You’d be surprised how different it really was back in the early 1900s. Schools back in the 1900s had a much more difficult time than students today with all of the technological advances. In the early 1900s schools only had one teacher, a large room to teach in and every grade level to teach. School wasn’t really required back then, most attended but once a male was in about the sixth grade, he would drop out and help work with his father to support the family. They didn’t even know if school would still be around now; they thought that teaching would fail, all together giving up on education.
Racism starts at the ground level, limiting people from benefiting from the social benefits. This explains the weakness of ethics in controlling racism. Most nations continue to fight the idea of racism using various strategies; however, they fail to consider the origin of racism. Using ethics to control racism only exposes the community to some regulations, which hinder progress, as racism is grounded to biological origin. Likewise, the twist of a biological connection to social connection diversifies racism significantly.
I never imagined myself taking an AP English class. Upon first arriving in the U.S, I was extremely lonely, lacking any friends or family to share those lonely feeling. At school, I struggled in every class and struggled to make friends with other kids. While at home, television and games provided my only companionship. I missed Vietnam, longing for delicious authentic Vietnamese foods and the love of my big family and closing friends.
People are struggling to survive everyday because they have no food and shelter. These people may always dig through the trash to find something to eat for the day, not knowing if they will find anything. Families may always live in horrible conditions, having no other choice, because they do not have enough money. It’s extremely hard for them to find well paying jobs in these countries. For most of these people it’s nearly impossible to get out of poverty because they were born and raised in that culture, unless other people who aren’t in poverty help them out.
He portrays the difficulties of migrant workers and their families with the Joad family. “The water grew scarce, water was to be bought, five cents, ten cents, fifteen cents a gallon.” (pg. 274). The okies usually had little to no money in their name making it hard for them to feed their families and even themselves. This conflict usually led to dehydration or starvation which led to the depression of losing a loved one.
Unemployed parents could not pay for food or water, nor could they pay for clothing and shelter, and as a result, innocent children suffered. Incapable of providing for their families, many fathers became frustrated, and simply abandoned them, leaving them to fend for themselves. Other times, young children were left homeless, having no one to care for them. During the height of the Great Depression, at least 200000 young people and 25000 families roamed the country, in search of food. These alarming statistics show just how greatly the Depression did actually impact
I was brought-up by my grandparents in a time when Spanish was not allowed at schools in California. They never spoke Spanish to me, and most of my uncles never spoke Spanish, but my father does.”(MSN Latinzine, 2012) He is a third generation Mexican American, born in Los Angeles, California. My grandmother's family lived in Riverside and they were very well off until the Great Depression. She was an outcast because she married a Mexican from the other side of the tracks and he wasn't born in the U.S. as she was. He was deported in the 30's, but my grandmother refused to go to Mexico with him.
Since their husbands were laid off, bringing in little or no money, the women went out to look for part time jobs such as being a maid to the wealthier families. The women also had a hard time keeping her young children in school, especially if they lived on a farm because the children would need to help their mother and father with the animals and crops, so they wouldn’t get a proper education. The few women that went to collage had to drop out because the price was too high to afford to stay in. It was harder for women to get a job because they were weaker than men and most likely inexperienced but they would take what they could get, if they could get anything. The women who was at their last resort was to send their children away to work and earn a small pay to buy food.
They were in poverty and she had no choice but to work. If she was did not have to work so far it could have possibly prevented a tragic event. I have never been in poverty but I know people who have and still are. They are stuck in hard situations such as paying for certain things and getting basic necessities for living. Schools are also affected by poverty.
Except the difference here is that it is not by intention, it is because they do not have any other option. People everyday there are struggling to even get to half a meal into their systems per day and to provide food for themselves and their whole family as well. Living in a terrible condition with no money, home, car, food and even water is what causes so many terrible deaths but yet here in America people from higher economic status’ choose to not eat and think that, that is what can make them look and feel beautiful. Living in such a good area, us women sometimes forget that we are so blessed to have everything that we have. We go out to dinner and order the biggest meal we can find and end up only eating less than half and leaving the restaurant not realizing how much food is wasted and not considering the fact that there are so many people struggling around the world for just a couple bites of the food we have just wasted.