The Cycle Of Poverty

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In the film, this can be seen with the mother who is trying to earn money in order for the survival of her family by cooking on the side of the road and facing the danger of being hassled by the police. This can show a cycle of poverty where the mother is trying to make a living, but it stopped by the police. This leads to the cycle to presently affect major parts of their life, of not having access to proper healthcare or education results to the lack of opportunity, thus pushing her children to live in poverty because they are never given the life chance in order to improve their own standard of life.

Both the article and the short film have the common factors of not having the means in order to achieve the goals of a higher standard of

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