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PATHER PANCHALI- A FILM REVIEW Pather Panchai (Song of the little road) presents to us the complexities of life in all their rythimic harmonies. The film directed by Satyajit Ray is a poignant story of poverty and starvation at various levels and yet a story that challenges the notion that poor are bereft of happiness. Entwined into the film are moments of abject poverty meet moments of small joys that only the poor experience. The whistling sound of the train, running behind the ‘mithai wala’…

unemployment in South Africa is 25.27 percent from 2000 to 2014. Mulligan (2010: xii) states that “poverty remains disproportionately a black problem in south Africa”. She says that the black population has a higher level of poverty than other racial groups. Women are mostly affected by poverty in South Africa. Poorer black women do not receive the same educational or employment opportunities…

country’s natural resources and its economic success. Natural resources are logically assumed to have a positive effect on a country’s economy. However, there is very little truth in this assumption as is argued in this essay. Many countries of the world are endowed with natural resources such as oil, natural gas, coal and other mineral deposits. These include countries like those in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Despite all the riches of these countries, their economic growth is…

are likely to become more powerful and influential to companies and decisions in a business. For example, in today’s world consumers are able to boycott a firm’s product until they see change. Environmental pressure groups such as Greenpeace force industries to make changes to how they run their operations. Activists who demand changes usually have a greater effect in today’s world due to globalization and discoveries such as the internet which makes communication faster and easier. These and…

Neoliberalism in the contemporary era, is the key issue bolstering the unequal power relationships and wealth inequality that drives political discontent, which now engulfs the western world. Presently, to comprehend the origins of neoliberalism, the appeal to history must begin with a powerful simplification: colonialism. Colonialism is the subjugation by physical and psychological force of one culture by another through military conquest of territory and caricaturing the relation between the…

At the end of many Disney princess movies the saying, “And they all lived happily ever after,” is stated. However when the movie is over and we take a step back into reality, we realize no one lives in a “happily ever after” lifestyle. The word poverty is rated by the amount of money one person possess (U.S. Bureau of Census). Poverty can be broken up into two different categories: being poor and living in poverty because of life changing moment. Approximately, fifteen percent of all Americans…

would have nowhere to go. Most of them were abandoned by their parents due to not having enough money to take care of them. In addition, Divakaruni states that “It is easy for us in America to make the error of evaluating situations in the rest of the world as though they were happening in this country and propose solutions that makes excellent sense in the context of our society.” This statement shows that the people of America know how to propose solutions as if they were America’s problems.…

There are four ethical responses to world hunger evaluated by Pojman. Though all four responses proffer solutions to the problem of hunger in the world today, the implacable and inhuman of them is the Neo- Malthusianism due to its ruthlessness, indifference to human suffering, and its inability to take cognizance of the roles of the western world in promoting the impoverished status of most third world countries through foreign policies; because all nations of the world are mutually connected,…

Poverty Simulation reflection Before the poverty simulation, my definition of poverty was based on the experience of my life in Africa (Ivory Coast). The poverty I did experience was created by the system establish after the civil war. Between the years 1960 to 1990 my parents were able to afford a basic of living such us housing, food, health, education. Possibilities were given to excellent students to come abroad study and go back to reinforce the country. Life at that time was good. Sadly,…

Most of us want to be conscientious of our effect on the planet, but it takes a lot of discipline. Some people take longer showers and since they feel guilty about doing so, they might compound food, others plant a tree or donate to clean energy projects. What option do we have and how would we know if they are actually efficient, you might ask? I checked three organizations to see what we could do to better our tomorrow. One of the companies was Carbon Pollution Reduction, which build stoves…