Middle class

Having a Napping Class in School Sleep is something that everybody needs. By having school at 7:30 every day it’s hard to get enough sleep at night. While we sleep muscles grow and tissue repairs. According to educationworld.com, even teachers should have an afternoon nap. Teachers have to get up earlier, and get home later than most students. Sleepfoundation.org states, “Every middle school student needs at least eight and a half hours of sleep each night. Middle school students need their…

dwindled down to just two. There is now a belief that only the upper class and lower class exist. “The disappearance of the middle class is based primarily on the disappearance of what are largely considered and viewed as middle class jobs. For example, some of the jobs that have been on the chopping block for some time are post office jobs, data entry jobs and word processing jobs to name a few.” Those within the lower class whom for whatever reasons have elected not to seek the path of…

The Middle Ages contained some of the most interesting classes of people this world has ever seen. The amount of knowledge that is possessed from this era is very little, but the quantity of what the world does possess gives the people fascinating information about what life was like in those days. The most remarkable piece is the class system and just how corrupt the church system was at that time. Geoffrey Chaucer does a fantastic job at showing this corruption. The church system contained…

popular in the life of white middle-class women. It was widely recognized for its so-called ability to help relieve the emotional and psychological pressures in the life of most middle-class women. The addiction to “the new white-collar aspirin” attracted the public attention, extending from temperance movement to the twentieth century’s war against drugs. The US anti-drug campaigns usually targeted drugs related to suspect populations, such as non-white, immigrants, and low-class urban people.…

The education system has been a burden to many middle-class Americans. According to Robert Putnam, professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School says students worry about their family’s income rather than focus his or her education and smart poor kids have a low chance to graduate from college than a rich dumb kid because of the lack of resource available to them. Especially, finding jobs can be complicated when many middle-class jobs “favor the more educated” for qualifications. To those…

began my first days as an observer and tutored during recess. Further into the week, I decided to step out of my comfort zone, challenge myself, and began to take on the role as the teacher, and that is when I began to grow as a person. Sixth Ward Middle School gave me the opportunity to work with children, which is something that I truly enjoy. Upon completion of my internship, not only did I grow as an educator, but I also realized the passion I have for working with children. During my time…

I was an average middle schooler: average in sports, academics, and in confidence. Being average caused me to doubt my abilities and have a negative view of myself. This took a turn, however, when I tested into Algebra a year early during the beginning of eighth grade. When this happened, I felt above average, like I was finally excelling at something. This didn’t last long because Algebra was a tough class that tested my abilities and my mind to their capacity. This class taught me how to be…

McClelland, Edward. “The “Middle Class” Myth: Here 's Why Wages Are Really So Low Today.” Pg. 92-94 in Focus on Social Problems: A Contemporary Reader, edited by M. Stombler and A.M. Jungels. New York: Oxford University Press. Edward argues that wages are low because technology and immigrants are willing to do jobs that should require higher pay to be done at lower wages. He talks about how Americans would do certain jobs and that people from Mexico would because they do the same thing from…

Swift in “A Modest Proposal” and Elizabeth Warren in “The Vanishing Middle Class” argue about the flawed economic system of their respective countries one being the United States and the other Ireland. Swift argues how the poverty of the poor is dragging down the middle class and is ruining the beautiful country of Ireland as well. On the contrary Warren argues on how a strong middle class is needed in order to help out a lower class that is struggling. Because Swift notices that their needs to…

how America can recover. Although we are nearing the end of the recession, families and more importantly the middle class does not feel like it’s over. Robert Reich, one of the greatest economist of his time, postulates very generally that the problem is the growing gap between the rich and the poor, and the disappearance of the middle class. One of the reasons Reich believes the middle class is feeling the brute of the recession even nearing the end is that although the average wage has…