Some retailers are always open on Thanksgiving Day, for instance, Wal-Mart and Best Buy amongst others (Millard n.p.). From a retailer’s point of view, it is the best day for them to open stores. It is evident that during the last Thanksgiving holiday, most of them opened as early as 5pm. It probably sounds ridiculous. Most consumers need holiday hours; therefore, retailers’ wishes are to satisfy consumers’ desire by being opened all day long.
Functionalist Murdock suggested as children we are socialised into societies shared norms and values and he believed that males provide the economic roles and females provided the expressive role. Therefore it is natural for women to play the expressive role in the household looking after the family’s emotional needs. However, radical feminist Ann Oakley argues that the role of the housewife is a social construction and isn’t linked to the female role. The housewife role makes sure that women stay inferior to men making it difficult for them have careers. Women carry out the triple burden in the household; the domestic labour, emotional labour, and paid labour.
Flowers then encouraged Marguerite, “to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit.” which means a person needs more than just book smarts to be consider intelligent and to able to use that intelligence to survive in life; a person that has wits though life experiences can be more intelligent than people that just gain knowledge in only school books because the people with wits are more savvy from their social life experiences compare to people that live life educated only though book. Maya Angelou is telling this story because she wanted to teach the audience that a person with formal education by only books doesn’t equate to intelligence. She implies, that even some college professors are less intelligent and don’t have as much wit as to some country folks because, the country folks have learned important lessons in life that only life experiences can teach but books cannot teach these important life lessons, base on the passage she wrote, “That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors, to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit.” The story’s settings are important because it was part of U.S history, where blacks were look upon as second class citizens compare to whites. This was suggested in the passage where Marguerite complements her idol Mrs. Flowers whom is a black woman, by comparing her to a white woman,
They live in a neighborhood full of crime therefore their main focus is survival instead of learning. Minority kids between 5th and 7th grade go from being B students to D students. As they get older their grades drop so they feel like they are not going anywhere. Sixty eight percent of inmates in Pennsylvania are high school dropouts. The average inmates sentence of 4 years cost $132,000.
And I say great go to newton iowa, work for 6 ½ weeks, for 94 dollars a week and then after you lose that job,go to Knoxville iwoa, go to st. cloud minnisota. I worked every holliday, im working thanks giving day, theres no holliday in my business, im working thanksgiving day, im working Christmas eve, im working Christmas day, im working new years eve, im not working new years day? But theres no holliday, my mom and dad used to go nuts, they’d call me and say, are you going to the family reunion, I say CANT. Thanks giving day is a big day, for the cowboys, used to be bigger. But its that kind of a commitment that you have to make aswell.__ DIDN’T FINISH, STOPPED AT
Every day more people die in America than are born. Any increases in population since 1972 have been due to immigration.2 The sociological perils we face are not those of population explosion, but population reduction. The Population Research Institute agrees, and concluded, “Our long-term problem is not too many children, but too few children.”3 The legalization of abortion resulted in a drastic reduction of the number of children in this country. By 1980 there were 6.5 million fewer school-age children in America than just a decade earlier. This required the closing of nine-thousand elementary schools.4 Legalized abortion has resulted in over 46 million fewer taxpayers in America to support the elderly.
Almost all illegal immigrants are paying little to no taxes. In California, “Anchor babies” go to school at a cost of seven thousand a year and above what their parents pay in taxes. This causes overcrowding in the school, and using the government’s taxes. Vocal proponent of illegal immigration policy in America, Frosty Wooldridge states, “nine out of ten babies born in Parkland hospital in Dallas, Texas stem unlawful immigrant mothers” (Children). These percentages run about the same in Chicago, Miami and New York.
My mother is my best friend that I ever had in my life. I realize that my mother is a caring person in my life. I am very blissful to be a part of her life and I enjoyed that she is a part of mine too. She is the one who look after me when I
The ways of the people of China are shifting as the years pass. With Confucius in mind the women used to be submissive, amiable and quiet while the father was the strict head of the household. Today both parents are usually bringing in an income and instead of being beaten or scolded the children are taught how to internalize how any bad behavior has impacted others. It is a changing world and even though some of China’s culture is changing, much of it still remains the same. The education system of China is state run/ supplied and mandatory to all children of any gender, nationality or race.
Then, in 2006, 23.5% of their students did not graduate (Success in Education). Dropping out is a big deal. Some teenagers act like it’s easy and there’s nothing to it and drop out very young. They probably are uninformed of the consequences to the rest of their life. The majority of students who drop out are between the grades ninth