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Globalization, Inequality, and Poverty

economist and former member of staff for the Wold Bank; Surjit S. Bhalla, claims that this target has already been reached (Cliffo...

The Old Guitarist Painting by Pablo Picasso

the blue period would further find inspiration. "Having outgrown his possibilities in Madrid (Spain) by the age of 19, he went to ...

'Up the Coulee' by Hamlin Garland

is a story about change - the change in a man, people he recognizes and knew his entire life did not recognize this man who Garl...

Update on LBJ's 'War on Poverty'

economy (Grier and Jonsson, 2004). These days, some of the programs continue - one of them being Medicare (Grier and Jonsso...

U.S. Immigration

poverty among immigrants who have been in the country less than ten years was 34.0 percent in 1994 and 22.4 percent in 2000; the r...

Montreal and Poverty

In this paper, well examine a variety of issues pertaining to poverty in Montreal specifically, and poverty throughout Canada as a...

Food Budgeting in Relation to the US Poverty Standard

lower than in other parts of the country. There is not a great deal of industry in the area; housing is relatively inexpensive. ...

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...

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 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...

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...

Nineteenth Century Potato Famine of Ireland

also examines some possible solutions. Clarkson points out that other writers, in addition to Grada, have been appalled at the fac...

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...

Administration of George W. Bush and Poverty

and around $1,200 in subsidized school meals for both children (Besharov 35). After taxes, this comes to around $21,000 per year. ...

Crime, Drug Use, and Their Contextual Relationships

defend" (Anonymous, 1998, p. 26A) brings to light yet another detrimental impact of teenage drug use. The 1990s heralded in...

African American Poverty Causes

"blacks are significantly more structuralist that whites in their thinking about poverty" (they see the system rather than the ind...

Jewish Law, Dehydration Death, and Poverty

into a selfish, egotistical and myopic entity; no longer are people more concerned with others than they are with themselves. The...

The Working Poor Invisible in America by David Shipler

hes already delivered powerful works on the Middle East (Arab and Jew) and race (A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in Amer...

Catholicism and the Poor by Dorothy Day

poor and the "undeserving." Day and Maurin shocked traditionalists by welcoming drunkards and other men down on their luck, which ...

Overview of African American and Native American Ideologies and Globalization

took a vicious Civil War to legally end the "peculiar institution," although the South continued to pass such things as the Jim Cr...

Comparative Analysis of San Francisco and Tokyo in Terms of Poverty and Crime

In eight pages this research paper contrasts and compares Tokyo and San Francisco in terms of each city's poverty and crime. Twel...

A General Guide to Africa's Cape Town

The writer examines Cape Town from an outsider's point of vew, and discusses many important issues for tourists. The paper covers...

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift and Shock, Satire, and Irony

In five pages this paper examines the author's masterful uses of irony, satire, and shock in his criticism of British greed and Ir...

Impoverished Children and Violence Effects

Both of the Rivers brothers have regularly seen their friends and relatives die from simply being in the wrong place at the wrong ...

Defining Poverty

New Yorks inner city whose poverty level status still affords him cable television? This question, along with others, surfaces as ...