The Culture Of Poverty

Spend is an online game simulation that is used to teach and raise awareness about people in poverty and who are homeless. This game allows you to see what some people have to go through in order to survive and make ends meet in a month on such little pay. You start by choosing your job, and once you have your job you are given three hundred and six dollars a week depending on your job and a thousand dollar budget. Each day you are faced with a challenge in which you must decide where your money is best spent. Throughout the month you must pay bills, get groceries, take care of your children or child, and handle any unexpected event that may be thrown your way, such as like home repairs. The game allows you to feel how stressful it is trying to choose what is important and how it can take a toll on your Heath. This simulation allowed me

Unfortunately, I was surprised of the excessive amounts of money spent on myself alone throughout these 30 days. In addition, I was not expecting I would spend so much on clothes and food. I felt as if I did not spend as much

The second person is a friend name Mirielle. She works for two days in a week, she gets 280 dollars every week she calculates her expenses using the pie chart. Every month she paid car insurance as well as medical bills, she has a car every two weeks she buys gas. However, she still uses the public transportation to go to school. Although she uses the pie chart she doesn’t end up following it, the only time she takes her time to calculate her spending it when she knows, she does not want the item. If she spends her money on it will be

In this paper I will be talking about the poverty simulation that we had done for class. I will be talking about how it connects to class, my role, and my fake family that I had worked with during the simulation, and my views of poverty after finishing the simulation. Poverty means something different to everyone and I feel like this simulation was a very good way to show how everyday people can struggle with money, kids, and finding resources that they might be able to utilize to benefit themselves.

For example, you can spend your money the way you want to spend it. If you want to buy a trampoline, you

What would I not spend money on? Everyone has disagreements. Some people spend money on car and boats. That is just not me. I

For example, I went to the mall three times in a row. Consequently, I was depressed because I spent plenty of money in those days. Effectively, I don’t want to go shopping in a while. As a result, I had fun buying clothes ;on the other hand, I didn’t have any money left. In conclusion, I need to start earning money to go once again.

The culture poverty is defined as social theory that is based on the concept that the poor have unique value system and that the poor remain in poverty because of their adaptation to the burdens of poverty. (Wikipedia, 2010), but does the culture of poverty actually exist or is it just a popular concept?

It seems that the writer of this essay focus on social change and social attitudes in the culture of poverty. They’re trying to correct the attitude that people have towards individual that they need to be corrected because I was assuming of wrong with them due to unfortunate events that occur that made them financially unstable. I think that the author I have some valid points to what they’re saying mean any one of us could end up homeless if we really think about it? You could move to a new city lose your job without notice and if you do not have enough money saved you could be stuck there without a job and without gainful employment you’ll lose your residence.

A vicious cycle that creates depression and is the coping mechanism. Eventually after all my purchases have been made, I realize, this is meaningless. Only if I knew that this was slowly destroying me, I would’ve stopped and saved some money.

The first main idea presented in The Working Poor is the concept of poverty being a culture of itself—like being Greek or being Hispanic. Shipler and many other experts that study poverty believe the theory that poverty follows a cycle and that that cycle after being passes from one generation to another and another becomes a culture—a way of life. Furthermore, to understand the theory of the culture of poverty, a scholar must first understand what poverty is and whom it impacts. The definition of poverty according to Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman, “the condition of not having enough money to buy things that are considered necessary and desirable (p. 25). The problem of poverty impacts roughly 11.3 percent of the United States who live below the poverty line (Shipler, p 9). Shipler claims that poverty happens in a cycle and that the cycle eventually becomes multi-generational; Shipler calls this phenomenon the culture of poverty. The culture of poverty is based on the idea that from generation to generation parents are learning attitudes of hopelessness, acceptance, and despair about their economic situation and then teaching their children these attitudes and values. Many issues contribute to the culture of poverty however, Zastrow and Kirst-Ashman claims that social isolation is one of the key points of the cycle and the culture continuing over multi-generations (p. 568). People who live in poverty have few contacts who are not living in poverty

As we are approaching this holiday season, the urge of spending money unveils before us. Money is an evil thing that controls every living soul. That little ounce of self-control you thought you had, boom, GONE. Not only is spending money during the holiday season a given, most people still have struggled with budgeting outside any special events. Of course, going broke is not the ideal way of things. Here is a step by step procedure on how to ruin your life and go broke, you’re welcome.

In the first element of this assignment, we were instructed to record our weekly spending. If you refer to my appendix you can see an organized spreadsheet of every item I purchased for the week of 9/13-9/19. The way I spent my money over the course of just a week was a real eye opener for me. Nearly all my spending was on discretionary items such as fast food and clothing. I consider fast food discretionary because the week before this assignment I went grocery shopping and had food at home. I also did not need the clothing items I purchased, they were more of a material want. The only non-discretionary purchase I made was on packaging items such as boxes, envelopes, tape, and printer ink. I consider these items non-discretionary because

Like a cycle poverty surrounds us. Starting with the rich man and ending with the poor, it runs and reruns on how greed is changes the lives of the inhabitants of Earth. In this poster I tried to show the different ways it affects different people and how that impacts the world in a more broad spectrum. From this activity, I learned that it is difficult to use one image to represent something as versatile as poverty, and that their are many aspects to poverty. Everybody has a different viewing of poverty. Some people see it only as the physical, and some can see the spiritually, and different people view it at a different level. Teens can help solve this problem through volunteering. Eventually, our teenagers are going to be the new leaders of the world, and we will ave to pass on the torch. If, they already engage in helping the needing, our future generation will understand of there importance of helping the poor. In Unit 3, the theme is “Be Faithful”. Yes, we are in for a long ride that may or may not

For thousands of people in the United States, poverty is a real life obstacle. People in poverty live pay check to pay check, and several of them rely on aids such as food stamps and welfare. Furthermore, families go hungry and can’t pay their bills, which presents them with family conflict and stress. In the game Spent, these issues bring themselves to our attention, and the player is faced with dilemmas thousands of people face on a day to day basis in the real world.