Upper middle class

their middle class White peers, we, as educators, can see how this negatively impacts students’ confidence and contributes towards the Achievement Gap. This is critical when trying to understand the unfairly balanced educational system in America. The easiest way to determine a student’s academic promise is by comparing him to his peers. If a girl in class finishes her exam faster than anyone else and still…

are well mannered complacent kids. It is obvious that Ward is the head of the household as both his wife and children are submissive to his control. In all aspects, the Cleaver family is being depicted the “ideal family” for the time, they are an upper class family with seemingly good family relations. As TV shows develop through the decades, there will be obvious differences from this “ideal family” of the 1950s. Immediately in the 1960s, there is a change in the depiction of the American…

manipulative and sexist. I understand victim-blame, and hate it and will never do it again. Everyone deals with trauma in their own way, I am not to tell them how to express themselves, but just now to be a better listener. I am thankful for this class and feminism for changing my mind and opening my eyes to these and so many more ways that feminism is essential to my growth and wellbeing. Feminism is not just women wanting everything that men have, it is a complex and beautiful web of being,…

Charlotte Brontë’s explores many of the pressing issues of the time period in a captivating, romantic almost mystery novel. She writes the story of Jane Eyre, a young orphaned girl of 10 years of age, growing up in her lately deceased uncle’s middle class home; a mistreated, outcaste among her relatives. By their treatment of her, the reader is presented with the lonely, harsh, and unfair life of a poor orphaned girl who is unloved and unwanted by those relations whom she has been thrust upon…

divides these constructs into socioeconomic class, region, and proximity to USA. Researchers attempted to determine the effect of class by creating surveys that measured nationalist beliefs against economic class, education, and standard of living. Survey results from Bustamante found that people with a higher standard of living have less attachment to national identity (Morris, 389). While surveys from Zavala found that less educated and lower middle class to exhibit the lowest levels of…

was about preparing one’s children for success so that they may live out of poverty through hard work. As the generation of workers began to shift from poor immigrants, so did the social paradigm surrounding the American dream. This occurred in the middle of the 20th century. The American dream was no longer about a great future or focused work. The nation wanted to work enough to maintain a happy life, own a home, and spend time with their family. People wanted to have a perfect family, a…

have affected who I am; social class, gender, and aspects of my family. Looking at what has influenced my growing up also helps paint a better picture as to who I hope to be, as well as how I want my life to look. For example, the job I want and the family I would like to have. Inequality Growing up, my family was part of what is considered America’s lower class. While there are situations much worse than what my mother and I had, we were nowhere near middle class. My mother and I were both on…

Since my junior year of high school I have gladly proclaimed myself as a feminist in the simplest of terms. When pressed on the issue I would stand my ground and proclaim that society was inherently misogynistic and women have to work twice as hard to get only a fraction of what a male earns. When the guys asked “why do feminists burn their bras?” I would scoff at them and explain how not all feminists believe in those ideals. Feminism, to me, was just the basic equality of gender. I simply…

message about responsibility, warning the consequences if the message is not heeded. As the play was set before the First World War, it enabled priestly to refer to class division and social hierarchy through the characters and to the audience. Priestly portrays the attitudes of the characters and how family is presented in upper class throughout the play. The eccentric, Mr Birling a pretentious factory owner worries about his reputation being tarnished, which indicates he believes family is…

Motivational author Alexander Lockhart once said, “Be a leader, not a follower” (Look Forward, Not), this is what I try to live by day in, and day out. I have been told this from a young age of being taught what I should, and should not do in the future. Lockhart emphases these words through his books known as Portable Pep Talk and Positive Charges. Becoming a leader is important, because someone needs to inforce things into the right direction. People all around the community, and world make…