The following three days passed by without Karl and Carol reaching any definite conclusion or solution about their investment.
On Thursday, they were invited by the Davidson’s to a dinner party celebrating their twenty-second wedding anniversary. It was a small party, attended by around fifteen couples, and by 11PM. the party was in full swing, with the thirty odd guests mingling, drinking and discussing various topical subjects and gossiping, as is always the case in parties like this.
The topic under discussion was about the rise in cost of living especially rents and how difficult it was to save nowadays. Soon this turned itself into a full fledged debate on the country’s current economic position and how hopeless and bleak the future looked ahead if the cost of living and in particular, rents continued to rise.
Susan talked about how her landlord had once again increased their apartment rent, and that too without any justification or warning, whilst Ben chipped in a about how his landlord was trying to evict old tenants from the building, so that he could rent out the apartments to newer tenants at exorbitantly inflated prices. Everyone was chipping into the conversation, putting in their two-bits and narrating horrific tales, that they had heard or in extremely rare cases experienced themselves.
From rents, the topic turned to jails and how the nation’s jail was over-crowded with debtors and how most of these debtors were victims of poor laws or absence of proper laws. A case in point, and one avidly discussed, was the absence of any sort of bankruptcy law in this nation.
In this country there was no such thing as bankruptcy. If by chance you owed money or were in debt, and were unable to pay it back, then un...
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... of what is paid to them and return the balance. I already did this math two days ago and therefore I am so sure about it now.”
Carol relaxed visibly on hearing all this, but still maintained her plans by saying, “Even so, I feel it is time for us to go back. I am not interested in great wealth, all I am interested is in staying with you and growing old together with you.”
“I know that love, and that is why I adore you so. You are everything to me too. Now let us lighten up our moods and enjoy our brunch.” Saying so he got up and led Carol to the sumptuous brunch table, where they piled their plates from the goodies on display laid out before them.
Math has a funny way of proving logic wrong although it solely relies on logic itself. How wrong Karl’s math was, would soon reveal itself, even before he left this hotel, even before he left this brunch room.
In an excerpt from “Debtors’ Prisons,” author Samuel Johnson uses many different rhetorical strategies to express his feelings on debtors’ prisons. One device that he uses is guilt, another is examples, and another is fact.
Jacoby uses many claims about how crime in the United States has grown and the how faulty America’s justice system currently is. One claim said that citizens pay around “$30,000 per inmate each year” (Jacoby 197). This grasps the reader’s attention by connecting their life to the problem; it is their money, a lot of their money, being used to imprison these criminals. The rates have increased on inmates since the 1980s by over 250% (Jacoby 197). Jacoby declares that the prison system is terrible; he uses accurate and persuading evidence.
of rent will not increase as quickly as inflation. While the moral side of rent
Tenants being charged a higher rate is also seen in Samiya Bashir’s “Home is Where the Harm is: Inadequate Housing as a Public Health Crisis”. The higher monthly rate is forcing families to neglect other needs, “when families are forced not only to meet, but often exceed, standard spending on housing, other important needs suffer, such as food, health care, and insurance as well as family activities that provide exercise and emotional stability” (Bashir 735).
Arnott, Richard. "Time for Revisionism on Rent Control?" The Journal of Economic Perspectives (1986-1998) 9.1 (1995): 99.ProQuest. Web. 12 Mar. 2014.
He reasons that “the public loss will rise in one year to three hundred thousand pounds” (40-2). Through this, Johnson supplies a logical reason in ending the debtors’ prisons. Johnson also makes note of how ironic the situation is—squandering money to chain people up for not being able to pay their debts. Its impetus is better for the reason why these people are in jail in the first place is due to them contributing to the loss of money and placing them in prison is increasing the loss; there is more money to lose in putting them in jail. Johnson reinforces the idea that what the government will see is that such practices is fruitless; they are continually wasting money on debtors and the debts these people owe will not be paid back at all due to all the trauma they are undergoing while being in jail, it will take them longer to gather what the money. Therefore, the notion of continuing the presence of debtors’ prison will prove to be illogical in the
Martin, Lori L. “Debt to Society: Asset Poverty and Prisoner Reentry.” The Review of Black Political Economy 38.2 (June 2011): 131-143. Springer Link. Web. 2 Nov. 2013.
Lappin, H. G., & Greene, J. (2006). Are prisons just? In C. Hanrahan (Ed.), Opposing Viewpoints: America’s prisons (pp. 51-98). Detroit: Bonnie Szumski.
Distinguished guests, those of dubious distinction and those of no distinction, family, relatives, in-laws and outlaws, young and old, friends, friends of friends, freeloaders and hangers-on – let me extend a warm welcome to Meradith and Naren’s wedding reception celebration.
To understand what is being discussed, one has to understand the underlying problem: rent control, as a result of a shortage of affordable housing. Rent control is defined as “a law placing a maximum price, or a “rent ceiling,” on what landlords may charge tenants” (Block, W. n.d) and is the “stated goal of preserving affordable housing for low- and middle-income families” (Blackwell, L. n.d). Rent control changes depending on the country. In this essay the effects of rent control will be discussed.
In the next few sessions Dr.Yalom finds Betties endless chatter about her life extremely unmoving. Dr.Yalom describes their talks as, “cocktail chatter” with no real substa...
Guetzkow, J., & Schoon , E. (2015). If you build it, they will fill it: The consequences of prisons overcrowding litigations. Law & society reviews , 49(2) , 401-432. doi: 10. 1111/lasr. 12140.
As I entered the pub, I noticed business was usual, that is, both the dinner side and bar side were at capacity. I quickly walked pass the waitresses and entered the bar area, which was completely packed. There were people eating dinner, watching sports, playing on the billiard table, and of course, sitting at and around the bar drinking and laughing. I walked around the bar trying to locate a table for myself, but they were all occupied. I stood there for a minute or so regretting my decision to conduct observations at the Pub at the beginning of a weekend. Finally, after a short awkward wait, a table opened up in the corner of the bar, so I rushed over and got a seat.
In Katherine Brush's short story, The Birthday Party, she writes about a special occasion planned by a wife dedicated for the husband that turned into a soured night through the use of atmosphere, antecedent, and diction to achieve her purpose of a great night going wrong.
McMurty, John. "Caging the Poor: The Case Against the Prison System." The Case For Penal Abolition. Ed. W. Gordon West and Ruth Morris. Toronto, Canada: Canadian Scholars' Press, 2000. 167-186.