Author: Bernard

“Eat your vegetables, there are starving children in [insert here: a nation believed to be less fortunate than your own].”
How many times have you heard some form of this phrase growing up? Maybe it was in your own home or maybe you heard it in the media. Aside from persuading people to be grateful for what is on their plate, what else might this statement be communicating? Does it make you wonder why there are starving children in the world? What opportunities might your parents have had compared to others that allowed them to make sure that you did not starve?
Inequality of resources and opportunities for everyone leads to a variety of social issues—poverty, homelessness, and inadequate health care—just to name a few. For those with access to fewer opportunities, many families encourage their children to seek different avenues that might allow them to exceed the lifestyle their parents provided. As a result, societies often focus on balancing access to opportunities to enable the less fortunate to move up the socioeconomic ladder toward greater self-sufficiency.
For this Discussion, you will examine the influence of inequality on the opportunity and social mobility. You also will explore the impact of policies on increasing equality and social mobility among members of society.
Post at least a 2-paragraph response to the following prompts:
Describe inequality in your own words.
Explain the impact of inequality on people’s lives.
Explain whether equality of opportunity within society is a reality. Explain why or why not.
Explain whether policies can be designed to ensure greater equality and improve social mobility among members of society. Explain why or why not.
Explain whether inequality is a contributing factor to your chosen social issue from Week 1.


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Policies are put in place to not only manage processes but also to ensure fairness for all people impacted by the policies. Think about the recent pandemic.
To slow the spread of the virus and reduce hospitalizations, many governments required members of society to quarantine at home for a specified period of time. However, many jobs were deemed essential and those working in those positions were not required to stay at home. On one hand, these individuals were able to maintain their income, but they also were at increased risk of becoming infected. This was especially true for delivery drivers. Since most people
were not shopping in-person, delivery drivers experienced increased workloads, bringing them into greater contact with customers during a period of growing virus infections.
Since those whose jobs were not deemed essential were required to quarantine at home and those working in essential jobs could not quarantine without fear of losing their jobs, would you consider this policy a form of institutionalized discrimination?
Institutionalized discrimination involves policies and procedures that limit or prohibit access for certain people while still providing access for others. It occurs at the institutional rather than at the individual level.
For this assignment, you will consider examples of organizational policies and procedures and examine whether institutionalized discrimination exists. You also will explore who is affected by institutionalized discrimination and how institutions might change their policy or approach to be more inclusive. Please review the examples of organizational policies and procedures in the “Critical Thinking Activity” below.
Critical Thinking Activity
A summer job application asks for a photograph of the applicant (applications without photographs will not be considered).
An apartment complex requires that applicants state whether they have or are planning to have children.
A public school institutes a new policy that students must wear their hair no longer than chin length.
A courthouse does not inform defendants that they have the option to request an interpreter if needed.
An airline posts an advertisement in an online job board for stewardesses.
A restaurant chain runs a television advertisement stating that they are seeking waiters in the age range of 18–25.
A hospital includes questions on race, ethnicity, and religion on an emergency room intake form.
For your Journal entry:
Describe whether a community or communities is/are being excluded in each example provided and explain which community/communities are being excluded.
Explain whether the policy or procedure in each example might be considered a form of institutionalized discrimination and explain why or why not.
If institutionalized discrimination is occurring, explain how the institution involved might change its approach or policies to be more inclusive.
Write at least 300 words.

Choose one of the following scenarios which illustrate a variety of incidents that have occurred on a university campus.
Imagine that you are a residence hall counselor on campus, and the student described in the incident has come to you to ask for advice.
What sort of advice would you give to the student?
Explain why your advice represents the best course of action for the student to follow.
Please use sources and information from this specific book.
Understanding human differences: Multicultural education for a diverse America
Author: Koppelman, K.
Publisher: New York: Pearson
Edition: 6th (2019)

Topic: How are the environment and climate change viewed and discussed in the media
how the news media disseminates information to a broader public. For this assignment, your goal is to analyze the press coverage of your specific political issue. Throughout your analysis, it may be helpful to conduct an examination of how different media platforms cover the same issue. The details of the assignment are explained below.
Section 1: Introduction
The first portion of your essay should be your introduction. Remember, a successful introduction invites the reader into your essay with an engaging, concise, and organized argument. Generally speaking, this involves an attention-getter that will peak the interest of a reader. Next, you will want to introduce your topic. Make sure that you also have a thesis statement and describe the major sections of your essay with a preview.
Section 2: Platform Context/Analysis
In the second section of your essay, you will want to provide an overview of the media platform(s) that you are examining. You are not required to analyze multiple media platforms, but you should describe the organization’s history and evolution. Specifically, you should include what kinds of biases the media organization(s) are slanted towards, how these biases appear in their coverage, and how these biases are related to the text(s) that you are analyzing.
Another object of analysis may also be the sponsors of the media platform. What kinds of advertisements does this organization show to their audience?
Does the platform provide any sponsors for their content? What is the relationship between the issue that you are examining and the monetization of the program? You do not need to address all these questions, but some of them may aid your argument.
Section 3: Textual Analysis
This is where the analysis of your issue will take place. The question that you are going to answer in this portion of your essay is: How does this program frame my political issue? Is there a rhetorical strategy that is most salient throughout the programming of this issue? How do multiple rhetorical strategies come together to persuade or dissuade their audiences? Are the pundits of the program debating the issue or agreeing on the issue? Again, not all of these questions need to be answered, but a few of them may help you start thinking about what to look for in the text.
Section 4: Conclusion
In the final section of your essay, review your main points, restate your thesis, and end on a meaningful note.
No Plagiarism and cite both in text and make a work cited