Practical 4 final project. by Christopher Young jr https://padlet.com/chryoung/d10t85411i55esif Made with a wink and a smile en-us 2021-12-14 16:19:24 UTC 2025-04-23 16:51:58 UTC hello@padlet.com chryoung https://padlet.com/chryoung/d10t85411i55esif/wish/1949898398 5.3% of the population of the population live in deep poverty with income 50% below the poverty line.


https://www.povertyusa.org/facts]]> 2021-12-15 16:34:13 UTC https://padlet.com/chryoung/d10t85411i55esif/wish/1949898398 chryoung https://padlet.com/chryoung/d10t85411i55esif/wish/1949902458 There are 750,000 Americans who are homeless on any given night with one in five of them considered chronically homeless.



https://www.povertyusa.org/facts]]> 2021-12-15 16:35:53 UTC https://padlet.com/chryoung/d10t85411i55esif/wish/1949902458 chryoung https://padlet.com/chryoung/d10t85411i55esif/wish/1949903767 The poverty rate in the 1950's was at a high 22 percent.


https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-hunger-us ]]> 2021-12-15 16:36:23 UTC https://padlet.com/chryoung/d10t85411i55esif/wish/1949903767 chryoung https://padlet.com/chryoung/d10t85411i55esif/wish/1949909431 In the United states nearly 22 million American children rely on free/reduced priced lunch they receive at school and almost 3 million children still aren't getting breakfast.


https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-hunger-us]]> 2021-12-15 16:38:40 UTC https://padlet.com/chryoung/d10t85411i55esif/wish/1949909431 Poverty chryoung https://padlet.com/chryoung/d10t85411i55esif/wish/1952976711 The wall's family would wait until two weeks after Christmas to celebrate and they would get there. Christmas tree's and gifts from off the side of the streets when people would through them away. 
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"We carried the tree ornaments: ornate colored balls, fragile glass partridges, and lights long tubes of bubbling water. I couldn't wait to open my presents, but Mom insisted that we celebrate Christmas in the Catholic fashion, getting to the gifts only after we'd attended midnight mass. Dad, knowing that all the bars and liquor stores would be closed on Christmas, had stocked up in advance. He'd popped open the first Budweiser before breakfast, and by the time midnight mass rolled around, he was trouble standing up".

]]> 2021-12-17 02:46:35 UTC https://padlet.com/chryoung/d10t85411i55esif/wish/1952976711 Hunger chryoung https://padlet.com/chryoung/d10t85411i55esif/wish/1953073116 When mom, Jeanette, and Lori all had a argument about a stick of margarine which led Jeanette to wonder if mom had eaten the corn that dad had brought from the night before.
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" Mom wasn't making any sense to me. I wondered if she had been looking forward to eating the margarine herself. And that made me wonder if she was the one who'd stolen the can of corn the night before, which got me a little mad. "It was the only thing to eat in the whole house,"]]> 2021-12-17 03:58:34 UTC https://padlet.com/chryoung/d10t85411i55esif/wish/1953073116 Hunger/poverty chryoung https://padlet.com/chryoung/d10t85411i55esif/wish/1953119672 When Jeanette and the other kids would complain to their mother about their being nothing to eat and she responded with that she "couldn't make something outta nothing" which made. Jeanette have to resort to stealing other kids lunch out of their back packs while the other kids were out at recess. 
Pg.68]]> 2021-12-17 04:47:08 UTC https://padlet.com/chryoung/d10t85411i55esif/wish/1953119672 Not Intelligent chryoung https://padlet.com/chryoung/d10t85411i55esif/wish/1953802952 Most people would assume that since your in poverty that your not intelligent at all since you allowed your self to get into the situation that your in even though most time that is not the case and most people just couldn't get the proper help to be able to get out of their situation.]]> 2021-12-17 14:35:05 UTC https://padlet.com/chryoung/d10t85411i55esif/wish/1953802952 Lazy/Not Hardworking chryoung https://padlet.com/chryoung/d10t85411i55esif/wish/1953804918 Most people would assume that if your going through poverty than you aren't working hard enough to get outta your situation. or that you just don't want to go get a job and work like everyone else even though sometimes that may not be the situation.]]> 2021-12-17 14:36:13 UTC https://padlet.com/chryoung/d10t85411i55esif/wish/1953804918 How does Jeannette break or overcome these two labels that were put on her because of her relationship/connection with the social topic? chryoung https://padlet.com/chryoung/d10t85411i55esif/wish/1953859970 Most people thought that Janette and her family were not intelligent at all because of how they dressed or the situations that Rex and rose Mary put them in even though they were very smart. People could also think that they were not hardworking because of how Jeanette and the Walls family looked that they were all just not hard working and that they were never trying to better themselves.

]]> 2021-12-17 15:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/chryoung/d10t85411i55esif/wish/1953859970 How was Jeannette impacted by this social topic during this part of the memoir? chryoung https://padlet.com/chryoung/d10t85411i55esif/wish/1953990785 Janette was impacted in many ways through the book but these times showed Jeanette and her sibling that they would have to fend for them self when it came to getting food,cloths or thing they need it. Also showed them how much they would have to work to get out of their situation it would also helped her a lot with her survival skills and adapting to Welch.]]> 2021-12-17 16:27:26 UTC https://padlet.com/chryoung/d10t85411i55esif/wish/1953990785