Sunday, November 23, 2008

50-50 Chance

After playng the penny game in class, I see now that it is so difficult to earn the money that people do now that have jobs. Playing the penny game, Sal told us that we have a 50-50 chance at first to win pennies everytime we go, but once you keep playing the game you realize only one person playing the game can end up with all the pennies and one person is so much richer than another person. Seeing the graphs in class I never realized that about les than 1% of the population is richer than 99% of the population in America because all the time in the media you see so many people who are wealthier and you think there are so many of them until you compare them to the rest of America, then those top 1% in America do not look like anything to the world. America is the richest of the richest and the poorest of the poor which is a huge difference, why can't we help those that are less fortunate to balance out America? Well, that's not how life works there are those top dogs and those underdogs.
It's so unfair for forgein people because it seems that they have to work twice as hard for their jobs to keep them and keep what they have going for their family, it seems that life doesn't come as easy to them as for the native people of America. My parents are foreigners and when they first came to America they knew some English, but it was still hard for them to get the jobs they have now they had to work basically from the bottom to the top. I feel that if you do not know how to speak English that well in this country everything comes so much harder at you and you have to push and drive yourself to be the best you can be.

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