Junior Theme 2

After having a couple of weeks to look at the issues of the inequality, and gaining more and more information on the ideas and theories of different professors, I find that it's getting harder and harder to simplify and prioritize the ideas. There are so many thoughts by highly acclaimed experts that I could easily use for my paper but there is almost too much information that I have found.

Right now I am focusing on grouping together major points to make paragraph blocs and using other, not as major points, for addressing the other side. I almost always forget that we have to complete an annotated bibliography for this paper, and upon remembering I always try to record one or two more sources that I have found over the last few weeks.

So far, I'm happy to say that this process isn't as difficult as my initial thought and the ideas that I have found have helped me better understand my junior theme as a whole.

Junior Theme

For my junior theme topic, I am exploring the widening gap between the rich and poor in the United States. This jumped out at me right away because I've always been interested to know just why the middle class in the United States is slowly disappearing, and what can be account for these changes over the years.

One extremely interesting quote in an article that I came across while researching was, "Inequality in several advanced economies, including the U.S., has returned to levels not seen since before the Great Depression" (Talley). This sole quote was one of the reasons I wanted to research this, as it is obvious the inequality is becoming a huge problem in America, even more of a concern than people think.

I'm hoping to fully explore the concept and gain as much information as I can, though without including too much information that isn't as important to the paper. Finding this balance is going to be hard but I'm looking forward to exploring this topic.