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This paper is a critical essay on the The New York Times Magazine article: The End Of Middle-Class America (and the Triumph of the Plutocrats) by Paul Krugman

This paper is a critical essay on the The New York Times Magazine article: The End Of Middle-Class America (and the Triumph of the Plutocrats) by Paul Krugman. I will be using the concepts that we have learned in class to analysis this article. The New York Times article looks at the fall of the Middle Class in the United States since the 1990s. To analyses this paper I will be referring to Aristotelian Proof and the Toulmin model.
Aristotle used three terms to define the human psyche:
Ethos is how the author presents himself or herself. In other words, what are the author's qualifications for making this argument? Is he humble, sarcastic, arrogant, scientific, etc. We make judgments all the time about people's ethos. Think about going into your doctor's office and seeing a medical degree from Harvard versus seeing a degree from a no-name town university. What is the difference. The same is true about an author of a piece of writing. The clues are more subtle but they are there ...

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