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8 pages in length. Being raised within an urban environment fraught with financial and social restraints, an individual would likely have tremendous desire to work his or her way out of such a stifling atmosphere. Conspicuously apparent to the need to break free from this type of cultural oppression is the move toward a more suburban setting, where the individual chooses to leave behind unpleasant memories of a difficult community in exchange for one that provides opportunity and nurturing. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Conspicuously apparent to the need to break free from this type of cultural oppression is the move toward a more suburban setting, where the individual chooses to leave behind unpleasant
memories of a difficult community in exchange for one that provides opportunity and nurturing. II. URBAN BEGINNINGS The student can readily surmise
that inner city inhabitants suffer the same chronic conditions as people everywhere else, however, it is a combination of poor housing, poverty, unemployment and other socioeconomic problems that exacerbates the
situation. "While family poverty cuts across race and ethnicity, whites are less likely than other groups to be poor" (Shriver, 2001, p. 319). It is important to note
that being poor, ethnic and living in poverty isnt necessarily akin to having less incentive to helping oneself; rather, many people simply cannot find work and if they do, "they
cannot earn enough money to climb above the poverty threshold" (McDowell et al PG). Says one well educated yet poverty-stricken woman, "I go to bed scared, and I wake
up scared. Sometimes I envy people with six months to live. They can stop struggling" (McCants PG). The student will want
to address the fact that for those who already know how to make their situation better and have the desire to do so, the resources may not always be readily
available. One of the most obvious solutions is to teach people how to "earn their way out of their difficulties" (Anonymous, 2002). The only way for low-skilled workers
to improve their lives, say some economists, is to become better skilled, while others say no matter how hard a person tries, corporate greed will always wedge its way in
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