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An At-Risk Brooklyn Youth Case Study

involved in drug dealing and in fact, by the time he would turn 14 years old, would carry a gun ("Shawn," 1993). By the time he is...

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...

Marxist Views on America's Poor

soul. Marx saw capitalism as the culprit in creating poverty as it divided the people. Many would think that those in the higher ...

North Korea and Poverty

every other basic need one can imagine. While United States officials are wined and dined and told what they want to hear when th...

Poverty and Children

that poverty is "a state in which one is unable to obtain basic necessities required to sustain a minimally adequate standard of l...

Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant Neighborhood and the Respiratory Impact of Poverty on Children

condition. Other mitigating factors in regard to asthma include psychosocial variables, and possibly environmental exposure to a...

Poverty Crisis

group that has so far studied the cost of living in metropolitan and rural areas in ten states" (Bettendorf 2000, 4). All indic...

Discrimination Against Mexicans in the United States

not do. Mexicans work for wages that white people laugh at. They slave away in agricultural fields producing the food we eat and w...

Public Policy Issues as State and Local Levels

have stayed essentially the same for decades and that single mothers are most often poverty-stricken. Social Welfare programs, ...

Poverty Theme in Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

fact that the book was originally rejected by publisher T.S. Eliot presumably because of the grim and hopeless picture which was p...

Intelligence and Social Problems Such as Poverty

In eight pages the perspectives of Charles Murray, and author of The Bell Curve, are considered in a discussion of the relationshi...

Impact of Poverty in the United States

Poverty is widespread in rural counties without economic bases. There are also 625 counties in the US where poverty and wealth are...

The Struggle for World Peace: More Attainable Now Than Ever Before

This 5 page paper argues that with the end of the Cold War, world peace is now potentially more attainable than at any time in his...

Poverty in the Third World from a Sociological Perspective

the current problem is the current rate of consumerism, which relies on reduced costs to the businesses of first world states by e...

Mexican-American Border Culture and Across the Wire by Urrea

died of exposure, eight of whom were babies and expired on Christmas Eve. While the garbage men were used to finding babies in the...

Poverty and U.S. Immigration Law

In thirty pages this paper examines U.S. immigration laws and how immigrant communities are affected by poverty. Twenty five sour...

Philippines, Child Prostitution and Labor

child labor in other countries are all too often shoved aside in favor of getting a good deal on a pair of chinos and the problems...

The Tribute to Endurance that is Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes

In five pages the book in which McCourt recounts his Irish childhood of poverty is examined within the context of Angela, the indo...

Pros and Cons on the 'Inevitability' of Poverty

This paper evaluates the statement that poverty is not an inevitability in an assessment of pros and cons. Six sources are cited ...

Poverty Creation and Welfare

In two pages this paper considers whether or not welfare is contributing to the development of poverty or eliminating it. Two sou...

The Legal Use of Child Labor in Pre-Victorian England

12 pages and 12 sources. This paper relates the specific views of the history of child labor and the use of child labor in early ...

Immigration Effects

cost of keeping the immigrants in jail simply eats money unnecessarily. Another problem that plagues this country is poverty. The...

Peru Population and Poverty

In five pages this paper discusses Peru's high population and the connection there is between that and its poverty percentage. Si...

Feminist Views on Society and Their Impact Upon Poverty

In forty pages the 'feminization of poverty' is examined through case studies that illustrate how social structures have been impa...

Alcoholism, Poverty, and Native Americans

Wing (1996) notes that research findings have indicated the fact that within the Native American culture, the reality of alcoholis...

Past and Present Political and Economic Systems of Mali

In fourteen pages this report examines the Empire of Mali from past to present in a consideration of its economic poverty and poli...

Economic Justice, the Church, and Theories of Poverty

In four pages this paper discusses the role of the Church regarding issues of poverty, economic justice, and government accountabi...

Change, Charles Darwin, and Karl Marx

In five pages this paper examines change as conceptualized by Charles Darwin in Descent of Man and by Karl Marx in The Poverty of ...

Six Social Theorists Compared

In nine pages social theorists Goffman, Merton, Lukcas are compared with Meade, Parsons, and Horkheimer in terms of their similari...

Poverty and the Social Theories of Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Karl Marx

In fourteen pages this paper evaluates the applicability of the sociological perspectives of theorists Marx, Weber, and Durkheim t...