The concept of social inequality tackles the existence of unequal opportunities for people of different status and positions in the society. While it normal to have a form of stratification in the society, there are situations that remain dire and need urgent intervention to try and bring about a balance. There are various dimensions of social inequality including income, wealth, power, and ethnicity. Social inequality has adverse effects on citizens of a particular nation especially on the quality of life due to unequal access to important social amenities. In Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains, the author has a particular focus on several aspects of life in Haiti.
What I find interesting is that the people in the book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair who try to comfort other people who are suffering, like the settlement worker who gets Jurgis a job at a steel plant on the outskirts of town after hearing Teta Elzbieta’s horrible family life and then and there is also that doctor working on birth defects, who might have been able to help little Kristoforas Teta Elzbieta three year old son who dies from a sudden illness that he catches from the drafts of their poor little house if they only known that the doctor was looking for patients. But in the Chicago slums there are many more people in need and looking for help than there are people contributing to it. Like Madame Haupt mid wife who Jurgis has to
Imagine living in a world where everything you do is watched. The Giver and The Truman Show are similar in many ways but other things aren’t quite the same. You could compare both of them and see different things, but when you looks at it more closely, you will see that they have a lot of similarities. The Giver and The Truman Show both have fears that are shown. In the Giver, a little boy fell into the river and died.
Also the Haitian people seem to always think that it is their turn to have something bad happen to them. Are they wrong? I don’t think so. With their past and the kind of disasters that have happened and will happen to them, it is hard to blame them. It’s what they do that makes them incredible.
In these two different worlds many similarities are found such as their unique ability to disclose the natural human emotions. Both “The Giver” and the film “Pleasantville” have many aspects and morels the main being the power of knowledge distributed to the characters and how they choose to use their certain position and to their own or others advantages. How one’s individuality and creativity is explored throughout their life. As well as what it means to be a human fitting in with their community or
This possibly contributes to why individuals in that community cannot escape debt and find it hard to provide for. In a way to combat poverty, she states all people need to do is give back a little and provide for those in need whether it is volunteering or donating clothes and necessities. She further claims that it is important for the whole community to play a part in improving the situation. Anderson stresses the significance of how a once known hopeless area with poverty can turn into a community providing for each other, as long as they give back and help contribute. Another source that discusses the effects of poverty is “Poverty in Granbury ISD” in which the speaker Trisha Suit analyzes poverty levels in Granbury ISD and shares the statistics of many students who are living in poverty.
Even though Haiti’s a poor country, his people have a big heart. Parents don’t want their child to work, they make them focus on school only, and their education. On the other hand, Americans just consider a child to be lazy if at their teenage age they still don’t work. They raise their children to be independent different from Haitian that make their children to depend on them. Another fact is that Americans are not really friendly; they avoid contact with people, and they have a hypocrite smile on their face, however, Haitians are really friendly, sincere, and courteous.
Cultural Diversities between Haiti and Nicaragua Although Nicaragua and Haiti are both in Central America they are over 950 miles apart. They both have both some of the same adversities and challenges. Haiti is considered the poorest country in Central America and Nicaragua being second. Even with both countries being poor the family structures are still considered to be strong.
By following these families and writing this book, the audience is truly shown the major problem of poverty in our country. Matthew Desmond
This book shows the saddening truth of why the poor typically stay poor and the many, many obstacles that must be overcome just to “get ahead”. As mentioned above, the families in this book were largely affected by social, economic, and cultural barriers. Barriers of all three structural blocks, can include, but are not limited to, low wages, safe housing, education, job training, language barriers, and religious beliefs. Early in the book, Shipler writes about corrupt public administration, such as banks, check cashing facilities, and tax preparers. These are a few examples of structural economic barriers that families encountered.
When we look at The Giver’s community there is one key difference from our community: the lack of distinctness. With that being said we have to compare the importance of being as we are now, and to the importance of being safe and protected from danger. So I am here to compare the families of The Giver compared to our families in our community as we are now, as well as, comparing the books from their community and our community.
The Giver is a novel that is set in a society that strives to be a utopia. A utopia is essentially a is “a place where no one has to make a decision, feel pain or even have a negative thought or a bad memory” (Goepfert). In The Giver their community focuses so intensely on this concept of a peace that they make many sacrifices in their pursuit to obtain it. This includes the loss of emotion, lack of individuality, deceit of the public, and a great burden on a small few. Ultimately the cost of this utopia is too high for this society.
But what The Giver ' s society made the largest mistake they could, they tried to make their place happy by taking everything that makes people happy, and
We are lucky to have the luxury of being able to make our own decisions. While our community have jobs, birthdays, and family, just like the community in The Giver,
Background Haiti is an island which is located in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea, the island is 27,750 square kilometers in size and has approximately 10.8 million people, which ranks it the first populous country in the Caribbean. Despite, Haiti vast population 80 percent of the people live below the poverty line hence, half of the citizens are malnourished. In terms of healthcare systems, the island positions last in the western hemispheres and one of the world worst healthcare system due to their lacking sanitation systems, poor nutrition and insufficient health services, which continues to prevent Haiti development. In addition, for generations Haiti has
