In addition to the article of "The lesson", by Toni Cada Bambara, she highlights that society differentiate on people's social status. ... The item's (sail boat) price makes Flyboy acknowledge the mass difference between his socioeconomic status and the upper class socioeconomic status. ... This experience goes to show that they're a significant gap between the perceptions of socioeconomic status. ... " I just couldn't believe it, it made me feel aggravated and jealous; I felt that there was something for me to prove to the world, I could not accept that not...

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The majority of families I worked with come from low to poor economic and social upbringing and functioned on a lower level of education than what is considered acceptable in the working class. ... They believe schooling is only because one is forced to attend; it's not about one's education that gets one ahead, but rather from what economic status they are born under; and believe the life they are living has amounted to all it will, therefore it must be accepted and embraced. ... Families on welfare must be made aware of the importance of focusing on education and that opportunity ...

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Albert's Catholic High School's production of "The Breakfast Club" taught the audience at the Arden Theatre a few valuable life lessons about social status and friendship. ... As they break the barriers between their social statuses and relationships with one another, they come to realize that they are not so different from each other after all. ...

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Those of the learning community have the difficult task of deciding whether or not mandatory school uniforms infringe upon the rights of students in public schools, and maintaining social order in these schools as well. ... School uniforms do little to disguise social status and can actually harm students when they enter the real world and realize that not every person is equal. ... The uniform is a convenient mechanism for discouraging today's youth to be their own person and not conform to social pressure. ... Although, when uniforms are forced to quickly into schools, students d...

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Those in a peer group have the same status and are about the same age. In words Wikipedia it is both a social and primary group of individuals. Peer group may be defines as a group of individuals through homophile share similarities such as age, background, social and political affiliations. ... The affiliation among them on the basis of these same features is a force of social dynamism which is called homophile. ... Despite, socioeconomic status, it is the desire of parents to get the best possible social networks, mainly during adolescence, when youth are increasingly independent from parent...

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Social inequality is also another way to look at this type of treatment. ... In this situation the achieved status of student athletes was looked at as being more important than nonathletes. In chapter 9, pg. 230, an achieved status is described as an open system that encourages competition among members of society. ...

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Chocolate War BOOK REPORT TITLE: The Chocolate War AUTHOR: Robert Cormier PUBLICATION DATE: 1974 PLACE SETTING: The story is set in New York. TIME SETTING: The story takes place in the modern day. POINT OF VIEW: The story is told in third person. THEME: The theme is fighting the establishment....

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An educator may be able to give some tips to the parents on how to get their child motivated or a talk with the parents might help reveal another problem the child has, such as drugs or social problems. ... Status dropout rates represent the proportion of young adults ages 16 through 24 who are out of school and who have not earned a high school credential. Status rates are higher than event rates because they include all dropouts in this age range, regardless of when they last attended school. ... In addition, Hispanic young adults in the United States continue to have a higher status dropo...

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"Hamlet is no abstract thinker and dreamer. As his imagery betrays to us, he is rather a man gifted with greater powers of observation than others. He is capable of scanning reality with a keener eye and of penetrating.....to the very core of things.",Wolfgang Cleman. I agree with this st...

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Up to the middle of the year my group of friends and I would laugh at the other students who looked weird or make fun of the students who were socially awkward. ... My beliefs about social status' and popularity disappeared and I realized that diversity is a good thing. Children who are looked at as different or weird, may have social anxiety or developmental issues, but they all have a story and are very friendly and caring people....

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Toy Soldiers Ever since the beginning of time people have been dressing in ways that describe their cultural background, social status, and sometimes even their religion. ... What kind of social leper is going to wear blue trousers and penny loafers to play ball on the weekend? ...

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Speech Anxiety Through out my school years I've done, a lot of different class assignments dealing with public speaking as to my unfortunate is not one of my best subjects. Every year since the beginning of high school there was that one class I had to take that sooner or later dealt...

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I have never been part of a social group or liked to talk any but after being in the company of all the interesting, and unique people there was no way I couldn't fit it. ... I had no idea that my life would be changed in such a manner as for me to move up in the world in my own personal status rating, all because I stepped through the front doors of a school. ...

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The Dream Yet to be Realized. Almost fifty years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court declared, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that laws separating the races in school are unconstitutional. Hundreds of lawsuits later, black and white students were bused back and for...

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I think some of the main things that I would have to get used to in my life would be school, school activities, family life, social life, and how I would react to my new lifestyle. ... I think that the status you get in our society today and the amount of money you earn turns people away from going into the teaching profession. ... In his world people are free to choose what they really want to do because it is what will make them happy and not what will earn them the most community status or earn the most money. ... I"m not sure how much of a social life I would have because I don'...

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Because of my status, I was enthusiastically welcomed by the high school. ... Of course my social life suffered, but I didn't care. ... As a result, I didn't have the status I had when I attended my former school. ...

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Due to educational disparities brought on by social class and income, as well as race, gender, stratification, and socioeconomic factors and economic returns on education, the U.S. education system continues to be a vehicle for social reproduction instead of mobility. ... Not only is class a factor of social reproduction in itself, but there are also several social processes in school by which class patterns reproduce. ... They have better classroom interaction if the degree of social capital matches up with the curriculum of the schools. ... Women also have differential incentives to receive ...

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Teachers can play a vital role in helping these students become more socially included in school. ... These negative perceptions may be inhibiting, and may lead to other areas of social skills. ... Many students are being manipulated because of their social naivety. ... He was being exploited because of his social naivety. ... Clear Horizons uses a sliding scale for tuition to try and best help students of all economic statuses be given the opportunity. ...

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School is important but not at the cost of students' sanity and emotional status. ... There is pressure to create this persona where students have to be perfect at everything they do, get straight A's and maintain a social life too. ...

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1). The issue that I have selected addresses the implementation of the school voucher system. School voucher programs provide choice in school attendance to low income populations. They provide in a few places, choice to those who would have none. Certainly as it stands, education is distributed...

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Teenage pregnancy is closely linked to other critical social issues that include welfare dependency, out of wedlock births, responsible fatherhood, and the child's well-being. When compared to women who come from the same economic status who wait to have children, teen mothers are more then likely to end up on welfare. ... Children born to teenage mothers normally have economic, social, and health problems. ... She was unable to attend many popular social events at the end of year due to extreme sickness and embarrassment. ... Reasons for the decline include increased motivation...

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The study focuses on the social problem of student achievement and understanding how parental involvement influences minority student achievement. ... The societal benefits of minority student achievement are a positive on the workforce; and improve social- economic consequences for communities. ... "Research links family involvement in middle and high school to students' positive academic and social outcomes" (Bouffard and Steffen, p2, 2007). ... According to United States law, children from every community have the right to a quality education and success regardless of thei...

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Independent Study: Social and Political Philosophy The Failings of Blooms Prescription for American Education Humanity as a whole has always been ignorant. ... As America has gained prominence in the worlds political and social arenas, the university and its greatest treasure have been abandoned to the wolves. ... A few of them may have suffered neurotic psychoses thanks to this, but that is a small price to pay for the achievements and the cultured, respected, and revered status that such people bring to a society. ...

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Many believe everyone, regardless of socio-economic status should be given the same choice. ... America has always provided education for all students, regardless of socio-economic status, but if the public school can't operate, then what school does the under-privileged student attend? ... Lastly, many believe that the voucher system increases social segregation, and schools are being made to operate with substandard facilities and under-qualified teachers. ...

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Many parents are worried that the uniforms will cost too much and they will only burden their economic status. ... By implementing the policy in all 16,000 districts throughout the United States, the school uniforms will level the playing field in classrooms by removing the messages of social and economic status in clothes. ...

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