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DOES WHERE WE LIVE AFFECT WHO WE BECOME?

by: grace kon

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Where we live can affect who we become, but it doesn't completely determine it.

It can shape our morals, religion, ideals and culture.

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IN MY WORLD, I have come across people , even my own family, who were raised in good homes, went to the best schools, and lived in the good part of town, and threw their futures down the drain for drugs and partying. They never even graduated college.

Other members of my family who were born into impoverished environments and raised by a single parent went on to become doctors, CEOs, and lawyers.

IN ETHAN FROME, it seems to be the opposite. Ethan has dreams of moving to a big city, becoming educated, and being someone 'important'. But he ends up staying in his dreary hometown, living a life he despises because he believes it would be wrong to leave his family behind.

He thinks staying where he was born and becoming who everyone expects him to be is his only option.

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Many of today's youth feel the same way.

SO, THE QUESTION IS:
If one is born into an impoverished and uneducated environment, can they ever break free and become more than is expected of them?

Children Born into Poverty
* while only 13-20% of people who experienced poverty as children are impoverished by the time they ware middle-aged, it is still more likely for a child born to an affluent family to become an affluent adult

Children Born into Poverty
*they experience less chances to develope cognitively and emotionally simply because they receive lower educations and can be exposed to drug use, gang violence and other crime and abuse

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Social Mobility
* definition: ability to move up or down in the social and economic classes
* America is not a socially mobile country

Social Mobility
over half of the children born into the upper-class stay there as adults
over half of the children born into the lower-class stay there
however, approximately 4 out of 5 children have higher incomes then their parents
also, there are greater levels of mobility among lower income kids

Cognitive Skills increase your Chance of being Successful
according to the Armed Forces Qualifying Test
45% of top-scoring children born into the top income quintile stay there
however, 87% of top-scoring impoverished children move into a higher income bracket then their parents

Environmentally Influenced Morality
* children learn from modeling the behaviors of their older peers and parents
* they often learn to agree with and make moral decisions based on the statements and actions of friends and family

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IN CONCLUSION, where you grow up and live does help to shape you morally, but it does not have to determine who you become economically or in society.

If you are born into an impoverished home, you can become someone great. But the odds will be stacked against you, and you will have to work hard.

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Grace Kon