Dancing in The Dark by Morris Dickstein - 1061 Words

Section ONE: Ronald Reagan once said, â€Å"We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won.† I read the book, Dancing in the dark by Morris Dickstein. This book was about the great depression, and the impacts it had on American life. The traditional thought of poverty, people dying of hunger and people lying in the roads, has been erased. America has abolished poverty by the traditional standards but the thought of poverty and what it is has changed. In America we consider poverty to be spending all your money on bills, so you have no money left for food to feed your family. We consider poverty to be just being poor. One-Third of our population makes less than $38,000. This is not enough to be able to be above the poverty line. Anything below this†¦show more content†¦It isn’t to give everyone a set budget from the government and what you do with it is yours. We Need to educate our children that are going to later be in the work force, that are later going to be our society. I f we keep going at this rate, they will be poor. They will be in a state of poverty we haven’t seen since the Great Depression. The answer to poverty is simple. We need to change our education system, so that kids want to go to school. People ask why do kids ditch so much? Why are kids out joining gangs and not staying in school learning? Why are kids committing crimes of drug and violence? It’s a simple answer that we must all face. Our education system is not educating our young; it’s turning them into parrots. Kids are dreading going to school because it’s all tests and notes. Our education system lost its hands on teaching. We need to reframe the education system and make it one kids want to be apart of, not one they want to run from. We need to continue to educate ourselves after high school, but we cant do those if we don’t learn how to educate our selves while we are in school. We need to open up new jobs that are with this time period and get rid of the old. We are no longer in a state of get a job, and work until you retire. Jobs come and go, and we need to educate our kid s to understand this, so they will continue to learn after they are out of school, even past a college level. SectionShow MoreRelatedGreat Depressions Influence on American Vernacular Dance2179 Words   |  9 Pagesthe Beguine.† Dancing is a very big part of swing music. A person rarely ever thinks of swing music without swing dancing. It became popular at every event from New Yorks swankiest nightclubs to school proms. Every portion of society found some form of swing music suitable for their dancing. The term â€Å"swing dance† is commonly used to refer to a group of dances that developed concurrently with the style of jazz music in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. The black community, while dancing to contemporary