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Requiem for the American Dream Scholarly Analysis 1. Who is Noam Chomsky? 2. Where does he teach? 3. When was the Great Depression? 4. According to the film, where does inequality come from? 5. What is the American Dream? 6. What does democracy mean? 7. Who is Adam Smith? 8. What is the “vile maxim”? 9. Who was the “main framer” of the Constitution? 10. What was the 1st major book on political systems? 11. What was the Powell Memorandum? 12. What was the Trilateral Commission? 13. What did Alan Greenspan mean by “greater worker insecurity”? 14. Who was Berlusconi? 15. Who was Vaclav Havel? 16. What does egalitarian mean? 17. What is a plutonomy? 18. What is the precariat? 19. What does solidarity mean? 20. What is the GI Bill of Rights? 21. What is “regulatory capture”? 22. What is lobbying?

23. What was the New Deal? 24. What is the difference between a commercial bank and an investment bank? 25. What does “too big to fail” mean, in an economic sense? 26. What was the Citizens United decision? 27. What is a workers union? 28. What was/is the labor movement? 29. What was the Taft-Hartley Act? 30. Who was Thorstein Veblen? 31. Who was Walter Lippmann? 32. What happens on April 15th? 33. Who was John Dewey? 34. What is “Freedom of Speech”? 35. What is an activist?...