that we can do for ourselves. Carr moves on to reminisces back to his high school driving lessons, his experiences from driving automatic stick shift to manual stick shift and expresses his joy of being able to be in control of his own vehicle. He then focuses on the self – driving Google car that can effortlessly tours around the California and Nevada area, reporting that an accident did occur but was a manual drivers fault. Over the course of the chapter, he presents us with different scenarios of how technology plays
Government organizations often use symbols to portray their power or military strength. Writers also use symbols to convey a message to the reader. In his novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses symbols to help readers track the loss of civility of the boys. The fire is both a symbol of hope and the reckless behavior of the boys.
Victor Rios begins chapter six by describing the way the Latino boys he studied used masculinity as a rehabilitative tool. He describes how the boys are constantly “questioning” each other’s manhood as a way of proving their own masculinity. “The boys’ social relations with one another and with community members were saturated with expressions and discourses of manhood” (pg.125). Rios continues to describe the affects criminalization and its gendered practices has influenced these young boy’s mentality of what it means to be masculine. In chapter six, the author explains that although the boys had easy access to weapons, they rarely used them because of their clear understanding the consequences associated with such violence.
In “The Seventh Man”, the narrator feels guilty for being unable to save his friend K. from an incoming wave. He believes that he should have been able to get to him in time for him to live and that he did not try hard enough to keep him alive. I believe that he should forgive himself for his actions, or lack thereof, since he can not go back in time to change what happened. Nancy Sherman states in “The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt” that many survivors feel guilty for surviving a traumatic event when other innocent people have not or not being able to save a comrade. This guilt is what she calls ‘survivor guilt’.