Poverty reduction

On January 30, 2016, I will be leaving the comforts of New England to spend my spring semester studying abroad in Florence, Italy. My plan is to travel around Europe, including to France, Spain, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, etc. Other than making the quick trip from Maine to Canada, this will be my first time outside of America. I have made several goals for myself while abroad, with the overall goal of expanding my cultural horizons. I also have goals for developing my cultural awareness…

Ending World Hunger When we are ready to eat and hear the echoing sound of our bellies screaming to be fed we tend to use the phrase, “I am starving.” What we fail to take into mind is the true meaning of what it means to starve. When hunger crosses our day we have it simple because all we have to do is walk to the refrigerator and grab food to fulfill our hunger. Unfortunately, that is not a reality for a multitude of people across the world. Many live with the hardship of actually…

Back in the 1930’s people that were mentally ill were mistreated because they couldn’t do much, other than doing labor work. Lennie is an excellent example of showing how mentally ill people were treated back in the 1930’s. People didn’t care that the mentally ill needed help, they just treated them like they were stupid. In the book Of Mice and Men, Lennie was ranked lower than all of the other people working on the farm. He was ranked lower because he was incapable of doing more than labor…

Milwaukee, the Neumann and the Stanley family, who shared how they lived their lives for two decades. This documentary showed how difficult it was for these families to achieve the American dream, as they were affected by the varying degrees of poverty, unemployment, and poor economy. Watching the documentary, Two American Families, was quite emotional for me. I was able to put myself on these families’ shoes. The documentary showed an example of how a lot of ordinary American families live…

conditions in which they were living in. Raising a family in such an impoverished situation, meant that the child would come into a world of disease and poverty. Thus creating generalizational poverty. At no instance did Scheper-Hughes conclude that these women were malevolent humans, they were rather accustomed to their living conditions. The poverty in which they lived in affected their own outlook on life, and basically forced them to accept whatever situation they were faced with. Although…

In the short essay “Inequality has been Going on Forever,“ Leonhardt discusses the negative impact of the separation of the middle and rich class and how it affects the economy. He indicates the amount of massive inequality. Leonhard is able to enlighten the audience by describing the increasing wealth gap, by including our tax system, our education system and how the United States markets and deals with capital. Although many may argue that inequality will always be a problem, Leonhardt is able…

Question 1 According to Dale Carnegie’s concept of leadership, a leader is a team player who helps to inspire a team towards set goals. I was able to witness a practical application of this leadership approach when I last volunteered for community service at a homeless shelter. I barely recognized the administrator because he almost behaved like the rest of us. He would always take part in the community outreach and other activities like any other team member ready to undertake whatever duty he…

Jean Vanier’s book The Heart of L’Arche talks about how he came about establishing L’Arche and what his experiences has been like. The book starts off by talking about the mystery of the poor. It seems that we all live in this competitive society where the better a person is or the more money they have the better off they will be, however Jean Vanier challenges this. He talks about how when a person befriends the poor or a person with a disability, they tend to have a transformation of their own…

Through Chris Gardner’s struggles of homelessness, poverty, being a single parent, and fighting to win a job among twenty others with [no educational advances], The Pursuit of Happyness portrays the traditional rags-to-riches tale of the American Dream. The [first primary] [obstacle that Gardner overcame in his pursuit of the American Dream] was [his poverty]. A scene from the film shows Gardner, [a prospective, hopeful investor], [investing all his life investments/savings] on…

stories “The Stolen Party” by Liliana Heker and “Borders” by Denice Frohman both show how inequality develops the story and the poem. The theme and quotes help the story and the poem develop. In “The Stolen Party”, Rosaura and her mother are faced with poverty and inequality, and she is invited to her friend’s party and is teased by her “friend’s cousin because of her social class. She ignores the people and is rewarded at the end of her hard work. In “Borders”, Ana Maria and her relatives…