...lucky and have to struggle to make their lives better. In times of hardship and poverty, the determined will do anything they can for relief, money, power and overall success. Three films that demonstrate this are The Grapes of Wrath, El Norte, and City of God. In these films, characters struggle to find their idea of “paradise” or their “Promised Land”. The Grapes of Wrath is a film about a family who is forced off of their farms and out of their home due to the immense draught that has plagued the Midwest during the Great Depression. The actors in this film were not made up to look like the typical perfect Hollywood type. They look like real farmers and hardworking people and the lighting is manipulated to show this. The family, the Joad’s, travel from Oklahoma all the way to California when they hear about the jobs and opportunities out there. Throughout their journey they face a lot of difficulties in keeping their supplies and money at a constant flow. They stop to work small farming and harvesting jobs along the way but never make enough money. They keep their hope alive and the family close so that no one is left behind as they finally reach a dreary camp for people to find work. The main character, Tom, who was just released from prison, gets into a fight with another worker and knows he can not stay with the family because it will get all of them into trouble, so he goes off on his own. Tom is willing to risk the possibility of getting caught on his own so...
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...coming in late and receiving tardiness complaints. Her accent was stated as an issue when dealing with costumers. The person who received the promotion was a male Alex, with less experience at the job, but better upper management evaluations. Maria argued her poor evaluations were biased from her white, male supervisors. Maria was noted for being a good employee, but is loud and aggressive in her approach to work with others in the company. I feel Maria was treated unfairly for being promoted. Both women and people in the minority struggle when looking at how both are treated in the workplace. Women are facing problems of equality in job advancements and having equal pay. Minorities are underrepresented, and are struggling to find work. This paper will look at the issue of males versus females in the workplace, and the majority versus the minority in the workplace. Many people believe there is not discrimination or hardships that women or the minority face when working. People are under the impression that we have come a long way and have overcome treating individuals unequally. The truth is we have come a long way and made an enormous amount of progress, but there is work that needs to be done when looking specifically at women and minorities in the workplace. The struggles...
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...Evicted, written by Matthew Desmond, we can now understand the struggle people experience when they become evicted and what consequences result from eviction. Some of us have been fortunate enough to have never experienced eviction before, but in this book, Desmond with great detail takes us inside the character’s life whom become evicted. In the beginning of the book, a small quote instantly catches the readers’ attention which reads: “I wish the rent was heaven sent.” And within that moment, readers whether they have been evicted before or not, can relate because it’s true; I’m sure we all wish rent was heaven sent because rent takes up a big part of our paycheck. In the prologue, Desmond explains how Arleen, one of the...
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...the change of losing Close relationships and struggle obtaining new ones. Also the teen has to endure the stress the rest of the family is having from moving. An finally, as a teen grows through puberty emotions run high. Causing stress and depression to collide with the pains of moving; which will have major effects on school and everyday life. Moving a teenager to a new city will force them to break a lot of close relationships. One relationship a teen might lose is with friends. Good friends are hard to come by, most friends are long time relationships built at a young age. So trust and loyalty are established over time. But then lost with the distance from moving. Other relationships a teen might lose is with teachers and neighbors. Teachers could be a trusted source to a teen. Teachers come to a relationship with advice and guidance for the teen. Neighbors are also a trusted source for a teen. With stepping in when parents aren’t around to do a job and a close relationship with proximity to the teens home. With teens losing these close relationships by moving; it will have a huge negative effect on guidance and feeling a lone. Moving troubles of the family can cause stress on the parents, which can trickle down to the teen. Some of the most common reasons for a family moving is: the parents getting a divorce and the parents getting a new occupation. With the parents going through struggles whether it be divorce or a new job; the family will a various amounts of stress...
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...Jamie is a junior in high school, and she has a part time job, attends school for seven hours a day, take college classes as a high schooler, maintain good grades and keeps up with her school work, and currently in a relationship. America’s society is in a big rush to have teenagers mature and grow up before they reach adulthood. Many adults in today’s generation expect high school students to have all their eggs in a basket by time the student is eighteen. High schoolers are only young once, let them be teenagers and enjoy it. The stress of a high school student is too high because America’s society expects students to keep up with course loads, participating in extracurricular activities, have a job while attending school, maintain relationships, and testing and...
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...finances? Why is it that single parent households that fall under the working class category are struggling with the same way as those that are not working class families? With great speculation this problem has created great controversy over the years. What many people seem to misinterpret when hearing the words single parent household’s is that not every family struggles the same ways when it...
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...the story and would he agree on the main character, Chris’s, definition of happiness. In the movie Pursuit of Happyness there is a guy name Chris Gardner who is trying his best to support his family by selling portable bone density scanners. And for Chris to be able to pay rent and daycare fees, he has to at least sell 2 scanners each month. Throughout the movie he has a hard time selling them and it gets to the point where he can’t pay his bills. In result of him not being able to pay his bills, his wife ends up leaving and he also gets evicted from his home and the only person he has left is his son Christopher (Pursuit of Happyness). So his only option to not live on the streets and to give his son a good life is to find a good paying job. When I was watching the movie, one scene that stood out was the scene when Chris was walking through the Financial District in San Francisco after a long day of trying to sell his scanners. But as he is walking he sees a man in a suit and tie stepping out of a nice sports car. So Chris approaches him and he says to the man “ I got two questions for you. What do you do? And how do you do it?” The man tells Chris that he is a stockbroker and that you have to be good with numbers and that no schooling is required. After that encounter Chris stops to take a look at his surroundings and he notices that all the people leaving work...
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...Miffin is trying to prove that tattoos and artists are much more, that they can actually have a healing effect on a person. Miffin starts the article by introducing Roxx, a tattoo artist who owns the 2Spirit Tattoo studio. Roxx, a very unique tattooist, who works with a style not many women do, called blackwork. She turned to this form of tattooing because it is different, and she knew merely tattooing pictures on skin was not for her. Roxx has been developing her style since she was a kid. She started off learning to draw horses with her grandmother, and then moved to Amsterdam where she tattooed at a street shop. Her style gives her work life, emotion, and meaning, something that touches the hearts of her clients. She does this by getting to know them a little, finding out what suits them, what they like, and what they want their tattoo to say about them. The author, Miffin, begins her article with a vivid photo of a piece done by Roxx. She does this for a few different reasons. First, it captures the reader’s attention. Once the reader’s attention is drawn to the photo, they will want to know more about the tattoo work displayed. It is...
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...Word count: 611 Cause and Effect: Losing a Job Having a job is one of the reasons for a person to be stabilized, especially when you are having or planning for a family. When you have a job, you make money that can be used for your needs, also to provide for your spouse and for your whole family. The effects of losing a job can affect the whole family. What would be effects of losing a job to you and your family? The loss of income, inability to pay rent, and academic trouble for the children. In many families the parents are the providers for the household, in single families it’s the single parent who provides. Loss of a job is another thing for unemployment and their loss of income. Most families turn to draw out unemployment checks, to help provide and pay bills. Also, many families tend to ask for food stamps to help put food in their homes to eat. The loss of a job can become a struggle to the families’ simple essentials in life. Parents, struggle to make it after a loss of a job. Also, as a parent you should always have money saved up in case of an emergency or a crisis like this one. This is another cause for financial problems, within the home. This may lead to separation or divorce within the home because the other spouse has too much pressure on them. Another problem, which may occur within the home, is the inability to pay rent. This is caused by not having money or yet enough to pay for your rent. You begin to struggle to find money and ask others to help you...
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...With today’s societal norms, getting a college degree has become an expectation for all people and is viewed as a requirement for getting a stable and well-paying job. This universal expectation pressures all kinds of people to enroll in college. While some argue that college offers different benefits to different groups of people, with women benefiting more from college in terms of getting jobs and higher pay, the widespread standard is still that a college degree is essential for everyone aiming to achieve success in their career and finances. Although some argue college may benefit certain people more than others, college is a societal expectation for everyone due to the norm that a degree is needed to get a sufficient job. Society has made...
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...Caregiver burnout problems can show up mentally, emotionally, and physically. The nurse becomes unnecessarily agitated, anxious and confused just like a patient with UTI. Sometimes the crave to finish the job that was started or attempts to meet with date line may create so much professional frustration that it is no longer easy to hide the symptoms. I am of the opinion that reading or just taking a few minutes as recommended to set oneself up for the day is a good idea. However good that recommendation may be, given the nature of nursing profession and the vocational demands, it is not usually possible to organize oneself before getting report and starting the day’s job. There nurse end up stressing and burning out through their entire career as care givers. According to Ermak (2014), burnout is the issue of compassion fatigue which is the emotional strain of dealing with traumatic and difficult situations on a daily basis. Nurses should understand that their responses to these emotional things can become normal, and it shouldn’t be. There should be some kind of relief to staff who face stressful or challenging job related anxiety to help the recuperate before getting back on the floor for patient care. Therefore ready, even taking a few minutes of meditation before work commencement is absolutely advisable One cannot exhaust the benefits of reading. Mahon (2014), says that there are known positive effects from reading including better oral communication, more self-confidence...
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...of two teen girls who discover that they were accidentally switched at birth. One of the girls grew up with a white wealthy family with two parents and a brother, while the other lost her hearing as a child due to a case of meningitis, and grew up with a single Hispanic mother in a poor neighborhood. Things become dramatic when both families meet and struggle to learn how to live together for the sake of the girls. It shows a lot of diversity between the families, especially with one of the families being Hispanic, poor and a single mother. You can definitely see the differences. The media seems to show Hispanics as poor and struggling and the "White" family as rich and happy. As an ethnic group Hispanics seem to always be shown as poor. “Jane by Design” is a young teenager whose father died and her mother ran out on Jane and Ben (her older brother) before the series started. Her brother Ben tries to make money by getting jobs, but the jobs never work out until he lands a job as the athletic assistant at Jane's school. Jane tries to secretly help out her brother by getting herself a job. She struggles to be the best at her job and her school. Everyone at her work doesn't know she’s in high school and she keeps it a secret from everyone at school...
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...A Boxer’s Struggles In the movie Cinderella Man, directed by Ron Howard, James J. Braddock and his family go through some hard times. The movie takes place in the 1920’s during the great depression. Braddock is an up and coming boxer who struggles to keep his family fed and kept warm. After a bad loss in the ring, and a broken hand, he is then forced to go to the docks every day in hopes of getting a job. Work is hard to obtain although with a bad hand, and there are hundreds of other men in the same boat as him trying to get a job. The hardship James endures to try to keep his family together really shows the effects the great depression had on so many people. Once Braddock gets his boxing game back however, he wins against the undefeatable...
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...class who own nothing but their own physical power to run the machines. Thus both the producers and the workers are in a symbiotic relationship. Still we see that the capitalist can survive for a longer time without the worker as compared to the vice versa, putting the workers in a compromising position. Thus in the fight of wage determination, the capitalists tend to win, thereby fixing the wage rate which is sufficient for survival (which according to Marx s living like cattle). According to the Marxist ideology, “when the capitalists and the laborers suffer equally, the worker suffers in his very existence, the capitalist in the profit on his dead mammon. The worker has to struggle not only for his physical means of subsistence; he has to struggle to get work, i.e., the possibility, the means, to perform his activity.” Classes can be both rigid as well as fluent. During the Roman Era, as Tacitus tells us , their were the Slaves, the working class, those attached with big houses, the equestrian class and finally the senators....
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...the hospital the doctor says “I’m sorry, you have cancer” and “This is where you need to start fighting for your life.” Those words right there are two hits to the heart, feeling nothing but so many different types of emotions, like being on a rollercoaster. Knowing this is where it all starts and not knowing where it will end, just like watching a sad movie then never getting to the end. Everyone wants a good ending to their story… Cancer is honestly such a struggle, however in Collegeatals.org...
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