Bianca Maya
Mr. Medina M7
Humanities
01-29-14 Struggle Is Harmful
Struggle can be defined as something difficult that causes problems. Some may declare that struggle is acceptable. It is good because you can learn from your mistakes. Others accept that struggle is adverse. Much investigation has been managed on this topic. This essay will argue that even though what some consider, struggle is multidimensional and has implications that can harm us.
Struggles are multidimensional. We perceived this in Breaking Through. For example, one of the struggles Panchito experiences is undocumented. The result of Panchito’s struggle is fear. Some examples from the text that provide evidence of this situation is when he said, “I lived in constant fear for ten long years.”(Pg 1) Another example is when he also said, “As soon as I saw the green uniform, I panicked.”(Pg 2) Last example is when he says, “As I got older, my fear of being deported grew.”(Pg 3) As you can see struggles are multidimensional.
Along the lines of struggle being multidimensional, we can also observe its implications. Once again using Breaking Through Panchito struggles with poverty. Poverty affects Panchito’s education, home, personal life health. There are examples from the book that show the implications of poverty. One example of education is, “Every year Roberto and I miss months of school to help Mama and Papa work in the fields.”(Pg 3) This shows how poverty affects education for Panchito because he wasn’t getting good education. Another example is home, “We settled in Bontti Ranch, where we had lived in army barracks off and on for the past few years.”(Pg 2) This shows how affects his home because his family was poor and couldn’t afford to get a house. One other example personal life, “Ill go back with him but Ill miss you,” I said holding back my tears. (Pg15) This shows how poverty affects Panchito’s personal life because their family had separated for a while. Last example is health, Papa continued, “It’s the rainy season; there’s little work in the fields during this time, and my back is getting worse.”(Pg 14) This shows how poverty affects their health because Panchito’s dad had worked hard to earn money even when his back was hurting.
In addition to Breaking Through, poverty has affected so many things in people’s lives such as education. Poverty affects education; studies show that, “Seven differences between middle-class and low-income students show up at school to understand these differences.” This explains how not every kid can get a good education. Another example is, “Not only does research indicate that poverty is a threat to a child’s well-being, but it also affects his/her ability to learn.” This explains how poverty is affecting kid’s education. In fact another example of how poverty affects education is, “ Some children show up equipped to learn with the tools they need to succeed while others lack the requisite preparation and sometimes even the basic foundational needs that come from family to meet the school expectations.” This also explains how some kids get a good education while others don’t get a good education. One last example of poverty affects education is, “ Although many of these families have working parents, low wages and unstable employment make it difficult to provide the necessary resources for proper childhood development.” This explains how some kids don’t get the right education they need. All these examples show how poverty affects kid’s education to learn.
Despite on education, health has examples of its own of poverty. These examples are, “ The study also showed that diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart attacks were slightly more likely to afflict those in poverty than those who are not.” This shows how poverty can affect those who are in necessary needs. Another example is, “Poverty prevents Americans from buying healthy food. This is one of the biggest donors to poor health in low-income communities. Many of the poor, including those who rely on food stamps have to patronize bodegas or mini-mart that sell salty snacks and the kinds of processed foods that hypertension, and diabetes in lieu of fresh produce.” This explains how some people chose junk food over healthy food to eat. In addition, another example is, “Poor children have increased infant mortality; more frequent and severe chronic diseases such as asthma; poorer nutrition and growth; less access to quality health care; lower immunization rates; and increased obesity and its complications. This explains how junk food can cause a lot of damage to your body such as, obesity and asthma.
Another example in Breaking Through is living conditions. One example of living condition is, “Kids who are poor are likely to be less healthy, both emotionally and physically in poor living conditions.” This explains how kids who are poor can’t afford things they need. Another example of living conditions is, “The lack of affordable housing has lead to high rent burdens (rents which absorb a high proportion of income), overcrowding, and substandard housing. These phenomena, in turn, have not only forced many people to become homeless; they have put a large and growing number of people at risk of becoming homeless. This explains how some people become homeless because of poverty and how they can’t afford things. In addition, another example of living conditions is, “While there are many things that can influence the mental health of an individual, either through genetics, events or social life, the environment in which people live in can have one of the greatest, lasting effects on a person for the rest of their life. Adults and children alike are affected by the living conditions in which they are living. “Poor housing conditions increase the risk of severe ill-health or disability.” This explains how families live in poor housing because they don’t get paid so much to help themselves and their families with their conditions. One last example is, “ If you are poor you are not likely to live on.” This explains how some poor people don’t always succeed in life.”
One last example to Breaking Through is treatment. An example of treatment is, “Some people don’t get the same type of treatment as others because of how they live of how they look like if the look poor.” This shows how people don’t get good treatment as others. Another example is, “Some people get dieses because they don’t have the right treatment they need and get really sick from the dieses.” This shows how people don’t get treatment even though they have dieses, they don’t get treated for it. Another example is, “Some families get treated different because they have poor treatment. The cause is people have poor treatment is because they are political social and economic injustices. This explains how families get treated different from other families because how they live and just their life style.
Furthermore, so far, this essay has shown how poverty affects education, health, living conditions, and treatment. Some may argue that poverty and struggle is good for you but others say it not, if some say its good for you well struggle is something like stress. In all of these paragraphs there is poverty in them. Poverty is even in more things not just in education, health, living conditions, and treatment, poverty affects Panchito and his family.
Poverty is not the only struggle that has negative implications; racism is just as damaging. The definition of racism is prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on such a belief. Racism is where others don’t get treated fairly as others.
The movie, 42, about the Jackie Robinson story shows examples of racism and its implications. One example of racism in this movie is black people couldn’t play baseball with white people. Another example of racism is black people and white people had separate bathrooms. Also in this movie when Jackie Robinson was going to the locker room, all the baseball players had lockers but Jackie got a rack.
Also in the movie 42, black people weren’t able to go in hotels, restaurants only whites had the ability. Another example of racism in this movie is, black people would get called names. A last example in this movie is, since Jackie was in baseball another coach was calling him names. This movie has shown how just because of your skin color you were treated differently and would have been given different right.
My story is Race don’t matter, there are these groups of friends named, Justin, Destiny, Austin and Autumn. After school they all went to the mall, to go look in stores. Austin wanted to go in a store, but the others didn’t want to go in that store. Austin was confused he said, “Why can’t we go in this store?” Destiny then said, “Well, I don’t think it’s for us, it’s only for black people.” Austin said, “Well, I’m half black, so why does it come to race.” Justin and Autumn say, “Yeah, what’s the difference, everybody is the same, we all have the same rights.” Destiny said, “You guys are right, it shouldn’t matter what race you are to go in a store. Lets go in!” This shows how people can stereotype anybody by anyway.
In contrast to all I have shared, Kelly McGonigal provides and opposing perspective. Kelly McGonigal claims that stress is not bad. She says that stress is your friend and that 43% of people die, not of stress, but of how people think stress is bad. This shows how people think stress is bad but it just might be your friend. If more people think that stress is good, less people would die and have less risks of thinking stress is bad.
Kelly McGonigal says that stress is your friend. People think stress is bad but Kelly gives these reasons why stress can be your friend. Their was a 30% risks of dying for thinking stress is bad. Kelly also says that stress can make you social. This explains how stress can be your friend but some people think stress is bad.
Mr. Medina M7
Humanities
01-29-14 Struggle Is Harmful
Struggle can be defined as something difficult that causes problems. Some may declare that struggle is acceptable. It is good because you can learn from your mistakes. Others accept that struggle is adverse. Much investigation has been managed on this topic. This essay will argue that even though what some consider, struggle is multidimensional and has implications that can harm us.
Struggles are multidimensional. We perceived this in Breaking Through. For example, one of the struggles Panchito experiences is undocumented. The result of Panchito’s struggle is fear. Some examples from the text that provide evidence of this situation is when he said, “I lived in constant fear for ten long years.”(Pg 1) Another example is when he also said, “As soon as I saw the green uniform, I panicked.”(Pg 2) Last example is when he says, “As I got older, my fear of being deported grew.”(Pg 3) As you can see struggles are multidimensional.
Along the lines of struggle being multidimensional, we can also observe its implications. Once again using Breaking Through Panchito struggles with poverty. Poverty affects Panchito’s education, home, personal life health. There are examples from the book that show the implications of poverty. One example of education is, “Every year Roberto and I miss months of school to help Mama and Papa work in the fields.”(Pg 3) This shows how poverty affects education for Panchito because he wasn’t getting good education. Another example is home, “We settled in Bontti Ranch, where we had lived in army barracks off and on for the past few years.”(Pg 2) This shows how affects his home because his family was poor and couldn’t afford to get a house. One other example personal life, “Ill go back with him but Ill miss you,” I said holding back my tears. (Pg15) This shows how poverty affects Panchito’s personal life because their family had separated for a while. Last example is health, Papa continued, “It’s the rainy season; there’s little work in the fields during this time, and my back is getting worse.”(Pg 14) This shows how poverty affects their health because Panchito’s dad had worked hard to earn money even when his back was hurting.
In addition to Breaking Through, poverty has affected so many things in people’s lives such as education. Poverty affects education; studies show that, “Seven differences between middle-class and low-income students show up at school to understand these differences.” This explains how not every kid can get a good education. Another example is, “Not only does research indicate that poverty is a threat to a child’s well-being, but it also affects his/her ability to learn.” This explains how poverty is affecting kid’s education. In fact another example of how poverty affects education is, “ Some children show up equipped to learn with the tools they need to succeed while others lack the requisite preparation and sometimes even the basic foundational needs that come from family to meet the school expectations.” This also explains how some kids get a good education while others don’t get a good education. One last example of poverty affects education is, “ Although many of these families have working parents, low wages and unstable employment make it difficult to provide the necessary resources for proper childhood development.” This explains how some kids don’t get the right education they need. All these examples show how poverty affects kid’s education to learn.
Despite on education, health has examples of its own of poverty. These examples are, “ The study also showed that diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart attacks were slightly more likely to afflict those in poverty than those who are not.” This shows how poverty can affect those who are in necessary needs. Another example is, “Poverty prevents Americans from buying healthy food. This is one of the biggest donors to poor health in low-income communities. Many of the poor, including those who rely on food stamps have to patronize bodegas or mini-mart that sell salty snacks and the kinds of processed foods that hypertension, and diabetes in lieu of fresh produce.” This explains how some people chose junk food over healthy food to eat. In addition, another example is, “Poor children have increased infant mortality; more frequent and severe chronic diseases such as asthma; poorer nutrition and growth; less access to quality health care; lower immunization rates; and increased obesity and its complications. This explains how junk food can cause a lot of damage to your body such as, obesity and asthma.
Another example in Breaking Through is living conditions. One example of living condition is, “Kids who are poor are likely to be less healthy, both emotionally and physically in poor living conditions.” This explains how kids who are poor can’t afford things they need. Another example of living conditions is, “The lack of affordable housing has lead to high rent burdens (rents which absorb a high proportion of income), overcrowding, and substandard housing. These phenomena, in turn, have not only forced many people to become homeless; they have put a large and growing number of people at risk of becoming homeless. This explains how some people become homeless because of poverty and how they can’t afford things. In addition, another example of living conditions is, “While there are many things that can influence the mental health of an individual, either through genetics, events or social life, the environment in which people live in can have one of the greatest, lasting effects on a person for the rest of their life. Adults and children alike are affected by the living conditions in which they are living. “Poor housing conditions increase the risk of severe ill-health or disability.” This explains how families live in poor housing because they don’t get paid so much to help themselves and their families with their conditions. One last example is, “ If you are poor you are not likely to live on.” This explains how some poor people don’t always succeed in life.”
One last example to Breaking Through is treatment. An example of treatment is, “Some people don’t get the same type of treatment as others because of how they live of how they look like if the look poor.” This shows how people don’t get good treatment as others. Another example is, “Some people get dieses because they don’t have the right treatment they need and get really sick from the dieses.” This shows how people don’t get treatment even though they have dieses, they don’t get treated for it. Another example is, “Some families get treated different because they have poor treatment. The cause is people have poor treatment is because they are political social and economic injustices. This explains how families get treated different from other families because how they live and just their life style.
Furthermore, so far, this essay has shown how poverty affects education, health, living conditions, and treatment. Some may argue that poverty and struggle is good for you but others say it not, if some say its good for you well struggle is something like stress. In all of these paragraphs there is poverty in them. Poverty is even in more things not just in education, health, living conditions, and treatment, poverty affects Panchito and his family.
Poverty is not the only struggle that has negative implications; racism is just as damaging. The definition of racism is prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on such a belief. Racism is where others don’t get treated fairly as others.
The movie, 42, about the Jackie Robinson story shows examples of racism and its implications. One example of racism in this movie is black people couldn’t play baseball with white people. Another example of racism is black people and white people had separate bathrooms. Also in this movie when Jackie Robinson was going to the locker room, all the baseball players had lockers but Jackie got a rack.
Also in the movie 42, black people weren’t able to go in hotels, restaurants only whites had the ability. Another example of racism in this movie is, black people would get called names. A last example in this movie is, since Jackie was in baseball another coach was calling him names. This movie has shown how just because of your skin color you were treated differently and would have been given different right.
My story is Race don’t matter, there are these groups of friends named, Justin, Destiny, Austin and Autumn. After school they all went to the mall, to go look in stores. Austin wanted to go in a store, but the others didn’t want to go in that store. Austin was confused he said, “Why can’t we go in this store?” Destiny then said, “Well, I don’t think it’s for us, it’s only for black people.” Austin said, “Well, I’m half black, so why does it come to race.” Justin and Autumn say, “Yeah, what’s the difference, everybody is the same, we all have the same rights.” Destiny said, “You guys are right, it shouldn’t matter what race you are to go in a store. Lets go in!” This shows how people can stereotype anybody by anyway.
In contrast to all I have shared, Kelly McGonigal provides and opposing perspective. Kelly McGonigal claims that stress is not bad. She says that stress is your friend and that 43% of people die, not of stress, but of how people think stress is bad. This shows how people think stress is bad but it just might be your friend. If more people think that stress is good, less people would die and have less risks of thinking stress is bad.
Kelly McGonigal says that stress is your friend. People think stress is bad but Kelly gives these reasons why stress can be your friend. Their was a 30% risks of dying for thinking stress is bad. Kelly also says that stress can make you social. This explains how stress can be your friend but some people think stress is bad.