Instructions Stratification Playspent Writing Assignment This Topic has focused on systems of stratification and how it affects the class structure. In this assignment, you w play an online game, Spent, that simulates living in poverty and answer questions about the experience. Many Americans face severe hardship at the bottom of the income ladder. They encounter low-wage jobs, high rents, poor nutrition, lack of access to health care, and other challenges. Play the game Spent at Play Spent to see how long you survive on the proceeds of a low-wage job. How soon will your expenses exceed your income? Spen will ask you to make a series of decisions and report the consequences back to you. Play this game at least two times and answer the following questions a writing assignment: 1. What strategies did you make your money last through the month? 2. How did you feel as you followed your strategy? For example, did denying a request for help from a family member feel like the right thing to do? Did going to work even though your child was sick seem like the best choice that you had? 3. What lessons did you derive from this exercise about living on the income earned from a low-wage job? 4. Discuss your thoughts on how poverty is officially measured in the United States. Are you critical, or do you think it is accurate because it hac hann think it is accurate because it has been used since the 1960's. 5. In explaining stratification and poverty in the United States, which view, functionalist or conflict, makes more sense to you? Why? Remember for each writing assignment students are expected to support their responses to the questions posed by applying course material and additional, external research. It is important that you include proper documentation of this research in each and every assignment. This means you need to include in-text citations and a references page that meet ASA guidelines for EVERY assignment. This is reflected in the grading rubric. The links provided in the Course Overview, among other things, will provide you with information about these guidelines (see the Purdue Owl Lab or Quick Tips of ASA style for the most comprehensive listing of ASA style guidelines). FAILURE TO DO SO WILL RESULT IN POINT(S) DEDUCTION IN YOUR GRADE