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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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

The Views of Alex C. Michalos on World Poverty, Currency Exchange, and STET

In a paper consisting of fourteen pages Michalos' belief that budgetary reforms in Canada, the U.S., and the world can erase globa...

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...

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...

Gap Between North and South and Third World Poverty Elimination

In five pages this paper considers how to eradicate Third World poverty and hunger along with the global financial gap that contin...

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...

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...

Urban Economics and Politics

of the southern states black families received lower benefits than white families and many received no benefits at all, no matter ...

City Life, Homelessness, Race, and Sociology

In twenty five pages this paper examines issues of race, urban life, gender, and poverty from the sociological perspectives of Ell...

Problems of Poverty and Solutions

In five pages this paper examines poverty problems, discusses possible solutions, and emphasizes the importance of education. Fiv...

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996

approximately twenty percent, according to Heritage Foundations Robert Rector. However, in spite of the fact that the numbers did...

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 ...

Vows and Medieval French Monks

In six pages this paper examines whether or not the Medieval monks of France honored their vows of silence, obedience, poverty, an...

Economic Justice and Poverty

In five pages this paper examines poverty and economic justice from libertarian and utilitarian perspectives with theories by Jovi...

Singing Away the Hunger by Mpho Nthunya

In five pages this South African autobiography is examined with poverty and apartheid impacts upon families among the topics discu...

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...

John Maynard Keynes and Adam Smith on Poverty

The poverty perspectives of Smith and Keynes are contrasted and compared in eight pages. Eight sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and England's Poor Relief Efforts

In eleven pages this paper discusses sixteenth and seventeenth English poverty in a consideration of the poor relief efforts initi...