Summary: The Dumbest Generation Rich Dad And Poor Dad

Mark Bauerlein seems to believe that is the dumbest generation because research has shown that knowledge skills and intellectual habits have gone down, and although some people agree with him, others don’t. I believe this generation isn’t the dumbest because there are other things that need to be considered when calling someone, a group of people, or even an entire generation stupid or dumb, rather than just knowledge skills and intellectual habits.

Social class is very important on the life chances of children. Children from richer families have more opportunities. Children that come from a family in poverty have many struggles. Social capital is the access to resources a person has by virtue of relationships and connections within a social network. Examples of this would be a family member getting someone a job interview and parents paying for college. Annette Lareau studied social class and parenting. Middle class parents practiced concerted cultivation. Working -class and poor parents practice the accomplishment of natural growth. Social class affects parenting

How To Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster has definitely made me look back at how I analyzed all the books and other types of literature I’ve read and made me think how less-than-mediocre my analyzing skills were. I never thought that a boy running an errand for his mother could be a quest. When I started reading How to Read Literature Like a Professor, it vaguely reminded me of something I would find on the English tag of Tumblr.

Strapped: Why America’s 20 and 30 Somethings can’t get Ahead. She is a part of generation X, which gives her firsthand experience about the subjects covered in the book. Her studies and writings focus on the growing economic insecurity, rising debt among citizens and declining opportunity that now characterize American society.

Notes from Underground and Grendel were books that were assigned reading in high school but that I greatly enjoyed. Grendel had such an impact on me and it's still my absolute favorite book of all time. I cite Grendel as the starting point of my foray into existentialism and philosophy in general. Grendel has that simple yet profound language that really resonates with me. Existentialism is a Humanism and The Sorrows of Young Werther were also books that were assigned reading but in college. I enjoyed both very much despite their differing forms: Existentialism is a Humanism being based on a lecture and The Sorrows of Young Werther being an epistolary novel.

The Cadburys were an ideal example of how a middle class family could succeed during the industrial revolution. In Western England, the Cadbury family owned a small cloth and dry goods store, which flourished because of the industrial revolution. The Cadbury retail store ran by Richard and Elizabeth Cadbury, benefited greatly from the new sources of supply and expanding demand for cloth. This demand was derived from the industrial revolution making materials readily available to the public. The industrial revolution also brought more people into cities, resulting in more people able to buy these cheaper-newer items.

The purpose of this memo is to address each of the loans made to family members by Brunswick this year from a tax perspective.

This week in class the focus has been on generational poverty. There are a lot of key factors that lead to poverty. Poverty does not exist because people want it to. Poverty is a way of life for those who don’t know another way and feel that they don’t have a way out. Every day in society people turn their heads or frown up their nose at people who they see living in poverty because they think they are better than them and will not lift a hand to help them out. The big question is why do we do this? In most cases, the poverty line or clash of the classes are based on wealth and there is certainly a variation in the wealth among the population. But classism exists from the beginning of education to death.

In the short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, the author shows a mother-daughter relationship with generational differences. This story is about Mrs. Woo and her daughter Jing-Mei Woo. Mrs. Woo an immigrant from China adopted the American dream that with enough dedication, determination and hard work a child can become whoever they dream to be. Mrs. Woo only wants the best for her young daughter Jing-Mei and envisions her daughter to be a genius or a child prodigy. Jing-Mei on the other hand have different ideas.

In today’s generation, children from the ages 9-14 have a hard time trying to fit in and find where they belong. Being your own person will not only help you find people who can relate to you but also help children discover who they are. The book that I am able to design with author Dr. Seuss and illustrator Beverly Cleary will be a book that can help children do just that. The idea of this book will help children connect with others that are just like them and are interested in the same things. Observing what my little cousins they are constantly trying to fit in and find who their friends are. I want to be able to make everything easier on them.

The idea of the past like the future scares some people because of the unknown. Throughout history, during the world wars in the Modern period I imagine that everyday was a new struggle, with old family tails that were passed down and the images that Hollywood portraits us. Raised in todays rich society, I could not incur the nations lifestyle, there lack of technology/science, and the ways of the nation.

I read Rich dad poor dad book about 4 years ago, it did not really hit me the importance of taking control of your financial life.

The importance of continuing to read Macbeth in our modern society is to educate readers on valuable lessons in life. The significance of gaining power appropriately, the fact that there are consequences for every action and the importance of justice are a few of the many life lessons that are relevant in Shakespeare 's tragedy, Macbeth.

The notion that anyone can get out of poverty if they work “hard enough” has always been alien to me. This is not simply a result of me thinking of it as an impossibility. Rather, it is a result of contextualizing every situation I have encountered-- the stories I was told, the people that I observed-- where someone had brought themselves out of poverty. My father’s story comes to mind because without context, his story affirms the notion that I find so flawed. Shortly after his discharge from the military, he was unemployed, and on government assistance. He worked hard, and practiced fiscal responsibility. He didn’t drink. He lived as leanly as he could, and when the opportunity arose, he found a good-paying job and moved back to New York City. His situation strikes me as the exemplar of what an individual in poverty should do to get out of poverty. Still, I can’t help but think that him being an able-bodied, single, male made his move out of poverty exceptionally easy. I often think that if one “variable” was changed in his situation (number of dependents, ability, gender, citizen status), his movement out of poverty would have been drastically more difficult.

The Story of Our Generation chronicles the stories of the Spiru Haret class of 1964 fifty years after graduation. The novel beautifully captures the essence of a generation but accomplishes so much more. While brimming with historical wealth, the non-fiction memoir cultivates a yearning to observe one’s life in the context of history. The Story of Our Generation, though speaking of 1960’s Romania struggling in the aftermath of World War II, parallels modern day. Any reader, no matter their genre partialities, will connect with the innocence of youth saturating this novel.