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    Oxfam (2016) reported that the 62 richest individuals have as much wealth as the poorest half of humanity. The report indicated that the gap between rich and poor had reached the new extreme and the eradication of poverty across the globe would remain struggled due to the inequality crisis. After this report was released, there were more concerns about the impact of globalization on poverty and inequality. Many people believe that globalization makes the developing countries facing the risk of…

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    ‘National Action Plan’ between ‘Indigenous communities and health organizations.’ (Oxfam Australia, 2011) 2. ‘Improvements to Indigenous participation and control of health services.’ (Oxfam Australia, 2011) 3. Provision of ‘long-term financial resources’ and ‘strengthening of the Indigenous health workforce.’ (Oxfam Australia, 2011) 4. Looking at ‘social issues’ which influence the health of these populations. (Oxfam Australia, 2011) In a similar form to the Close the Gap Campaign, the Alice…

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    In Q&A on ABC Television same as the statement above had announced, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks was answering the question related to the existing of White Australia Policy, She said’ White Australia Policy of course does exist, today, 2014, make no mistake about, I live with a real discrimination, I live with hatrust of my colour because I am the first Australian….” (Kunoth-Monks, R 2014). The feature of colonialism in Australian History for Indigenous people are marginalised, discriminated, unjust…

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    Another transcendental tenet McCandless followed is the dislike of materialism that drives multitudes of humans. McCandless family was well off since his parents own a business. Nevertheless McCandless did not have much to complain financially, but he hated money and that it could control a person’s life. Before McCandless’s graduation, his parents had offered to buy him a new car because McCandless’s Datsun was an old car, but he declined angered by the offer. In a letter he wrote to his sister…

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    There are many organization that you can get involved in to help stop poverty such as CARE, Feeding American, Project Bread, Kiva, ONE, Oxfam, and many others. CARE is one of the leading organization to stop global poverty. CARE focuses on empowering women to give them direction in their lives. Care provides the poor with preventions of diseases and proper health care knowledge. Feeding…

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    Helping Those In Poverty Twenty one thousand people die from starving a day (hunger and world poverty). That means that Twenty two thousand people died a painful death. Pain has always been know to human beings but pain is not familiar to all humans. Pain can be numbing to a person or it can be dreadful, it takes many different forms, hunger is a form that is most common to people. Food is a necessity to human beings in order to survive. Some people eat three meals a day plus snack, and some of…

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    Into The Wild Materialism

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    Alaskan. Christopher McCandless rejected all what he saw as American materialism. Christopher McCandless went into the wilderness to found the true meaning of life by himself. After graduated from university, at age 22, he donated all his savings to Oxfam about $ 24.000 and went on a road-trip around the United States with his Datsun B210. At Lake Mead, the car was lost to a flash flood, so he continued by walking, hitch-hiking and jumping freight trains. In Northern California, McCandless…

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    Peter Singer’s Sep. 05, 1999 article “The Singer Solution To World Poverty” is about a moral judgment to save people lives. Singer’s believes that if we all cooperate to donate money for a non-profit organization like Unicef or Oxfam America would help and save the lives of kids. Because of our ignorance so many kids are dying from easily treatable illnesses but if we cut our luxury expense and donate that money for those organizations, we can save someone’s life. Singer also explains that some…

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    his back and the help of others who gave him jobs for money to survive. You see, when Chris decided to make this journey, he left everything. He burned all of his physical money and donated the rest of his life savings, approximately $25,000, to the OXFAM charity, an organization focused on the alleviation of global poverty. He even refused to accept a brand-new car that his parents had given to him at…

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    Risk Of Climate Change

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    world is becoming hunger. “The pressure of rising temperatures and extreme weather events on production” make people to have not enough food to eat, Oxfam warned. “The number of people at risk of hunger could rise by 10%-20% by 2050 compared to a world where the climate was not changing, undoing efforts to tackle the problem, the aid agency said.” Oxfam said that yields were damaged by global warming and in some parts of the world where getting too poor could be decreased by less than 25% by…

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