Regarding america's 2009 economic crisis, new york times op-ed columnist frank rich writes in a january 9, 2010 editorial that ultimately "wall street gamed and inflated the housing bubble, made out like bandits, and then left millions of households in ruin" and goes on to say that "bailed-out banks are [now] reporting record profits and bonuses. the contrary voices of americans who have lost pay, jobs, homes and savings are either patronized or drowned out entirely by a political system where the banking lobby rules in both parties and the revolving door between finance and government never stops spinning." write a carefully reasoned essay in which you defend, challenge, or qualify rich's claim regarding politics, economics, and the american citizen . support your argument with specific references to your reading, observation, or experience.

the support that the author, uses in the article facing our fears is a): a definition of the part of the brain called the amygdala.

he takes neuroscientist joseph ledoux's words by telling that by falling to distinguish between evolutionary old systems located in the amygdala and newer systems, centered in the prefrontal cortex, doctors have conflated non conscious threat circuits in the brain with circuits that underlie the conscious experience of fear. that, the author says, "leads ledoux to the jarring conclusion that the amygdala, a decades-old centerpiece of the brain's fear circuit, does not underlie the conscious feeling of fear".

despite this, the author points out in the article that that is a controversial notion and that evidence, in animal and humans, supports the idea that core emotions can exist outside of conscious awareness.

dramatic irony occurs when the reader/audience knows more about a character's situation than the character does. the one main effect is that it gives the reader a sense of superiority, or detached superiority. the reader not only seemingly discovers what is revealed, but feels superior for doing so.