Poor Richard's Almanack

Third Time's A Charm “The moment when you want to quit, is the moment when you need to keep pushing”-Ins-power. When I was 16 years old, I wanted to take my learners test, but I failed 2 times. After that, I studied everyday and night non stop for over 2 weeks, and I ended up getting a perfect score when I went to take it a third time. Now, I’m close to being able to get my license and having freedom to go wherever I please. It was 9 o’clock in the morning, and I had just woken up. I…

After a silent car ride, we pulled up into the driveway and I hopped out of the car before it could even completely stop. With my backpack repeatedly hitting my side I rushed through the front door, ran down the hall, bursted into my room and immediately shut my door. I dropped my bag and leaned against the wood, lowering myself to the ground. I pulled my phone from my pocket. Two missed calls, three texts, one voicemail. Mom. "Hey." Said one. "How did it go?" Asked another. "Call me when…

Chuck van der Woodsen lives on the corner of 13th street. Not in a house, nor an apartment, but next to a dumpster on the sidewalk. His daily routine consisted of begging for spare change and rummaging through dumpsters for scraps. Barely making it by. Of course plenty of people walked past him everyday in the huge city of Chicago. Every once and awhile someone would generously throw a dollar or two in his tattered hat that he kept beside him. Other times they offered him something to eat.…

the New Poor Law System established in 1834 was outlined and evaluated fundamentally on how it works. It outlined the causes of poverty, some historical backgrounds, Chadwick and the development of the New Poor Law, diseases & poverty and the Laissez Faire ideology. The outlines also include the underserving and deserving, how effective the workhouse and how the social problems were addressed. In 1832, the government setup an agreement for the Royal Commission to explore the work of the Poor Law…

condition of the poor, supporting a welfare type state, but in reality the intentions were not entirely humanitarian, previously the poor relief was funded through local taxes of middle and upper class people. As a means of reducing the cost, new laws were passed. The 1834 Poor law amendment act introduces the policy of “less eligibility”, the conditions inside the workhouses were made deliberately worse than the conditions in outside, the normal healthy worker had to be extremely poor to be…

growth without the use of direct violence. This would (if successful) order to create a certain balance and to reconstruct regulations in favour of the majority of the population. This could lead to a continuum of violence because for how long can the poor and less…

“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…

Increased Political Polarization by John Duca looks at the several factors that has increased polarization in the United States. First Duca examined the concept of income inequality. Income inequality is the concept that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and polarization is created from policies that cause that concept to only increase. Duca puts his hypothesis to test by comparing house polarization (Congress) to income inequality trends. “Using time series techniques, we find that…

On December 28, 1732, Benjamin Franklin began publishing a humble endeavor, an almanac to be exact. He titled his creation “Poor Richard's Almanac” and assumed the identity of Richard Saunders, a somewhat dull, but otherwise lively country man who extolled the virtues of hard work and frugality. He wrote this pamphlet expecting to sell enough copies for a small profit, but nothing more. After all, almanacs were only good for the local population they covered, so they had a limited range of…

the public library, back in the 1700’s reading books and other literature was luxury and it was usually only the elite rich people who had private collections. Franklin’s first piece of inventing the library was his Poor Richard's Almanac. For example “In 1732 I first published my almanack under the name of Richard Saunders; it was continued by me about twenty-five years, commonly…