The lack of family living skills can also be blamed on the fact that the schools taught the children to only speak in English, so when they went home they were unable to communicate with their family as they lost their native language. Easily one of the biggest failures of the Indian Residential Schools was the abuse that went on behind the school doors. Whether it be emotional, mental, physical, verbal, and even sexual abuse, it all happened, and it was all very wrong. The authority figures at the schools like the nuns, priests, and teachers all kept very strict rules for the children to follow. The rules were at a point that they were
There was a Pakistani girl named Malala Yousafzai who got hurt for saying that women deserve an education in her country. She didn’t care if that’s what her society thought to be acceptable, she knew it wasn’t right and so she rebelled against the whole idea of it. She survived her injuries, and now she protests for women to have a better education. There are a lot of women all over the world just like her that rebel against society’s view of women. In the story, the Awakening, Edna also rebelled against society by freely expressing herself.
Particularly vulnerable groups were the old, who had no means of acquiring money. The young, were dependant on their parents’ financial status and good will, if they were not orphans. Seasonal workers were vulnerable due to the cyclical nature of their employment. Anyone who suffered from illness either long or short term fell into poverty because there were no sickness benefits. Women were another vulnerable group because they were always paid at a lower rate than men.
If the slum residents want to attend the ninth grade and beyond, then they would have to pay for a private school. This is not possible for a lot of these people. College is even more unthought of because how competitive it is. Since school is not required the majority of the parents do not want to send their children because they believe that they would be better off helping the family sort through garbage. For example Abdul’s parents took him out of school in order to replace his father as a garbage sorter when his father became ill with tuberculosis.
The children of the poor families were targeted the most. Since they were poor they were forced to go work in factories, this was considered child labour but they couldn’t do anything about it since they had no money. These children had there future planned out for them they would work in the factories, since they would not be able to afford to go to school. This caused more poverty in Canada since they would still be working for little pay, so industrialization really didn’t make this issue any better for most people in the society especially children. Overall children were treated horribly and forced to work at young ages were children should never work at, all because of industrialization.
One of the hardest obstacles for society in Kabul was the changing of public ways and a somewhat deformed sense of right and wrong, in most of society’s opinion. Mohsen knows the rules that the Taliban have set for women in public in Kabul, but Zunaira is not quite sure he completely understands, it makes her feel like “[She’s] neither a human being nor an animal, [she’s] just an affront, a disgrace, a blemish that has to be hidden" (Khadra 78). Contrary to popular belief, Zunaira thinks that it’s ridiculous to be forced to wear a burqa when going in public which would results in the heavy emotions and thoughts expressed in the quote. The role that women have in public impact Zunaira in the way that she feels like she is nothing, that she is invisible and is less than a stranger. It installs the thought that she and all women are an embarrassment in public and that the Men/Taliban are ashamed so they hide their faces with burqas in order to suppress them until they feel and are seen as nothing.
That is building and maintaining a family is no easy task and, no matter how hard you may try, you cannot please everyone all the time. Edelman describes the resentment that stemmed from the unfulfilled ideal of co-parenting as anger but also as a massive disappointment in her life. This was something that she had assumed would be from the start and it hit her hard when she discovered that
There was also nothing there for the old before that ether, they basically had to work until they died as they had no money otherwise or be sent to the poor house which was embarrassing. The act was passed as the old had to rely on their children who often couldn’t even pay for themselves and they were becoming a burden. You had to be 70 to receive a pension which was far too high as most of the people that needed it had died by then from not having a good standard of living. The age for being able to receive was far too high as people that needed the pension were too unhealthy to live that long anyway. If you were single you got five shillings a week and seven and a half if you were married.
Marion Jacobs indicates a decrease in the number of doctors and teachers. Since then, with her exaggeration, she blames all of the faults on the shortages of teachers and doctors. It is not really make sense, because the medical and education are affected by many aspects, not just the shortage of teachers and doctors. In addition, she believes that people who hold degrees are healthier than others, she says it without evidences and the researches that she mentions are unreliable. In fact, a lot of degree holders do not have good health because of long time focus on studying.
But these immigrant children did not get any pay, this was child labor because the under aged immigrant worker was used and did not receive pay. It was more of a two for one deal for the factory owner because small bodies were needed to fit a certain job. “They are doing away with a great deal of mule-spinning there and putting in ring-spinning…for that reason it takes a good deal of small help…they get all the small help they can to run these ring-frames.” (65). These requirements cost many immigrants available work, leaving these immigrant men without pay unable to provide for their families. In an interview Thomas O’Donnell explains “…at Fall River if a man has not got a boy to act as “back-boy” it is very hard for him to get along…in many cases discharging men in that work and put in men who have boys…and that has brought my circumstances down very much…our children are very often sickly of not having sufficient clothes, shoes, food or something” (64, 65).