Monday, February 29, 2016

Big White Ghetto


What does the average coal miner make (wages per hour)? $25 an hour

 

Who are some types of people a person might find in the big, “White Ghetto.”         

Drunks, drug dealers, rapists, homeless, jobless, and others that are trying to get out

Why do you think the author calls it the “Big White Ghetto?”

Population is predominantly Caucasian and it’s kind of a bad place to be with a lot of poverty and such

What does the author suggests “keeps the underclass in place?”

Welfare and how easy it is to receive money from the government

The author suggests that “poverty is the natural condition of the human animal.”

How does Pepsi play into this?

People used their product for their own kind of currency to buy other things like cigarettes

List five things/facts you took away from this article.

  1. Parents can pull their kids out of school and receive a Social Security Check
  2. People use Pepsi as currency
  3. Some woman sell their body for $12.99
  4. The average coal miner makes $25 an hour
  5. Coal mining industry is moving west at a very fast rate

Friday, February 26, 2016

Trump University (Trump has bad morals but im still voting for him)


Trump University was started in 2005 and was said to give students that attend, a better understanding of the business side of the workplace better than any other college could provide. Beings Donald Trump was so successful many kids attended this institution. They paid money for a so called “University” this college of business was trying to suck kids in and teach them better than any other school could in reality they were going to a school and not getting the education that they really needed. Through all this Trump was also forced to change the name of the school from Trump University to Trump Entrepreneur Initiative, this name didn’t make it seem like it as prestigious as Trump had intended it to be. But what I read was no matter how prestigious he wanted this institution to be the kids going to school there were ultimately going to pay a lot of money for an education that wasn’t going to be worth their money. One individual in this article stated that he went to Trump University and spent $34,995 dollars on the program and he only got certificates in some areas. He was not happy about the schooling he payed for and the outcome of students was nothing of what they imagined. They thought they would graduate and be successful much like Donald Trump and in reality they probably wasted a lot of money for something that won’t help them later in life.