It can sometimes be a struggle to get the job you want or get admitted to the university that you like but imagine how hard it would be if you were not judged by your skills, but by where you grew up and by which accent you have. This is what the kind of circumstances that many both younger, but also older British people must live with every day. The prime minister Theresa May have chosen to change these conditions to be her main priority, but there is a lot to do, and it has only gotten worse the past years. So, what is the main obstacle that is preventing the changes? Is it even possible to create more social mobility now or is it too late? And if it is not too late how do you overcome these obstacles and create a better society for everyone? However, one should not be judged by where he or she grew up or how he or she speaks and the obstacles must be overcome. There is a lot of problems in the United Kingdom. One of them is the …show more content…
She is stuck living with her boyfriend at his mother’s place while working as a waitress and subletting her own apartment to make up money for rent every month. She has gotten offers to become an unpaid intern at a lot of big TV company, which would give her the exposure that she needs to get a well-paid job, but she cannot accept it, because she needs the money from her waitressing job and she can’t do both, but people from an upper-class, would, however, be able to accept the intern offer, because of the money they would get from their parents, but unfortunately poppy and the other people from the lower class and lower working class does not have that privilege and can therefore not accept the unpaid internships they
She also goes into this by revealing that she is a former for-profit college employee and was involved in the process of recruiting potential students. Cottom explains that “Women who carry the burden of primary childcare, men working more than one job, older adults caring for both their parents and their own children – a group for whom time isn’t just money, but the absence of money” were her targets (Cottom, 38). The people who seemed to “not” have their lives together, people who were from poorer demographics, people who did not have what many call the ideal life are the targets for for-profit schools. Cottom is finally placing herself in this role because she wants to
She introduces three students Aesha, Johnny, and Asad whom are homeless college students and explains their stories. All the stories have the same point is that they left school because of hardships living place to place, worrying about their physical health and doing their school work. She states "Without housing, access to a workspace, or access to a shower, students' lives suffer, their grades suffer, and they are more likely to drop classes, if not withdraw entirely from school"( Bader 714). She points out that low-income and homeless students have to face many problems that cause it difficult for them to get through college. In another hand, because of the busy scheduled working of the parents to trying to earn money paying for housing, water bills, phone bills,…etc.
All her life she was so dependent on her parents and did not know a life outside of poverty. When she finally got her own apartment, she realized that this was a life she wanted to live. While she was in her Park Avenue apartment, she “started thinking about Mom and Dad. When they had moved into their squat - a fifteen-minute subway ride south and about half a dozen worlds away - it seemed as if they finally found the place where they belonged, and I wondered if I had done the same” (Walls 268). Although technically she did not own the apartment herself, she was living and paying for the apartment.
She uses her story about growing up in the lower/middle class to appeal to the audience emotionally, to create sympathy and empathy with the audience who may share a similar
One of the stories that I feel hit me different than the others is Chelsea’s story. She the popular rich girl in Port Clinton, her parent would do everything for her and even bought them their good grades. Chelsea’s parents paid for her education, her mother said “if my kids are going to be successful, I don’t think they should have to pay other people who are sitting around doing nothing for their success” (5). In a way this could be a good thing but also a bad thing. Chelsea’s parents didn’t teacher her and her brother responsibility and they reflected on how their parents bought them their good grades.
Sasha Higgins was an unlucky and simple girl. She graduated high school at eighteen and tried to go to college but she was too poor to afford it. After years of working to save for college, her mother died in a car crash. Sasha finally fulfilled her dreams of being able to afford college after three years of working. But suffering from the grief of her mother she decided to keep saving not knowing what she wanted but knowing that she needed money.
Simply understanding or writing basic English is not enough to catalyze social change or awareness; many immigrants and minorities are mute in this respect. Like a mute person, they are aware of everything going on around them, but they themselves are helpless to comment on it or initiate change because they cannot communicate. For example, Malcolm X, a once illiterate black man, educated himself on how to read and write effective English. This, coupled with work ethic, transformed him into one of the most famous, nationally recognizable Civil Rights activists of his time period. X himself believed that “the best thing [he] could do was get hold of a dictionary – to study, to learn some words” (X xxx).
She begins by talking about her college experience of how her own professors and fellow students believed and “always portrayed the poor as shiftless, mindless, lazy, dishonest, and unworthy” (Paragraph 5). This experience shocked her because she never grew up materialistic. She brings up the fact that she is the person with the strong and good values that she has today because she grew up in a poor family. In culture, the poor are always being stereotyped.
Instead of letting everything go, she starts acting, making one empowering choice after another, no matter how hard and challenging life seems. Acceptance into an alternative high school Humanities Prep provides Liz with the support, community, and accountability she needs to thrive. With an abundance of encouragement from Perry and other exceptional teachers, she earns her high school diploma in two years rather than four years. Murray states, “It was possible I could change everything”. (Murray 251)
He put the little bag on Mrs. Thorn’s desk and rested his hand on it.” (Duprau, 7) The students would walk incoherently to the mayor and grab a piece of paper, you get what you get and you don’t get upset. Additionally, everyone has the same jobs, there are only a couple types of jobs to choose, so no one has an outcast of a job. Some of the jobs to choose from are messenger, pipe workers, supply depot clerk, greenhouse, and electrician.
Quindlen talks to a homeless lady named Ann. Quindlen started to describe the homeless lady, making her seem like an average person on the street. After a while of discussing, Quindlen sees that the stereotypes that were created for the homeless, don’t belong. The author found out that Ann used to have a house, but her job did not pay her well enough. This caused her to go on the streets.
Is Social Stability Worth the Price? Social stability is not worth the price that the citizens of the Brave New World payed for it. Social stability is not all bad, because there will never be fights or war. Also social stability can good for the economy for instance; the children learn to hate books and nature and desire only to engage in consumerism thus supporting the economy. The Government exerts total control over every aspect of its citizens lives.
Monetary and Societal Obstacles Societal simply comes from the word society and it means relating to society. Monetary refers to money. In our society monetary and societal obstacles can intertwine. These obstacles can even build on each other. Consequently, this can cause bigger problems if they are not handled correctly.
In the Brave New World, a book written by Aldous Huxley,, he writes about a utopian future where humans are genetically created and pharmaceutically anthesized. Huxley introduces three ideals which become the world's state motto. The motto that is driven into their dystopian society is “Community, Identity and Stability.” These are qualities that are set to structure the Brave New World. Yet, happen to contradict themselves throughout the story.
Social Problems in Societies Social problems are issues which are considered to affect majority if not all members of a society either directly or indirectly. Whenever people come to live together in a social setting, conflict arises from their differences in opinions regarding political issues, religion, ethnic issues, cultural practices and other health and hygiene issues. In such a situation, we can say a society inevitably develops social problems. The various social issues present today vary from society to society, and as such, we cannot say that all societies face similar social issues.