Exploring the Text

  1. How does Fareed Zakaria’s characterization of the American Dream compare with your own?

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    Chapter 7 - How to Restore the American Dream - Exploring the Text: How does Fareed Zakaria’s characterization of the American Dream compare with your own?
  2. What is the rhetorical shift that Zakaria uses between paragraphs 3 and 4? How does it prepare the reader for what he says about “the experts” in paragraph 6?

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    Chapter 7 - How to Restore the American Dream - Exploring the Text: What is the rhetorical shift that Zakaria uses between paragraphs 3 and 4? How does it prepare the reader for what he says about “the experts” in paragraph 6?
  3. What are the consequences of technology that Zakaria discusses at the beginning of the second section, “Going Global”? Research the Luddites, who rebelled against mechanization in the textile industry in nineteenth-century England. To what extent are we now facing a problem similar to the one that they faced?

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    Chapter 7 - How to Restore the American Dream - Exploring the Text: What are the consequences of technology that Zakaria discusses at the beginning of the second section, “Going Global”? Research the Luddites, who rebelled against mechanization in the textile industry in nineteenth-century England. To what extent are we now facing a problem similar to the one that they faced?
  4. Zakaria makes the claim that “none of them [corporations] will ever give up on the American market” (para. 9). Analyze his argument according to the Toulmin model that you learned about in Chapter 3.

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    Chapter 7 - How to Restore the American Dream - Exploring the Text: Zakaria makes the claim that “none of them [corporations] will ever give up on the American market” (para. 9). Analyze his argument according to the Toulmin model that you learned about in Chapter 3.
  5. What is the crucial distinction that Zakaria makes in paragraph 15? Compare and contrast this distinction with the one that Matthew B. Crawford makes in “The Case for Working with Your Hands” (p. 449).

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    Chapter 7 - How to Restore the American Dream - Exploring the Text: What is the crucial distinction that Zakaria makes in paragraph 15? Compare and contrast this distinction with the one that Matthew B. Crawford makes in “The Case for Working with Your Hands” (p. 449).
  6. How does Zakaria describe the relationship between consumerism and credit? What does he suggest the consequences will be?

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    Chapter 7 - How to Restore the American Dream - Exploring the Text: How does Zakaria describe the relationship between consumerism and credit? What does he suggest the consequences will be?
  7. As he concludes the second section of the essay, how does Zakaria appeal to logos and pathos? Which is the stronger appeal?

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    Chapter 7 - How to Restore the American Dream - Exploring the Text: As he concludes the second section of the essay, how does Zakaria appeal to logos and pathos? Which is the stronger appeal?
  8. How does Zakaria compare the advantages and disadvantages of economic approaches in the United States as opposed to Europe and Asia (paras. 21–30)? What is the approach that Americans have resisted? Why has that been the case?

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    Chapter 7 - How to Restore the American Dream - Exploring the Text: How does Zakaria compare the advantages and disadvantages of economic approaches in the United States as opposed to Europe and Asia (paras. 21–30)? What is the approach that Americans have resisted? Why has that been the case?
  9. What is the nature of the complaint Zakaria makes in paragraph 31? Does his strong characterization help or hinder his case? Explain.

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    Chapter 7 - How to Restore the American Dream - Exploring the Text: What is the nature of the complaint Zakaria makes in paragraph 31? Does his strong characterization help or hinder his case? Explain.
  10. Zakaria begins many of his paragraphs with short, simple sentences, and then he develops them with varied syntax. Identify three paragraphs in which this is the case. How does such a style contribute to his essay as a whole?

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    Chapter 7 - How to Restore the American Dream - Exploring the Text: Zakaria begins many of his paragraphs with short, simple sentences, and then he develops them with varied syntax. Identify three paragraphs in which this is the case. How does such a style contribute to his essay as a whole?
  11. What do you find most surprising in Zakaria’s essay? Most compelling?

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    Chapter 7 - How to Restore the American Dream - Exploring the Text: What do you find most surprising in Zakaria’s essay? Most compelling?
  12. Zakaria ends on an optimistic note. Do you share his optimism? Why or why not?

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    Chapter 7 - How to Restore the American Dream - Exploring the Text: Zakaria ends on an optimistic note. Do you share his optimism? Why or why not?