Jason Chan
ROC1 English 1000C
Part One
Having met two professors of economics I had a better understanding of my field of work. I met with Professor Charles Clark and a Dean Leary, after talking with the both of them they gave me a good understanding of what most questions that scholars in their field would ask, like for example a main issue or question scholars would ask was “Why is the economy having so much problems?” After having this conversation with the professors they both told me about a project the two are doing themselves, about poverty and how to define poverty now and how to redefine poverty. While both professors had good ideas on how I could see overviews of conversations I believe that Professor Clark’s idea of picking up The Wall Street Journal or The New York Times would be for the best. I believe that if people went on www.bea.gov that they would find it very convenient to understand the fact of life right now and what is happening in today’s business world. My semester conversation will be on how poverty is affecting the world today and also on how the economy is affected. Having said that why poverty is spreading?
Part 2
My semester topic shall be on the reasons why poverty is spreading in the world. The title of the article is U.S News: Ranks of Uninsured Fell in ’07, Census Says.
Reverse outline:
1. Many people cannot afford health insurance in America
2. The reason is due to poverty
3. Americans are having trouble in this economy because people can’t find jobs
4. Half a million people in this country has lost their jobs
Dougerty, Conor and Zhang, Jane. “U.S. News: Ranks of Uninsured Fell in ’07, Census Says.” Economics, Aug 27, 2008: A3-. The Wall Street Journal. http://proquest.umi.com.jerome.stjohns.edu:81/pqdweb?index=28&did=1542524971&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=4&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1221792410&clientId=9216 .
Although this article is not very “interesting” it has some very precise facts on what is happening around the United States as a whole instead of a part. It tells us facts of the economic progression whether it be, the employment rate going up or down, or the poverty rate is not changing or is actually increasing. The fact that employment is going down and people losing their jobs are a big factor in why many people are going into the state of poverty. My semester topic will be on why or how come some parts or most parts of America is going into poverty.
Part 3
My semester’s inquiry question will be, how do certain components affect poverty? Other questions I would are: Why does such a successful country have poverty at all? I will also see if unemployment affects poverty, like does stocks have a factor in poverty?
Part 4
Poverty, what is the definition of poverty? There are many different definitions of poverty but the main definition of poverty to most people is the means of being poor. Although there are rich people in the world there are also poor people but what are the reasons there are poor people?
The discussion I had with Professor Clark and Dean Leary of business and economics showed their concern with poverty in the world today. They are both looking for those reasons while both working on a project of defining poverty today. They wonder why the economy is having problems. Why are people getting unemployed so much?
In the article, U.S. News: Ranks of Uninsured Fell in ’07, Census Says, says that poverty has not decreased changed but it has actually increased a little. It also said that the rate of unemployment rate has also if been going up these past few years. The article shows some reasons of why poverty is still an issue in today’s society and what some factors of poverty is. My semester topic is the reason why poverty is spreading in the world.
How do certain components affect the world? Having said that the role of this inquiry question can somehow find the reason why there is poverty spreading in the world today. It was a big role in the conversation because I can than formulate a solution of poverty.
Finding the reasons for poverty there could be a great chance to stop poverty and try to eliminate it. Even if we can’t eliminate it prevention of it spreading it will be a good factor in the world as well.
Part 5
The object text in this topic is government and economic data. The only way to show evidence of poverty is the data we get from surveys or census’s, in the survey from the article it shows that from 1991 to 1999 that poverty decreased but than through the last eight years poverty has increased from 11.9% to a 12.5% which is a large amount of the country. I will be analyzing certain data from www.bea.gov or finding surveys that show unemployment rates in certain areas and also the poverty rate in those areas to show the reasoning behind poverty.
