...Society is divided into different classes. There’s the upper class, lower middle class, the working class, working poor class, and the underclass. People belong in different social classes depending on what kind of job they have. For example, the middle and the working classes are very different. People who are in the middle class are people who finished high school or finished college and have a job where they get paid more than the minimum wage. Since they get paid more than seven dollars and twenty five cents an hour they are considered to be rich. However, the people who are in the working class are considered poor because they are people who either didn’t finish high school or graduated from college and now have a job where they get paid minimum wage. The middle class and the working class parents tend to socialize their children differently. Both classes are very different and each one has their own way of socializing their children. For example, parents from a middle class might raise their children in a strict way by sending them to private schools instead of public ones because they think that public schools are “ghetto”. Since they didn’t grow up in that environment they don’t want their kids to grow in that environment either. Middle class usually has the money to spoil their kids and that causes a kid to grow up thinking that they could have whatever they want. People who belong in the middle class aren’t super rich but are not poor either. In the working class parents...
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...Time U.S. “When the Portland, Maine, School Committee voted 7-2 Wednesday night to make birth control pills available to middle school girls as young as 11. The response provided the latest evidence that adults still have trouble talking about sex with each other, much less with our kids. The debate was passionate, as you'd expect over an issue that touches so deeply our concerns about what our kids know and do — and when — and the messages we send them. To school officials and public health advocates who favored the measure, this was a question of confronting reality. Five of the 134 students who visited King Middle School's health center last year admitted they were sexually active; in the last four years, Portland's three middle schools reported 17 pregnancies, not counting miscarriages or unreported pregnancies that ended in abortions. Parents may be in denial, officials suggested, they may fervently want children to delay sexual activity, but if you know for a fact that kids are having sex then the responsible thing to do is to warn them about sexually transmitted diseases and help prevent them from getting pregnant. The message was not "value neutral": "We do certainly sit down and speak with them about why that's not a good choice," said Portland's school nurse coordinator Amanda Rowe, referring to sexually active students. "But there are some who persist — even though we don't like to think about that — in being sexually active, and they need to be protected." And while...
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...through a series of non-profits. But all these efforts seemed very short lived and his reach was very limited. But his new idea is on a different scale. He launched a multimillion-dollar initiative program called the Harlem Children’s Zone. This zone refers to the 97-block area of Harlem and serves more than 10,00 children and 13,000 adults. Neighborhoods like Harlem exist all over the country. Detroit, New Orleans, Houston, Baltimore, and Philadelphia are just to name a few. In all of these cities there are neighborhoods where poverty is concentrated, where crime rates are higher, test scores are lower, and good jobs are pretty much nonexistent. These kids seem destined to have a dim future because of their situation when they are young. What Geoff Canada is trying to prove in Harlem is that there is a way out for those kids and their families in these poverty stricken neighborhoods. His main goal is to reach all children and their families where they live, in all aspects of their lives, in order to boost student achievement. Ultimately, by providing support services to children in Harlem, this will give them the educational and social capital to succeed in school, and then in college, and life after college,...
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...Brian Butler Devin Jarvi 5-Most Common Segments 1. 39 Domestic Duos- Midscale Mature w/o Kids 2. 19 Home Sweet Home- Upper-Mid Middle Age w/o Kids 3. 15 Pools & Patios- Upper-Mid Older HH w/o Kids 4. 30 Suburban Sprawl- Midscale Older w/o Kids 5. 22 Young Influential’s- Midscale Middle Age w/o Kids 1. Domestic Duos consist of mostly people with an age of 65 and older who are either single or married couples. They normally are living in older suburban homes with only their high school education. These people normally have fixed incomes and maintain an easy-going lifestyle. These residents like to spend their free time going to see plays, bowling, or going out to eat. 2. These residents are typically couples of the upper to middle class who are married. These people live in mid-sized homes without any children. The age of this segment is typically 55 and under who have gone to college with white- collar jobs. Having an old age with no children leaves these folks with comfortable lifestyles, they normally fill their homes with TVs and pets. 3. This segment includes empty nesting couples living in stable neighborhoods with nice patios or pools. The age range for this segment is 45-64 with an average income of $72,000. They are usually white, Asian, or mixed and currently at the top of their careers. 4. This segment has an average income of $50,000 and enjoys watching Scrubs or singing karaoke. These people also range from 45-64 and are living...
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...everything you have ever wanted. However you end up with thousands of dollars in debt due to college tuition being so expensive. With the price of college tuition being expensive, more jobs are having higher standards in who they are hiring. Which results in more kids going/wanting to go to college. With colleges knowing this, they start to raise their tuition rate. College tuition has become too expensive for the middle-class family to afford. The cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise. Most schools are continuing to increase the cost of tuition while spending money on things that are not going towards the students. Such as...
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...champions to each other” (Thomas 33). This quote from the story “Amigo Brothers” by Piri Thomas shows one of many interactions between the amigo brothers, Felix and Antonio. Felix and Antonio are two best friends who do everything with each other, from working out for their boxing championships, to running along the beach. When the brothers figure out they have to fight against each other, they have a difficult time and have to learn how to keep their bond strong. The strength found within Felix and Antonio is important for middle school students to read about. This story shares many experiences a typical middle school student would have to go through. The “Amigo Brothers” shares...
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...Have you ever wondered why that kid sits alone on the benches at commons or why he/she gets picked last in a game and everybody laughs at them? Let me explain. Overall, Bullying can affect a middle schooler emotionally, socially, and may cause them to fall behind in school academically. First of all, Bullying can affect a middle schooler emotionally. Bullies make victims hopeless and make them feel like they don’t belong. Bullies also make victims change themselves into something they're not. Victims who can’t stand bullying may turn into aggressive parents and adults themselves and go through emotional problems. Furthermore, Bullying can negatively impact everyone involved including the bully, the victim, and the bystander. From...
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...If there was one thing you imagine it's your relationship with people then your basically Armstrong and Charlie and not being friends anymore with your best friends and having to fight and not talk to each other. Basically they say “were not best friends anymore”. In this historical fiction Armstrong and Charlie, Steven B. Frank captures how people can not be friends anymore for awhile and how they became friends again in a very interesting way. Armstrong and Charlie are two middle schoolers. The middle schoolers from Los Angeles gets very heated,crazy. Armstrong and Charlie were two best friends until something happened and they both started hating each other and they were not friends anymore. The book is about where two kids are best...
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...Changing All great changes are preceded by chaos. A dynamic character is someone who changes; static characters stay the same. In middle school I was immature, in my transformation I became mature. Most people change from middle school to high school. You change by realizing things, maturing or just growing up. Well not for me, something happened that helped me transform into the person I am today. To begin with, if you knew my personality in middle school, it is nothing, as I am perceived today. I was immature and constantly got in trouble. I didn’t care what the teacher had to say and I would make it difficult for other students to learn. Lets just say I was more of a nuisance then a pleasure to have in class. I was always a bright student, some how managed to only get one B and the rest A’s through middle school. Considering I was rarely in class due to my comportment during class. The biggest immaturity part of middle school was how I got in trouble. It wasn’t as if I was selling drugs or anything terrible! I would get in trouble for doing immature actions as going to the bathroom for twenty minutes, not being in my seat and most importantly talking! Speaking out in class was the biggest issues for me as I was in middle school. See you might ask how did you get twenty-three referrals during eighth grade when you weren’t there for two months due to surgery. After every day seeing the most irritating kid you’ve ever come across you might realize how I got referrals for things other...
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...1) Lisa Dodson focuses on families who live in poverty in her book “the Moral Underground How Ordinary Americans Subvert Unfair Economy”. (5) She talked to the middle income people such as employers, supervisors, teachers and daycare providers whose jobs bring them into very close contact with working poor. Her initial plan was to discuss to issues related to work with low-income people such as tardiness. But Jonathan, a manager in a chain of grocery stores in the Midwest, changed Dodson’s initial research plan when he asked her don’t you want to know what this does to me too. (5) Jonathan consider himself a fair man and he felt immoral paying people less than what they needed to survive. He knows that what he pays his employees is not enough to cover basic human needs. He obviously felt bad having a good income that provides him with a good life and not paying enough to his employees who are hardworking parents. Yes, it is legal to set the wages too low but it is not fair for people who work very hard to feed their families. “When you ignore injustice embedded in your society, you become part of it, complicit with what you consider immoral” (Dodson, 6). Andrew, Jonathan and many others witnessed the injustice as they work closely with the working poor and ignoring what...
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...says. "A nag-free activity could engage family time: Ask a parent about his or her own childhood. Interview siblings." Teachers give too much non effective homework. Margot Steinberg of White Plains, whose children are in the Ardsley district, said: ''The kids get so much homework, they're not getting something out of it. They're doing it to get it done.''If this were to happen in our school there would be a tremendous change and happier students. Homework causes students to...
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...What matters more to my kids’ future: Their school or quality time with their parents? 1] On countless mornings over the past year, I stood with my 3-year-old son, James, in our driveway, watching our next-door neighbor trudge off to fifth grade. As she’d disappear around the corner, I’d think ahead to the kind of school James might attend when he starts kindergarten in two years. 2] My wife and I are in our early 30s, living in Ann Arbor, Mich., where she is finishing her training as a demographer. Over the next year we’ll figure out where we’re going to live for the long haul. Where we choose will depend to some extent on the job market, but it will also depend heavily on where we want James and his brother, Oscar, 1, to go to school. 3] We can’t afford private-school tuition, so living in a city would probably mean chancing it on a subpar public school system. And although I loved growing up on the coast of Maine, the limits of my public high school education became clear when I got to college and immediately felt like I was behind. I would like my boys to be better prepared for college. 4] But if my wife and I wanted to do everything we could to give James and Oscar the best possible K-12 education, we’d have to make some big changes. We’d have to choose more lucrative careers than hers in academia and mine as a writer so we could afford urban private schools or a house in an affluent suburb where the public schools are better. But between the longer...
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...School Should Start Later I think that kids need a break from school, because this generation is full of stress and I think that one of the main reasons is because of school. At least once a week like Fridays we should have a shorter day in school. I have a couple of reasons why we should have a shorter day on Friday and some expert opinion on why we should start later. What CNC says about stress in school. CNC says that Young people experience stress at a high rate, and females more than males, an extensive Associated Press/MTV survey shows. A similar divide exists in terms of fears and safety: Girls and young women are less likely to feel safe in their neighborhoods and in school. The source of stress changes as we get older, the survey...
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...are meant to be with your family. | People who love chicken obviously. Although anyone can eat chicken, Chicken can sometimes be a health problem for some people. Considering all the fat and oil that some chicken can carry. I think the target audience is mostly centered on younger teenage adults to middle age adults. For example, My parents are in their 50’s they rarely eat Chick-fil-A now. They mostly ate it when they were in their late 20’s early 30’s. | Subway | Kind of a slow paced restaurant. A place where you would want to go to sit-down and enjoy a quiet nice area. Mostly busy around lunch times. Any other time between that and after that is great to enjoy the quiet. | I would say subway is for people who love to eat healthy or that like to keep control of their diet. Athletes mostly eat subway. I would say people who are mid-30 to older age would mostly eat subway. Sure young teen adults do but not nearly as much as older adults. | Oak-court Mall | The Oak-court mall is a place where you can shop with friends, family, and if you just want to shop by yourself that’s good too. It’s a fast-paced area. Can find all your shopping needs. They have great parking as well. Where ever you are trying to shop there is a parking lot available to meet your walking needs. | Anyone can shop at the mall but you want see to many older adults in the mall. Older adults meaning late 50 and older. You will mostly see young teen adults and middle age adults in the mall. | BestBuy | Has...
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...Many kids grow up in a single parent home, “1 in 3 children in the U.S. live without their father” (NYE). When you grow up without one of the two parent roles, you get labels put on you as the daddy-less daughter, the girl with daddy issues, or the one with abandonment issues, the list could go on and on. In the article “The Saints and the Roughnecks” by William Chambliss from the book “Readings for Sociology”, the group of boys throughout the article get treated differently for growing up in different life styles. The Saints were from the middle class they were the students that had expensive cars, dressed nice and averaged A’s and B’s in school (244) As for the Roughnecks, they were a part of the "poor class" who were perceived as the trouble makers,...
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