The Rich People's School: Life In Botswana

Money— sweeter than honey but oh so destructive. It facilitates a man’s life, while a lack of it imprisons him in the streets of penury. It raises his social status, while an absence of it leaves him unnoticed. It gives him an aura of superiority and importance among others, while a deficiency of it makes him worthless in society’s eyes. Considering these two roads, most do not take more than a second to decide to chase riches.

The racial wage gap involves the unequal distribution of races in certain occupations which results in unequal wages. It must consider more sources and attributes that could affect the gap compared to the wage gap between white men and women. The complex income difference between black men and women and white men and women is problematic in that it does not segregate solely by race – it is segregated mainly by gender. The complexity of the racial wage gap requires further understanding in order to be able to solve this puzzle.

Here the author talks about couple of kids who belong to different social class and race. She mainly focuses on how economical condition affects parenting. Although most of the parents want the best from their kids but indeed they have to balance between their work and financial situation and tune it with their parenting style.

In the study Lareau conducted, it can be see that working class and poor families differ slightly in that being poor means less resources and a means of a greater struggle for the child. The similarities found explain why being lower class has it benefits in some areas then if you were middle or upper class. Now Lareau is not telling people to raise their children one way or that being rich is better because even the rich have many disadvantages their children encounter. Lareau emphasizes, “Overall, daily life for working-class and poor children is slower paced, less pressured, and less structured than for their middle- and

Lauri Kubuitsile Botswana’s short story “The Rich People’s School” is a tail of a young girl named Sylvia whose mother leaves her with her Gran to go live with a man in America. Sylvia’s mother makes the American man pay for Sylvia to go to the rich school on the hill. However, it is not fairytale ending for Sylvia. Sylvia is bullied so bad by the students at the school that she runs away and does not tell her Gran. In the end of the story Gran founds out and tells Sylvia she does not have to go back to the rich school and they would save the money to bring Sylvia’s mother back. Marxist views can give the story a completely different story line. The story about a little girl wanting her mother back turns into one of the elite dominating over the lower class. Botswana’s “The Rich People’s School” gives a stance on the elite using manipulation, sign value, and false consciousness to keep the lower class or proletariat under their control.

In the detailed story of an impoverished family during the late 1900’s, Jeannette Walls describes her experience from the young age of 3, up until adulthood. The family of 6, with Rex Walls as the father, Rose Mary as the mother, and her three siblings, Lori, Brian and Maureen, were constantly moving throughout the country with little to no food or cash. The memoir shows how dysfunctional the family was, but never seemed to force the reader to condemn the parents. In a life of poverty, the have to move for own to town, and often lived in various mining towns. Although they each found something they learned to love (like Jeannette’s rock collection) in the desert, they had to leave them behind once Rex’s alcoholism only worsened, and they ran

Money will not always be there for you, but your family and friends will be. According to society, being in the upper class, you have to have money, nice clothes, and a nice house. To be in the middle class, you have to have some money, some nice clothes, and a good-looking house. To be in the lower class, you have to have little money, not very many clothes, and a house that is not in good condition. American society does not put people’s personalities and characteristics into consideration. American society puts people’s physical features and wealth into hand.

These financial assests include the values of homes, automobiles, businesses, savings and investments. The reason I have decided to investigate and address this issue is because it’s one that constantly flies under the radar. Not many people are aware of the gap bwtween the rich and the poor, and so by writing this, I hope to shopw that we are not as equal as we think. The main areas to be explored in my article are the gilded age, the continuingly large gap between the poor and

Unequal pay is something that has been an issue in America for a very long time. Gender has been one of the main culprits that played a factor in the wage gap between men and women, but race may have a role. The wage gap is expressed as a percentage (e.g., in 2013, women earned 78.3% as much as men aged 16 and over) and is calculated by dividing the median annual earnings for women by the median annual earnings for men. (“The Wage Gap”)

In this world there are many obstacles that people have to deal with and money related situations could be one of those. An abundance of people struggle to get to the top with the middle or high class, but why is that? The answer to this lies within our society because society it the root of all the problems.

Economic capital does not set a social or cultural standard for any individual. The most popular kid could easily be the poorest as it is the other way around. The more wealth a person has, the more they tend to become materialistic. Objects begin to bring happiness to those who can obtain or afford it. It also makes people feel as if it’s the most valuable thing they can have, which isn’t true for the most part.

The life of the children were also affected by wealth. Wealthier children were sent to school or tutored at home to become successful. The son was the alternative if something should happen to the father and the daughters were groomed with high standard and to choose an ambitious

It makes the rich realize that they would still want the best education for their children even if they were poor. It also makes them recognize the need for decent healthcare to all of the different classes. Adequate housing would also be wanted for everyone if people did not know what class they would be

In this story the author tells us about a girl named Sylvia, the narrator, who lives in a very low income family. A place where school is not a priority. A place where it is more important to be strong and hard, than to read a book. This was the thought anyway, before Miss. Moore moved in. She was a school teacher who took it upon herself to teach the neighborhood kids. On one summer afternoon in particular she was going to take the kids into town on a field trip. The kids are not at all happy about this because they know it is summer break and they are not supposed to be in school in the summer. They would rather be at the pool playin’, but Miss. Moore knows that if these kids want a chance at a better life,

This essay is going to address what money means and its relation to inequality in society.