Why Class Matters Analysis

I read this book in high school, and I really enjoyed it. After we were finishing reading the book we had a guest speaker who was a Vietnam war vet come into our class and speak on different parts of the book. I picked this short story to do my paper on because I felt like I had the most connection to this story because of my prior knowledge from reading the book. I do think I am getting some parts confused with the short story and the book. I know when I read the book in high school some chapters were very dull and boring but others were exciting and interesting. After reading the short story it was just a refreshment of the interesting things that happened in the book.

CLASS is the most recent failure at the federal level to create a national program that provides long-term care insurance. The ACA attempted to work around the fact by making CLASS a voluntary and self-sustaining program under difficult political constraints, policymakers tried to walk a narrow line; they aimed to offer a substantial benefit. CLASS would have been unsustainable and would still have left beneficiaries exposed to substantial costs. One positive note, CLASS brought long-term care back onto the federal policy agenda after a 20 years absence, serving as an important reminder that the nation's current to financing long-term care is adequate.

Initially upon reading this book, I found it to be very strange. The progression of the story doesn’t follow an exactly linear path and the narrator often digresses and goes in circles. This makes the story very hard to follow in the beginning. However once I had adjusted to this style of writing, I found the book to be quite interesting. Despite the fact that this story is about war, it manages to be humorous at times, and all of the characters are well written despite the fact that they were very exaggerated. This story caused me to actually react emotionally at several points, especially at points when certain characters like Mcwatt or Nately died in such tragic ways. I remained interested in the story the entire way through, and was only disappointed by the fact that not a single character who acted and an antagonist was punished in any way.

In Class Matters, Bill Keller examines the meaning of the word class and how it plays on the life of the US citizens.According to Class Matters, a class is represented as four cards, one from each suit: education, income, occupation, and wealth. Based on your cards you are put into a class. Most people end up with the same cards as their parents. Keller explains how a class can be predetermined by a person’s upbringing or how they were raised. In this book, Bill Keller suggests that it is quite difficult to move into other social classes than the one we were born in, or a class we have been associated with for a long time. Based on the reading of this book along with other resources, moving into other social classes is exceptionally

Combining all these serious themes into a very entertaining book should attract many readers. However, there was some confusion with the story line. Since this book is a collection of interviews, it wasn’t a conventional story. When I first started the book, I wasn’t sure why I was jumping from country to country and why each story was completely different. As I continued to read the book, I was able to understand that these were a collection of eyewitness accounts of the war. Also, Max Brooks uses a rife amount of vulgar language which I think could have been kept out. However, it made it real and that’s what this book is about.

I am going to be reflecting on the book “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” in this essay. I definitely enjoyed this book because of the story being told and the way it transitions chapter to chapter between old Henry and young Henry. I also am myself very interested in the World War 2 era in history and it is very interesting to see the war from a Chinese or Japanese Americans perspective as opposed to an only American perspective.

I truly love this book and I hope to read the second one so I can have many more ideas and questions to think about. I believe I have covered everything that I have brought up and sated everything I wanted to say. I also believe I have covered my topic pretty well and i’m sure I have brought up some more questions about bravery. So I believe my essay has been

Whenever I first start a new class I look through the syllabus and pages of the book for the class to get an overall idea what will be the main emphasis/class. In SOCI 2001, it was a lot of what I expected yet the information about was more intense in regards to the history of how racial discrimination got started all over the world. Seeing that other nations were as bad to their own people as they were to immigrants astounded me. To read how countries cast their own people away like they meant nothing was a real eye opener.

Both the three- and four-class models were notable by increasing levels of general psychological distress across each of the nine indicators for the recongnized subgroups; the first class in each model experienced the least psychological distress and the last class experienced the highest level. However, in the four-class model, there were relatively little statistically significant differences on the external variables between Classes 2 and 3 and Classes 3 and 4. Thus, based on the conjunction of statistical evidence and the substantive interpretation of the models, the three-class solution was supported.

One of the works of literature from the syllabus that has had the greatest emotional effect on me would be the short story “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien. This short story that centered around the Vietnam war left me in tears as it felt so real and powerful. When reading the story, I felt as though I was there with the men in war thanks to O'Brien's details and imagery. It left me wishing I could take some of the burdens they were carrying and carry the burdens for them. From tangible items to guilt, these soldiers carried many things on their backs. While I do not personally know people who have been within the war, I have read many books and learned about many different battles within school. While I have learned a lot of factual

The issue of class is a predominant topic in the world’s social discourse because in every society, there must be the rich and the poor. It is estimated that in this country, there are 38 million people living in absolute poverty. This has created a very huge disparity in the manner in which people live in the society; their lifestyles and general well being. To compound the situation further, the general norm regarding class is that the rich often get richer as days go by while the poor consistently become poorer (Mathews 13). Bell Hooks in her book “Where we stand: Class Matters,” sought to give an insight on the general concept of class as it is today. In this book, the author propagates three main ideas. To start with, Bell argues that the question of class cuts across all other dimensions of life including gender, race, religion and sexuality. Secondly, she posits that religion is has been a very instrumental tool in bridging the gap between classes. Finally, Bell observes that the proclamation that we live in a classless society is flawed in every sense of the world. This paper seeks to make an incisive elucidation of the three observations that Bell makes in her book.

When considering the social class of an individual, I tend to analyze the educational aspect and the experiences they had over the course of their life. As I was growing up, both of my parent social class position is in the working class group. They didn’t have the opportunity to attend college / university nor graduated from high school when they were younger due to the situations that wouldn’t allow it to happen. They grew up in Southern China and their families didn’t have much money for them to go to school. Instead, they were working to earn enough to just buy food and to survived. When they came to the United States, life was better for the both of them. For me, I want to study hard to at least graduate to earn a bachelor degree so I

In the beginning of the film A Class Divided, Jane Elliott asked the children in her class if there were people in the U.S. that are not typically treated like our brothers. The children were quick to respond that Blacks and Indians are not treated as brothers and are referred to as stupid, dumb or niggers. I was a little shocked by this as the 1970’s do not seem to have been all that long ago. If a Caucasian child were to use the “N” word in a classroom today, they would most likely face detention or suspension. I was also surprised that even though the kids knew the division of blue eyed and brown eyed kids was an experiment, they seemed to immediately believe the hurtful things the teacher was saying about the brown eyed kids. When I saw

In America being a member of a class is comparable to being an animal confined to an enclosure at the Zoo. Even the high-class Lion is limited in his freedom and mobility. The low class and slow moving turtle will have difficulty ever climbing a social ladder. All the animals at the Zoo are like all the people in society that are separated by class. I have chosen to escape my cage and fly in any direction I see fit. Paul Fussell’s Class can clearly illustrate what it means to be labeled in a class society. I don’t feel that I am restricted to fall into those categories or labels that Fussell dictates in his book for class status codes. Frankly, I could care less what society thinks of me and my matriculation through college is solely based on the fact that I want to do more with my life. On a personal level, I want to achieve all of my goals and dreams and I feel that the only person preventing me from doing so is myself. I

light of a true education, and have to remain in the dark all of their