Walls -Entry #14

The macrostructure in the text "Across the Great Divide" in Time. Nov 15, 1999 is the following: differences perceived between east and west Berliners in ideologies, politics, perception of social equality and how they are not so different after all.
Its semantic organization is:
Topic: The Berlin Wall and its fall; social consequences
Genre: written, non-fiction, magazine article
Type of text: argumentative, expository
Field -what-: changes in Berlin inhabitants' lives derived from the Wall falling
Tenor -who- journalist to public, audience, readers
Mode -how- formal and semi-formal style
Some of the cohesive devices present in the text are near synonyms such as half, split, divided, split, barrier, other side. Repetition is another device. The repeated words are: disappointment, wall, city, west, east.
The organization of its twelve paragraphs as regards the topics are as it follows:
1° social injustice: occupational discrimination based on place of origin
2° social issues: people being hired for less money and unemployment caused
3° how the Wall and its separating power linger in time even after its physical disappearance
4° different political mindsets; polarised opinions
5° different political mindsets; polarised opinions, West vs. East opinions in detail
6° expectations versus reality
7° disappointments and social consequences of the fall of the Wall
8° current women situation
9° prejudices & occupational differences perceived faced with facts
10° households in the West and East, education and a new wave of educators and search for knowledge
11° yearning for the past Germany from a fraction of the society
12° investment in the East, resentment provoked
13° In spite of problems, most people are contented with the present situation