War on Poverty

to mankind is Poverty. Poverty has always been present, however the majority of the world 's people and nations live in poverty today. In most nations today, there is a quite high gap between the poor and the rich. The causes of poverty are innumerable, including overpopulation, lack of education, bad government, and countless more. People have a tendency to blame the poor for living in such state going back to the same causes time after time, but the global issue that cause poverty are often…

media propaganda during the civil war to the rise of concerns relating to Syrian refugees. However, within the United States one racial group often receives much more hatred and criticism than others, blacks. Society focuses on the idea of hip-hop music promoting violence between gangs or the large population of African Americans incarcerated. However the thoughts and concerns of these individuals and their struggles often can be traced to their lives within the poverty cycle: an endless cycle…

This is seen through the slaveholders pre-civil war, the civil rights movement, and the more recent internment of Japanese Americans post WWII, where cultures of color were living lives in a way that the white community wouldn’t have had the notion of living. Elaine Kim, an award winning writer and professor…

There are many problems in society today. Problems like the war on drugs and immigration reforms and gun controls. All these things are super important in today's society because their is countless problems. Today there are so many important issues that the people are only focusing on issues that they deem important what about all the other issues who no one speaks about and just forgets about those are important to. One of the major problems we have swept under the rug is the human…

describes the way that you perceive the world, and the issues surrounding it. This is especially true for our opinions of poverty. Because I have never experienced poverty, I cannot precisely describe what it is like to live inside it. While reading July’s People, by Nadine Gordimer, I gained insight and a new perspective on life in poverty and how to combat it. I discovered that poverty runs deep, deeper than just in a physical sense. It breaks down your entire person, both mentally and…

Globalization is the economy of interaction within the countries over the world and the integration of economics and societies in order to exploit the global economy (Scholte, 2005). Globalization contributed towards increasing and decreasing poverty and inequality in developing and post-communist countries. There are affirmative and negative effects for those countries which are able to attract foreign investors and foreign capital throughout globalization (Robertson, 1992). Economic…

parents. Runaways, children, and adults in a homeless situation are finally receiving the help they need, thanks to new state laws and associations (Fermino 3). Undeveloped areas are increasing homelessness rates due to the increase of unsafe homes in war zones (Stearman 41). Additionally, natural disasters are destroying homes and leaving individuals and families with nothing left (35). Lastly, big cities are making it harder to start new businesses as well as live due to the rising house…

The post war era for the United States provided a major economic boom, which brought upon several changes. One of those changes was to survey the Native American tribe’s status and conditions, to view progress of assimilation. The survey revealed the terrible conditions that the Natives were living in, biggest one being an extremely high number of people in poverty. Further research into the management of the Bureau of Indian Affairs revealed multiple errors and horrendous administration that…

On January 5th, 2016 a state of emergency was declared on the town of Flint, Michigan, due to high levels of lead in the city’s water supply. Despite knowledge of water contamination, it took nine months before state officials intervened and provided relief. Many felt that state and environmental agencies failed to protect the mostly black and impoverished community of flint. This delayed intervention stems directly from a system of environmental racism prominent in America, and other parts of…

Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the poorest countries in the world. The Democratic Republic of Congo is located on the continent of Africa. Ordinarily the DRC elects its president, it has a wide variety of geography, many problems, and a high poverty level. The government system of the DRC is a Semi-Presidential Republic. The president is Joseph Kabila and the capital is Kinshasa. The DRC has a population of 78.74 million people. With that many people in the county the county has to be…