Counter argument:
My argument for this paper was one of why lower SES college students are at a high risk for depression. I focused on the idea as a whole so one of my resources, Jeffrey Kilbert et al's, "Resilience Mediates The Relations Between Perfectionism And College Student Distress" the focus is on an individual's level of resilience and ability to deal with stressful situations. I believe resilience does play a role in depression in college students to a certain extent. However, Dana Becker's ideas in "“Does ‘Stress’ Hide Deeper Social Problems?” gave me a completely different viewpoint. The system of Education itself is to blame and its unfair that Education has become another disadvantage for the poor. Why should they be exposed to this high depression- risk environment in the first place? So in keeping with her idea that a system-wide change needs to occur, I settled on a happy medium. The school should have a responsibility to provide mental health services as well as networking opportunities for all of its students so as to rectify the -as of now- myth of equality for all classes by way of Education and hard work.
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