...During the period when Mantsios wrote “Class in America,” the topic of socioeconomic inequality was a significant focus. His work emphasizes the need for recognizing economic distinctions or class divisions, which is often overlooked in American society. He discusses the myths and realities about socioeconomic class in America and how they affect American lives. It’s important to recognize that there has been a persistent, unequal divide throughout history. Mantsios argues that Americans, in general, don’t like to talk about class, and class identity has been stripped from popular culture. He suggests that inequality is persistent and structural, and it manifests itself in a multitude of cultural and social ways. During the time this article...
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...The essay, “Class In America-2009” by Gregory Santos, it begins with the author talking about how the U.S does not speak of class privileges or class oppression. These words not part of people’s vocabulary in the U.S. Poor people would rarely classify themselves as poor. Instead they prefer to classify themselves based on their race, ethic group, or geographic location. In a study done by Susan Ostrander, she asked wealthy participants they considered their selves in the upper class. Most participants responded that they hated the term “class” because they were just people who were well-born. Although it is unspeakable to talk about the upper and lower class, it is acceptable to talk about the middle class. This is because it seems that the middle class in the U.S, is neither part of the high nor the lower class. They’re four myths that suggests the people in the U.S are ignorant of class differences and how it impacts people daily lives. The first myth is that the rich and...
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...In the article “Class in America-2006”, sociologist Gregory Mantsios addresses the huge divide between poverty stricken Americans and upper class citizens. Mantsios makes strong points on this issue by providing facts and evidence. Mantsios makes the bold point that most Americans tend to ignore class, and he’s right as classist ideas influence many Americans to stay silent on class differences. Most Americans choose to ignore class and that. According to Mantsios, includes Americans who are of lower class. Mantsios says, “There are few among the poor who speak of themselves as lower class; instead, they refer to their race, ethnic group, or geographic location”(Mantsios 148). Many Americans don’t want to associate themselves with a negative...
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...A Summary of “Facing poverty with a rich girl’s habits” by Kim Strayer University English Composition April 17, 2016 A Summary of “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits” by Kim This is a brief summary of Suki Kim’s essay, “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits” in which she reveals how she came from riches to rags. Beginning with how she grew up in an ugly house in Queens, New York in the 80’s, which was clearly a downgrade from the mansion in which she stayed in up until the seventh grade. This was quite a shock to her considering her father was millionaire and lost his fortune literally overnight. Her father’s business had gone bankrupt and since this was an offense punishable by jail, she and her father packed up and fled to America. They came to America nearly penniless and while doing so still managed to secure a residence from another Korean family at the aforementioned ugly house in Queens. Even this posed quite the challenge since this was far from the chauffeured life that she was accustomed. From taking public transportation for the first time, to attending class in America for the first time she was in for quite the shock. She did not know any English and as a matter of fact her first word was F.O.B which was an acronym for “fresh off the boat”. She also had to come to grips with the fact that she was now being called Asian. This was not a term that she was used to being called. The fact that she was considered...
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...all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Shi, L., & Singh, D. A. (2012). Delivering health care in America: A systems approach (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Jones and Bartlett. All electronic materials are available on the student website. Assignment Breakdown Week One Individual Assignment: Significant Health Care Event Paper 10 Week Two Learning Team Assignment: The Evolution of Health Care Paper and Timeline 10 Week Three Individual Assignment: Technology and Health Care Paper 12 Learning Team Assignment: Evolution of Health Care Systems – Annotated Bibliography 5 Week Four Individual Assignment: Health Care Careers Diagram and Summary 10 Learning Team Assignment: Evolution of Health Care Systems Presentation Outline 3 Week Five...
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...frequently taken AP class (first is AP English Language and Composition). I took this class during my sophomore year, and I got an A in the class and a 4 on the exam, if you were curious. I was very interested in succeeding in that class and I wanted to share some advice on what helped me, and what I wish I did. The AP US History course is divided up into nine units, and there are seven themes (identity, work exchange, and technology, peopling, politics and power, America in the World, environment and geography, and ideas, beliefs, cultures) that can be, and are applied to each unit. The class is to be identical...
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...Summaries for Chapter 11 and 12 Chapter 11, The Basis of Chicano Oppression, was about their past, how the Chicanos were shaped and so on. For keeping racial minorities’ position in the class structure, political and culture domination, social control and racial ideology were developed in United States. The ideological superstructure, besides being for justifying racial domination, it was also for conserving subordination in the lowest layers of the working class. After Mexicans’ land was captured by the American metropolis and Mexicans became members of colony. The exploitable labor force made it harder to describe the colonial situation of Mexicans in the United States. It was mostly with the help of Mexican labor that southwest transformed into an agricultural oasis. In the 1940s, the 60 percent of labor in the mines were Mexicans. After the 1940s, Chicanos started to occupy the lowest parts of the working class. In thirty years, male Chicano workers moved into the crafts area of production. Chapter 12, The Myth of “Military Necessity for Japanese-American Internment, was about the evacuation of the Japanese people in America. It was during the Pearl Harbor attack; America wanted to evacuate all of its enemies. Hawaii didn’t want to evacuate the Japanese people for several reasons. From what I understood, it was mostly because of the labor given by the Japanese. However, in the end of the chapter, the author wrote how the evacuation of the Japanese started and how many...
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...Chinese Language in America Chao Liang Kansa State University 12/7/11 Author Note Chao Liang, undergraduate student, Kansas State University. Chao Liang is major in Finance Management in Business College. This report is a summary of study of Chinese language; experience of teaching Chinese with American student who is taking Chinese class. The culture of Chinese language develops in America. Abstract In this report, it includes 5 main points refer to the Chinese language and personal experience. 1. From learning the Chinese language, grammar, pronunciation, to understand the Chinese language situation in America, Chinese America experience in America. 2. Conclude the experience through teaching Chinese. 3. Compare Chinese cultural and America cultural. 4. Analysis what classmate sharing in class, the importance of team work. 5. Suggestion for the future class. These five different points connected by one common thing, Chinese language. The whole report emphasizes the development of Chinese language in America. How these two different cultures occur chemistry reaction. The improvement of teaching skill make a big contribution on develops of Chinese in America. Chinese Language in America As a Chinese, with more than 10 years of Chinese learning, we cannot image how the foreigner learn Chinese. After study in America, we can see lots of natives are willing to learning Chinese even though it seems extremely difficult to them...
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...The period in America from 1865 to 1900 was known as the Gilded Age. This was a time for big business, industry, new inventions, and urban growth. With these new ideas and concepts came many problems. A few of these issues were political scandals, overpopulation in cities, monopolies, and bad working conditions. In summary, there were good and bad parts to the Gilded Age; however, it led to a new, modern era in America. During the Civil War, factories were working overtime to churn out supplies for the soldiers. Since the South was mainly a farming community, the North had a huge advantage, and eventually won the war. Troops were put in the South to enforce the new amendments added to to the Constitution. This included the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments that freed slaves, gave them the rights granted with citizenship, and the right to vote. The backlash of the Civil War led to industrialism....
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...Summary and Personal Response Professor D. Ogden, Ph.D. English 115 Jeremy Hardison April, 13, 2015 In the essay “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits,” author Suki Kim describes how her lifestyle as a wealthy child of a millionaire changed overnight. Due to bankruptcy her father lost everything and being that in Korea bankruptcy is a crime punishable by jail time, her family fled to America. They lived in Queens, New York where they rented a home from another Korean family as she describes queens as “the wild west” (62). An interesting focal in her essay is when she explains her first English word she learned in junior high school which was “F.O.B., short for fresh of the boat” (62). She could not grasp the understanding to why the other kids referred to her that way when her family had flown from Korea to America. She also learned that she was “Asian” and found it to be very offensive because the skin reminded her of the Forsythia flowers that characterized the lower class when she was in Korea. Another interesting key point Kim describes is taking public transportation for her very first time. This was an important moment she defines as she was used to being chauffeured. Without the use of maids she had when her family was rich, she noticed things became seriously messy around the house, and found it to be humiliating to take their dirty clothes to the laundromat. This was a challenge for her because she was accustomed to her princess lifestyle of servants for...
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...A couple days ago in class my class and I have watched a movie and we have also taken notes during the movie called “The Mars Generation”. In this summery we will talk about Nasa’s goals like when they went to the moon, and the apollo missions. You will read about Nasa’s history and mistakes like when shuttles are being launched but they go the wrong way. Also you will read about some of the most known people in Nasa like Wernher von Braun, and Neil Armstrong. Today Nasa is currently trying to find a way to make a new civilization on Mars because son he earth will no longer be able to take care of living things like us humans, dogs, cats, and insects. Nasa has found out that Does have a chance at taking care of living organisms because rovers that are named Curiosity, and Spirit have taken pictures of Mars and scientist saw in the photos traces of water, and water means that life is possible. Scientist are very excited because they think that if they can send people to Mars and make new generations and the popularity will rise. If they are able to do this then that means humans could...
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...the students’ owns individual music appreciation and the connection to the global village. Course Objectives • To explore and reconsider ideas about cultural contact in the process of musical change • To understand music terminology • To understand, review and write reports on live performances using terminology demonstrating knowledge of musical elements within rhythm, pitch, and structure • To understand and further identify the social, economic, historical, philosophical and psychological elements, which affect the form of the assigned music • To identify aurally and explain rhythm, pitch, structure and style of African, South and Central America, Caribbean, and North American, and at the discretion of the Professor a non-African Diaspora music, i.e., Middle Eastern or Asian using class excerpts • To identify aurally and explain the eras of European music especially Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Twentieth Century as it relates to global music...
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...Summary Overview Since this class is centered on the practice of working with the ideas of others and synthesizing those ideas into our own writing, it stands to reason that we should spend some time practicing the art of summary. This summary exercise will help you to improve your academic writing in several ways: First, this excercise will help you to find meaning within a given text and provide you with a better way of interpreting what the author is trying to say; secondly, this exercise will give you further practice in summarizing, paraphrasing, using quotations, and condensing ideas—skills that are essential to academic writing. Remember that the purpose of this summary is not to relate your reaction to the reading; your role in this process is to simply convey the information in the reading in condensed form. Do not include personal opinion, personal judgments of the material, or personal narrative. Be brief, be as accurate as you can, and try to capture the complete sense of the reading in your summary. Read and Summarize Go to the resources tab and use the Ebscohost link to search for the following articles: •Friedman, T. L., & Mandelbaum, M. (2011). America really was that great (but that doesn't mean we are now). Foreign Policy, (189), 76-78. Your summary should meet the following guidelines: •is between 150 and 250 words(no longer); •includes direct quotations and paraphrased passages from the text; •uses attributive tags that not only work...
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...USA and the USSR? IB History Internal Assessment Centre Number: 6362 Doha British School Plan of Investigation Summary of Evidence Evaluation of Source Analysis Conclusion Contents A. Plan of Investigation 2 B. Summary of Evidence 3 C. Evaluation of Sources 5 Section D: Analysis 7 Section E: Conclusion 8 Bibliography (Written Sources) 9 Bibliography (Non-Written sources) 9 A. Plan of Investigation This study will seek to answer the question of how Fidel Castro affected the relations between the US and the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I chose this question because I’ve always had a passion for learning about the Cold War, especially the Cuban perspective of the whole situation. With this in mind, this is why I found the topic relevant, as the whole incident has been a standing point in time representing the effects of unstable relations in times of nuclear crisis. In order to answer...
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...Assignment 1 Summary and Response - Week 1 Bari Williams Jr. Eng. 115 English Composition Dr. Roger Fontana April 16, 2016 “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits” by Suki Kim, was about a young lady who moved from South Korea to the United States. She also pointed out how differently American culture was from her own. She is trying to transition her life from being wealthy to poor, being raised on a “hilltop mansion with an orchard and a pond and peacocks” to a “two-family brownstone in Woodside” which was owned by family friends. Her world came crashing down when her father went bankrupt, and in her country that is punishable by jail time. Kim and her family fled to America penniless. This was hard due to the fact that her and her family were used to living a catered life with chauffeurs and butlers. The writer’s purpose of this summary is talking about Suki Kim “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits. Another purpose explains how she discuss the language affecting on her fitting in on society, in Queens, New York. The Genre in this case, in some’s opinion can be literary. I for one feel that she is telling readers about going from rich to poor. Her main audience would be someone who might’ve experience poverty, or even live a wealthy lifestyle. I also believe that her audience could possibly be young, from another country. In this summary the tone and attitude setting is calm and compelling. She talks about growing up in a two family brownstone house, crammed but in...
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