From the text of Editor Laura Otis, “Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century” gives a good perspective of what it was like to live in the working class and poverty stricken areas of England. Article from theguardian gives a good perspective of the United States unawareness to the 15% of people living in poverty. A statistical journal on Feeding America shows statistics of poverty that occurs during present time; giving a good perspective on how much of the world is affected by this. Two videos off YouTube named “Rich vs Poor” and “THE HOMELESS CHILD EXPERIMENT!” both display apart of poverty and how people don’t give the homeless and poor the time of day. The severity of poverty in urban areas is caused partially by lack of attention
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People who don’t of lot of money to buy food, shelter, and luxury. People who live off by everyday just trying to find food to eat and a place to sleep for the night. The poor have no sense of security and no shoulder to lean on it is a constant scavenge to find food and shelter to survive. With a development of cities there was hope to find jobs but it only made the poor have a harder time finding food and help. Very hard to find a job with all the middle class moving into the city finding jobs and even they lived in a rough area with little room for everyone in their family. They lived in one roomed slums with in a lot of cases two families inside. If people weren’t homeless, they would all work long hour shifts for minimal amounts of income. Whole families would work just to put food on the table. The horrible conditions they lived through in the nineteenth century with all the pollution, sanitation issues, and lack of resources. It has certainly changed since then but poverty is still a big issue and is still ignored by the …show more content…
In the video you can tell it is a wealthy shopping area and that people had expensive materials from high end stores. You can say that they might just not have the money at the moment. But in the video you see all these items that they buy and assume that they could of helped out the tiniest amount. You could say that they are afraid of them using the money for drugs, but it is a child and stereotypes are just an excuse to neglect helping someone in need. In the video you see a man mock the boy for being homeless. Not only do people neglect the poor but they also insult the poor, because they’re pride has become arrogance which leads to a harsh life for these unlucky poor people. The counter argument is that the improvements of awareness make it not a problems and how they have a month just for poverty awareness. They have marathons and charities to raise to help out. Also they have homeless shelters and places they can get meals. This does help and it has increased the amount people have helped and shown awareness but this is not a solution. People are more likely to donate to the church than to help a homeless person. Proven through experiments in the video I cited gives a great representation of what happens when someone asks for help from someone with a lot to
People who don’t of lot of money to buy food, shelter, and luxury. People who live off by everyday just trying to find food to eat and a place to sleep for the night. The poor have no sense of security and no shoulder to lean on it is a constant scavenge to find food and shelter to survive. With a development of cities there was hope to find jobs but it only made the poor have a harder time finding food and help. Very hard to find a job with all the middle class moving into the city finding jobs and even they lived in a rough area with little room for everyone in their family. They lived in one roomed slums with in a lot of cases two families inside. If people weren’t homeless, they would all work long hour shifts for minimal amounts of income. Whole families would work just to put food on the table. The horrible conditions they lived through in the nineteenth century with all the pollution, sanitation issues, and lack of resources. It has certainly changed since then but poverty is still a big issue and is still ignored by the …show more content…
In the video you can tell it is a wealthy shopping area and that people had expensive materials from high end stores. You can say that they might just not have the money at the moment. But in the video you see all these items that they buy and assume that they could of helped out the tiniest amount. You could say that they are afraid of them using the money for drugs, but it is a child and stereotypes are just an excuse to neglect helping someone in need. In the video you see a man mock the boy for being homeless. Not only do people neglect the poor but they also insult the poor, because they’re pride has become arrogance which leads to a harsh life for these unlucky poor people. The counter argument is that the improvements of awareness make it not a problems and how they have a month just for poverty awareness. They have marathons and charities to raise to help out. Also they have homeless shelters and places they can get meals. This does help and it has increased the amount people have helped and shown awareness but this is not a solution. People are more likely to donate to the church than to help a homeless person. Proven through experiments in the video I cited gives a great representation of what happens when someone asks for help from someone with a lot to