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U.S. Federal Poverty Line

In eight pages this paper discusses what is meant by the poverty line and what it actually measures for the federal government. F...

Global Poverty and Solutions According to Peter Singer

progress. We should at least be open to the possibility that we are today witnessing not moral progress but a dramatic moral regre...

Exploitation of the State and the Perspectives of Karl Marx

In seven pages this paper examines how Marx's philosophy describes the exploitation of the state in such writings as 'Value, Price...

Rosa Lee by Leon Dash

In five pages this paper discusses this sociology text in a consideration of the author's featured case study that considers how c...

Sub Saharan Africa and Slow Economic Growth Causes

In five pages this paper examines the sub Saharan region in a consideration of poverty levels and slowed economic growth. Five so...

Problems and Solutions Regarding Poverty

In twelve pages this paper discusses poverty in an overview of the problems connected with it and suggestions regarding possible s...

Bilingual Education Evaluations and the Influence of Parents' Involvement and Poverty

In eleven pages this paper discusses the effects of poverty on a bilingual child's education along with an assessment of the posit...

Miami's Poverty

In seven pages the Miami and Dade area of Florida is the focus of this economic consideration of poverty and its causes in the reg...

South Africa's Youth Issues

This paper examines South African youth in this post apartheid overview that addresses HIV and AIDS heath concerns, education, cri...

Social Problems and the Theories of Emile Durkheim

In ten pages the theories of Emile Durkheim inclusive of anomie are applied to such social problems as poverty, homelessness, and ...

Problems of South Africa and Solutions

In seven pages this paper examines the poverty and racism that have historically plagued South Africa in a discussion of possible ...

Cuba, Mexico, and Revolution Causes

In five pages this paper examines Cuba's and Mexico's revolutions and the role played by nationalism with poverty factors also con...

Young Men, Violence, and its Causes

In five pages this paper examines drugs, poverty, and media desensitization as possible causes for young men's violent behavior. ...

Gender, Class, and Race from a Social Perspective

Much of what Rubin (1994) says is true, of course, but there are also other perspectives available. The author seems to want...

Poverty and Education Relationship

human needs. If they do not know where their next meal is coming from, or where they will sleep that night, they are not likely to...

Child Poverty Health Perspectives

Assembly Special Session on Children, held in May of 2002, adopted a draft resolution designed to protect the worlds children from...

Poverty and the Views of Plato

Indeed, one might readily surmise that Plato believed man was a product of how "own imperfect understanding of nature, of our igno...

Poverty and Working Out of It

one gains a significantly better perspective of how greed and lack of social conscience reflect povertys primary causes - as well ...

UK Poverty

income is related to consumption and lifestyle or other factors that are related to deprivation (2000). In measuring poverty, the ...

Developing Nations and Management Issues

of any country appears to go through different stages when becoming industrialised. The issue of industrial relations is one aspec...

United States, Latino Immigration, and Poverty

according to Nieman Reports researcher Joe Rodriguez (1999, p. 45). Basically, the welfare laws allow states to choose between con...

Poverty, Masculinity, and George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier

instead, have served to almost break mens spirits. He seems to have been illustrating the immense danger a political system could ...

Globalization and Poverty

a day" (The World Bank Group, 2001). In terms of infant mortality we can see that "Eight out of every 100 infants do not live to s...

Poverty in Central America

begun in 1850 that affected El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama well into the twentieth century" (Habegger, Pearlman, 200...

Ohio and the Middle East

rainfall that is well distributed throughout the year (MSN Learning & Research). It varies from 28 inches per year on Catawba Isla...

Poverty and Globalization

of globalization at the supranational level, it has a great impact on subnational dynamics (Yusuf, 2000). There has been a trend, ...

Women and Poverty in America

women were in a sort of Catch-22 situation. Charities did not want to contribute to able bodied women, but at the time women could...

Poverty, Women, and Social Work

community solidarity which...provided a sufficient rational for local responsibility" (Trattner, 1999, p. 16). Furthermore, the po...

A Tutorial on the Welfare Reform Act of 1996

In a tutorial consisting of ten pages a student is instructed how to write a report assessing the Welfare Reform Act's effectivene...

International Women's Movements and Issues of Globalization

issues is a situation which traces its roots far back into history. The indigenous women of Latin America have been suppressed by...