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    much joy and laughter that comes from these same people everyday. The children I worked with have a massive desire to gain an education. They want to learn how to escape the poverty they are born into. Zambia is a country suffers from poor leadership. These children want to become leaders and emerge their country from poverty and hardships. My friends in Africa are unbelievably grateful for everything they receive and are always willing to share. The smiles on their faces are the most…

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    According to chapter 11 in the Human behavior in the Macro Social Environment, A Neighborhood is a geographic area within a bigger community where residents “ share certain characteristics ,value ,mutual interest ,or styles of living . Neighborhood create communities there are different races, religious group, and lifestyles who live in them . As it relates to social class for instinct In the Washington D.C area the poorest neighborhoods have the most visible drug problems ward 7 and 8…

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    Poverty is an issue that people face in every country of the world. Many people are living in poverty today and unable to live within the same standards as others members of their same society, simply due to differences in their financial capabilities. This is an issue for individuals, as well as an issue between countries, having some countries striving with wealth, while other countries struggle to feed and house their people. A social problem is defined as “a social condition or pattern of…

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    “There were all these women of high birth and there were these knights rushing around on their horses and they would admire the women from afar. Stories grew up around that—Lancelot and Guinevere being a typical one. The love poetry of that time was about this. The woman would ask for some task to be done, which could be trifling or it could be to go kill a dragon or something. And then there would be a reward, which wasn’t necessarily sexual, though sometimes it was.” This quote is from the…

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    Family Homelessness Shelters On a daily basis we see the homeless men and women on the street. After all they are easy to spot, because they are wearing dirty or oversized clothing, and pushing shopping carts filled with their belongings. It might sound strange, but I was thankful for this stereo-type six years ago, because that way when people looked at my son and me, they didn’t know our secret…we were homeless. In 2010, the economy was in crisis, and with every crisis there are victims.…

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    Inclusive Classroom

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    Government and court decision, such as Brown v. Board of education (1954) or The Disabilities Education act, have sought to give every person no matter who they are, the ability to receive a quality education. Any school, thus, that receives public money has to give each student the same level of education. This is regardless of what race or race they are, or what socioeconomic class they fall into, or even whether or not they have any disabilities. Education is not a privilege in this sense,…

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    Poverty is typically seen by the general population of people in America as either the fault of the individual – due to either individual failings or a difference in individual values – or they have fallen to an unfortunate circumstance. The book references an individual by the name of Oscar Lewis who was an American anthropologist. He is known for his view points on individuals who have fallen to the effects of living in thickly settled and impoverished cities such as areas of New York. He…

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    Poverty In The Classroom Brooke Hanlon Poverty In The Classroom Brooke Hanlon Poverty has major negative effects on the engagement of students in the classroom. There are seven different reason students to engage in the classroom. The phrase middle class Its self tells us very little about a person, the same way the word poverty tells us basically nothing about the students in schools. Seven differences between middle-class and low-income students show up at school. Teachers who take the…

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    Solving World Hunger

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    every day. World hunger is worst in Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America (“Know Your World: Facts About World Hunger & Poverty”). In the United States forty to fifty percent of our food gets wasted every year, but we still have forty eight point one million Americans who do not know where there next meal is coming from (“Solving World Hunger Means Solving World Poverty”). Meanwhile,…

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    World Bank defines poverty as a deprivation in the well-being; saying that is the standard that permits a person to be able to maintain the capacity to have good health, to increase the possibility to have a good level of education or to have enough food. In opposite, side this can also be the definition of well-being adding that is instead to have the capacity and the resources to enjoy all does things; measured on the income of a person. (p527) Knowing the definition of poverty is not…

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