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    their families and ancestors. The documentary confirms this by doing a follow-up with the Crabtree family in 2013. Tammy and her sons continued living in the similar poor conditions. While there was a change to their material culture, the overall status remained as poverty. In my opinion, opportunities in the United Stated make it possible for anyone to advance their social class by setting successful goals and trying one’s best to reach them. It’s easy to sit back, relax and take it easy, but…

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    different ideas on “social class” and what goes into it. Social class in To Kill A Mockingbird is determined by heredity, economic status, and race, these are factors that change the viewpoint others have of characters in Maycomb’s society. The Cunninghams and Ewells are examples of lower class white people that are still looked at differently because of their economic status. People of the same color as these families may still look down to them because of how poor they are. The Ewell family,…

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    There are associations between the materialistic/structural explanation and the cultural behavioural explanation. The cultural explanation suggests that the social distribution of poor health is linked to differences in individual behaviours and to different groups’ attitudes towards their health (Daykin, 2001). The Stroke Foundation of NZ (2010) suggests that people who are subject to a greater degree of disadvantage were estimated to have about a 60% increased risk of stroke when compared with…

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    not made them to be the same. Langston Hughes, in “Cora Unashamed” and Zora in “Sweat” present two women, who lived in different places, and with different marital status, nonetheless experimented similar experiences. Cora presented by Langston, is an unmarried women and Delia presented by Zora is a married women. Their marital status could lead someone to think that their life were totally different, however, there are different similarity in the live made by Cora and Langston. One important…

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    Bystanding Towards Engaged Witnesses, from Towards Psychologies of Liberation. In this chapter Watkins & Shulman (2008) explain bystanding as a consequence of socialization, and in order to reverse these effects it is necessary for us to go against the status quo and challenge the norms that may be causing psychic wounds within others and ourselves. The central themes discussed in this chapter revolve around the 12 symptoms and consequences experienced by bystanders. These include the severing…

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    Describe how your personal background and life experiences have influenced Your decision to pursue a graduate education in social work. Please include any challenges or hardships you may have overcome on your journey. When I was four years old my mother was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. My life changed completely after her diagnosis. My dad abandoned us. We could not afford to live by ourselves, since my mother could not work. She was disabled from her neck down. Immediately, she was…

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    makes mistakes and bad decisions, as a real person would, and doesn’t come off as artificial. Furthermore, the flaws that Lung displays can be seen as reasonable flaws that many readers have as well. Most people have some sort of desire for wealth and status, and can understand why Lung is so determined for money, after growing up an impoverished farmer. This means the reader can develop a connection between themselves and the novel, improving their reading experience as a whole.Though they may…

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    There are several characters from the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales that reflect the social classes of medieval society. From the Knights to the Nun, to the Monk and the Friar- they all have different social classes. In the medieval time your class was important. You have those that are rich, and those that are poor. You have the ones dressed elegantly and the ones dressed in the worst. It all depending on where they fall in the social class. The author’s purpose for having different…

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    Should I be fortunate enough to be elected President of the Student Government Association of Frederick High, responsibilities as President will be second to none. Section 1, Article 7 of the FHS Constitution states that the President shall retain a status of an ex-offico member of all committees within our Government. This is where I'll work to deliver to the student of FHS more fun activities such as pep rallies and dances. Obviously, a pep rally every week or even every month is quite an…

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    me reach a score that is desirable for the University of Minnesota. It was the first time, here at the U of M, that I was very aware of my social economic class differences and racial differences from many of the people here. I felt burdened by my status, but now I realized, there was nothing to be ashamed of in the first place. That following week, on our second Introduction to TRIO class, Nate pointed out a very interesting and motivational point. TRIO was a program that serves us; it gives…

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