Arianna's Life Memos

Missing Connection  Kids spend an average of seven hours a day at school, equally 35 hours a week and that is calculated to an astounding 1,330 hours a year in the classroom. Despite a large part of waking hours dedicated to studies, it is difficult to see the relationship that school knowledge has to our daily life and how it really prepares us for the later years. Mission.org published an article explaining how schools fail in preparing young adults for the real world. It mentions that even beyond the high school age concern is the fact that  “30% of college graduates don’t feel college prepared them for the world of work.” When Coates was in school, he too felt unprepared for the world and had to teach himself critical skills that were not explained in class. “To survive the neighborhoods and shield my body, I learned another language consisting of a basic complement of head nods and handshakes. I recall learning these laws clearer than I recall learning my colors and shapes,

“Pink tax” is a term that refers to gender-based price discrimation for common products, usually related to toiletries Ax The Pink Tax . Women are often up-charged for similar, if not the same products as men. A simple example is a blue razor marketed to the male population that might be $1.99. This selection is shelved opposite the female pink version which is tagged $2.50. The shavers are basically the same, and if anything, the blue choice works better and lasts longer.  It was estimated that 42% of the time, women pay more for the same products as men Price Discrepancy  On average, women are charged $1,351 extra every year (Ax the Pink Tax). It might seem hard to believe, but the Pink Tax has cost me $22,014 in just the sixteen years that I have been alive. The discrepancy in price is outrageous, and this linked with the fact that women often earn less money than men sums to more of a challenge for women to afford necessary products.  Society is trying to prove that wome

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