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Essays 1981 - 2010

Jonathan Kozol and Gregory Baum on Blindness and Sin

reality, and in other ways a very powerful reality. For example, we could ourselves commit such a sin, even those of us who are so...

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...

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. ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Macro, Molecular, and Micro Levels of Depression Analysis

have been making the connection for some time now between depression and the death of astrocytes, noting that the astrocytes -- be...

Poverty, African Americans, and Substance Abuse

In nine pages this paper discusses the connection between poverty, African Americans, and substance abuse in a consideration that ...

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 ...

Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol

In five pages this paper discusses the culture of poverty within the context of this 1995 book by Jonathan Kozol. Eight sources a...

Data on U.S. Poverty

1970, 20.5 percent of poor Americans lived in the suburbs, in 2000, that had expanded to 35.9 percent and in 2004, the ratio incre...

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...

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...

Poverty Causes

higher median income than native-born citizens" (Young, 2005). Young does admit that most people, if born into the culture of pov...

Social Security System and Its Impacts

to restore security by those that had lost it as a result of changing lifestyles associated with their changing occupations. As f...

MDGs and Development Promotion Commitment

the MDGs which are the cornerstone of the Millennium Declaration can be driven forward (Banuri, 2005). The UN appear to believe ...

Nursing Development and Clinical Supervision's Role

theoretical framework for promoting professional development through the use of quality circles. This management theory involves a...

Poverty and Economic Equality According to W.E.B. Du Bois, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and C.Wright Mills

even more disastrous in contemporary culture. There appears to be no end to what people will do to acquire a lot of money, often ...

Not by Bread Alone by Melissa Caldwell

the society of post-socialist/communist Russia. One of her focuses involves a feud between a couple of the "regulars" at t...

Poverty and the Tropics

of cold weather also demonstrates a dip compared to the temperate climate (Landes, 1999). Using this as a basis it is...

U.S. Incidences of Teen Pregnancies

be done in this area. Table 1 illustrates the distribution of teen pregnancies by ethnic group. Table 1. Teen Pregnancies by Eth...

Analysis of Debate

are based more on the liberal position that America should be welcome all comers. The growing disparity of language in border sta...

The UK's Social Exclusion Unit and Child Poverty

within flourishing communities. As Toynbee (2004) notes, without including all the indicators of social inclusion in the broader p...

United Kingdom's Asian Community Housing Needs

was and is true in all areas of housing, from social housing and private rented areas to more affluent privately owned up market a...

Situational and Generational Poverty According to Ruby Payne

habit, it becomes cyclical (Payne, 2001). 2. Situational where poverty is sudden and brought on by an event, such as a divorce, lo...

Revision of Essay on 'Progress' and Environmental Destruction

for clean-up, the bottles and plates end up becoming trash, which ends up clogging landfills (and filling landfills) and ends up t...

Juvenile Crime and Poverty Connection

a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...

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...

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...

Culture of Poverty

In seven pages this paper examines the 'culture of poverty' as defined by Oscar Lewis and considered by theorists Charles Murray a...