Thursday, December 10, 2009
Monopoly
We played monopoly in class and we had different rules then the normal rules. 1st we had to role the dice to see which class level we were in. I was the hightest level of wealth. Each level started out with so much money, and once we plst go we all got different amonts of money. it was very easy for me to buy anythign that i wanted> But, for the other levels theey had a truff time to buy the things that they wanted to get. Some hgad the choise to go on wefair but they did not take it. My teammates kept on getting mad at me beuause i kept on buying more land. At the end of the game sal wanted to see if we moved up any class level and no one did. How do you feel if you were poor and wanting to get moved up? It is very hard to move up in class levels. Take the women in hte movie she was trying her hardest just to make a better life for her famly. she walked 10.5 miles to work and cleaned bathrooms for a living. She also was on wefair but it was not helping. how would you feel if you were in their shoes?
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When my group played the game, I was placed into the second lowest class out of the five. I was also getting frusturated with the one who was in the highest class because they were buying all of the properties, inclusing the cheepest ones. No one changed classes in my game either because the rich get richer and the poor get poorer (much of the time).
ReplyDeleteI guess the highest class is too good for spelling class... :)
i really liked playing monopoly because it was a good example of social classes in real life. it was interesting to see how hardly anyone moved up in class. in reality, thats how it is for the working class
ReplyDeleteLife and the class system is a big game of chance like monopoly. Without money, a person doesn't have security in taking big risks. The option for the working class is to save and that is a method that usually can't help you move that much, if not at all. I would hate to be in Tammys situation. She is trapped; she simply was had the worst luck in the game of life and
ReplyDeleteshe has to make do with what's she got. It is definitley not the kind of optimism
we usually learn in school about the american dream.