WEALTH AND PRIVILEGE: The American Ruling Class, Clip 1

The American Ruling Class, Clip 1 (6:00) (Links to an external site.)
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Who owns America? The people? Corporations? Both? In this selection, we learn how public ownership of stocks and mutual funds might appear to disperse ownership and wealth. In reality, ownership is often concentrated in hidden ways. This clip also discusses how wealth and power are often maintained by force.

POVERTY: The American Ruling Class, Clip 2

The American Ruling Class, Clip 2 (5:04) (Links to an external site.)
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In this selection, Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper’s magazine, interviews journalist Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. While sitting in a booth at an IHOP, she describes how service workers typically work for extremely low wages and barely maintain a subsistence standard of living, even when they hold multiple jobs. These people are barely visible, but their low wages subsidize relatively low-priced services for the middle and affluent classes.

1. Based on this clip, who owns America?
2. How does one become a member of the “ownership” class?
3. Why has wealth become more concentrated since the 1950s?
4. Have “rising tides lifted all boats”? Why or why not?
5. Why are so many low-wage workers struggling to make ends meet, even as they work full-time?
6. How do Ehrenreich’s findings challenge the notion that people are poor because they are lazy and/or unwilling to work?
7. Some people might suggest that people earning low wages should get an education and then a better job. What are the problems with this suggestion-?
8. Why does Ehrenreich argue that low-wage workers are the “true philanthropists”?

Chapter 10 provides a close look at to what extent Fourth Amendment provisions against unreasonable search and seizure applies within prisons and jails. The Court has held that prisoners have no reasonable expectation of privacy in their prison cells pursuant to Fourth Amendment. The Court’s analysis has most often turned on the “reasonableness” test. In Turner v. Safley (1987), the U.S. Supreme Court held that Individuals retain certain fundamental rights, even when incarcerated. However, in Hudson v. Palmer (1984), the Supreme Court ruled that prisoners have no reasonable expectation of privacy in their prison cells entitling them to Fourth Amendment protection. Considering what prison administrators/officers face with prison cell searches or searches of the person and the limited Fourth Amendment protections afforded to prisoners, what actions of prison administrators/officers should be considered unreasonable and unconstitutional? You can also provide an argument that prisoners should not enjoy any Fourth Amendment rights regardless of the situation. Refer to case law in Chapter 10 to support your answer. The article Rethinking Reasonable: Recognizing a Prisoner’s Expectation of Privacy Under the Fourth Amendment also provides excellent perspective/analysis.

Watch the video entitled “MTSS and the Role of the School Counselor”. The video can be accessed here. Read the article MTSS and the ASCA National Model by Denise Ebersole, Ph.D.. The article can be accessed here. Read chapter 6 Outcome Research on Evidence-Based School Counseling Interventions and Programs in your textbook. For your discussion board post, review the school climate survey data for Hudson City School District here and follow the prompt below. (30 points) Pretend you are a School Counselor at Hudson City School District. You have been tasked with implementing a tiered MTSS approach to address an area of need you identified from the school climate survey. Choose one topic or area that you feel needs to be addressed based off of the school climate survey. Briefly discuss why you feel this is an area of need. (5 points) Develop a tiered MTSS approach for the area of need you identified. (There should be an intervention at the Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 level). (15 points) How will you implement these interventions? How will you determine who is selected to receive these interventions? How will you evaluate the effectiveness of your tiered interventions? For one of your tiered level interventions, include an evidence-based program or school counseling intervention. Briefly discuss the evidence-based program or intervention you have chosen and how you would implement the program/ intervention in your tiered MTSS approach. (10 points) Here is the video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8I2dDX6SzcY&feature=youtu.be The two attachments will be attached.

Imagine you are dealing with a troublesome Justice- client. Your supervisor is concerned about your ability to maintain professional ethics when you have conflicting personal values. Before you engage with the client, your supervisor asks you to write a self – assessment to ensure you can deliver care.

A reaction paper is a formal essay that explains your thoughts, feelings, and reactions to the required readings. It is not a review of the material. It should be organized as any other formal essay and include an analysis of your reaction and the expectations you had prior to the reading or experience, and a summary of your conclusions. This Reaction Paper is for the ENTIRE BOOK (and not just for the Weeks 1-4 chapter readings). You paper will have the following 6 sections related to the book: (organize your paper by the sections) Reflect on Morrie’s statement: “Love is how you stay alive, even after you have gone.” – WRITE ONE PAGE MINIMUM ON THIS SECTION Reflect on Morrie’s statement: “Marriage is a course of learning and discovery. You get tested. You find out who you are, who the other person is, and how you accommodate or don’t. Your values must be alike. The biggest one of these values is your belief in the importance of marriage.” – WRITE ONE PAGE MINIMUM ON THIS SECTION How are the insights gained from this book helpful to you in your work in the human services field? – WRITE 1/2 PAGE MINIMUM ON THIS SECTION How is your own worldview developed as a result of insights gained from this book? – WRITE 1/2 PAGE MINIMUM ON THIS SECTION From the book Tuesdays with Morrie.