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    In which she talks about the differences in appearance between the rich and the poor. Barbara tell us how Miss Moore share the view of inequality to the children. When she take the kids to the toy store, she suggest the children to go inside. However, the kids feels weird as they do not belong there, “Not that I’m scared, what’s there to be afraid of, just a toy store. But I feel funny, shame. But what I got to

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    Does your neighborhood define who you are Does your neighborhood define who you are? Do you Think where you grow up at defines who you are as a person. My opinion is that if you grow up in a bad neighborhood your going to make bad dissension later in life. If you grow up in a small town or the country you has a less chance of doing bad things because there's not much to do in these places. Not everybody is affected by their surroundings. There are a lot of successful people that came for bad

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    In “To Kill A Mockingbird,” the author includes many forms of discrimination in different ways. In that time of history, it was known to the world that blacks were lower than them on every level on life. Also in that point in history, gender was also discriminated. People in the classroom and even how much money you owned was also discriminated against people. In “To Kill a Mockingbird,” all these forms of discrimination are used in different ways. As we all know, Tom Robinson was a black man.

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    The American dream is the supposed theory that all Americans have the same opportunities, to achieve greatness and financial success in American. Unfortunately, this concept of ideals is only available to one set of people in the U. S, which are the rich. As an 8th grade student in the middle class, I find it intimidating to believe that some people who were born in America don’t have the same opportunities as everyone else.The American dream is absent in modern day American on the grounds that people

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    distinction between differences among classes can be further explored and proven through a comparison of John Steinbeck's novel “Of Mice and Men”, as George and Lennie endure dull opportunities due to their lower social ranking and in the article “The Rich and the Rest” by Christina Pazzanese, which provides further evidence to secure the claim of, the division between that of the social classes causes conflict within societies around the world. It can be argued that the social division is incompetent

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    people who are in their same social class and even was the same thing with kids and children. In this video, I saw oppression from the rich towards the poor. When the guy describing the wasp was talking about, how he didn't like seeing new faces or the fact that he saw a couple who was fat and short and did not look like they belong and he disliked the notion of them being there. I also saw oppression from the poor towards the rich like when the plumber would tell the guys in suits and ties to take their

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    The word rich is thrown around like a rock on the lake shore. Very similar to the work love, people use it like it has no meaning. Many seem to ignore the fact that there are hundreds of different ways to become rich. Of course, some are handed the money due to deaths in a family, retirement, rich ancestry, and lots of other ways as well. In my case, that is not how it worked. But for some reason, often times, close to about five times a day, I would get called rich. I was not a kid who had all

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    : Quote:half-glasses, forehead wrinkled as if the act of reading takes intense concentration. His gray hair is cut short, and his nose is crooked, probably broken a long time ago. A small gold hoop pierces one earlobe. The rolled-up sleeves of his shirt reveal muscular forearms, and his hands are rough and faintly scarred, his fingers stubby and thick.He looks like someone who is used to working with those hands rather than sitting at a desk He is describing the officer and he went there so he can

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    are so different? In The Outsiders the Socs are rich kids from the West Side and Greasers were the poor kids from the East Side. Greasers were seen as troublemakers while Socs were seen as good kids who did not get into any trouble. Their lifestyles differ in everything from the cars they drive to emotion. This is because they come from completely different areas. Not only that, the Socs were raised by rich families and were perceived as good kids. Many people

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    middle class family simply cannot afford these luxuries to help their kids become better hockey players. The middle class families are looking for other ways of getting money to support their child throughout sport. These factors are making hockey less competitive at the younger ages as there is an income discrimination within the sport of hockey, the numbers of participants are lower, less players are keeping with the sport, and kids are joining other cheaper sports. Well, Violence is the reason why

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