Now you may look at the discussions on page XX. How would you, as a Bonded mentor respond to the of each of the following situations ? ````````````````````````````` 1).Your 16- year old mentee comes to his session appearing to be “hung over. 2).You are a male mentor and your 15- year old mentee begins coming to sessions dressed in “sexy” clothes, begins sitting closer to you, and wants a hug at the beginning and end of each session. 3). Your 14 – year old mentee tells you that there is a boy in her class a school who is slipping notes into her locker at school asking her to have sex with him. She shows you the note. 4).Your 15 – year old boy mentee tells you that he has always felt like a girl in a boy’s body and wants to change his …show more content…
(1995). A Framework for Understanding Poverty (4th edition). aha! Process, Inc., Texas. Before talking about poverty, let’s get an understanding about what is middle class. So, my question to you, what constitutes middle class? How does a person know he or she is middle class? Common answers I get, which are not really on track are…. Making a certain salary every month Not really because money is relative. If you make USD 2000 a month – depending upon exchange rates) a month and you are a single person with no one to support but yourself, you will be able to make your financial ends meet and be considered middle class. However, you will need to count your pennies. On the other hand, if you are a married person with a child or two to support, you will be struggling to make ends meet; probably not considered middle class. Or if you make RM 6000 a month and spend RM 7000 a month – you are in debt. Especially in the modern world of plastic money (credit cards) people have a tendency to begin living beyond their
These are examples of where an abuse of the hierarchical relationship between a counselor and student may come into play, and are the exact areas in which I hope to distance myself from in my practice. The idea that every conversation I have should end with the other party feeling empowered is one that really resonates with me, and a goal I will continue to strive towards.
According to the narrator in the introduction for the video, Faces of Poverty: Living on the breaking point in Reading, PA , Reading is ranked as one of the poorest city in any country that houses a population of 65000 people. As per the introduction, the statistics are already stacked against anybody that is trying to make it out of Reading PA. People in Reading face the same challenges as the rest of America, but their challenges seems to not have any solution, which in turn affects a wide population of its residence. The challenges faced by people in Reading include but are not limited to; lack of jobs, poor infrastructure, lack of flowing funds for building a stronger economy, and lastly, most people in Reading are not learned. This paper is going to look at the problems people in Readings face, their strengths as well as an opinion on what can be done for small towns like Reading to enable them to thrive.
According to Gregory Mantsios many American people believed that the classes in the United States were irrelevant, that we equally reside(ed) in a middle class nation, that we were all getting richer, and that everyone has an opportunity to succeed in life. But what many believed, was far from the truth. In reality the middle class of the United States receives a very small amount of the nation's wealth, and sixty percent of America's population receives less than 6 percent of the nation's wealth, while the top 1 percent of the American population receives 34 percent of the total national wealth. In the article Class in America ( 2009), written by Gregory Mantsios informs us that there are some huge differences that exist between the classes of America, especially the wealthy and the poor. After
In America, our society is categorized by the poor, working, middle, upper middle, or upper class. Majority of America today seems to be under the working to middle class. It's hard to tell what
Let's take it back to the past in regards to wealth distribution in this country. The fact is that the economy boomed from the end of WWII into the 1970's. “Incomes grew rapidly and at roughly the same rate up and down the income ladder, roughly doubling in inflation-adjusted terms between the late 1940s and early 1970s” (CBPP). Through the 70's economic growth slowed, and the wealth gap widened. Middle-class families were now considered lower class. People relied on the government to help them out with welfare programs. The middle-class class was weakened and the gap grew and grew. There were periods of positive fluctuation, however the middle-class simply never regained it's status that was held in more prosperous times in the past.
America is divided into two main groups, rich or poor. There is some grey area among these groups which is referred to as the middle class. The problem with the middle class is that most people think they belong in the middle class because they do not want to associate themselves with neither rich nor poor; there are stigmas attached to each side of the spectrum.
I consider my family and I to be in the middle class category and from being in the middle class, and the facts that are provided, the middle class is slowly declining as the time goes on. I believe that a lot of people go beyond the middle class to the upper middle class or people go below the middle class to the poor category. I’ve found a graph from Forbes that compares the rates of all classes from 1979 to 2014. From observing the graph my initial hypothesis was right. The middle class has declined by 6.8% between the years 1979-2014.
In David Wallenchinsky’s Article “Is the American Dream still possible?” he surveyed more than 2,200 Americans and 84% of them described themselves as middle class citizens. Wallenchinsky states,“ But many average Americans are struggling- squeezed by rising costs, declining wages, credit card debt and diminished benefits.” For some the American Dream is just being happy and being able to live comfortably but, now who would want to live their life struggling to pay their bills and be stressful? Most of the middle class citizens are living like this. Back then living in America wasn’t as difficult as it is now, everything was affordable, but now with the rise in minimum wages everything else goes up. Taxes go up, prices for things go up, it is a never ending cycle. Now trying to get a job even with a college degree is very hard to
not defined by the middle class. These people are not lost in the void between the poor and
I never thought I would find so much information on the incredibly shrinking middle class until I searched around for it on the Internet. In the United States, the middle class is put into a strange socioeconomic category. Although it is not easily defined everyone believes they belong in that class. I guess what you can do is look at it in two different ways. First ask the question “What percent of all income is distributed to the middle class at any time,” then think about “How many families obtain enough income to achieve a middle class standard of living at any point of time.” Basically these are two ways of approaching the middle class called either the percentile approach or the class share approach.
Poverty has been a growing problem in America, and it most likely will never stop being one. Someone who is identified as being in poverty lives beneath the poverty line determined by the Federal government. The poverty line in 2015 for a family of four was $24,250. These are the people who are really considered poor. Poverty isn’t just a problem in the United States; in fact, other countries struggle just as much, if not more, than the United States does. Many people struggle to keep themselves above the government’s poverty line, shown by the fact that the percent of poor people in America hasn’t drastically changed over the years. However, it is possible to get out of, and ultimately stay out of, poverty.
The 2008 documentary The End of Poverty? is a film that focuses around global poverty and how it became the tragedy that it is today. Poverty was created by acts of military conquest, slavery and colonization that led to the confiscation of individual’s property and forced labor. However, today the problem remains because wealthy countries who take advantage of developing third world countries. The film interviews several activists who discuss how the issues became and several ways in which they could be eliminated, as well as interviews from individuals who are experiencing it firsthand.
In today 's society, there is 1 in 7 people living in poverty which is costing Canadian citizens’ money as they are paying for taxes. There are many standpoints in which people examine the ways poverty affect society such as Marx’s conflict theory. Marx’s conflict theory goes over how social stratification being inevitable and how there is a class consciousness within people in the working class. Another way that poverty is scrutinized is by feminization. Feminization is the theory that will be explored throughout this essay. Poverty will be analyzed in this essay to determine the significance of poverty on the society and the implications that are produced.
...le, there are two classification divisions and some people live normal and better lives. The people with more money live way better than the poor. There is never an in-between way of living, you either live well or bad and you are either rich or poor.
Poverty is an outcome of the mode of production and plays a large role in relation to production. Therefore, according to Marx, it is a contributor to the economic base. People who are living at poverty level struggles to meet the living necessities due to capitalist exchange values on productions. What I mean by this that people in poverty cannot afford to buy enough food, clothes, and most importantly a safe home for their kids. This is due to the fact that most people living in poverty are being paid minimum wages that does not meet the exchange values of commodities. People in poverty are the laborers in the capitalist world, they a commodity as well. Using Marx’s theory, people in poverty are the proletariats since they are the actual