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The author writes in a very remorseful, but somewhat hopeful tone. Budget cuts and inadequate early education for students provide disadvantages for those who have access to higher education. Students are not given the full opportunity to succeed because their circumstances and the educational system are quite burdensome.

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While budget cuts are a necessity in times of fiscal turmoil, the normalization of cuts to the educational budget as a primary resort will only cultivate long-term social and economic disadvantages.

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The poor are being ignored, despite the emphasis on progress, and this contributes to their lack of social mobility. This is only worsened by the defunding of useful programs and policies amidst budget cuts. There is more we can be doing to address the issue directly.

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In the last 50 years there has been no increase in opportunity or easier education access for lower income or impoverished people. The poor is drifting more and more into this dark area of American Capitalism

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Rhetorical Question: Paragraph 13
Anaphora- "Antigovernment, anti-welfare-state, antitax..." (p.12)

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Metaphors: He uses "the horizon of innovation" to form a metaphor that helps with imagery.

Personal Anecdotes: Discussing his own personal experiences with living in areas where students are victims of poverty and budget cuts to education.

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- Rhetorical question: He says "What kind of society do we want to become?"
- Metaphor: "dark underbelly of American capitalism"

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Personification: "As I have gotten to know these students, the numbers have come alive" (Rose 7). This quote shows the extent that students are impacted by lack of health care, unemployment, and other societal burdens.
Juxtaposition: "And all the while, more people are trying to enroll at the college... those who are admitted will tax an already burdened system" (Rose 9). While the college provides a benefit to the students, due to the lack of resources, the students provide a negative toll to the college

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What kind of society do we want to become?
Will there be another Michael Harrington 50 years from now writing about an America that has a higher rate of poverty and even wider social divides?

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"We are looking toward the horizon of innovation when we should be looking straight in front of us at the tens of millions of chronically unemployed Americans..."

"calcifying into a European-style class-based society"

"Sadly, the most ambitious of these [policies] ... was sacrificed..."

"I have been spending time at an inner-city community college..."

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"It has been nearly 50 years since Michael Harrington wrote The Other American...If he were writing today, Harrington would find the same populations as he did then..."

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"Hope and desire are brimming."

"Many, the young ones included, have health problems that are inadequately treated if treated at all."

"What really strikes me, though, is students' level of engagement..."

"It doesn't take long to imagine the kind of society we would have if more people had this opportunity."

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What is the relationship of Rose's concluding paragraph to his claim and to the evidence that he offers in the body of his essay?

Rose outlines the long-term and menacing effects of these continual budget cuts to be more disadvantageous than beneficial. This short term economic gain will only foster long-term economic division and inequity. He leaves the reader with two final question regarding the future of our education systems- implying that if these cuts continue, we can expect repetition and stagnation of our educational system.

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How does Rose tailor his message to his audience of college administrators?

He appeals to logos through emphasizing the need for education in paragraph 6, cites other sources, and mentions federal programs that were beneficial for the poor.

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Examine Rose's introductory paragraph. How does he structure this opening unit?

Rose structures the opening of his paper with a rhetorical question as a form of suspense and a way to hook the reader. Then goes on to discuss the multiple things going wrong with our government and it's lack of providing resources to the poor (from an educational standpoint). He goes onto emphasize the "drifting" into a dark hole of American capitalism. Finishing off his introduction with this dramatic appeal.

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Explain Rose's tone and voice in this essay. Where does he personalize his argument, and what is the effect?

Rose explains, as a person who works with these students, the noticeable trouble these kids go through. He notices their limp, which exposes their access to health care, he understands the problem with diminished availability of support systems, and he sees the impression classes have made on these students and how much they care about what they are learning because it is new and inspiring to them.

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In order to truly accomplish a better society, a society of economic excellence and growth, education has to be prioritized: we need provide opportunities for people to transform and explore occupations that are new, in order to stop the opportunity gap from increasing. If not, nobody will be able to continue fostering that excellence.

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(1) Metaphors

(2) References and an Allusion

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"And while the poor he wrote about were invisible in a time of abundance, ours are visible in a terrible recession, although invisible in most public policy." (p.2)

"We are looking toward the horizon of innovation when we should be looking straight in front of us at the tens of millions of chronically unemployed..." (p. 4)

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"It has been nearly 50 years since Michael Harrington wrote The Other America, pulling the curtain back on invisible poverty within the United States." (p.2)

"This is our 'Sputnik' moment..." (p.3)

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Examine Rose's introductory paragraph. How does he structure this opening unit?

Rose's intro paragraph begins with a rhetorical question setting the tone for discussions about the future, and what is needed to create "a society... we want to become". He's introducing the idea that what we do now, has a great impact on our collective futures; the economic decisions, social movements, and more, have an impact on tomorrow's world.