Created equal but treated different

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Americans today have a hard time fitting in feeling equal. The right job and the right payment will help you successfully fit in with the people who feel better than you. The attitude towards men being created equal, the explanation of homeless to the american dream.The representation of nickel and dimed and why it’s a vital part of this paper.How the new generation feels about this and how hard times effect the attitudes toward being created equal.How the rich and poor react differently on this subject. All of these will be thoroughly explained in my paragraph. What will you do to feel equal to the standard that society has set. Attitude towards men being created equal is based on the position on the person in their social class , how they were raised. How your raised is how you will turn out to be in the future and how you will be treated. Equality is basically a since of how people think about you, in the book nickel and dimed it states that “Something is wrong, very wrong, when a single person in good health, a person who in addition possesses a working car, can barely support herself by the sweat of her brow.” This is talking about how a working class person ( because their are social classes in america) can not support her self by working as hard as she does. Although a person who is born into a name of wealth can support himself by doing nothing. Knowing this that a person born in a family of a working class , has to work to get somewhere and a man with no job but supported by the money of his family does not have to work to support himself. This is an attitude towards the idea of all men being created equally. Most attitudes are based on the thesis of equality is insight from the poor or the rich. These two social cl... ... middle of paper ... ...asy. In Barbara Enriches word’s “What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're actually selling is your life.” This means that you are wasting your time making money that will only get you through the next day. So in conclusion are all men created equal yes but no, created equal but they are not treated equal they are treated the way , that social class accepts them, to be treated and how they portray they are treated. If your poor your treated less than equal to the rich, and vice versa. The way you are treated is determined on your social class. So yes everyone is created equal but not treated equal. Works Cited Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed. Holt: New York, 2001. Print. People Like Us: Social Class in America. Dir. Louis Alvarez and Andy Kolker. Center for New American Media, 2001. Film.

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