The song that played in class on Thursday March 1st was sung buy Johnny Cash. Release in the same year as the stock market crash in 1987, the song 16 Tons is about the struggling constraints in a coal miners’ life. Focused on highlighting the reality of poverty, Cash states that “a mind that a-weak and a back that’s strong”. This is an example of the lack of education that may be a constraint that keeps one in poverty. Thinking on economic terms, poverty is a sever constraint on ones’ ability to live a normal life but consistency living in poverty weakens opportunities to gain skills to help get out the impoverished social class.
We can only assume that quality education is either not affordable and/or is skipped because
We can only assume that quality education is either not affordable and/or is skipped because