Extreme poverty

Through a research conducted between 1992 and 1993 and in 1995 in Recife and Olanda, he tries to understand the reasons behind the big attention given to street children specifically, despite the large number of children living in favelas affected by extreme…

They ruin many lives through the United States every year (“Causes of Homelessness). Drugs are viewed as a way to escape everyday problems such as poverty or depression. However this point of view can lead to illegal substance addictions (Riecken). To drug addicts, drugs can become a daily part of life which can have life ruining consequence. Once you become addicted to more serious drugs such as methamphetamine…

Peter Singer’s piece entitled “Famine, Affluence and Morality” touches upon what he believes our moral duty is in regards to providing for the poor. Specifically, he uses the example of the poverty in East Bengal, but he uses his arguments to defend the general hypothesis that “[i]f it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.” His first argument, in which he states this “strong…

Culture and Individual Development in Homelessness Katelyn Rose Morris Butte Community College Culture and Individual Development in Homelessness “I miss my house but I’m never homeless. Home is where you make it… I miss my home, but I’m never homeless. Home is where you make it” (Indar, 2013). After reading this as well as many other short stories and poems that were compiled into the book Writing for Donuts, you can definitely see that the homeless have a culture all their own. Culture and…

Many Americans have several misconceptions about homelessness or homeless people. Homelessness affects people of all races, age, religions, and genders. The horrifyingly common belief that homeless people are all bums, criminals, drug addicts, and mentally ill that are trying to scalp off of government welfare programs, or the working-class’s pocket-money is not only dehumanizing, it is entirely incorrect. Additionally, the ideology that homelessness is just a housing problem or worse, a…

Gone Baby Gone During the film Gone Baby Gone directed by Ben Affleck there are many issues which arise. The issues are generated around the ideas of protect children in lower income areas. These children grow up around druggies, career criminals, and irresponsible parents. These areas are created due to the way most cities are laid out with some sort of ghetto or lower class neighborhood surrounded by richer suburbs. With rampant drug use, and people willing to do anything for a quick buck,…

CONCEPT 10: HOMELESS This concept is taken from module 9 of block 2 entitled “Introduction to public health nursing”. 10.1 Significance of the Concept Homelessness, a condition of people without a regular dwelling is one of the major factor rendering people vulnerable to poor health condition. The effects of homelessness on homeless people are large. They range from health issues to personal entrapment. It is believed that many homeless individuals failed in their lives to cope with their…

Introduction Famine and Food Crisis are related societal phenomena. Because of the inter-linked nature of the factors of hunger, you can be sure that the food crisis will in turn cause more debt, more conflicts, more health problems, more famines, more poverty and more poor government decisions as they struggle to react to growing dangers. This essay will define famine, its global perspective and root causes of famine. And lastly define food crisis, its global perspective and nature and…

In every great city throughout history, there has always been a separation between those who are marginalized and downtrodden and the upper echelons of society. This reached a climax in the first modern metropolis, New York City. At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States of America was in the process of emerging as an industrial and economic world power. The chance to come to the land of opportunity lead to a massive influx of immigrants, the majority of which were uneducated and…

laid the blame for the tenants feeling neglected and forgotten on greed (62). Instead of blaming the poor for the conditions he believed they were a product of their environment and through proper investment in them, the poor can be brought out of poverty (237). However, the growing masses in the tenements were still becoming increasingly impoverished and Riis feared this growing disparity would lead to the poor rising up against their landlords and…