Sonia Sotomayor through her hard work and dedication has become a role model to follow for all Latinas like myself that are trying to achieve an education and in the long run have a great career. As we can see for Sotomayor, it did not come easy, but she made success a necessity not an option. I believe Sotomayor is living proof of what one can do once you set your mind to it, and what it means to stay true to your beliefs, which can result to history in the…
She had interest in parenting styles, racial issues, and social class. She conducted a research on parenting styles, it was called concerted cultivation vs. natural growth. She and her researchers studied over 80 families. Lareu instructed the families to pay attention to their kids. To spend time with them when they had free time. She called this strategy “the family dog.” Annette discovered that the working class parents pursed an approach called “accomplishment of natural growth.” Whereas middle class families used an approach called “concerted cultivation.” The working class family, had their children exposed mostly to the outdoors, more often you would find them playing with their friends from their neighborhood or siblings. And as for parents in the working class, they spent more time working and waiting for their transportation, they didn’t have time to spend with their children. Working class parents also tended to be more authoritarian. These kids didn’t question anyone with authority. For example, their teachers, principals, or anyone with a higher position. These children were described as quiet, mellow, and uninvolved. They called this parenting style “accomplishment of natural growth.” Furthermore, children in the middle class were completely different from the working class. Their families had more time to spend with them whereas working class didn’t. These families treated their children like “the family dog.” They were accompanied by their parents to their appointment, sport practices, and school activities. These parents made their kids go from one activity to the other. The children in the middle class families were more involved in after school activities and outside clubs. These parents adapted a strategy called “concerted cultivation.” As a result these children questioned authority more and were less quiet. Annette gives an example of this. She describes a little boy named Alex that comes from…
Poverty is a huge issue all around the world. Millions of people make little income and therefore cannot care for their families or even themselves. People living in poverty are often stereotyped, humiliated, and embarrassed when faced against the society in which they live in. One woman fought to overcome poverty and gain an education to support her family and to do something nobody in her family had ever achieved before. In her article “Overcoming the Silence of Generational Poverty,” Donna Beegle effectively argues that generational poverty impedes social and educational improvement by incorporating a purpose that sheds new light on a stereotype, uses strong logical appeals, and establishes her credibility through ethos, pathos, and logos.…
These two different topics can easily go hand in hand with each other. Some may not realize it but your level of poverty, whether you are in any way poor or whether you are not even close to it, can truly affect your education. When schools are in a poorer district, that can have a drastic effect in the school. They wouldn’t have the same technology or programs as other schools may have. But that doesn’t always mean they can not have the same opportunities as other kids; It’s all about how they make the most of what they have. Both Wes Moore’s grew up in a very poor and dangerous area, but they did not end up the same way. One decided to take charge in his life and became a Scholar, decorated war veteran, and a White House Fellow. His mother worked very hard to allow him to get all the opportunities that he ended with. She worked multiple jobs to provide for her kids to go to private schools. Moore’s mother didn’t allow him to fall into the “thug” lifestyle. She refused to allow her children, and herself, to fall into the lifestyle of those around them. On the other hand, the other Wes Moore did not have as great of a turn out. His mother simply did not have the drive that the other mother did. She allowed her kids to be immersed into the world where violence and crime was okay. Wes’ mother allowed the poverty and crime around consume and define…
After their father's death, Sotomayor's mother worked hard to raise the children as a single parent. She placed what Sotomayor would later call an "almost fanatical emphasis" on a higher education, pushing the children to become fluent in English and struggling to afford a set of encyclopedias to give them proper research materials for school.…
First, Tamarla Owens had several social statuses where she lived near Flint, Michigan. She was part of a group or neighborhood in this circumstance, that had nearly half of it’s population making under $15,000 a year including Tamarla at $13,000. This was group stricken with poverty. Having moved to Flint as a teenager, Tamarla was almost born into this status. Let alone other ascribed statuses that lay claim to poverty such as being an African-American, being a woman (let alone single) and living near Flint, Michigan where unemployment was over 8% and the crime rate was over triple the national average in 1999. Tamarla had achieved the status of parenthood, having her first of three children at age 20. She had also achieved the status of a hardworking tax payer, working up to 70 hours week on a state run program that stemmed from the National Welfare to Work program. One must keep in mind, even though she put forth the kind of effort most never will, she remained in poverty and worse unable to sufficiently raise her children in this state sponsored program set forth by lawmakers with no idea of what life was like for Tamarla and many others in their master status role of society. Tamarla was trying to do the best she could for her family. Under the Welfare to Work program, Tamarla received food stamp benefits and medical insurance in exchange for paying pack welfare monies she had received. The issue with this program is that when you start making more money than what you receive in benefits you get cut off from the already at “poverty level” benefits. This was the case in Tamarla’s situation. She did not even make enough to cover…
“ A family spending more than 55% of its income on food, clothing and shelter is considered poor…The objective poverty definition is not value neutral; it is informed by relative poverty definitions” (Harman, 243). As said above, Kay Rice spends majority of the family’s income on being able to keep the home, thus resulting in her high dependence on second hand clothing and food stamps. With the family making less then $10,00 a year, Kay Rice needs $650 a month meaning that she spends almost $8000 on rent, compromising more then 55% of the income thus, making them a prime example for the concept of objective poverty. Lastly, the idea of subjective poverty can be used to describe Kay Rice’s outlook on her living situation. “I know we are poor, but that does not make us who we are, and that is not who we will be”. According to Harman, subjective poverty “refers to the way people think about their standard of living. A person’s subjective interpretation might not correlate with the objective poverty definition, a person can feel rich, or poor, despite the objective poverty measures” (Harman, 243). Although they are living in poverty Kay Rice refuses to define her family that way and feels lucky to have her children, always making them her first…
The aspects of a person’s life are not entirely determined by the circumstances he is born into – his decisions, the actions of others, and luck plays a large role as well. Since people are autonomous, they control how their lives turn out, but everyone’s life prospects are more “deeply shaped by a social structure that he or she did not choose” (page 130). This means that the poor are not entirely at fault for their living conditions; society’s structure may also affect their life outcomes. Not every citizen is granted equal opportunities, so not everyone should have the same social…
I think any child is not able to protect themselves regardless of class status or poverty, but children falling into groups belonging to low classes and poverty are even more at risk in matters not just of growth and development but of existence in general. I am glad that there are various state programs ( WIC, SNAP, Welfare and so on) which supporting families with low incomes, but in general, none of these programs can change the whole picture of poverty and the needs of such families. Reality and statistics clearly show that the chances of a child born in such an environment to grow up healthy and prosperous are extremely insignificant.…
When it comes to raising a child, families fall into the category of either emphasizing concerted cultivation or accomplishment of natural growth. In Annette Lareau’s first chapter of, “Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life,” she talks a bit about the different families she researched and the various methods the parents are categorizing in about raising their child. Through her observations of these families, she noticed middle-class families practice a particular parenting style known as concerted cultivation, where the parents believe they must promote the growth and development of their child’s abilities and skills. These types of parents often push their kids to join a variety of activities and are very active in their child’s…
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Each family has a socioeconomic status that is based on family income, parental education level, occupation and social status in the community. Families with low socioeconomic status often lack in their financial, education and social supports that families with high socioeconomic status don’t lack. Usually poor families have inadequate or limited access to community resources…
The fact that Shriver was able to acknowledge all of these truths suggests that society was starting to address the poverty issue by accepting the factors that contributed to it. Shriver had also said, “I think it makes just as good sense to take a boy or girl who was born and raised in poverty and, as a result, faces adult life without the education and training through the Job Corps.” This time, he indicated that there was a validation of the importance of providing education and training opportunities to citizens who were born and raised in poverty. By confirming the need to support them through programs like the Job Corps, society was taking a more compassionate and vigilant approach to uplift those who faced challenges due to their socioeconomic background. This shift demonstrated a growing understanding of the significance of equal opportunities and the potential for people of all backgrounds to…
I have the opportunities that Mildred never had. The opportunity to take my families name out of the category of poverty by being enrolled here at University of Wisconsin- Oshkosh. A first generation student to my family, and making that difference so my future will be successful. Mildred did not fail, she created a two roads for me. The first road is failure and the second road is the road to success. I choose the road to success and to carry my failures I make in life along with me on this journey. Mildred has not only been the source of my family values and morals but has created a desire for success within myself to make it out of the circle of poverty that is placed upon my generation today. During Mildred’s life she created a legacy by not only allowing failure to create success, but creating a family that holds values as it’s most important aspect of…
It suggests that a poor Mexican girl can achieve just as much as a rich white boy through her own hard work. The cultural advantages to private school are vast to that of public schools. Upper end private schools offer expensive field trips, newer and more recently updated books and equipment, and far superior athletic programs. A lower income family that cannot afford private school seem to be at a disadvantage. The disadvantage that immigrants have regarding their future definitively disproves the American dream. The gap in education disallows a lower class child to have the same opportunities as that of the upper class. The public school education used to be the norm for both rich and poor families alike. With the advent of private schools and the spike in tuition prices, the education gap is growing and contributing to the culture gap between the upper and lower…