WP4 rough draft

Incarceration is a significant issue in the United States, which, as the country with the largest number of incarcerated people in the world, had more than 1.8 million people incarcerated by the end of 2020. The increase in incarceration rates means that a growing number of people are facing reentry…

The Decay of California Schools: Counteracting Proposition 13

California holds a unique position as the most highly regarded center for higher learning in the world, while also possessing one of the most lackluster K-12 education systems in America. Despite the overall wealth and size…

Chloe Rankin

WP4 Draft Final Paper

4/17/23

Prisons were built to punish people who have caused harm or done wrong to society. This punishment is mainly psychological, where prisoners are confined, stigmatized, segregated, and deprived of many healthy forms of social…

Are ADU’s the Best Solution to Aid LA’s Housing Crisis?

Los Angeles is home to some of the largest homeless populations in the United States. As years pass, rental prices have increased to substantial amounts making it nearly impossible for low-income families to stay afloat. One solution…

WP4 draft

The narrative of school desegregation often stops at Brown v. Board of Education, ending in a revolutionary court decision against “separate but equal” policies, which catalyzed the expansion of civil rights. However, this “happily-ever-after” quickly unraveled in the following years; between unfair housing…

Ryan Kolderup WP 4 Roughdraft

I’d like to start this paper by telling you about a man named John. John is an older gentleman. Despite his age, he stands straight and strong, speaking with a quiet but confident voice. When I met him, he told me that for most of his life, he’s been the biggest Lakers fan…

The Cost of Higher Education

A large number of families in the United States still live in poverty. The poverty rate of the United States in 2022 was about 14.4 percent. As families looked for ways to improve their economic standing, education was recognized as “one of the most promising ways to climb up…

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Homelessness is a growing issue throughout the Los Angeles area and the United States as whole. A population within the homeless community…

Supporting an Employed Education

Homelessness is one of the most prevalent issues today in the United States. While the term homelessness may make one think of specifically displaced individuals, it more often affects entire families. One major cause of this problem stems from a lack of affordable…

Secular Ethics on Improving Community and Morale in Low-Income Schools

In the United States, many students from low-income areas need help acquiring a foundational education for their future. With a college degree becoming increasingly critical to the modern workforce, a…

Equity in Prison College Education

The American criminal justice system is currently facing a crisis of mass incarceration, with over 2.3 million people behind bars. Despite this, prison education and rehabilitation programs have often been underfunded and overlooked. In recent years, there has been a…

WP4 Rough Draft

Before 1985, homeless children weren’t seen in the courtroom. This is because no plaintiff was brave enough to file a motion against the defendant, a flawed education system. Even if a child made it to the courtroom, the judge always failed to see them. But why would they ever see them? The unstable…

WP4 Rough Draft

Homelessness is a condition that many people suffer from across the world, but it is a huge problem within the United States in particular. Homelessness can be described as the condition in which an individual does not have safe and stable housing. To elaborate, homelessness is experienced when the…

WP4 Rough Draft

The United States has a high rate of prisoners with past trauma. According to Villegas, the average inmate has gone through at least five traumatic incidents during childhood. With around 60% of adults in the US having at least one traumatic childhood experience, the number came to 97% when…

Low Self-Esteem and College Retention: The Dilemma Amongst LIFG Students

With the recent normalization of a college education in previous decades, a college degree is a highly-regarded embellishment to anyone’s experience, and within the US, it is well known that “college…

Solitary Sentences: Putting an End to Punitive Segregation

There is no doubt that the Prison Industrial Complex is inhumane. It has prioritized punishment over rehabilitation, malnutrition over access to healthy food, violence over peace, and ultimately created an environment that has…

Issue: Higher education fail impoverished people by dooming them to ideas of inability

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Argument: Higher education should implement new financial practices to support them throughout the semester

Ancillary 13: WP4 Draft

The design of a physical space is able to send messages of inclusion and exclusion; this is especially important when understanding the lack of educational spaces and their effects in inner cities. As I was taught in my introductory urban planning class in my first semester…

Bridging the Gap: Equitable Funding

The United States guarantees free public education from Kindergarten through grade 12. However, there are issues of inequality in the funding of public schools especially in the state of California — those located in more affluent areas have better funding than those…

En route out of the Tower of Babel: On dispelling the myth of SAE, the American fascism, and meshin’ that code

The linguistic diversity is a feature of American culture that the country takes great pride in. However, there has been a long history of…

WP4 rough draft

The narrative of school desegregation often stops at Brown v. Board of Education, ending in a revolutionary court decision against “separate but equal” policies, which catalyzed the expansion of civil rights. However, this “happily-ever-after” quickly unraveled in the following years; between unfair…

Chinese Unhoused Old People in the U.S.: Way Back “Home”

Standing in the main street of the Skid Row area, I barely see a face that belongs to Asia or hear the Chinese language from the homeless people coming for food and clothes when I worked with my community partner “Water Drop.” In…

WP4 Draft

Before the 1950s, school resource officers were not a common presence in school campuses across the United States. While the origin of SROs is unclear, Blackfoot Police and the Center for Public Integrity claim that school resource officers (SROs) began appearing on school campuses sometime in the late 1950s…

Draft-WP4

What is media exactly? I think that it is a forum where the general public may be tricked into believing misleading information, which may occasionally be accurate. It can be a very effective strategy for reaching people and influencing their perspectives in a particular way. The media has shaped society’s…

Parental Involvement in the Early Ages as the Key to Success

Missing 10 percent — that is, 18 days — of school in the early ages is one of the main predictors of high school dropout rates (Bennett). Students who come from families of low socioeconomic status are more likely to miss…

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Since the early 1900s the United States has been referred to as the “melting pot” due to a mix of cultures and ethnicities from immigrants. Although, recently, after reflecting on this term, the melting pot has been criticized as it pushes this idea of assimilating in order to be a true American citizen…

Holding Police Departments Accountable Requires More Than Defunding Them

The unfair allocation of city resources to police forces is an issue that has long been debated, not only in the United States but in other countries too, however, the problem of mass incarceration is…

Abolishing Standardized Testing, (Placeholder)

In recent years, there has been an ongoing debate about required standardized testing, specifically the SAT and ACT. Creating a controversy about whether these exams enforce inequalities between students and are not a proper measure of academic…