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A question that constantly comes to mind is whether or not the rich have an advantage within the court system. In other words, do the rich get off of punishments easier? This question has been engraved into my thoughts since my youth. On one side of the question, some people are under the impression that the rich have an even playing field as those who are not as wealthy. The reasons that the rich are let off easier from punishments are infinite. Take the court case of Oscar Pistorius.…

On May 30,2013, there was a Munk debate on Economic Inequality. The one-hour 23mins economic inequality debate with the motion: Be it resolved, tax the rich(more) was hosted by Munk Debates in Toronto, conversed on how societies or advanced countries should respond to the growth of economic inequality including the question of if the rich should be tax more. Arguing for the motion was New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize winner, Paul Krugman and the former Prime Minister of Greece George…

"Well, use your head, son," he said, smiling. Which really meant, "That's all I'm going to tell you," or "I don't know the answer, so don't embarrass me." A Partnership Is Formed The next morning, I told my best friend, Mike, what my dad had said. As best I could tell, Mike and I were the only poor kids in this school. Mike was like me in that he was in this school by a twist of fate. Someone had drawn a jog in the line for the school district, and we wound up in school with the rich kids. We…

If someone came up to you and said that they’d pay you $100 to give up your current lifestyle and return to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, would you do it? What about for $1,000? Would you still do it for no money at all, but with the knowledge that it would give you a better life? I would. My family would think me to be crazy. In fact, most Americans and Europeans would think that I was crazy, too. As stated in the passage Agriculture, for Better and Worse by Jared Diamond, they would think that…

Is the popular saying “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer” really true? In the America, also known as the land of opportunity, there are infinite ways for a person to become successful. Here, you can come into this world into poverty and leave with riches and vise versa. In America, people of any status have the same opportunities to make it big and live a life that has been always been dreamt of. This is what we are forced to believe and convince ourselves in order to keep society in…

Statement of Intent: I believe that different social classes have different powers in modern society and I want to the different ways on how it influences and affects people. I want to see what defines having power in society. Natural born leaders and people born into power. I want to show the corruption and greed of power. I will reference this idea to the play “A Doll’s House” and show how it’s still relevant in today’s society. The three main headliners in modern social media is power, money…

According to the World Institute for Development Economics Research at the United Nations University, the richest 1% of adult humans alone owned 40% of global assets in the year 2000, and the richest 10% of adults accounted for 85% of the total world wealth while the bottom half of the world adult population owned only 1% of global wealth. Zygmunt Bauman claims that the prime victim to the growing disparity between the poor and the well-off is democracy: as equality steers further out of our…

Introduction On November 19, 1863, President Lincoln delivered a speech during the dedication of the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, which hit every main point in less then two minutes. One line in particular, Lincoln states, “It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.” (Burns, 2012). Inequality had brought on the civil war, with the issues of slavery and central power which had divided the United…

“Here’s the Real Face of Poverty,” is a article written by Leonard Pitts, a commentator. Pitts argues against how Republicans view what is poverty and what being poor really looks and feels like in today’s society. Pitts also discusses the hypocrisy with Republicans as well. In today’s world, poverty is known to be people who are on welfare and foodstamps and feed off the government assistance. On T.V you see them living in broken homes and if you are lucky, you might just see them with both…

Poverty standing by age group, are measured in these bar graphs, is determined by distribution of poverty, which take into account a number of factors, and includes age and the structure of age with the total population. Giving an example of poverty level, the 2010 poverty level in the United States for a family of four that have two children was $17,463. Though, poverty levels are deceptive because they do not deliver a correct view of what a family that is poor of what their life is like.…