Struggle: It's Teachings, how it can help us,how it can Hurt us
There is at bottom only one problem in the world....
How does one break through?
How does one get into the open?
How does one burst the cocoon
And become a butterfly?
-Thomas Mann, Dr. Faustus
How does one break through?
How does one get into the open?
How does one burst the cocoon
And become a butterfly?
-Thomas Mann, Dr. Faustus
Struggle is not your Friend
Struggle can be defined as strive to achieve or attain something in the face of difficulty or resistance. Some may claim that struggle is acceptable. It can help you learn life lessons. However others consider struggle to have a disadvantageous effect. Struggle can have a negative effect because it can affect your children’s education living conditions, your health, and treatment towards you and your family. Much testing has been organized on this topic. This essay will argue that despite what some consider, struggle has different sides although it does have its tolls that can affect us.
Struggles are multidimensional. We look at this in Breaking Through. For example, one of the struggles Panchito experiences is being undocumented (see figure 1). The outcomes of Panchito’s struggles lead to fear and deportation. Some examples from the text that provide evidence of this situation are when his parents tell him, "If anyone asks where you were born tell them Colton California" (pg.2). And also, "If lamigra catches you they'll send you back to Mexico" (pg.2). This is what makes him have to live in fear. An example of deportation would be, "The officer asked me to climb into the back of the truck" (pg.4). This shows how Panchito lived in fear and with the fear of being deported.
Along the lines of struggle being multidimensional, we can also explore its implications (see figure 2). Once again using Breaking Through Panchito struggles with poverty. Poverty affects his education, living conditions, his health, and the way people treat him. There are examples from the book that shows the implications of poverty. One example is, "Every year Roberto and I missed months of school to help Papa and Mama work in the fields" (pg. 2). This shows how poverty affected his education because his grade would fall and not get the proper education for those days due to his absence. Another example, "The hotel rooms were small, like the cabins at the cotton labor camps" (pg. 10). This shows that poverty affected his living conditions, because the rooms were really small and were all they could afford. In addition, "Tuberculosis?" the doctor repeated impatiently. "No" "ringworm" he asked turning my body around to check my back." (12). This shows how poverty affects his health because since he is poor and more exposed to living conditions that increase the spread of disease and bacteria. In conclusion, this is how poverty is shown throughout the book Breaking Through.
In addition to Breaking Through the implications of poverty are also found in various Internet sources. Poverty affects living conditions, “ On the Pine ridge reservation, homelessness is at 30% and unemployment at 80%. 60% of its residents live in substandard housing, and the reservation, which is half the size of the state of Connecticut, doesn’t have a single bank.” (nativeamericanrights.wordpress). This conveys how poverty can affect living conditions because when 80% of the people are unemployed they will not have proper living conditions. Another example from the same source is “Next door there are 23 people in a three bedroom house.” (nativeamericanrights.wordpress). This conveys that people cannot afford to buy a house for there family so they are cramped in this three-bedroom house. The final example from a different source is, “ Middle and working class Hispanic families have not left their barrio, or urban Spanish-speaking neighborhoods, in large numbers.” That is how poverty can affect peoples living conditions. (Causes and effects of poverty)
However, poverty cannot only affect living conditions it can also affect education. “ 40 percent of children living in poverty aren’t prepared for primary schooling.” This tells us that some kids in poverty aren’t getting the proper education. Another example is, “The incidence, depth, duration, and timing of poverty all influence a child’s educational attainment, along with community characteristics and social networks.” (The impact of on educational outcomes for children). This informs us that children who do not get the proper education are not good socializing with other people. The last piece of evidence is, “children living in poverty have a higher number of absenteeism or leave school all together because they are likely to have to work or care for family members.” To conclude this is how education can be affected by poverty.
Another thing is how poverty can affect is how you are treated. “Unemployment rates for African Americans are typically double those of Caucasian Americans. African American men working full time earn 72% of the average earnings of comparable Caucasian men and 85% of the earnings of Caucasian women (Rodgers, 2008). This explains how poverty can affect your treatment because people who were African American got paid less while Caucasians were getting paid more. The next one comes from www.commondreams.org “in at least 30 states Legislatures across America, predominately wealthy politicians are quite impressed with themselves for considering bills that would limit the meager amount of state help given to needy families struggling to make ends meet.” This shows that people who are considered wealthy cannot always be as good as you think. The final example is from Business Insider that argues,” Republicans proclaim that we are experiencing all of this economic chaos because of the Democrats. Democrats proclaim that we are experiencing all of this economic chaos because of the Republicans.” This conveys that politicians, democrats and republicans have different ideas about poverty.
Lastly, poverty can also effect your health as stated “We know poverty is a key social determinant of children’s health, one that harms health in its broadest possible definitions: physical, educational, emotional and social. These early health problems are too often the beginnings of long-term problems in adults.” This informs us that if kids don’t get proper health it can affect them as adults socially, physically, educationally, and emotionally. www.healthpovertyactions.org points out that,” Poverty increases the chances of poor health. Poor health in turn traps communities in poverty. Infectious and neglected tropical diseases kill and weaken millions of the poorest and most vulnerable people each year.” This conveys that without good health millions of people die to very infectious diseases. ” www.thinkprogress.org states,” There’s a long list of reasons why poor Americans tend to be in poorer health than the more well to do. For instance, low-income people don’t usually live near hospitals and primary care doctors. And many can’t afford expensive treatments, often because they work part-time jobs that don’t offer health benefits and can’t afford to buy private insurance.” This shows that people in poverty live by poorer areas that are not usually by hospitals and even if they did the bill would be to expensive. Furthermore, this explains how poverty can affect health due to whether you can’t afford it or live close to one
All and all this essay has shown how struggle that can lead into poverty has many implications. Some may argue that poverty can have a good side. For example some people who are not in poverty will give small pay to people who do hard labor. So they don’t lose any money. However I believe that poverty can mess up people’s lives.
Poverty’s not the only struggle that has negative implications; racism is just as harmful. Racism can be described as discrimination against a race. I feel like racism can be defined as unfairness towards a race.
There are many examples of racism found throughout the book Breaking Through. Panchito states in the book “"I asked mama not to make taquitos for lunch, because a few guys made fun of me when they saw me eat them. They called me "Chile stomper" or "tamale wrapper."" The implications are that he will lose his culture and stop bringing tamales. There are many different forms of racism in the book the next one comes from the parents of Roberto’s former girlfriend. "During the conversation her father asked me what my nationality was." "Why did he ask you?" I said, recalling the time I met Peggy's parents. "He wanted to know where the name Jimenez came from. I told him." "You didn't tell him. . ." "No, I didn't tell him I was born in Mexico," he said, "anticipating my question. “But when I said I was Mexican there was dead silence. The implication of this is that Roberto won’t be dating for quite a while. The last example of racism that I found in the book had to do with politics. "Some people don't like Mexicans and wouldn't vote for them either." The effect of this is that it could have cost Panchito the election. To conclude, there are many more examples of racism that can be found throughout the book Breaking Through these are just three of the many.
Throughout the movie 42 there were many examples of racism from beginning to end. In this paragraph I will be focusing on segregation and name calling/bullying. At the beginning of the movie when he gets off his team bus and Jackie asks to use the restroom, the man refuses because of his race. When Jackie and his wife try to get on a plane the people at the airport give their flight away to a Caucasian couple. Name calling and bullying was pretty much every minute it seemed. They would call him stuff that I shall not say. At one of the last games the coach was yelling names at him for almost the whole game. The implications of all the segregation, well this was not in the movie but it led to violence and riots due to racial tension. The affects of the name-calling is that Jackie has a breakdown a breaks his bat. In other words he’s really mad.
At this point of time there were beliefs of African Americans. A couple of examples were stated in the movie 42. During one of Jackie’s first games a sports commentator says to the others that African Americans have a longer heel bone that gives them extra speed. He was always treated badly in ways throughout the movie. One was that he kept getting death threats, from people who did not want him to play. The beliefs and treatment implications, well there weren’t any because he didn’t try to fight back. Because Ricky didn’t want a person who could fight he wanted a person who could last.
I know and you should to that racism still lingers around us. I was told about this kid who was always bullied and messed with because of his race. As he got older nothing changed the name calling the bullying, nothing. One day he thought to himself why don’t I stay out of the sun? So he did, nothing really changed, but he thought it did. He’d pray and pray, but he finally realized that nothing would change. He went home his parents were wondering why he was so down. So they asked. His reply was why am I so dark? His parents said that he should be proud for who he is because everyone has a purpose in life. He didn’t give much thought to it. But he was still wondering. One day he was on the hunt for his purpose. Now he is a successful businessman, who supports his family.
Based on Kelly Mcgonigal she has figured out how to make stress your friend. However in my opinion stress can be coming from things like poverty and racism. So will stress ever really be someone’s friend? I don’t believe that stress could become anybody’s friend because struggle comes to mind and that can be really hard on someone’s life. If your someone like Panchito’s father stress will always be there waiting around the corner. Racism too how are you supposed to stop that if you were getting called names getting bullied? Well you can’t because who is going to be right beside you stress!
All and all, I still take my position that struggle will take you the long way down. Poverty can be found everywhere around us and so can racism. Within books and even movies. Stress will never be your friend in this position, because it will always be they’re waiting for you. So, that is why I believe that struggle specifically, poverty and racism is a rough thing to go through.
Struggles are multidimensional. We look at this in Breaking Through. For example, one of the struggles Panchito experiences is being undocumented (see figure 1). The outcomes of Panchito’s struggles lead to fear and deportation. Some examples from the text that provide evidence of this situation are when his parents tell him, "If anyone asks where you were born tell them Colton California" (pg.2). And also, "If lamigra catches you they'll send you back to Mexico" (pg.2). This is what makes him have to live in fear. An example of deportation would be, "The officer asked me to climb into the back of the truck" (pg.4). This shows how Panchito lived in fear and with the fear of being deported.
Along the lines of struggle being multidimensional, we can also explore its implications (see figure 2). Once again using Breaking Through Panchito struggles with poverty. Poverty affects his education, living conditions, his health, and the way people treat him. There are examples from the book that shows the implications of poverty. One example is, "Every year Roberto and I missed months of school to help Papa and Mama work in the fields" (pg. 2). This shows how poverty affected his education because his grade would fall and not get the proper education for those days due to his absence. Another example, "The hotel rooms were small, like the cabins at the cotton labor camps" (pg. 10). This shows that poverty affected his living conditions, because the rooms were really small and were all they could afford. In addition, "Tuberculosis?" the doctor repeated impatiently. "No" "ringworm" he asked turning my body around to check my back." (12). This shows how poverty affects his health because since he is poor and more exposed to living conditions that increase the spread of disease and bacteria. In conclusion, this is how poverty is shown throughout the book Breaking Through.
In addition to Breaking Through the implications of poverty are also found in various Internet sources. Poverty affects living conditions, “ On the Pine ridge reservation, homelessness is at 30% and unemployment at 80%. 60% of its residents live in substandard housing, and the reservation, which is half the size of the state of Connecticut, doesn’t have a single bank.” (nativeamericanrights.wordpress). This conveys how poverty can affect living conditions because when 80% of the people are unemployed they will not have proper living conditions. Another example from the same source is “Next door there are 23 people in a three bedroom house.” (nativeamericanrights.wordpress). This conveys that people cannot afford to buy a house for there family so they are cramped in this three-bedroom house. The final example from a different source is, “ Middle and working class Hispanic families have not left their barrio, or urban Spanish-speaking neighborhoods, in large numbers.” That is how poverty can affect peoples living conditions. (Causes and effects of poverty)
However, poverty cannot only affect living conditions it can also affect education. “ 40 percent of children living in poverty aren’t prepared for primary schooling.” This tells us that some kids in poverty aren’t getting the proper education. Another example is, “The incidence, depth, duration, and timing of poverty all influence a child’s educational attainment, along with community characteristics and social networks.” (The impact of on educational outcomes for children). This informs us that children who do not get the proper education are not good socializing with other people. The last piece of evidence is, “children living in poverty have a higher number of absenteeism or leave school all together because they are likely to have to work or care for family members.” To conclude this is how education can be affected by poverty.
Another thing is how poverty can affect is how you are treated. “Unemployment rates for African Americans are typically double those of Caucasian Americans. African American men working full time earn 72% of the average earnings of comparable Caucasian men and 85% of the earnings of Caucasian women (Rodgers, 2008). This explains how poverty can affect your treatment because people who were African American got paid less while Caucasians were getting paid more. The next one comes from www.commondreams.org “in at least 30 states Legislatures across America, predominately wealthy politicians are quite impressed with themselves for considering bills that would limit the meager amount of state help given to needy families struggling to make ends meet.” This shows that people who are considered wealthy cannot always be as good as you think. The final example is from Business Insider that argues,” Republicans proclaim that we are experiencing all of this economic chaos because of the Democrats. Democrats proclaim that we are experiencing all of this economic chaos because of the Republicans.” This conveys that politicians, democrats and republicans have different ideas about poverty.
Lastly, poverty can also effect your health as stated “We know poverty is a key social determinant of children’s health, one that harms health in its broadest possible definitions: physical, educational, emotional and social. These early health problems are too often the beginnings of long-term problems in adults.” This informs us that if kids don’t get proper health it can affect them as adults socially, physically, educationally, and emotionally. www.healthpovertyactions.org points out that,” Poverty increases the chances of poor health. Poor health in turn traps communities in poverty. Infectious and neglected tropical diseases kill and weaken millions of the poorest and most vulnerable people each year.” This conveys that without good health millions of people die to very infectious diseases. ” www.thinkprogress.org states,” There’s a long list of reasons why poor Americans tend to be in poorer health than the more well to do. For instance, low-income people don’t usually live near hospitals and primary care doctors. And many can’t afford expensive treatments, often because they work part-time jobs that don’t offer health benefits and can’t afford to buy private insurance.” This shows that people in poverty live by poorer areas that are not usually by hospitals and even if they did the bill would be to expensive. Furthermore, this explains how poverty can affect health due to whether you can’t afford it or live close to one
All and all this essay has shown how struggle that can lead into poverty has many implications. Some may argue that poverty can have a good side. For example some people who are not in poverty will give small pay to people who do hard labor. So they don’t lose any money. However I believe that poverty can mess up people’s lives.
Poverty’s not the only struggle that has negative implications; racism is just as harmful. Racism can be described as discrimination against a race. I feel like racism can be defined as unfairness towards a race.
There are many examples of racism found throughout the book Breaking Through. Panchito states in the book “"I asked mama not to make taquitos for lunch, because a few guys made fun of me when they saw me eat them. They called me "Chile stomper" or "tamale wrapper."" The implications are that he will lose his culture and stop bringing tamales. There are many different forms of racism in the book the next one comes from the parents of Roberto’s former girlfriend. "During the conversation her father asked me what my nationality was." "Why did he ask you?" I said, recalling the time I met Peggy's parents. "He wanted to know where the name Jimenez came from. I told him." "You didn't tell him. . ." "No, I didn't tell him I was born in Mexico," he said, "anticipating my question. “But when I said I was Mexican there was dead silence. The implication of this is that Roberto won’t be dating for quite a while. The last example of racism that I found in the book had to do with politics. "Some people don't like Mexicans and wouldn't vote for them either." The effect of this is that it could have cost Panchito the election. To conclude, there are many more examples of racism that can be found throughout the book Breaking Through these are just three of the many.
Throughout the movie 42 there were many examples of racism from beginning to end. In this paragraph I will be focusing on segregation and name calling/bullying. At the beginning of the movie when he gets off his team bus and Jackie asks to use the restroom, the man refuses because of his race. When Jackie and his wife try to get on a plane the people at the airport give their flight away to a Caucasian couple. Name calling and bullying was pretty much every minute it seemed. They would call him stuff that I shall not say. At one of the last games the coach was yelling names at him for almost the whole game. The implications of all the segregation, well this was not in the movie but it led to violence and riots due to racial tension. The affects of the name-calling is that Jackie has a breakdown a breaks his bat. In other words he’s really mad.
At this point of time there were beliefs of African Americans. A couple of examples were stated in the movie 42. During one of Jackie’s first games a sports commentator says to the others that African Americans have a longer heel bone that gives them extra speed. He was always treated badly in ways throughout the movie. One was that he kept getting death threats, from people who did not want him to play. The beliefs and treatment implications, well there weren’t any because he didn’t try to fight back. Because Ricky didn’t want a person who could fight he wanted a person who could last.
I know and you should to that racism still lingers around us. I was told about this kid who was always bullied and messed with because of his race. As he got older nothing changed the name calling the bullying, nothing. One day he thought to himself why don’t I stay out of the sun? So he did, nothing really changed, but he thought it did. He’d pray and pray, but he finally realized that nothing would change. He went home his parents were wondering why he was so down. So they asked. His reply was why am I so dark? His parents said that he should be proud for who he is because everyone has a purpose in life. He didn’t give much thought to it. But he was still wondering. One day he was on the hunt for his purpose. Now he is a successful businessman, who supports his family.
Based on Kelly Mcgonigal she has figured out how to make stress your friend. However in my opinion stress can be coming from things like poverty and racism. So will stress ever really be someone’s friend? I don’t believe that stress could become anybody’s friend because struggle comes to mind and that can be really hard on someone’s life. If your someone like Panchito’s father stress will always be there waiting around the corner. Racism too how are you supposed to stop that if you were getting called names getting bullied? Well you can’t because who is going to be right beside you stress!
All and all, I still take my position that struggle will take you the long way down. Poverty can be found everywhere around us and so can racism. Within books and even movies. Stress will never be your friend in this position, because it will always be they’re waiting for you. So, that is why I believe that struggle specifically, poverty and racism is a rough thing to go through.