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'The Poor' and Changing Attitudes

Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was one such man and he wrote of his times, first for a renowned city newspaper (The New York Evening Sun),...

Defining Poverty

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

'Barbie Q' by Sandra Cisneros

In five pages this essay discusses how symbolism within this narrative reveals how the author feels about stereotypes, infidelity,...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Racial and Urban Policy Economics Issues

In six pages racial issues and their impact upon the economic conditions associated with urban poverty are discussed. Eight sourc...

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...

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...

Graphs and Poverty Figures

In seven pages this paper discusses poverty figures in a consideration of global and U.S. level measurements. Four sources are li...

Global Poverty and Solutions According to Peter Singer

progress. We should at least be open to the possibility that we are today witnessing not moral progress but a dramatic moral regre...

India's Economic Status

In fifteen pages this report considers the economic status of India and considers such concerning issues as historical precedence,...

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...

Exploitation of the State and the Perspectives of Karl Marx

In seven pages this paper examines how Marx's philosophy describes the exploitation of the state in such writings as 'Value, Price...

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...

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...

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...

A Review of Blaming the Victim by William Ryan

A 7 page overview of the societal ills of poverty. Ryan contends that is not the poor that are responsible for these ills but rat...

Poverty and Single Mothers

In five pages a book review article by Judith Stacey entitled 'Through My Own Eyes: Single Mothers and the Cultures of Poverty' is...

Social Systems and Economies of North Africa and the Middle East as They Relate to Poverty Issues

In twenty pages this report focuses on Jordan's Hashemite Kingdom in a consideration of the poverty issues that have historically ...

Social Change as Viewed by David Landes and John Foster

In ten pages two comparative and contrasting views on social change are examined as they are represented in John Foster's The Vuln...

U.S. and the Disparity Between Wealth and Poverty

In five pages poverty in America is examined in terms of its reasons with comparisons made with other countries during different t...

Welfare System and the Economy

In four pages this paper discusses social stratification and the problems of poverty and welfare programs. Four sources are cited...

State Power Resistance

In eight pages this paper discusses poverty in Ireland and England and the resistance to state power and justification of such res...

Canada and Special Interest Groups

In eleven pages this paper discusses Canadian interest groups including the Communist Party of Canada, the National Anti Poverty O...

Two Perspectives on Economic and Social Development by Foster and Landes

In nine pages a comparative analysis of two texts that consider social and economic development and the influence of capitalism, T...

Poverty and Rates of Population Growth

economic influence of overpopulation. It is often the oldest, poorest and most overly populated, which establishes it as a haven ...

1900 to 1980 American Social Progress

in the century? What can be done about it? Poverty may be understood and defined as either a concept that comes from low income o...