Absolute Poverty: What Society is doing to end it and what more can be done.
Absolute Poverty: What Society is doing to end it and what more can be done.
Option Selection #2
Social Inequalities
Section: 00613
Presented to: Sandy Resendes
September 30th 2014
No matter where a person looks in the world, be it a third world country or a developed one, there are major forms of inequality; and these injustices take on many shapes. These problems all need great social change in order to improve; however, some are more urgent that others. It is this author’s belief that absolute poverty is one of them. Absolute poverty is defined as, among other things, a situation in which a person is lacking the financial means to acquire basic life necessities such as food, clothing and shelter. This problem is found in circumstantial numbers in underdeveloped countries but also in some more developed countries. It was very difficult for me to choose one issue for I believe that there are so many problems (despite our developed notion of the world) to be solved and to focus our attention towards even in today’s society. I strive to obtain a more equal world and if I were to be asked to name one goal in life it would be to help the progression of equality if only by a little. For said reason, I chose to approach the subject of absolute poverty; which, in my opinion, can be seen as the “right to life”. The three things mentioned above (food, clothing and shelter) are considered to be basic necessities of life, this says it all: we, as humans, need these things to survive. So how, as a society that claims to be advanced, are people all around the world still lacking in one if not all three of these sectors in life? This is unimaginable when one thinks of the fact that people spend millions of dollars on their huge houses and luxurious cars when children die of hunger and malnutrition every day. I do not, perhaps contrary what one might think after the last sentence, believe that these people are to blame but rather that it
Option Selection #2
Social Inequalities
Section: 00613
Presented to: Sandy Resendes
September 30th 2014
No matter where a person looks in the world, be it a third world country or a developed one, there are major forms of inequality; and these injustices take on many shapes. These problems all need great social change in order to improve; however, some are more urgent that others. It is this author’s belief that absolute poverty is one of them. Absolute poverty is defined as, among other things, a situation in which a person is lacking the financial means to acquire basic life necessities such as food, clothing and shelter. This problem is found in circumstantial numbers in underdeveloped countries but also in some more developed countries. It was very difficult for me to choose one issue for I believe that there are so many problems (despite our developed notion of the world) to be solved and to focus our attention towards even in today’s society. I strive to obtain a more equal world and if I were to be asked to name one goal in life it would be to help the progression of equality if only by a little. For said reason, I chose to approach the subject of absolute poverty; which, in my opinion, can be seen as the “right to life”. The three things mentioned above (food, clothing and shelter) are considered to be basic necessities of life, this says it all: we, as humans, need these things to survive. So how, as a society that claims to be advanced, are people all around the world still lacking in one if not all three of these sectors in life? This is unimaginable when one thinks of the fact that people spend millions of dollars on their huge houses and luxurious cars when children die of hunger and malnutrition every day. I do not, perhaps contrary what one might think after the last sentence, believe that these people are to blame but rather that it