...Yao Chen Dr. Responding Essay#2 A divisive issue is another problem in America. People base on stereotypes to categorize each other into different groups, such as high income family living in the rich area, while the low income family living in the poor area. Another example based on stereotype is that the living in a white neighborhood is safe while living in a black or Hispanic neighborhood is dangerous. Also, people based on colors to divide each other into different areas, even if the blacks and Hispanics are from high income or well educated families. They still cannot join into the white neighborhood because stereotypically, whites are grouped into a high class level than any other racial or ethnic groups. Therefore, divisive issue is a complicated issue, and it is an issue that is hard solve....
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...that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship”. Andrew wanted to find a way for the rich and poor to help each other, but that did not happen throughout the Gilded Age. There were two ways to live during the gilded age either poor or wealthy, shown through their living and health conditions. The differences on how the poor and wealthy life during the Gilded Age can be seen through how they both lived. For instance, the wealthy lived comfortably in exclusive mansions,“Some of the richest urban residents lived in palatial mansions located in exclusive neighborhoods in the heart of the city-Fifth Avenue in New York…”. The wealthy...
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...with studying that include unwillingness to attend school, repetition of class/grade and poor academic achievement. These consequences have a direct impact on how a child will turn-out in future as an adult. How might consequence of poverty affect a child’s future functioning as an adult 1) Developmental problems- Parent who lives in poverty have difficulty in providing good...
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...largely negative of poverty in the United States. Media portrayals also disproportionately represent the American poor as being almost entirely composed of people of color, especially African Americans and Latinos. The legacy of the representation of public housing and the American poor has thus resulted in a hegemonic image of the poor, in which they are dehumanized and blamed for their own socioeconomic status and living conditions. In “This is Home”, a spoken word piece performed by Deandre Evans, Will Hartfield, and Donte Clark, three poets from Richmond, CA, who worked in conjunction with reporter Amy Julia Harris, illuminates the various realities faced by residents of the city’s Hacienda housing projects, whom have had to endure horrible living conditions, resulting...
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...that the gap between rich and poor has grown. Coupled with this is the resultant degradation of economic and social mobility. This serves to show that they there is a tendency for those that are poor, to remain poor. There are a number of causal factors that seemingly predicate this fate of a poverty cycle. The issues that contribute to this range from the education and wellbeing of the individual, societal influences and values, their spending habits, their living conditions as well as their ability to access funding as a means of fuelling entrepreneurial endeavours. Those that are born into poor families will not have access to the resources that those who are born into more fortunate families will be. This is highlighted by the education and wellbeing levels that are typically seen amongst the poor. In poor families there is typically a child who is unable to attend school or is unable to make a satisfactory attempt at learning due to the family’s inability to provide appropriate resources. Instances like this result in high illiteracy rates amongst the poor. This, from the outset of the child’s life, ensures that their career will be significantly hampered and job finding will be far harder, if not impossible. A similar trap exists with regards to the malnourishment of typically poor people. Those who are undernourished will be drastically less productive at work and in turn, will find their wages decreasing. This creates a cycle whereby the poor aren’t able to afford further...
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...employment, the high rate of mental illness, the increasing high school drop out rate, the skyrocketing rates of incarceration, with single parenting on the rise and most alarmingly is the amounts of children living in poverty. The risk of not working or working low paying jobs is essential for poverty overload that can lead to the breakdown of family system and the lack of willpower to even address this issue. In the United States years of poverty will “contributes to financial hardships, inadequate housing, substandard schools, and deteriorating neighborhood”. (Dashiff, 2009, p. 23-32). Poverty is voiceless yet powerful enough to cause enormous burden on those that are trapped without any means of escaping its fury. The Unites States Census Bureau revealed that poverty is estimated to affect over thirty five million people, including thirteen million of which are children. Poverty is becoming an epidemic problem in the United States of America; it is unfortunate that even though the United States is a very rich developed country it is associated with so many people living in poverty, deplorable, destitute conditions (there is so much blame to go around.) Poverty is when the basic human needs such as food, shelter and clothing are not been met and those living in circumstances of economic hardship. American’s were once depended heavily on the manufacturing industry to provide vast amounts laboring jobs to the uneducated. With most of the laboring work been shipped...
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...everyday basis. It speaks of things we can do as a society to help support and change the lives of those living in poverty. Poverty And It’s Everyday Life Changes 3 Poverty is a very emotional and important issue in America. It is a fact that all social inequality creates poverty. There are generally two types of poverty that are discussed, which are relative poverty and absolute poverty .Relative poverty is the lack of resources of some people in relation to those who have more. Absolute poverty is the lack of resources that is life threatening. It has been reported by “Global Stratification “, that about one billion human beings, which is one person in six are at risk of absolute poverty (Sociology, Thirteenth Edition). In this wealthy country of the Unite States families still go hungry, and live in in adequate housing, and suffer poor health because of serious lack of resources. In 2002, it was reported by the Census Bureau that poverty in the United States was had reached a high of 35 million people (Rector and Johnson, 2004). It is fact that we as human beings must understand to not just focus on numbers, but the living conditions of our fellow citizens that the government deems to be poor. Many families lack of food, clothing, and reasonable shelter would be reason enough to suggest them to be living in poverty .Just not many years ago were the material conditions that people live in today, considered to be to be well off. Poverty even still...
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...The Conditions of Prisons Worldwide Society usually does not concern themselves with people in prison but what they fail to realize is that they could be the ones incarcerated. Every day, there are people who state they do nothing wrong to be put in prison but anyone can watch the news, and it states how people were on vacation and something unexpected resulted in their incarceration while in a foreign country. The conditions in both American and Third World prisons have poor living conditions and deprive prisoners of health care that cause them to be susceptible to life threatening diseases. Society needs to be aware of these conditions and the possibility that it may happen to them; these conditions are not suitable for human beings. Prisons worldwide have poor living conditions. There are prisons in other parts of the world that conditions are unspeakable, and just inhumane. The living conditions in the majority of United States prisons can be very poor; there are not enough beds or cots because of the overpopulation. There was a new story on a prison in Arizona where the warden had the inmates sleeping outside under canopies. The inmates still had beds or cots, but they were outside in the natural elements with no protection from the weather. Those conditions are not nearly as bad as some of the prisons in the third world countries. In Syria, prisoners are treated like slaves and are even beaten with pipes, other weapons...
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...detained jobs. However, the number of employed children under 15 years old was also increasing. This meant that these kids who were supposed to be getting an education, were being subjugated, sometimes earning a lot less than any other employed group of workers. The living circumstances these children were visible to might have been a reason for them working so young. The living conditions many children were open to were underneath what the poor have seen. Houses that were built to dwell in a family of four was shared by several families. Many of the houses didn’t have water supply and the streets were very dirty. Circumstances like these were meant to be repressed by the poor working people. It seemed that the rich were getting richer and the poor were getting poorer. Industrialization meant that the people with money will devote to have more money and the people that worked could spend the little money they earned buying those products. Industrialization meant exploitation of the working people. Women and children were paid less than men and often worked in Sweatshops. A sweatshop is defined by the U.S. Department of Labor as a factory that disrupts 2 or more labor laws. Sweatshops often have poor working situations, unfair wages, unreasonable hours, child labor, and an absence of welfares for workers....
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...of corruption. The original intension of The Jungle can be compared to Jacob Rii’s How the Other Half Lives, which is a novel about poor immigrants horrible living conditions in tenement houses. Immigrants in there tenement houses were crammed into small apartments with numerous other people, with no safety features, and no indoor plumbing. They lived in the cold and in filth. They both argue for social reform to help the poor immigrants who were taken advantage of by wealthy Americans. Both novels look at the harsh living conditions of immigrants and how their poor wealth keeps them in terrible conditions. Another novel The Jungle can be compared to is Jane Addams’ Twenty Years at Hull-House, a documentary of Jane Addams’ life at Hull House which was a settlement house in Chicago, the same city Jurgis lived in. In chapter twenty-one, young Juozapas met a settlement house worker while raking through garbage looking for food since Jargis was jobless. The woman came back with Juozapas to meet the family and hear their story. Moved by Elzbieta’s story she helps them by getting Jurgis a job at her husband-to-be’s steel mill. There are many women similar to this one in Chicago, all trying to help the poor immigrants of the time. They were all volunteers working in settlement houses in poorer neighborhoods and were dedicated to improving living conditions. Elzbieta said that some people tried to get her to go to a settlement house, but she refused too because she thought it had something...
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...Development Index, there continues to be a growing number of impoverished people. Individuals who are not able to provide themselves with the basic necessities of life are at an incredible disadvantage when it comes to maintaining their health and well-being. They can be exposed to many illnesses and life threats because they are not able to provide themselves with the resources needed to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Things such as food, shelter, and warmth all become optional for an individual living in poverty as they have little opportunity to better their life or living situations. Factors such as housing, education, employment, and environment are all equally important in determining an individuals economic standing. Specific groups such as Aboriginals can be at even more of a disadvantage because of the additional issues they face in regards to government policies in Canada. Throughout my research I found that there are four main factors that are greatly affected when an individual is living in poverty, which leads to the need for Food Banks. These factors are income, housing, nutrition and food security, and early childhood development...
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...The Industrial revolution had the long term effect of greatly improving the living standards for common people in Britain. There is however a constant debate on whether or not the British living standards rose during the early part of the Industrial Revolution (1770-1850). The optimists generally believed that the industrialization brought higher wages, and a better standard of living. T.S. Ashton suggested that for the majority of the population, the gain in real wages was substantial, and outweighed the negative effects brought by industrialization. Pessimists argue that the quality of life for workers deteriorated greatly between 1780 and 1850, with very limited improvements for some skilled sectors before the 1870’s. This purpose of this paper is to analyze the debate from an economic and social perspective. We will examine both arguments and prove that although there was a rise in real wages, that rise was not as high as many optimists believe, and that the rise in real wages did not mean that the living standards of the average citizen were necessarily improved. This paper will substantiate that the benefits resulting from the rise in real wages, did not outweigh the costs that followed. We will examine how pollution, poor working conditions, and an overall lack of basic human rights and equality, plagued the British population and did not initially raise the living standards of the average person in Britain. The majority of debates between pessimists and optimists...
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...moral conviction” (Spriggs, 2007). Most importantly, society blames the person that is living in poverty. The South and Southwest of the United States is where the majority of poverty found. Poverty can be referred to as material conditions, economic position, or the social position of that person(s). Poverty is attributed to inequalities in the structure of society which eventually leads to denial of opportunity and perpetuation of disadvantage. And there is growing inequality among jobs. “The official jobless figures are getting worse, but just having a job is no longer protection against poverty. So many are underemployed, partially employed or just plain exploited” (Eisold, 2011). There is known to be two categories of poverty. They are absolute poverty and relative poverty. Absolute poverty is a set standard that does not change over time. Relative poverty is a standard which a person lives and differs over time. Environmental degradation and poverty alleviation are two urgent global issues which are similar but treated differently (poverties.org). Poverty continues to affect the mental abilities, working opportunities, health, basic needs, and education. It tends to really affect emotional, behavioral, and mental problems. Poverty and social inequality are closely related. Poor people are exposed more to hazardous and dangerous environments. Those people who live in extreme conditions experience stress, frustration, and family disruption. Other problems associated with...
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...correctional facilities around the country, one would think the inmates would be living in a five-star palace. Since prisons are blocked off from the public with high security and complete isolation, the gruesome conditions are left solely for the inmates to face, particularly women. Unsanitary, unbearable circumstances in women’s correctional facilities today remain something that unfortunately the public is unaware of. Whether for something minor, such as disorderly behavior, or major, such as manslaughter, the females are all under the same roof. Sexually transmitted diseases, rodents, overcrowded cells, and sewage overflows make women’s correctional facilities anything but lady-like...
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...led to the terrible living conditions as described in Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives. In his pioneering work of photojournalism, Jacob Riis draws attention to the horrifying living conditions in the poor slums of New York. Although there were many reasons for the terrible living conditions, three of the most influential...
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