Democracy as a concept is believed to be a profitable phenomenon for everyone in society. However, there seem to be an apparent increasing decline of trust in democracy from some sectors of society. Write an argumentative essay in which you argue whether democracy is profitable to everyone in society or not. Use the following pointers to construct your argument: • Inequality
• Poverty
• Quality education
• Social justice
• Economy

 The measurement of income inequality has been a focus of considerable study. However, the determinants of income inequality are still unclear. This study explores which income sources are primarily responsible for the observed U.S. income inequality using a decomposition method. Moreover, by estimating the marginal effect of a specific source income, I analyze its impact on overall income inequality. By doing so, this study identifies which source income has been alleviating overall inequality the most – or has been increasing it the most – before and after the financial crisis.

Among eight different sources, wage income has the largest as share in total income, yet it is most equally distributed income source. However, the increase in the Gini of wage income after the financial crisis suggests that the intensifying unequal distribution of this source income contributed to rising inequality.

The role of government transfers is important in reducing inequality, especially after the financial crisis. The equalizing effects of a ten percent increase in these transfers is a 0.84 percent reduction in the Gini of total income after the financial crisis. Among different government transfers, Social Security is the greatest equalizer. Besides the government transfers, retirement income reduces total inequality.

Interest and self-employment income show unequalizing effects on total inequality. The importance of interest income rose during the financial crisis and increased again more recently. The shares of self-employment income decreased since the financial crisis, and thus its contribution to overall inequality became smaller.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.

"the sandy walls seemed to collapse in on themselves"

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"the bloodshot waters seemed to have no bottom"