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    analyzes the various literary techniques used in the essay “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work” by author Jean Anyon as tools to persuade her audience of Professional Educators. In the 1980 article‚ Anyon examines‚ through imperial research‚ how elementary students of different socioeconomic status (SES) receive differing educations. Anyon affirms that access to an equal education is not easily accessible to those of the lower working class. Furthermore‚ Anyon attests that students from higher

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    Reflecting upon my philosophy statement from earlier this semester‚ I still believe that every individual should be treated with love‚ respect‚ care‚ and equality‚ regardless of their race‚ gender‚ social class‚ disability‚ ethnicity‚ or other cultural identity. Completing this course has reassured my beliefs about how students with disabilities should be taught and how that aligns with their needs. After meeting classroom guests just as Dr. Levingston‚ I still believe as a society‚ we shouldn’t

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    Rhetorical Analysis: Jean Anyon‚ Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work Jean Anyon is a professor of educational policy in the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She wrote this essay for the Journal of Education in 1980 with the main audience being professional educators. Through this essay she portrays his observations of five elementary schools in which he concluded‚ over a full school year‚ that fifth graders of different economic backgrounds are already being prepared

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    Hypothesis: Social class determines how “Asian teenagers (aged 15-17) do in GCSE rather than culture. Culture is hard to define and operationalise between different “Asian” groups. In test after test‚ nationally‚ Chinese and Indian students show superior performance in mathematics and other subjects compared with their Pakistani‚ Bangladeshi (also “Asian”) and non-Asian counterparts. In 2003‚ according to National Statistics‚ 71% of boys and 79% of girls achieved 5+A*-C GCSE/GNVQs. These statistics

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    Wealth/Poverty/Social Class The question of the United States national budget and any resolutions to this dire struggle are deeply rooted in the controversial ideas presented by Thomas Malthus in an excerpt‚ “An Essay on the Principle of Population” that states‚ “… in every society in which the population increases it will eventually produce more people than it can feed‚ thereby condemning a certain percentage of the population to live beneath the subsistence level” (324). The idea that

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    Our social status affects us and we affect our social status. We are each born into a social class‚ and we tend to like to stay there. It takes work and stress to move up the economic ladder. Most of us do not like either of those. How we change our social position‚ how it changes us‚ and how we react to it‚ all form an intricate balance in our lives. We should not‚ however‚ concentrate too much on it. So what actually alters our social classes? One thing that propels it is schooling. A quality

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    post-World War 1 England era does so by putting different social classes and the different people who are representatives of the social classes on display for everyone to judge and critique such as Leonard Bast as an old representative and his son as a new representative. E.M. Forster uses one man in particular‚ Leonard Bast‚ to showcase the fact that when you are trying to climb up the social ladder through whatever means necessary‚ upward social mobility doesn’t always happen to you personally in your

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    Another significant privilege was my inexperience of racialized social control in my educational capital. Racialize social control is the regulation and repression of a certain race (Rios‚ 30). To illustrate‚ my high school was divided into two; the top floor was the magnet program and the rest of the school was for regulars. The schools physical structure depicts the social class within the school system that students are categorized into. Ironically‚ I was enrolled in the regular school‚ but because

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    included a slight insight to what has occurred in the past and some events that were once hidden from her. The maid in the household did not attempt to take on any of the roles of the females because her primary role to the reader was to show us the social class differences that existed within that society. She was nothing more than a maid who must know her place. The school teacher’s role was held higher than that of the maid’s role. The school teacher was there to educate all of the students‚ but

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    to the bigger heading of social inequality. Social inequality is the inability of people to have equal opportunity (Fonza and Owen). Social inequality and urban poverty are such rampant problems today due to systematic racism‚ pay inequality‚ and gentrification. Through discriminatory federal processes such as redlining‚ minorities still struggle to regain lost footing from decades previous. A large portion of this is the government’s part in exacerbating “existing social inequalities‚ particularly

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