Never be afraid to talk to anyone. A lesson that I have been taught over several occasions and experiences since I started college, and which I will carry for the rest of my life. The first time was during the speech of the founder of the Millennium Campus Network, Sam Vaghar. He was telling his story at the Millennium Campus Conference in October 2013, about how he changed from a very shy and extremely isolated and introverted high school kid, to an ambitious, very well spoken young man who was about to meet with the President of the country to discuss his future projects in global change and social work. This scenario suddenly invaded my mind as I was walking down the street with a few of my friends on a peaceful but chilly Thursday night,
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Inadequate financial resources and limited income were a ferocious challenge that prevented his parents from providing him with a high quality child care and a good education. The lack of health care, which is one of poverty’s biggest highlights, has thrown William’s parents in the cancer cove, after neglecting and underestimating the symptoms, and not being able to get a diagnosis and treatment. With no other siblings left behind after his parents passed away, William was an uneducated, unemployed young man who constantly suffered from hunger and prayed God for finding a shelter. With all those hard living conditions mentioned, William has with no doubt met all of the criteria for being a poor man. According to The World Bank Group’s most recent estimate, 17% of all the people in the developing world met those criteria and lived at or below $1.25 a day in 2011. That being said, one important step is to look back and think of the possible reasons why William and all of those people are poor. They are different indeed, because they have a life different from what a normal person should have. The question is, in one hand, whether this lifestyle is a result of each person’s own characteristics and individual traits that make them behave in a certain way in the environment and end up in poverty. On the other hand, could we say that it is the overall …show more content…
Poverty could be caused my individual characteristics or conditions of the people concerned themselves. This could include inner drive and resilience, level of education, skills and experience. A lazy, uneducated and unexperienced person would not be expected to afford a decent lifestyle. Sometimes the person is eager to get a job and earn their life, but handicap or physical or mental disability prevents them from getting to that point and leads to falling in poverty. We could also talk about discrimination as an important poverty risk factors in many developing nations, including mainly gender and race. According to a report revealed by the Center of American Progress, women are more likely to be poor in America than men. Compared to 11.1% of men, 13.8% of females were poor in 2007, with Black and Latina women facing an even higher poverty rate. A combination of all these personal characteristics would most likely give rise to a helpless, dependent and unqualified individual, who would not be ready to take in any available opportunities and eventually fall behind the societal
Inadequate financial resources and limited income were a ferocious challenge that prevented his parents from providing him with a high quality child care and a good education. The lack of health care, which is one of poverty’s biggest highlights, has thrown William’s parents in the cancer cove, after neglecting and underestimating the symptoms, and not being able to get a diagnosis and treatment. With no other siblings left behind after his parents passed away, William was an uneducated, unemployed young man who constantly suffered from hunger and prayed God for finding a shelter. With all those hard living conditions mentioned, William has with no doubt met all of the criteria for being a poor man. According to The World Bank Group’s most recent estimate, 17% of all the people in the developing world met those criteria and lived at or below $1.25 a day in 2011. That being said, one important step is to look back and think of the possible reasons why William and all of those people are poor. They are different indeed, because they have a life different from what a normal person should have. The question is, in one hand, whether this lifestyle is a result of each person’s own characteristics and individual traits that make them behave in a certain way in the environment and end up in poverty. On the other hand, could we say that it is the overall …show more content…
Poverty could be caused my individual characteristics or conditions of the people concerned themselves. This could include inner drive and resilience, level of education, skills and experience. A lazy, uneducated and unexperienced person would not be expected to afford a decent lifestyle. Sometimes the person is eager to get a job and earn their life, but handicap or physical or mental disability prevents them from getting to that point and leads to falling in poverty. We could also talk about discrimination as an important poverty risk factors in many developing nations, including mainly gender and race. According to a report revealed by the Center of American Progress, women are more likely to be poor in America than men. Compared to 11.1% of men, 13.8% of females were poor in 2007, with Black and Latina women facing an even higher poverty rate. A combination of all these personal characteristics would most likely give rise to a helpless, dependent and unqualified individual, who would not be ready to take in any available opportunities and eventually fall behind the societal