Shipler
Shipler poses a statement that in order to get out of poverty, all the ways to get out of poverty must be completed at once. I have mixed feelings about this statement. In a sense, I can see Shipler's point of view. Much like the African proverb " it takes a community to raise a child" it indicates that all of an individual's systems must be working together at once to have the individual succeed. By systems we are referring to any points of contact in a person's life, school work, etc.
On the other hand, one can argue in the theory of risk & resilience. In other words, that regardless of the negative factors of an individuals life they can still succeed. For example a child who attends a very bad public school in a violent low income neighborhood, being accepted to an ivy league school. This exemplifies resilience.
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