The Rich Kids

illegal activity. “ Between 1984 and 1992 the average salary in the informal sector grew by 10%, while in the formal sector the increase was only 3%.”(Rubio 805-816) In a greater sense, the growth of the Colombian economy is powered informal sector. Consequently, the elite, upper class and upper middle class are the main bodies behind this growth. Therefore, the poorer part of the community is left with scarce resources, uneducated and exploited. The greatest challenge, as a result, is security…

“Here’s the Real Face of Poverty,” is a article written by Leonard Pitts, a commentator. Pitts argues against how Republicans view what is poverty and what being poor really looks and feels like in today’s society. Pitts also discusses the hypocrisy with Republicans as well. In today’s world, poverty is known to be people who are on welfare and foodstamps and feed off the government assistance. On T.V you see them living in broken homes and if you are lucky, you might just see them with both…

Media Fragmentation, And Increased Political Polarization by John Duca looks at the several factors that has increased polarization in the United States. First Duca examined the concept of income inequality. Income inequality is the concept that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and polarization is created from policies that cause that concept to only increase. Duca puts his hypothesis to test by comparing house polarization (Congress) to income inequality trends. “Using time series…

All types of kids will die someday no matter how hard you try to make their lives better economically; similar to the tale “Kids Who Die” by Langston Hughes. Hughes was a literary icon well known for writing about the African Americans’ experience with racism and discrimination during the 1950-1960’s. He was the leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance, promoting upcoming young poets. On the other hand, he was the first black poet to support himself through his writing, according to the Poetry…

All types of kids will die someday no matter how hard you try to make their lives better economically; similar to the tale “Kids Who Die” by Langston Hughes. Hughes was a literary icon well known for writing about the African Americans’ experience with racism and discrimination during the 1950-1960’s. He was the leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance promoting upcoming young poets. On the other hand, he was the first black poet to support himself through his writing, according to the Poetry…

brutality experienced due to a poverty. Whereas when the slum boy takes out a flute, the rich boy drowns its sound by his loud toy-trumpet, when the slum boy switches to a home-made mask and spear,” the rich boy pondering over his unspoken defeat, given that the slum boy gives up trying to be friends with the rich boy and the rich boy seems proud of his victory” Firstly, the film mocks the idealist notion of kids being only innocent, it also questions whether reality can be the sole way to joy…

articles, A Generation Struggling: Rich Kids Are Losing, and Alarming Number of Teens are Quitting School to go to Work, shows how both the privileged class and the lower class have difficulties. Both of the classes have to face complications in life, the rich use more hard drugs than the lower class, to provide more income to their family the lower class teens have to drop out of high school, and both groups have challenges to face in their own society. The rich are prompted to use more drugs…

The achievement gap between rich and poor children extends little by little, and there is not an easy solution to close it. Our society sustains the idea that there must be a division of social classes. This is evident in the way the neighborhoods in large cities are constructed. The rich are secluded in the hills, while the poor live in the communities with factories and liquor stores on every corner. The social construct in the United States is to be blamed for this gap because it allows for…

care in the world as long as you were rich, but doesn’t that seem biased towards the rich?…

Have you ever thought that the rich kids had it easy and their parents gave them whatever they wanted? Have you ever gave a thought that poor and rich kids were much different in many ways? These are some problems the greasers felt about the socs in the book “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hilton. This book dives into the lives and problems of the difference in economic status between greasers & socs in the year 1967. I believe kids in this century face the same problems the greasers did in 1967. Much…