“Write an expository essay about Occupy Wall Street. In your essay, address the following topics”:
1.the origins and history of this nonviolent political protest
2. the horizontal leadership structure of Occupy Wall Street
3. how Carl Beckers definitions of the ideal and the real forms of democracy relate to the Occupy movement
4. the means and tools of communication used by Occupiers to communicate with each other at general assemblies and with the outside world during media blackouts
5. how the Declaration of the Occupation of New York City addresses the oligarchic influence of economic elites in American politics
6. how one of Occupys most popular slogans, We are the 99%, relates to Karl Marx and Frederick Engelss ideas about class struggle in Manifesto of the Communist Party.
