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Working Class of Canada Before 1860

and suggests several avenues for further research; it also draws quite a clear picture of the difficulties many of the farm famili...

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. ...

Overview of Male Hegemony

she stayed home and managed the house, watched the children and did other work "suitable" for women. Thus, the masculine hegemony...

Uninsured and Impoverished Health Issues

the poverty line. These researchers point out that the poor are less likely to have health insurance, less likely to seek health s...

Dinner at Eight Depression Era Comedy by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber

and one-time suitor Oliver sell her stock in his company. Carlotta does not consider returning to the stage as an option to her fi...

Article Review of 'Health Inequalities and the Health of the Poor' by Gwatkins

"...it must also be recognized that, although the health sector is not necessarily the most important channel for dealing with ine...

Essayist Richard Rodriguez

lives reflect his early struggles with cultural identity in America. II. ASSIMILATION Rodriguez, whose professional writing cred...

Families and the Impact of Welfare Reform

Harris reports that though the amount of benefits applied for have declined by 26.5%-45% in the three states mentioned, the level ...

Abuse and Differences That Exist Among Economic Classes

In eleven pages domestic violence examined from an economic context with the argument presented that impoverished individuals have...

Impoverished Women and Oppressive Social Systems

living above the poverty line, but after the rent is paid, there is little left over. In the examples provided, each of the women...

Following Christ in a Consumer Society by Kavanaugh

thesis is credible in that it draws on concepts that many experience on a daily basis. Consumerism has wreaked havoc in American s...

Mathematics Teacher and Student Inspiration Jaime Escalante

High School, Tito Melean (Jagodzinski, 2001, p. 232). This teacher was in the habit of carrying around a long, thick, bone from th...

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...

Dorothy Allison's 'Question of Class,' William Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' and Class Distinctions

In five pages these two stories are compared in terms of their presentations of class consciousness where distinctions are clearly...

China's Poverty

government policy has contributed to the income disparity between the poor rural interior of China and the more prosperous urban c...

Mortgage Industry Discrimination

In five pages this paper argues that the income and racial biases perpetuated by the mortgage industry are responsible for the ina...

Mozambique and the Roles of Women

This paper considers women's roles in this impoverished part of the world in five pages. Six sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Argument Opposing the Flat Tax

In five pages this paper argues that the flat tax would be unfair to impoverished individuals and would furthermore be damaging to...

So You Think I Drive a Cadillac? by Karen Seccombe

those that work instead of punishing them. The arguments come from the women on welfare. They represent the interest of the impo...

Impoverished Students and Their Educational Needs

In five pages this paper discusses poverty in the U.S. in terms of the educational needs of impoverished students. Ten sources ar...

The Poor and Welfare Reform

In seven pages this paper argues that current welfare reform measures will hurt rather than help the nation's impoverished citizen...

Honore de Balzac's Pere Goriot

In five pages this paper examines how the author intertwines aristocratic and impoverished people in 'Pere Goriot.' There are no ...

Homeless and Nursing

In seven pages this paper discusses the health care profession's lack of providing decent care to impoverished and homeless member...

System of Education and Assistance to Diverse Families

In five pages this paper considers impoverished and immigrant families in an examination of how the teacher's promotion of parenta...

Sheila Baxter's Still Raising Hell

In five pages this book report discusses the discrimination against individuals who are obese or impoverished as depicted in Still...

Barbados, Haiti, Poverty and Socioeconomic Problems

In eight pages this paper focuses upon the problematic socioeconomic situations of Barbados and Haiti with the U.S. hypocrisy and ...

The Origin of the Two-Tiered Economy of Brazil

The writer discusses the history of the two-tiered economy of Brazil, in which a small, powerful wealthy upperclass has kept a muc...

Corn Laws of England

In eight pages the effects England's Corn Laws had on the impoverished classes are examined along with a consideration of these ty...

Linda Gordon's Single Mothers and the History of Welfare - Pitied But Not Entitled

professionals were at best ambivalent on the question of whether women, married or unmarried, should be full-time mothers or peopl...

Marguerite Duras' Novella The Lover and 'Requited Love'

In five pages this paper discusses the impossible love between an impoverished French girl and an aristocratic Chinese man in Indo...