...114 Prof. Maskery Sep 27 2012 Poverty In Third World Countries Poverty is a major issue in our world today where people cannot afford the basic necessities required to survive. Although 1st world countries have more then what is needed, people still suffer from poverty. Poverty is a lack of goods and services necessary to maintain a minimal life style. However, in 3rd world countries poverty is more present then in 1st world countries because of the lack of resources, power,money, and education. The struggle to survive often results in having more children, however, people in poverty usually are not educated about safe sex practices. As a consequence, sexually transmitted diseases run rapidly. When the parents are HIV positive, HIV is passed to their newborns and the cycle of death by AIDS rages. Not only is diseases a problem but the causes it brings to families, children and the country as a whole.The reality is poverty is a silent killer that is ignored by most especially by the 1st world countries. They tend to ignore other countries and not try to put an end to poverty. There is about six billion people in the world as of 2012, and from that half of the population are suffering from poverty (Anup Shah). Which brings us to the question, Is there ever going to be an end to poverty? From research I have made poverty has been present to back to centuries even before BC and is still happening today. We would think that poverty would be decreasing as the years progress...
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...Poverty can be described and explained many different ways. When one looks up the defintion of the word poverty they will find, “ a general scarcity or dearth, or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money.” So, in other words a lack of money and materials that are needed for everyday life. Vivienne Adair, “Reclaiming the Promise of Higher Education: Poor Single Mothers in Academe,” mentions what she felt while living in poverty, “Homelessness, hunger, lack of medical and dental care, fear, and despair.” She talks about how poverty is not just not having money but rather a life of hurt, fear, and not knowing where your next meal is coming from. She goes on to explain how higher education was what was able...
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...The Real Issue with Poverty Kris Offerman, a 38 year old mother of two, starts to break into tears. Unable to cling to any strand of hope, she lies there helplessly as she repeats to herself, “It’s like there is no way out.” Once earning wages of $100,000 a year with her husband, Kris now relies on Willow Creek Care Center, waiting for the shipments of food to help feed her family. After losing her job, house, car, and money, Kris Offerman was once a strong member of the middle class of America that got deprived of her once fantastic life. She now lives in an apartment, stuck in the endless cycle of poverty, unable to jump out of the hole she was thrown in. Everyday, millions of people have to struggle through these hardships, yet many are...
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...interesting that Barbara Ehrenreich took it upon herself to experience poverty instead of just researching it. She left behind her home, career, and most importantly her money. She wanted to see for herself, how people were living in poverty when having they have jobs. The problem with these jobs are that they are low income jobs. The advantages that she has is that she is a white women and well spoken. Although this article give good insight to those who do not experience poverty on an everyday basis, it still doesn’t give the complete insight of someone who is actually living in poverty. Ehrenreich had money to look for her own place to live and a car. Moreover that made it pretty unrealistic for someone to act like they are in poverty. Most that are living poverty do not have a place to live and a car. It’s usually one or the other. In the article she says that is isn’t possible to live off of jobs that only pays $6 or $7 an hour, especially...
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...Poverty in the U.S. Deric Cravens 2.13.17 The unemployment rate for dropouts is 75 percent higher than that of those who have graduated (Worth, 30). One way to help teens living in poverty is keeping them in school, and limit how many children they have (Worth, 30). Households with one earner find it extremely difficult to support a family (Merino, 131). Many women drop out of the job market to have children (Worth, 51). Although poverty is mostly in countries like India and South America, it is a raising problem. There are different definitions anyone could be living in poverty or be “poor”, some people just lack skills and motivation to go out and do something positive for themselves. Many programs are being created to try ad help the people living in poverty. They televise and advertise these needy people, just as they televise abused animals. You can learn from the less fortunate people, just by...
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...think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” Mother Teresa The factors of why Liam, Carole and the family are living in poverty, could be derived from a number of reasons surrounding their personal circumstances and backgrounds. Reasons people could be in poverty could be overcrowding in the home, lack of opportunities in their area, don’t have the money for seasonal clothing, crime rates in the area and many more. Some of the points that have been made in the scenario have made me form an opinion of why this family could be in poverty. To find out why they could possibly living in poverty, I would start back in 1960’s when Carole’s mother moved onto a large East London council estate. Looking at how people lived in London in the 60’s could explain the upbringing and the life Carole had before meeting her partner and having their children. In the East End of London, during the 1960’s, high rise flats were first built to replace the slums. Unfortunately re-housing the slum tenants into high rise accommodation, broke up the communities causing social exclusion. This type of poverty would be called structural poverty. This is where poverty is out of the individuals control, and is generally down to the structure of the country, the Government. Other examples of structural poverty would be lack of education. People...
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...Poverty is a worldwide epidemic that has previously been rendered unsolvable. Impoverishment is a continuous problem that has spread throughout each and every continent and country. While there are those who “swim in their pools of gold coins” with all the luxurious items they like to keep to themselves, there also happen to be others who are barely receiving enough pennies to supply and support their household and family members with the necessities in which they need to survive. Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics and an insightful philosopher, argues that prosperous individuals of the economy must be the solution that prevents and eventually overcome poverty for good all with a few simple steps. Singer says that “whatever money you’re...
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...End World Poverty” I will first explain Peter Singer’s argument on how he wants us to donate to the developing countries where 1.4 billion people live in extreme poverty around the world. Peter Singer argues that people who live in developed nations like the United States should act now to end world poverty. Peter Singer’s argument is that there are 1.4 billion people in the world who live in extreme poverty and barely making it to meet their most basic human needs such as food, house, and water. Based on his research the poorest people live on $1.25 a day. He argues that our obligation to the poorest people in the world is not only to donate an amount of $200 but also to donate as much as we can; but not to the point of sacrifice our own child’s life to save a child in the developing countries. Children die in the poorest countries because of the lack of sanitation and no safe drinking water from diseases such as measles, malaria, and diarrhea. In developed nations these diseases are almost never fatal. Then, why children die from diseases that are curable? The answer is that their parents can’t afford to health care. Children are malnourished and are the most vulnerable from these diseases. Peter says we spent money on things we take for granted and we don’t even noticed if they were there or not. He adds that the life you can save of a child in a developing country by donating $200 is not just enough as you might think is. Each of us should do more than just saving a life...
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...How are different governments trying to solve poverty compared to Hong Kong’s in the past 10 years? What is poverty? Poverty is about not having enough money to meet basic needs including food, clothing and shelter. However, poverty is more, much more than just not having enough money. In addition to a lack of money, poverty is about not being able to participate in recreational activities; not being able to send children on a day trip with their schoolmates or to a birthday party; not being able to pay for medications for an illness. These are all costs of being poor. Those people who are barely able to pay for food and shelter simply can’t consider these other expenses. Global perspective Many countries around the world have people living under the poverty line. But many countries in Africa are suffering major cases of poverty. There are other bigger countries that suffer major cases of poverty such as India and China. In this essay I will be focusing on how India, China and the United States of America try to solve poverty in their countries. The United States of America has a population of 317,128,000, which is the third biggest country in the world after China and India. In 2008 35% if the American population lived in poverty and now in 2013 around 15% live in poverty which a huge improvement. Kiryas Joel, New York is a city in the United States, which has the lowest GDP (Gross Domestic Product), with a population over 10,000. The main reasons people...
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...Poverty? How many people actually know the meaning of this word? However, I think is it possible to understand the meaning of poverty even if you have never suffered from it. Poverty is defined as the state of being poor or having the lack of providing material needs or comforts. Living in the United States, many of us do not think about poverty too much. Most people in the United States are above poverty level. They do not think about the less fortunate of America. On the other hand, “more U.S. children live in poverty than in any other developed country (Parrillo 155). I think poverty is blamed either on the individual or the system. Several aspects such as intelligence, family life, and the system of capitalism are the author’s examples as to why poverty exists in the U.S. In addition, he explains methods the government is using to eliminate poverty in the United States. First, intelligence is marked as one of the factors of poverty because people tend to blame the actual person for their poor quality. For example, Richard Herrnstein, who “argued that the poor have a lower intellectual capability than the non-poor, and that they marry other people of low intelligence, thus producing children of low intellectual capacity (Parrillo 157).” The fact is poverty does seem to be an inherited trait and that’s why people tend to think of the poor as lacking the knowledge to qualify and obtain a well paying job. For this reason, people of poor financial conditions receive fewer opportunities...
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...Poor A person in poverty, we tend to imagine is someone who is poor and cannot afford a roof over his head. However, poverty can be a relative term that can include more than just the destitute and homeless. The definition of poverty depends on who we ask the question, how it is understood and who responds. For example, for the average middleclass person, not being able to afford a first class ticket makes him feel poor and on the other hand being able to afford a meal may make the homeless man feel like a million dollars. The broad point here is that poverty can depends on what the person’s idea of subsistence is; his basic needs and what he feels deprived of. In the U.S. the poverty line sets the threshold of income at $ 21,200 dollars for a family of four. That amount is deemed necessary a family to meet minimal food, housing and other basic needs. No one wants to be poor, so how do people fall into poverty? A combination of factors than can be broadly divided into two categories can be blamed for poverty. Individual causes such as lack of responsibility and motivation, poor choices can lead to poverty. Structural causes such as lack of adequate health care, poor educational systems, lack of jobs, social and political structures that includes the exploitation by people in power. I believe that structural causes are more to blame for poverty than individual causes. Individual causes such as poor choices, health issues and conflicts can lead to poverty but structural causes...
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...Lack of education an insufficiency, shortage, or absence of something required or desired something that is required but is absent or in short supply Imagine seaMost Americans are conscious of the privation and misery that exist in third world countries all around the globe. Each day millions of people in destitute counties are left starving and weakened from illnesses. Several African countries such as, Sudan, Tanzania, and Ethiopia are quintessential third world countries; they are some of the most deprived countries in the world. In these nations, warfare and government may set the foundation of poverty and disease, but several other causes throw logs into the burning fire. Lack of education in Africa is another cause for poverty and ailment. Hundreds of millions of Africans are illiterate. Due to the lack of education about disease in the continent, millions are infected with lethal illnesses annually. Some of these disease include tuberculosis, Ebola, malaria, and of course the most well known sickness the AIDS virus. From a very young age Africans are disadvantaged when it comes to being educated. Only 56% of African children attendschool and only about a third of that number actually finishes grade school. For the fortunate children who are able to attend a school, life is astonishingly harder than any American student would know. Schools have very little equipment, having a chalkboard is considered privileged and most schools do not have desks, just cold, dirt...
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...need to know what poverty is. In all over the world many countries have this global problem. The fact is that poverty includes a lack of access to services like education, markets, health care, lack of ability to make a decision, and lack of communal facilities such as water, sanitation, roads, transportation etc. So lets take a look what kind of causes the poverty has. First of all, it is overpopulation. High birth rates contribute to overpopulation in many developing countries. Overpopulation is defined as the situation of having large numbers of people with too few resources and too little space. A high population density pressures the available resources in the country, as the resources can only support a certain number of people. For instance, usually in very poor countries the families have a lot of children because they need somebody to help them with keeping their agricultural. Here the problem is that the governments of developing countries often provide little, or even no support. Second, lack of education. Illiteracy and lack of education are common in poor countries. Sometimes the governments can’t provide for good public schools, especially in rural areas. Sometimes just student doesn’t want to study because he doesn’t focus on his education. Their priorities just in finding a new girlfriend, spending more time with friends, smoking and so on. These kinds of students don’t think about their future. Finally, it is disability to earn money. This group includes...
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...Starving in the shadow of plenty What is poverty? Not having money to buy the new iPhone 6 or going out for dinner every day? Not yet. This question took a divergent view when I saw the misery some people are condemned to subsist. Poverty is a high time when millions are living with a minimum wage below the poverty line, groveling for food and cloths. Poverty is all around the world and the number of people who starve increase every day. Living only with the minimum wage, it leads to a lot of health problems and lack of education. Doomed to extremely destitution, many women are forced to forsake their children even while there are infants. Penury is the main reason of women to abandon their children because of the hardness to nurture them. It mostly affects people in cultures with poor social welfare systems who are not financially capable of taking care of their babies. It is really mirthless and overwhelming for a mother to abandon her child, but the severe conditions let her no other option. Some of these infants meet their demise while they are discarded at the mercy of fate. In the book Birthmother: Women who have relinquished babies for adoption, Merry Jones talks about stories of different opinions and views of mothers who are force to leave their babies behind. Because of the misery women are force to leave their infants for adaption with the only hope someone capable will be able to nurture and to provide them a better life. They are devoted to sacrifice the family...
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...Generational Poverty Diana Rojas BSHS 345 August 12, 2014 Therese, DaSilva, LSSW Overcoming Generational Poverty Generational poverty is poverty passed down from generation to generation. Parents pass it down to their kids, and they received it from their parents. A vicious cycle can only be broken by raising above the current situation. In order to rise one must work and gain a greater income, if any, than what is currently being dealt with. It is a common truth that you can work yourself out of poverty. As easy as that sounds, many times this is almost impossible to achieve. Personal barriers that may harm success are stress, low self-esteem, isolation, and inadequate parenting competence. One can go into urban cities, rural areas, and ghettos and see the impoverished or underprivileged situations that many people live in today. The question often asked is; why do people live and think the way they do? Can they not move or get a better job? The sad truth is that for many people moving on does not come with ease. The factors for which many stay in the situation they are in is endless and often quite complex. Many times people face poverty because they lack the means to move up in life. This barrier often times comes from lack of education. In many areas instances, children never even make it out of high school because their presence is needed to work and help the family survive. Seniors are often faced with many challenges which lead them to fall into poverty. Companies...
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