There weren’t antibiotics and other ways to help cure these illnesses, and the ways they did have weren’t effective enough to stop people dying. In addition there are massive heath care services available today which weren’t available in 1900 to help ill or diseased people such as the National Health Service (NHS). Another reason is that the standard of living in 1900 may have had an impact on the death rate. Many people had large families to provide for and they usually lived in small houses that may not be fit for the amount of people living in them. Today, the family size has decreased and this has stopped the deaths in the family as illnesses and diseases aren’t transmitted to one another quickly as they live together in a more fit environment.
The assignment that affected me the most and that I enjoyed most was the activity that required us to track our food intake for 3 days. In this three day period I had NO fruits in my diet at all. I was not getting near the fiber and vegetables that I was required to intake in a day either. I was amazed and decided that it was a great time for a change in my household for me and for my family. There has rarely been an assignment that I did not learn something from and that did not affect some aspect of my life.
Being one-hundred percent reliable is very beneficial because parents avoid having to find last minute, alternative childcare or staying at home and missing work because their daycare provider called in sick. In-home childcare is also a business but
Subjective views include people feelings and desires but also freedom and independency. Good quality of life would include both objective and subjective aspects. Franks circumstances are likely to upon on his quality of live .Frank has diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and struggles with day to day duties also his wife Dot has problems with Fatigue. Franks illness may cause him problems with breathing, tiredness. Frank may identified himself as the main carer for his wife but he has no energy to leave the house and he doesn’t drive.
Wendy chose to be homeless, but she does not portray the life of a typical homeless person. It is not obvious that she does not have a home because, even though she is considered to be homeless, she handles her homelessness in a responsible way. She does not beg for money, in fact, she has her own money saved up to use responsibly. She takes care of her hygiene and bathes in a Shell gas station bathroom daily. She also does not literally sleep on the streets like the gutter punks.
Her family structure is different than any typical Asian American household because her parents don’t communicate with each other. The reason her mother immigrated to the United States, was because her father saved her from a tragedy that happened during the time he was at China. Ying-Ying never said or objected anything from her husband because when she was younger, she grew up with her baby sitter, Amah, telling her to “never ask, only listen” (pg. 70). Throughout Ying-Ying’s life, she never expressed herself and was quiet most of the time, even around her daughter who was the only person she was able to communicate to in the house.
And in today’s society, as much as we like a summer break that is two and half to three months long, isn’t really needed. It’s not very needed for two reasons. The first one is the fact that not very many students actually live on a farm. They really don’t need the three month vacation that was needed back then. And that leads us into the next point and that is today’s society is mostly a technological society.
Homelessness In America Most of us never question where we will lay our heads to sleep tonight. For many Americans, though, the answer is not quite so simple. Homelessness is defined by Merriam-Webster as, “having no home or permanent place of residence.” In a country the size of the United States, homelessness is a result of issues much deeper than we can imagine. Being homeless is probably one of the most overlooked and dismissed problems in our country today. It is easy to group these people together and label them all the same, but every homeless person has a story, a reason, or a problem, that has lead them to where they are today.
This differs from two-parent families in that there is only one adult to take care of all of life’s responsibilities rather than two. Bills need to be paid, food needs to be taken care of, etc. These two responsibilities alone take a good amount of time to complete and once finished, the parent is usually too tired or stressed to engage in healthy interaction. Not to say that this is not the case in two parent families, but it’s magnitude has greater effects on single parent
Living at low-wage is really difficult because the chances to get to a “‘living wage’ are about 97 to 1”(321) and when the author thinks about this, she states that “low-wage work is not a solution to poverty and possible not even to homelessness”(321). It must be really hard to be able to pull us out of a situation like this because even service workers are not requested a lot. Ehrenreich filled out twenty applications in which she received no responses. So, we can say that a lot of people are living low-wage, and we don’t realize it because they seem so happy when they are serving us; it’s actually their job to do that. I got really impressed when the author listed her service worker friends’ houses.