The Rich Kids

elite high school kids that are part of a very elite, high-class society in Upper East Side Manhattan. The show deals with wealthy teenagers going to high school and dealing with everyday teen issues such as sex, drugs, alcohol, school, friends and family. Gossip Girl takes place in New York City and deals with a socialite lifestyle, the characters attend an elite high school with a goal to attend…

Midsum Emotions Influence Our Choices Our choices control our lives. They set the future and the present. We can never be sure if our choices will result in something good, or something bad. The real question is what controls our choices, what makes us choose right from wrong? In the play Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Helena felt jealousy toward Hermia due to Demetrius’s affection for her. As a result, Hermia and Helena’s friendship broke due to the mischief caused by Hermia.…

who is rich but suffering from societal problems. Throughout the book, Holden struggles with the idea of children realizing that the world isn’t how they imagined it to be as they grow up. He believes that future generations of kids will grow up as he did, and lose their innocence. Holden has matured throughout the book. He has grown from an immature kid to a mature adult. Holden wanted to make something out of his life as he left Pencey Prep. The school that Holden went to was filled with rich…

While you might think flavored milk is rich in calcium and vitamin D, it’s also loaded with sugar...!”(“Milk is an Excuse to Sneak in Sugar”). This basically means that milk is an excuse to sneak sugar. On the flip side, there are a lot of healthy parts of chocolate milk. If kids don't have milk they won’t get enough vitamin D. One website said this,”Schools that have removed flavored milk have seen a sharp decline in milk consumption, which is bad news for kids' nutrition since milk contains…

What if each person walked around the earth naked? With no clothes, accessories or belongings to indicate social class? This is would be interesting to see because in the documentary, People Like Us, it was seen how much people judge each other by their outward appearance and personal belongings. The first thought about someone is made with the observers eyes, that first meeting could forever change the way you see that person. With that first encounter you walk away with a preconceived idea of…

and like to get into fights. The Socs are the rich kids who live in nice houses and who hate the Greasers. The two groups always get into fights. I am on the Greasers side. I believe that they struggled more than what the Socs did. The Greasers had it hard because they were poor and the Socs were rich and they thought since they are richer they are better.”We’re poorer than the Socs and the middle class.” This shows that the Socs are the rich kids and they think that they are better than…

rendering it nearly impossible for single moms to get a good image when raising kids as it is so difficult to properly do so in the battle of money, jobs, kids, and their owns lives. Modern America proves to be a tough place to be a single mom, however, even in partnered relationships mothers do most of the work when it comes to raising their children. Correlating to this, within the essay Anger and Tenderness written by Adrienne Rich, included in the Mother Reader book, she says, “My husband…

interest in posting selfies on Instagram than pursuing a career. Times have changed drastically since Rich wrote her speech. Today women have as much rights as men and are the full owners of their futures forgetting the things that encouraged them to claim the rightful education Rich refers to. Society has forgotten “about what men, above all white men, in their male subjectivity,” that motived Rich to inspire women to be part of the scholarly community. Society has forgotten about the racial…

In the Passage: Looking for Work by Gary Soto, Gary tells a story about the way he perceived life as a little kid and shared his personal story of how his family was. What Soto thought to be a “perfect family” was all an act on the shows he watched on TV. His idea was, in fact, interesting but he should feel proud of the way his relatives are. When I was little I thought my relatives were normal, even with its flaws, if it were up to me I wouldn’t trade them for anything. In the way that the…

for some more than others while rich people are born into a life of luxurious living accommodations and opportunity that are not afforded to those with lower income. People do not choose to be poor they are however limited to the opportunities afforded to them by their economic system. In his atricle "Poor kids who do everything right don’t do better than rich kids who do everything wrong" Matt O 'brian compares the inequality between the two economic classes. How rich parents can afford to…