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Cycle Of Poverty Sociology
I am studying Sociology at Radford University. I hope to break the Cycle of Poverty in a case, or more, where I can ease or interrupt the impact of poverty on the growth of children in poor families. Both the social, and psychological, effect on the family, and the nutritional rank can influence growth. The major effect I hope to instill in the family is to teach them how, and how easy it is, to feed themselves using the state-the-art farming methods that have developed and increased since the early nineteen-eighties. These techniques are expansion of the methods used by indigenous Indians at Mexico City over three thousand years ago.
The Olmec Indians made artificial islands in the marshes of the present Mexico City region. They created

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