December 9, 2007, 12:24 pm
First I must say how much I am a cheerleader of my school "The University of Windsor". It is the only left leaning, social justice mandated school in Canada, and anyone who cannot realize those benifits should go drink their caffee con leche at their prettier right wing Maclean's ass sucking schools. My program alone has amazing professors who have marched with the Nicaraguans, and wrote papers with Douglas Kellner.
That being said, I shall move on from my angst ridden animosity towards the bourgeoise naysayers. Lately I have been cranking out tons of paper as I am taking the first step towards the fundamental stages of my final thesis. I came across some interesting statistics that I thought I would share. (this is an excerpt from my paper)
"America deems as worthy can be witnessed in how much money it puts into something. Consider the ratio of death toll, and subsequent memorial price tag. As Englehardt (2006) shows 9/11 had a death toll of 2, 739 and a memorial price tag of $ 1 billion. (Not including the projected 80 million for a visitor center and 50-60 million to run it) whereas the Vietnam memorial was a measly 4.2 million by comparison, and a death toll of 56, 000. The only memorial that comes close to the World Trade Center memorial is the holocaust museum in Washington with a total of $90 million and a death toll of 6 million. However the one memorial that makes it clear to what Americans value can be seen by looking at the ratio of the memorial to the Oklahoma City bombing. 168 Americans died and the memorial cost $29 million to erect. This memorial was worth more than the Korean War Vet Memorial and the Vietnam Memorial combined and whose death toll was staggering by comparison. In analyzing these figures it is apparent that America chooses to value those lost who simply were in the wrong place at the wrong time, on American soil. The victims of everyday Middle America are more valued under this system, because it speaks more to the average American consumer. These victims represent a distress in the middle american consumerist bubble".
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