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    the movie are how both the rich and poor classes have different political views, having the poor in favor of Allende’s socialist views while the rich are against it. It also, show how the upper class always blames the lower class for what it’s happening, creating a negative relationship between the classes. The class and social conflicts can, also, be seen in the school and how the students behave and the little respect the privileged kids have towards the lower class kids. The political climate of

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    2015 “WHO GETS TO GRADUTE” The issue that surrounds low-income students and college success is that the rich kids are holding them back. The students who have low income are not graduating at the rate of the rich kids who can afford school. The rich kids tend to get a better knowledge in school because of their money. The poor students are not given the equal education as the rich, so the poor is really not prepared for the next step. Some of these low income students who work hard and do well

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    The article titled,” 5 Maps and Charts That Will Surprise You” by Ezra Klein asks,” Which chart did you find the most surprising?” The chart I found the most surprising was the chart that was titled,” Switzerland is the best place to be born” because I thought that the U.S. would be a better place to be born. Also, I didn’t know that the geography of a place needs to be counted to determine if children have the best chance of a happy, safe and prosperous life. I also didn’t think that trust in public

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    time and my caseworker was Linda Rich. Not only did she impact my life but she impacted a lot of other teenagers look on schooling. She was a Teacher assistant for two years at Lake Forest High School also, a special ed and mainstream teacher since 1981. Before becoming a teacher Rich wished people told her it wasn’t always as easy as it looks. You can have a whole lesson planned out with numerous amounts of examples and the next day you go back to review, and the kids look at you with blank faces

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    not between black and white, but rather rich and poor. The town is square shaped and straight down the middle runs an old rail road. It splits the rich and the poor’s homes, schools, and parks. Like the game of capture the flag, anybody who ventures over to the wrong side is fair game. They can be tormented by the other side or made the laughing cow of the town. Rumor has it that one time a particularly stinky, ungroomed poor man made his way over to the rich side and was murdered. For those reasons

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    and there’s only 100 spots on the lifeboat and of course they’re going to take the rich first and so leave about 50 poor people to die and I think the everyone should be able to fair and equal opportunity to get on the boat and a fair chance at life because everyone deserves that. Guilt is a big question that everyone has when coming to this topic because it’s such a big topic in our world right now and you see rich people walk in the store and be able to get what they want, and then there’s the poor

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    continuous rivalry. Society viewed these two gangs differently. The Socs as rich kids and the Greasers as poor kids. In The Outsiders, both the Socs and the Greasers spent most of their time in gang fights and disobeying the law. The Socs were wealthier and had a higher social status. “We get jumped by the Socs. I'm not sure how you spell it, but it's the abbreviation for the Socials, the jet set, the West-side rich kids. It's like the term "greaser," which is used to class all us boys on the East

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    “The Rich People’s School”, by Lauri Kubuitsile, Sylvia is sent to a school for rich people. Her mom sent her so she could become a doctor and get rich. Sylvia was excited at first but then the students start make fun of her for being poor. They spoke in english and she couldn't understand them, They threw her tumbler and made fun of her food. She becomes distant and stops going to school. Her grandmother discovers this and tells her that she can go to the local school and become rich from

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    that an education should be valued for what it could teach the student, how it could teach the student about living, and how they could the student contribute to society. The rich had their children go to school while the poor didn’t have that privilege. The rich were sent to formal school where they had tutors,

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    learns many lessons, such as the one that the rich kids can be nice. He saw that when he met Cherry Valance. She treated him as an equal just like we have all been taught to do. This is one of the many life lessons I found in The Outsiders. Another life lesson that I found is that you can’t run away from your problems, because eventually the will catch up to you. I saw this when Ponyboy and Johnny ran away after accidentally killing a Soc, a.k.a, a rich kid. They live in an isolated church and the only

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