Katrina Gilbert Character Analysis

Veronica Hernandez began her working career in a factory sweatshop. She was only 8 years old. After more than 12 years of intense and monotonous work in a number of different factories, Hernandez still, “felt as poor as the day she first climbed onto the lower rungs of the global assembly line” (Ferriss, source#2). Veronica works about 45 hours a week for only a base salary of $55, an occupation where she assembles RCA televisions by the Thomson Corporation. While some people you know complain of not having cable or enough channels for their big screen television, Veronica is blessed that she even owns one. She lives in a one room hut that includes no more than an out-house and an old refrigerator. She has

Phoenix is a 28 year old woman who is currently a full-time student and unemployed. She is in a domestic partnership and she has a son, which is not legally her partner’s. She stays at home most days and waits for her son to come home from school and her partner to come home from her job. Phoenix constantly ponders thoughts of her partner’s fidelity to their partnership.

have to train as a doctor to get the support she needs. In her studies

She won’t be able to pay off the debts her family owes and their house will be taken away from them. This is her main reason for working away from home to begin with. She must decide what to do. This is not easy for her because if she chooses her health her family loses their home. If she chooses to help her family, she could

or she can get low-cost health care at a nearby community health center. These health care

3. She needs to start collecting some money from her son, who lives with her, to be able to improve her cash flow. In the event he does not want to help, she can look for a smaller one-bedroom apartment for herself.

On April 19, 2017 my class took part in a Poverty Simulation Experience. Before we started we were informed by Dr. Stephens, our instructor, that this was, “not a game” and to make it as realistic as possible. She also informed us that the goal during the simulated month was to “keep your home secure, make sure your family was fed, pay your bills, and meet unexpected situations.” My alter ego during this simulation was Iris Isma, a single mom with a one-year-old child and live-in boyfriend. Iris was unemployed, but has the desire to go to school. Her only income was food stamps and TANF. Isaiah Isaacson, the boyfriend, was employed and helped out with paying half the housing and Utilities. Iris had a dilemma during this scenario, to either pay the rent or feed her

As a social worker, I would not have any biases concerning Gilbert as a person. However, once including the family and Gilbert’s other systems I will have to limit some personal perspectives. It will be challenging for me to not assume or consider mama is an unfit parent. I do not always view obesity, especially when the individual is overeating, positively. I value healthy parental relationship between children and parents, which might cause me to want to show some type of hostility towards mama’s inability to support her children. As a social worker, I will have to remember that situation is not that simple and take into account underlying reasons for mama’s disability. On the hand, the lack of support from the community and their negative response to Arnie might cause some discomfort. I would assume that most of the community members are not educated about Arnie’s disability and maybe, I could advocacy for more support and resource to be implemented rather than just displaying distress about the situation.

affect her life to some extent, however, her behavior is something that did not affect her economic situation.

She has a financially supportive husband who works to support both her and her children. This source of income will be beneficial for future health needs and other services they require and will ease the financial burden for them a bit.

In the documentary Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life & Times of Katrina Gilbert, the story of a single mother and her struggle to make ends meet is told. Living in a trailer in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Katrina Gilbert illustrates the challenges of single motherhood while living in poverty. Throughout the film the audience catches a glimpse of the difficulties Katrina faces with respect to raising her children, generating income, taking care of her health, and settling her divorce. With three children to take care of, Katrina has to always put herself last on her list of people to take care of, and in the documentary, we see how difficult that can be. Katrina Gilbert separated from her husband of ten years, whom she shares three children with, because

Demographics: Patient is a 32-year-old, moderately built Caucasian female; separated once with 2 children. She lives with her children in her mother’s town house in the North-eastern part of the province. She is currently unemployed and receiving disability from the state from sustained back injury. She has Medicaid insurance; speaks English and practices the Baptist religion.

Ms. Apple is a 45 year old African American woman who has been a widow for about 4 years. Ms. Apple has three children, whose ages range from 5-12 years old. Ms. Apple has been struggling to keep her family afloat since the death of her husband. Ms. Apple convinced herself that she would not require the extra assistance. However, she realized in attempting to provide alone has not only become very strenuous, but also quite costly. Expenses have become overwhelming for Ms. Apple to maintain, since her husband took care of the finances and was the breadwinner for the family. Ms. Apple has minimal education as she is able to read and write at grade school level. Ms. Apple also has never been employed as she was a home maker. At this

Society has this strange misconception that welfare recipients prefer to remain uneducated, unemployed, and are uninterested in self-sufficiency. The term ‘Welfare Queen’ envelopes the preconceived notion that single mothers are living lavishly at the government’s and tax payer’s expense. This could be nothing farther from the truth when the average monthly welfare stipend is around $167 per person, meaning a family of four has to survive an average of 30 days on $668. All while taking into account that an average of $94 of the $167 is in food stamps, leaving a meager $292 in cash to feed, clothe, and house four people. What kind of kingdom can a Queen rule

I am going to discuss an eighty two year old woman who I am going to call Mrs Smith (her name has been changed to protect her identity). Mrs Smith is the middle of five children, who has lived all her live in the South of England. She married at nineteen and had four children, all of whom are now grown up, happily married and with children of their own, giving her ten grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Mrs Smith’s husband died in 1998 and she has lived on her own ever since. In this essay I am will be drawing on five