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    I have been able to experience the culture of the countries I was visiting and able to observe the differences between theirs and mine. One thing caught my attention very quickly when I was visiting Ireland this past summer, and it was something I noticed in Italy too. That is that all of the people typically live the same. There was hardly any division of social class, something quite different from what goes on back in America. I live in the small and widely considered wealthy town of Haddonfield. If you drive through the bordering town of Collingswood, you will find yourself entering one of the country’s poorest and most dangerous cities of Camden. Within the distance of a few miles, there are mansions and run-down poverty-stricken neighborhoods, and the lives of those that live in them are really almost worlds apart. Why is that, when they live so near to each other? One argument could be made that the people of the two communities have nothing in common. Another argument could be made that the people of Haddonfield should be doing more to reach out and lend a helping hand to those in need in…

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    Class, gender, and race are all simple words that have powerful meanings attached to them. The meanings of words are socially derived, which are negotiated through interaction with others (O’ Brien). We have used these words as a way to separate and rank people. This has led to the separation of society and has created several conflicts between people. This paper will be analyzing how the American society ranks people in terms of class, race and gender. It will also assess why these rankings…

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    This essay aims to demonstrate an understanding of discrimination and power and how important it is to nursing and social work practice. Nursing is the provision of clinical, psychosocial care while promoting and achieving a good quality of life whatever the ailment until death, whereas Social workers are agents of social control and stability while promoting social justice, empowerment and enhancing the wellbeing of a dignified life and keeping in line with their values. Power is the ability…

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    As children, we do not see differences in class, ethnicity, religion, or race, but only differences in character. Character, the only characteristic of humans that truly defines who they are is all a child focuses on. Yet, millions of innocent people were forced into slavery for multiple generations, millions of innocent people were murdered in the Holocaust, millions of innocent people were not allowed to vote due to gender, and millions of people are not able to marry their loved ones because…

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    Socio Economic Class

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    Socio-Economic Class In a contemporary society, there are many bases for discrimination one being the difference in one’s socio-economic class. The differences in socio-economic class is what I have decided to base my paper off of. “This identity refers to a sociological and economic hierarchical of an individual in the society.” (Mitchell, 2015), The socio-economic class of a person consist of variables such as occupation, education, wealth and amount of income these factors are what determine…

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    connection between race and social class has a very long history in our country, and there is a lot of deep routed inequalities, and discriminations against people of color and lower class citizens. However, in recent years people say there is no longer a big racial divide, and it is all class based discrimination. People are believing this, because of the rise of a black middle class. However, there are some key factors of economics, government policy, and the rise of the black middle class…

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    Inequality At Work

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    away the rights from people to live freely. It has been a topic of debate for hundreds of years. The discrimination can take place in any community or society depending upon the treatment they get from others. It depends upon whether people distinct themselves from others on the basis of class, gender, social status or race. The research talks about the inequality that people face at their work environments and how the discrimination affects them. How these inequalities can be overcome.…

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    In his article, Black Family In the Age of Mass Incarceration, Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about his concerns with how poorly African American families are treated in society. Coates mentions how the government is not taking the mistreatment of African American communities problem seriously and is afraid this is going to have a very negative effect on their community and future generations. Throughout the article, Coates brought up numerous issues; however, the biggest dilemma discussed was the…

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    “To Maycomb, Tom 's death was typical. Typical of a nigger to cut and run”(Lee). This is just one of the several examples of discrimination throughout the story in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, whether it is against women, people of color, or even people in the lower classes of society. Discrimination is the force that drives the separation and differences in rights between these groups and it also promotes several malicious ideals, this is especially true in the 1930s when discriminatory…

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    Classism; unfair treatment due to one’s social or economic class. One is treated differently based on their social class; lower, upper, or higher class. The treatment of each class can be unfair, as society gives each class different amounts of respect. The discrimination one feels due to their class can stop their progress in various ways, which all in all prevents them from realizIng their full ability. The lower class is often discriminated as they are looked down at and others feel superior…

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