I've worked as a housecleaner to supplement my income for over a decade in Santa Monica.
Over the years I've experienced everything from a celebrity trying to pay me with a bounced check to a woman giving me a microwave she said she no longer needed only to call me a week later and ask for me to bring it back to her. (Which I did, even though it took me an hour to get to her by bus.) When I arrive, I do so with a smile and cleaning supplies, expecting to put in a hard day's work. What I get is often hours of psychological games where clients will do everything they can just to try to save themselves $10 or $20. Sorry, but buying me a cup of coffee does not mean you get an extra two hours of work for free. If I could, I would not work as a housecleaner. But I need to, and I wish people would treat me with the same dignity they would hope to be treated with if they were in my position. Economic status makes wealthy conceited people’s morals. Wealthy people sometimes don’t know their limits. In the novel The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle, “And then, finally, his voice came at her, probing like a knife, “Married Women” he whispered, leaning close. “You better call your husband.” This passage claims that her boss was raping America and he was forcing her to have sex with him even though she didn’t want too. In this case, because America was being raped she should have kicked him or snitch on him when everything was said and done so he makes sure to pay the price for what he was doing to America and plenty of other women. Not only is there a problem with the wealthy people in the novel but in the real world too. “Affluenza was used as a defense in a recent, highly publicized drunk driving trial in Texas, where a 16-year-old boy claimed that his family’s wealth should exempt him from responsibility for the deaths of four people. The boy got off with 10 years of probation and therapy.” This passage asserts that the boy killed four people in a drunk driving accident. He was fortunate to have lots of money so he was let go free with no jail time only 10 years of probation. In this case, because the boy killed four people I believe he should have been put away for good. To the jury and the judge that only sentenced him 10 years of probation what if in that car that he totaled your whole entire family was in there and they all passed but since
Social and economic status account for differences in opinion. While merchants and farmers may be making good pay other merchants and large farmers who depended on Great Britain may make less profit. Large political leaders saw articles badly because they worked for the national government which had no power where as politicians in state governments may favor the articles because of their power and so will congress. This means that the states will refuse the constitution and revert to what the articles…
Choose one of the following socio-demographic characteristics: age, sex, ethnicity, or socio-economic status (SES). Describe its relationship to crime, paying attention to whether that relationship is observable at the individual and/ or the aggregate-level. What are the major theoretical explanations for that relationship? To what extent are the results of prior empirical research consistent with those theoretical explanations? Women have traditionally been perceived as “the nurturer’s” in…
out, fall out, or spread out” (2). From this truth, I can begin to look in to the aging process and the effects on the human life course. From my observations, I will analyze and discuss social network, health aging, education level, social economic status, and daily activities in the assisted living facility for seniors over sixty-five. When I arrived at the facility Summerhill Villa, I walked in to a building with two twelve-foot doors made of wood and glass. The lobby had marble floors and marble…
Contrary to what many people believe, America’s health status is not quite “up-to-par,” to say the least. Over forty-seven million people in the United States lack health insurance; that is more than 15% of our nation’s population! At first this disturbing truth seems impossible to believe, being as America is one of the most technologically advanced and economically developed countries in the world. “We spend trillions of dollars per year on medical care. That’s nearly half of all the health dollars…
Social Structure— The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships. Status— The social positions we occupy relative to others. Ascribed Status— A social position assigned to a person by society without regard for the person’s unique talents or characteristics. Achieved Status— A social position that a person attains largely through his or her own efforts. Master status— A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person’s general position is society.…
analyzes development environment of communications industry, development status quo and trends of global communications industry, development of communications industry in major countries (Hong Kong, USA, Japan, the Netherlands, Germany, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, UK and India), development status quo and trends of global communications industry, operation of China’s communications equipment manufacturing industry, development status quo and competition and trends of market segments of Chinese communications…
extravagant and ostentatious expenditure. Conspicuous consumption is meant not to satisfy any physical need but to gratify the psychological craving for status or to esteem of others. How does conspicuous consumption influence purchasing decisions? In the mind of a conspicuous consumer such display serves as a mean of attain or maintain social status in the society the more it will be attempted to buy high price items that only the elite can afford. By purchasing high priced items equates to your social…
The individual "ownership" or stewardship of economic areas was re- garded as highly important, giving, as it did, a measure of authority to the incumbent of the position-political authority of a sort, and thus prestige. The rights were inherited according to local rules of inheritance (by the sister's son among Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and Xaisla; by the son else- where in the area), so that it came about that in every Northwest Coast society economic wealth was in the hands of the direct descendants…
Empire, and by the late 19th century its reach was global. Following British colonization from the 16th to 19th centuries, it became the dominant language in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The growing economic and cultural influence of the US and its status as a global superpower since World War II have significantly accelerated the spread of the language across the planet. English replaced German as the dominant language of science-related Nobel Prize laureates during the second…
Demography Of Aging By: Carolin Gerais Due Date: 4/10/14 Table of contents Fertility rates Dependency and labor Marital status Living arrangements Racial and ethic composition Geographic distribution Economic status Housing Rates (Fertility rates) The Total Fertility Rate (TFR), sometimes also called the fertility rate, period total fertility rate (PTFR) or total period fertility rate (TPFR) of a population is the average…
