Monday, October 6, 2014
REAl Life?
I always had heard about the egg drop experiment, it is cool to experience this during my senior year of college. It was very crafty of these Youth in Action student to manipulate this event and relate is to one great life issue of struggles between social classes. Having two lower class groups and the other groups having privilege, meaning the have more materials and supplies to save their egg or eggs. meanwhile I was in the lower class group having very limited supplies and only one opportunity with one egg and also talking a best supplies after we created a plan that looked very successful. so now what looks like an impossible task to us with almost no supplies we look like we are meant to fail. we used all our ABILITIES possible at the moment. maybe our frustration got in the way and lost sight in our goal perhaps.
This experiment brought up a real life topic between social classes. To succeed is it ability or accessibility you need to get to where we must and or want in life? personally I believe you need both, hear me out. If you have accessibility you have access, people and an in; that you can use to get to many different opportunity but if you have low ability than I hope you that you connection doesn't mind you suck as a worker. On the other side of the coin you can have a tool belt of great abilities that you can succeed at anything you do. But you do not have any accessibility or a way into certain needs or a job than in that can sometimes you can only get so far. Coming from Brentwood NY my community is relatively similar in many ways to providence considering poverty, education being around higher communities around us also low employment rates. I am friends with, family with and neighbors hit many many hard working individual with my abilities to do more that what they do for a living but when you making it by and comfortable why push for more especially if it works for you. So with the life i experienced you need both access and ability to achieve a high standard of living or more than comfortable form a living. As a youth development mentor I am using my abilities and knowledge on the middle school students of Del Sesto to make them realize they have much ability and can succeed through life and the wrestling communities always helps each other out later in life. i got this job because of my wrestling achievements and knowing a brown university who also wrestled in New York State.
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I absolutely agree with you that you need both accessibility and ability. The accessibility will allow you the opportunity to get a good job if you have the right connection, but this will only get you in the job place. The rest is on your ability is as a worker to hold the job.
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