Myths: 1. People are poor because they are lazy. Of poor people‚ 16 years and older 12% work full time year round‚ and another 25% work part time. 2. Most poor people are minorities. Almost 43% of people living in poverty are white. In proportions however‚ African Americans and Latinos are much more likely to be poor than Asian Americans and whites. 3. Most poor people live in inner cities. 33% of the poor live in inner cities‚ but the rest live in urban areas‚ the suburbs‚ small towns
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that Matsumoto is a second-generation Japanese American and that Van Wyck could be in a similar situation of immigration‚ perhaps their cultural upbringings could cause confusion and hinder readers of varying upbringings. There is also the issue of classism. How do readers know if the listed issues (becoming a working lady‚ becoming a gold-digger‚ paying your own way‚ having premarital sex‚ being independent of your parents‚ marrying outside your race‚) impact women of all financial aspects or if some
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To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee has been a timeless and influential classic for decades. Many believe this is due to Lee’s addressing of racism‚ prejudice‚ gender roles‚ and classism in the Deep South. Lee addresses these problems through the interactions between characters‚ such as the narrator‚ Scout Finch and her father Atticus Finch. Consequently‚ Lee illustrates that a major theme is to never judge someone without knowing their whole story because it can lead to prejudice. Scout
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We have better accepted intermarriage snice the 1960’s but conceptions of racial purity and white superiority still govern how people are perceived desirable or even valid. Colorism is tied into classism and racism‚ darker peoples believed to be poorer and less attractive. And now we have the melting pot ideology. The melting pot imagines that all cultures can‚ not only coexist‚ but borrow from each other and blend together into a colorblind mush. Colorblindness is racism‚ and often‚ when people
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I have a Christian worldview. A worldview is the structure by which an individual or group makes sense of the world. Philip Graham Ryken describes it as “our orientation to reality.” It seeks answers to questions like‚ “How did we get here?” and “In what is our ultimate hope?” Ryken believes all worldviews are inherently religious because they reveal our “fundamental convictions‚” particularly what we believe about God. Further‚ he believes we all develop a worldview‚ whether consciously or subconsciously
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A Critical Response to Mike Rose’s “’I Just Wanna Be Average’” In his essay “I Just Wanna Be Average‚” Mike Rose details his school life in South L.A. Now a professor of Education and Information Studies at UCLA‚ Rose moves through secondary school at Our Lady of Mercy on the Voc. Ed. Track‚ revealing why the standardized versions of this “educational system” betray the core values behind liberal‚ humanistic education as we understand it. As Rose wants to stress the value of all individuals‚
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Why did Doyle choose Watson to narrate Hound instead of having Holmes tell the story himself? What are the benefits and drawbacks of doing it this way? Doyle uses Watson as a narrator for two key reasons. In the first place‚ Watson is not as intuitive as Sherlock Holmes. In this sense‚ he allows the reader to join him as he attempts to live up to the master’s standards. By contrast‚ if Sherlock Holmes were telling the story‚ we would have little opportunity to solve the mystery ourselves: witness
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According to Asante blackness is an ethical trope. Asante puts forth the idea that the blackness of someone should not be based on their skin tone‚ but rather on a set of characteristics‚ experiences and worldviews (Asante‚ 2007). In the following essay‚ I will discuss and critique his thesis. Asante believes that blackness can be attributed to‚ and attained by‚ a multitude of peoples from all races and regions‚ if they meet a set of his criteria. The criteria coming down to a strong sense of justice
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Oppression implies to "any way in which humans as individuals or as groups‚ are treated with less than complete respect." (McCullough‚ p6). Many people engage in conversations that discuss various oppressions such as racism‚ sexism‚ heterosexism and classism‚ but rarely do we discuss how these oppressions interact with each other. In the Combahee River Collective’s “Black Feminist Statements” the women write about the importance of identifying connections among various kinds of oppression; “The most
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Pervasive Criminalization: No matter what they do these poverty-stricken drug users will always be seen as criminals. Even if they are trying to get themselves clean with the help of clinics people will call them criminals and the cops will be present “just in case.” Personal possessions‚ like vehicles‚ are seized and damaged during drug searches. Often‚ they end up in in jail due to the free medical attention and warm beds there. Punitive Medicalization: Treatment for this disease requires medicines
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