Personal Narrative Mountain High School Is Not A Wealthy Area

Maroons and grays, obnoxious greens and purples, Dr. Suesse, florals, mints, creams, and blacks have littered my bedroom floor for the last six-plus years. From low-tops to knee-high high-tops, each pair has offered me the confidence to take the next step. To this day, the sight of a battered toe cap and a peeling racing stripe makes me feel like I am anyone and everyone that has ever worn these classic canvas shoes. I am the confident ‘50s high school basketball star racing down the court and my carefree 8-year-old-self sprinting across the backyard with my

In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, it's built around the class division between the Socs and the greasers. The kids in the Socs came from privileged and wealthy families while the greaser grew up in a unstable and poor environment, and it shaped who they are and how they act. The novel deals with issues important to urban teens, and the obstacles that are part of their daily lives, showing realism in Hinton's writing. In the article ¨The Urban Experience in Recent Young Adult Novels¨ by Sandra Hassell and Sandy Guild, it discuss the importance of urban teens worlds represented in literature. The article consists of many characteristics that are established in urban youth books such as, the usage of slang, strong sense of community,

The documentary demonstrates how these cliques, to many students, are in a social hierarchy. Where one is on this hierarchy isn't just based on personality, but is strongly tied to "the way you walk" or the "clothes you wear", meaning that those at the top are the people with "proper" mannerism and the most money, which grants you social capital. Some, particularly students of color, dismiss these notions and believe the upper class to be generally snobbish, as they think that the upper class believes themselves to be better. One teen, who has a working-class mother that is too proud to get welfare, is ashamed of his trailer home and family. Meanwhile, his mother takes 10-mile walks where she is subject to harassment to work at burger

One way Jones shows the theme that a person’s status determines how a person is viewed, liked, and how economically stable they are, is through the imagery of the little girl. It is an African-American girl’s first day of school, and the mother is getting her all dolled up to make a good impression. “I am wearing a checkeredlike blue-and-green cotton dress, and scattered about these colors are bits of yellow and white and brown. My mother has uncharacteristically spent nearly an hour on my hair that morning, plaiting and replaiting so that now my scalp tingles” (Jones 1). The mother really wants to make a good impression on the new school that her daughter is going to, and not look poor or different. When saying that the mother has “uncharacteristically” done her hair, the mother is going out of her way to do something special. The mother has spent an hour on this girl's hair for her very first day of school, which is not like herself. Thus showing, that the mother really cares about the first impression that the daughter makes at her new school and community, and how they are viewed with their status. The mother is changing the image of her daughter to try and better her off. Ultimately, through imagery, the highlighted theme is that people are judged based on their statuses.

Eisen (2014) describes that wearing these clothes helps children meet friends without the fear of being left out or unwanted; walking down the halls with brand name items makes teens more confident in themselves:

Social classes are what separate people in many different societies in this world. For instance, “I lived at West Egg, the ‒ well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them” (Fitzgerald 9). Nick Caraway got to experience both the West Egg and East Egg of New York and believes the West is harder working than the East. He calls the Eastside the more fashionable side that is more upper class and is very critical on the clothes you wear, the way you look, and the class you fall under. Nick is stating that these high demands of living in the west is hat has caused him to move out of the East and makes it very difficult for a person born in a lower social status to be able to live there. If you are born in a lower status you will not be accepted by

At this school, education was not thought of as a priority, at least not academic education. Instead, students educated themselves on the hippest trends of the streets. For example, if you wanted to make it through Waters without being made fun of or “joned,” you had to wear what was socially acceptable in the black community, you had have your hair a certain way, you had to wear certain types of shoes from certain stores, and you even had to walk a certain way in order to show how much influence you had.

Being able to have anything you could imaging on your own pair of sneakers would interest many people. Your shoes will be an eye catcher and stand out in a crowd. If all of your friends have the same pair of shoes, and you want yours to be just a little bit different, with my help, that can be made possible. Because I enjoy customizing shoes, and I will need to have knowledge to own a profitable business, I am going to go to Germanna Community College starting next year. After Germanna, I will transfer into JMU’s exceptional business program, where I plan to get a business degree.

On August 13th, 2016 my family and I started a new life. We were forced to relocate from Southern California to Prosper, Texas for my dad’s job. When I moved I knew absolutely no one. It was extremely hard to move away from my people that I have been friends with for almost my whole life. It was even harder to say goodbye to my grandma and my brothers. Finding new friends and adjusting to a new city in a new state was very difficult. On the first day of school, I was extremely nervous, because I didn’t know anyone.

Class structure in the 1920s was synonymous to prejudice. The 1920s was known as a period of wild excess and great parties with excitement arising from the ashes of the wars in America’s history. It was a period in history where rapid materialism and narcissistic ideals grew uncontrollably, and it was the days where Jay Gatsby, illegally, rose to success. Having social classes was the same as segregation, except it was through economic standings, the two both instil injustice within social standards. Class structure was used to describe the difference between the new money and old money. The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, written during the 1920s, emphasizes the division between the social classes and the reasons behind why they

Finally, the differences in social class are among the various cliques each school has. In today’s society, cliques are a huge deal. A student said, “If you’re not a jock in this school, you’re not part of it.” That means that everyone who is not a jock gets bullied and made fun of. Devlin thinks that the solution for this situation is to have security. One specific example he used was having picture ID tags hanging around their neck, so that videotapes could easily identify the bullies. He also thinks making a zero-tolerance policy dress code will, “reduce the enabling of one group to maintain social

I think S. E. Hinton, uses adolescence very well to make a very poignant point about social class in America. Most the time when you hear people talk about social class you think of the English aristocrats and how they treated the peasants like they were better than them like the peasants had be beholden to them simply because they had money. I think in the book the outsiders the author specifically uses the term greaser an socs to point out the great social divide there is in America between certain economic groups, much in the way that throughout the entire book everyone looks at greasers as hoodlums and criminals due to the fact that they drank or they smoke as well as the way they dress, whereas the socks are viewed as a better class of

The '80s and '90s were a time when labels like Polo, Nike, Fila, Bally, and Tommy Hilfiger held tremendous sway among urban youth. These brands represented affluence and success, and they played a key part in the wardrobes of the community's most stylish and admired young people.

As the second child of four, my grandmother Rita Murray grew up on a ranch twelve miles from the lilliputian town of Lantry. Back then, they did not have much, but what they had was enough for them. Growing up, my grandmother lived in the country and did not have many neighbors. Graduating from Eagle Butte High School in a class of just about seventy kids, my grandmother joked that she did not know all of the kids in her class. This was not due to the fact that there was an excessive amount of them, but rather that there was cliches even back then. Much like the cliches of our generation, my grandmother told me that there was the popular kids, jocks, nerds, and your outcasts. In her day my grandmother was in the band and cared about her schooling above everything else. My grandmother was and still is a preeminent woman. She was top of her class and was taught at a young age that education is important. As my grandparents have always told me, “The one possession that no one can ever take away from you is your education.”

Attention Getter: “These high fashioned brands represent to us (African Americans) success.” (Combs,2015). Reveal topic: High end fashion and the lack of representation and support of black designers/artist from both the black and white audiences. High end fashion: when a major fashion house such as Polo, Yves Saint Laurent, Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana ,etc. design expensive, fashionable clothes Credibility statement: I became interested in this topic after watching a documentary on the history of urban fashion, but not just that, it also touched on the topics of culture, race, and identity.