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The career I have decided on is an Elementary School Teacher. I prefer this career because I feel that I can immensely influence children 's life by pursuing this career. I want to be able to help out kid 's at a young age so they can get in the habit of studying and enjoying school. Another reason is that when I was in elementary school, there was a teacher who made the class so much fun that I truly enjoyed going to school. I want to be able to accommodate children with that experience too.…

The highest to be paid is around $62,000. Physical Therapy offices have a 43% employment rate but only pay a median if $53,000. Working in an nursing home as a Physical Therapist assistance makes an average of $64,303, which is the highest pay. In the next 8 years, the employment rate is expected to rise 40% . Although the pay rate is much higher in larger hospitals…

Fall River, Massachusetts is a city just about an hour south of Boston College. I have lived there my entire life. I moved once, but it was only to the other side of the city. Having accumulated, then, twenty years of experiential knowledge living in Fall River, I thought I knew more about the city than – it turns out – I do. The way that I know Fall River, and the way that I portray my home town to others, is as a large, diverse, economically-challenged, dead end city. This does not paint the…

High school teachers usually get paid based on their median salary every year, “The median annual wage for high school teachers was $59,170 in May 2017. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less.” (Pay, Bureau of Labor Statistics) This means that the average teacher might be paid…

and 52 percent female. The median age is 30.9. The community is 69.1 percent white, 14 percent black, and 11 percent Asian. Compared to the racial breakdown of Cook County, the community has a higher population of Asians and a smaller population of blacks, as only 6.9 percent of Cook County’s population is Asian and 24.6 percent is black. The residents are also much wealthier than the rest of the county. The area’s median household income is $66,282, whereas the median household income for Cook…

The Fallacy of ‘The American Dream’ The American identity is built on the notion that if one works hard then he/she can get ahead regardless of their social condition. This notion is based on the concept of the American dream, which refers to the ideology that every American has an equitable and equal opportunity to achieve prosperity as long as he/she is determined and works hard. Most economically successful people always claim to have attained the American dream. Meanwhile, children,…

Introduction The family daily life is complicated and busy without large economic factors affecting daily life. Amongst the many daily activities affecting families synchronizing schedules, extracurricular activities, bills, and student achievement. The Great Recession of 2008 and 2009 had many effects on the state of the economy; however, how economic downturns effect student achievement is not usually addressed. When the economy is negatively shocked from factors of the great recession, it…

Throughout history, women have been making lower salaries than men. In 1963 an equal pay act was passed, fast-forward 46 years later, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay of 2009 was passed. Then in 2014, President Barack Obama signed two executive orders on equal pay. It is now 2016 and women have not yet achieved equal pay with men. Women 's average yearly salary is still less than men 's. Many have placed the blame on women 's lack of negotiation and personal choices. Such as women leaving work due…

in other activities. Part of the reason for that was because Cape came from one of the richest communities in Maine. Rumford however, wasn’t so blessed. According to William Stewart the median household income from someone from Cape was $72,359 in 2000. City-Data.com states that Rumford only reached a measly median income of $24,938 in 2000. Cape came with something to prove. They were here to show these farm boys from Mountain Valley that these rich kids from Cape knew how to play football.…

Introduction What is a community? A community is a group of people that inhibit the same area or neighborhood; they are a group of people bond by social, religious, cultural, race, economic, ethnic and professional ties. Examples of that would be the church community, African American community, educational community, homeless community, homosexual community, business community, medical community, and the elderly community. This paper will highlight the workings of the organization Women…