College students who wrote a paper (ANY paper) this term: just for fun

[Lyric]

Open your paper, and scroll to page three. Post the title of your paper, along with the first, FULL paragraph on page three in its entirety. If your paper is less than three pages, post from page two instead. I'm very interested to see what we were all writing about!

Here's mine:

A National Disaster: Rebuilding a Welfare System Broken by Reform

          The stated justifications for welfare reform were myriad, and cloaked in political jargon that was tailored to appeal to the white middle-class base. Proponents of reform had spent over a decade carefully crafting a public image of the typical welfare recipient as a lazy, unmotivated, irresponsible, typically Black mother who popped out babies on a regular basis for the sole purpose of increasing her welfare check, and used hard-earned taxpayer dollars to buy luxuries rather than necessities. President Ronald Reagan once famously railed against the “welfare queens” who drove Cadillac cars bought and paid for with America’s tax dollars (Krugman). This helped the myth of the “welfare queen” to become even more pervasive throughout the American culture of the 80s and early 90s, and served to foster a simmering, deliberately-provoked resentment within the middle class. The opponents of welfare took great advantage of this resentment in order to convince America that welfare reform was one of the most urgent priorities for the nation, which in turn led directly to the electoral grandstanding on "welfare reform" during the Presidential campaign of 1992.