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    for herself and her family. She moved two times in an effort to find stable, safe place for her kids to grow up, and she worked several jobs so she could afford to put her kids into private schools. When it appeared that Moore was going to fall into the thug lifestyle, she sacrificed economically and emotionally to put him into a military school. In short, she simply refused to allow herself or her kids to succumb to the conditions and temptations that surrounded them. In the end, it comes…

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    Absolutely, one of the other things that you mentioned in your survey was something about encouraging the student with a professionalism redirect or talk to the parents. Can you tell me a little bit about that? Rich: Parent communication, to me, has always been huge and I laugh at them now because I have a stack of 25 years ' worth of newsletters that went home to parents on a Commodore computer. We had to put in a floppy disc and type something and you pull it out and put it in to save…

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    Do you really know the difference between rich and poor? Some cannot even imagine that the rich man can spend a year income of a poor man, on one toy. Well these are difference in our society that the author Toni Cade Bambara, wants the reader and character in the short story called The Lesson to realize. “Her short stories best capture people struggling in a day-to-day existence, trying to survive in society, but doing it together. Capitalistic society is what Bambara’s characters are fighting…

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    Your kid is average, has a 3.2 gpa, and played football once? Perfect. Here’s $30,000. Just make sure you check the box that states that he is eligible for free lunch. Now, this kid gets to go to medical school for free, while salutatorian is flipping burgers at McDonald’s to pay off that one book on “The History of Community College”. For…

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    classes to learning and the amount of money to raising children. I believe that Gladwell did a great job in this essay and I agree with most of his points. An assumption I had before reading was that children who come from nothing have more drive then kids who are raised surrounded by wealth. The reason for my assumption is that I have heard/seen so many stories of people who’ve started from nothing and have became successful. A great example is LeBron James. Born to a 16 year old mother he…

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    in showing the inequality between the rich and the poor. Madge can represent the bourgeoisie as she is part of the family which leads District 12 and Katniss along with the rest of District 12 are proletariats. In the novel, Madge being the bourgeoisie has superiority compared to the rest of District 12, thus proving the unfairness between the rich and the poor. In conclusion, the inclusion of Madge in the novel perfectly displays the inequality between the rich and the poor, which leads into…

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    middle togethers and high togethers. The good professors go to the richest neighborhood to teach the rich children while the inexperienced one go to the low income families and poor. In New York we have the Bronx as an example the South Bronx is the low income or poor the in the same city, just at the north we have River there which is the rich part of the Bronx. Basically poor stay poor and rich rich, not mix is allow. Boyd, Donald, Lankford, Hamilton, Loeb, Susanna, Rockoff, Jonah, & Wyckoff,…

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    S.E. Hinton, is a story about a boy named Ponyboy and how he goes through the troubles of life. The book which is fiction focused on the fight between rich and poor. It also focuses on the journey from youth to adulthood. The three topics addressed in the interesting book power of friendship, journey from youth to adulthood, and fight between rich and poor. First, the book addresses the significance of the power of friendship. One example of the power of friendship in The Outsiders is when…

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    taste for bloodshed also has a taste for being very promiscuous. Deep down under his borderline psychotic tendencies, he 's just a lonely person who desires the counsel of another, just like anyone else would and knows a rich kid can give it to him. My 9th plot idea about a rich kid who has been dating w futa for a while now and everything was going fine. However, things change when he runs into her crossdressing brother (can be changed to friend or something else) who aggressive to him, often…

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    orphan. His mom and died had died when he was young. From the beginning of the book, I can tell that Dick is an honest kid. Dick believes that stealing is mean. Dicks job is to shine shoes for people. He never has any money because as soon as he gets some he spends it right away. Dick meets Mr. Whitney and his nephew Frank and shows them around the city. Mr. Whitney is a rich businessman. Frank and his uncle purchase Dick new clothes and begin giving him advice. Dick loves the new…

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