During my observation at Oak Park Middle‚ I observed a 7th grade Social Studies class. Most children n the classes I observed had African-American students. Two classes had to Hispanic girls. There was 31 boys and 13 girls all together in the three hours of classes I observed. The boys always greatly outnumbered the girls in the classes. I believe the students all came from similar socioeconomic background. The teacher was an African-American male. He had great control over his classroom and was
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It has been proven that crime rates are affected based on social class. Crime rates are significantly higher in areas of poverty and social disorganization (textbook 42). There are many factors that contribute to having someone living a normal life to a life of crime such as needing money and basic necessities such as food. less education‚ more economic inequality‚ and more police officers all lead up to a higher chance of one committing a crime. lack of education had a higher correlation to crime
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struggling on welfare in a coffee shop. Like Rowling‚ the heros in her novel are social outcasts. Harry is an orphan; Ron comes from poverty; and Hermione comes from a non-wizard family. Harry grows up in the non-magical world‚ raised by non-magical folk. He is maltreated because he is different‚ and to an extent an uninvited part of the family. The real world exhibits prejudice due to race‚ religion‚ gender and social class on an everyday basis. Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone is set in a fantasy
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I grew up in the small town of Plymouth‚ Wisconsin‚ with my parents and my little brother. We were a middle class family during my childhood days but declined to that of a working class family as I grew into my teenage years‚ according to my mom. The shift in our social class was due to 3 major events which I have pinpointed as: my dad being laid off from his job for several months‚ my mom’s business declining‚ and the time when the economy tanked around 7-8 years ago (which is what lead to the first
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Roosevelt created the Social Security act in 1935 after the great depression many Americans have depended on it as their only source of income after they retire. People were not overwhelmed with worry about saving for retirement because the act had been considered a great success for many years. A survey of 1‚200 people done through AARP “confirms that Social Security is at the very core of most Americans’ retirement” (Pianin‚ 2015). However in recent years worry about retirement and social security has been
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Giampa 1 The Great Gatsby: The Hollowness of the Social Upper Class “’Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone‚’ he told me‚ ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’” Daisy‚ Tom and Gatsby represent the upmost social class in author F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel‚ The Great Gatsby. It is through the shallowness of Daisy‚ Tom and Gatsby that Fitzgerald presents the theme of corruption‚ carelessness‚ and dishonesty.
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A Philosophy of a Social Studies Education Kyle P. O’Brien Miami University In consideration of every field in education I believe that there is none more impactful than that of a social studies class at an adolescent level. Whereas other disciplines can also challenge students to think critically and in new‚ creative ways‚ a social studies course has the unique opportunity to teach content in a way fundamentally essential to the progression of society. If the next generation is to uphold equality
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Social stratifcation a system of privileges based on property‚ power‚ and prestige. Each member gets society stratifes‚ and in each society men are in a higher class then women. Inequality is the patttern that differences men from women. The three major stratifcation systems are slavery‚ caste‚ and class. Slavery- The most extreme form of social stratification‚ based on the legal and illegal ownership of humanbeans.The main characteristic of slavery was white people owning mainly black people.
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revolution‚ there was massive inequality between the peasants and the rest of the estates. In 18th century France‚ people were classified into a particular social class based on the family they were born into. Peasants were the lowest class‚ and were destined to work the land of the noble upon whose land they lived on. The realities of this social class system can be seen in the government records of land ownership and taxation before and after the French Revolution. The records are likely from Napoleon’s
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It is true that “television entertains no issue that cannot be personified”(Seducing America.) Unfortunately‚ television must focus on what can be personified in order to retain the attention of its audience. Americans are restless and need constant shift in the media in order to keep them engaged. It wasn’t always like what it is today‚ before television everything was slower. It took longer for people to communicate and as a result took longer for things to change. In the current media climate
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