Speech- Social & Cultural Diversity “The rich marry the rich‚ and the poor marry the poor. The dags marry the dags and the wogs marry the wogs… and we all end up where we started.” During the time of reading Looking for Alibrandi‚ I tried to pay attention to the main concepts of the book and what we are studying in class of social and cultural diversity. How does the statement “The rich marry the rich‚ and the poor marry the poor. The dags marry the dags and the wogs marry the wogs… and we all
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In the book “Looking for Alaska” it showed the developments and growth of a characters which changes throughout the story. This book showed how a role of a character changes in just a matter of time. Influences throughout the story changes the person personality and makes him a completely different person. Sometimes when you don’t expected it‚ it turn out to be a big twist in life. This booked showed how people can change in a matter of time. The developments and growth of the character name Miles
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consistently contrasts a capitalist society to that of an ideal communist one to show class conflicts‚ one vital concept that Marx outlines in his findings is Alienation and he uses this to highlight the futility that lies within the capitalist society. This essay focuses on this concept‚ discusses its significance and explains why Marx thought of it as important‚ using relevant examples. Alienation is grounded as a social structure and is the process of which workers find themselves experiencing under the
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Peer pressure‚ it has been questioned alot. Students are pressured to do good in school‚ they are also pressured by their family. So‚ children are pressured to grow up too fast‚ by many ways; Such as‚ pushed by their parents to get good grades‚ teens get pressured by a tradition to a college that was carried onto the families by generation and the pressures to get a job. Therefore‚ there are multiple ways teens can get pressured by family to do things. Teens are the future. They have to learn many
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In Looking Backward‚ Edward Bellamy argued that one of the most significant problems facing America in 1887 was the struggle of class and the values that the everyday citizen lived by and portrayed. In the past‚ everyone looked after himself or herself and did not live selflessly. The view of honor was skewed and people lived for currency rather than their countries and neighbors well being. A sense of equality is never reached like it has been in the utopia of the year 2000 that Bellamy portrays
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Many teachers are worried that grades will go down when kids stop playing sports. Teachers want an alternative motivation for good grades. According to “Do Athletes Face Unnecessary Parent Pressure” most kids require a scholarship to be able to afford college. There are not just sports scholarships. There are also academic scholarships which can motivate kids to get good grades to be able to apply for these scholarships. Alternate preexisting and possible activities would help the large majority
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finished reading your book called Looking For Alaska. After conducting research‚ I am aware that various schools have challenged whether or not the book is appropriate to keep in school libraries. Although your book contains controversial content‚ I think the theme composed in the story makes the controversy of the content irrelevant. Therefore‚ I disagree with the individuals who think Looking For Alaska should be banned from schools. This novel should not be exempt from schools because it deals with
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Both parents and teachers have a huge significant part in students’ life that can build tough-positive relationship between teachers and their students. First of all‚ as parents‚ especially mothers‚ do raise their kids first before sending them to schools‚ in the same time‚ parents are preparing them before school. In other words‚ house prepares kids for school‚ and school prepares kids for outside world. As a result‚ any issue that concerns students in schools especially that involves teachers
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PEER PRESSURE: The Gateway Crisis It is said that marijuana is the “gateway drug” because the fact of life is that since life is in a permanent chronological order one thing always leads to another. This then‚ can also be said about peer pressure. Peer pressure may be referred to as the “gateway crisis”‚ amongst teenagers. Theorists have proposed that adolescents who are independent from their parents become dependent on their peers and susceptible to peer pressure (Blos‚ 1979;
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The Parent Trap By Erich Kastner (adapted by Vic Crume) SUSAN: What are you staring at? SHARON: Excuse me. It’s just that the girls were saying we looked alike. SUSAN: Yeah? Turn your head. Let me see that profile! I know it! The spit and image of you-know-who! SHARON: Who? SUSAN: Frankenstein! SHARON: You know what I mean! You’ve noticed it too! SUSAN: I saw you staring at me yesterday when we were at the milk counter. And it isn’t just having blue eyes and honey-blonde
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