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    Representation on Poor

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    commonly known as the poor. The different medias that society are exposed to usually show poor people as being lazy‚ dirty‚ and often uneducated. According to Bell Hooks essay‚ Outlaw culture: Resisting Representation‚ “value was connected to integrity‚ to being honest and hardworking.” (pg 433) Although she points out that the media portrays the poor as lazy‚ and non hardworking‚ she fails to speak on the fact that the most hardworking people are actually placed in the “poor” category. People that

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    Chili Myths

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    the Chili There are many myths and legends regarding the origin of chili. One myth states The Lady in Blue; a nun from Spain had an out of body experience and when she returned she wrote down the very first recipe for chili in the 1600s. Also‚ it is said that travelers from the Canary Islands were in Houston‚ Texas and used peppers‚ onions‚ and meat to make a chili concoction. Although‚ the most accepted version is that chili originated from San Antonio‚ Texas by poor families of the region that

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    The Working Poor

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    out there that are working poor and on the poverty that is happening around our country. Introduction In our society many people do not understand how people are in poverty. They do not understand what is meant by working poor‚ people believe as long as their working so how can they be poor. Statistics show that in 2001‚ there were 653‚ 300 working poor individuals in Canada‚ and 1.5 million that are living in a working poor family. The people who are working poor have many jobs but their wages

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    Americans are great in many ways; however our size shouldn’t be one of them. More than “two-thirds of adults in America are considered overweight or obese”( Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). This is not a new issue. It has been growing for a long time‚ and not enough people are taking the initiative to change their habits. I propose that we need government help to encourage us to eat better and make healthier choices. The

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    Essay: Socio-Economic problem common faced in India and America Problem of unemployment is a common socio-economic problem faced in India and United states. Reasons for the problem are more or less similar only differing in the intensity‚ complexity and depth. Looking at India first unemployment is seen as problem because country’s most important productive asset which is its manpower‚ abundance in India‚ is going waste being idle. Unemployment among educated youth is a bigger concern in the

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    Working Poor

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    our modern Capitalist society‚ it is assumed that the more work a person performs the better off they will be financially. This naturally leads to the assumption that poor people are simply too lazy to improve the quality of their lives. In her article‚ Marlene Kim states‚ “Schiller‚ for example‚ believes that the working poor are poor simply because they do not work enough hours. If they worked full-time year-round‚ he argues‚ they would lift themselves out of poverty” (Kim‚ 1998:65). We have a tendency

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    MISSION TO THE POOR

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    SPIRITUALITY REFLECTING ON THE MISSION TO THE POOR “Sure that it was god’s will‚ Alphonsus picked up his courage and started to act; and making the total sacrifice of the city of Naples to Jesus Christ‚ he offered to live the rest of his days in sheep-folds and hovels‚ and to die amoung shepherds and country-folk” (A.M. Tannoia‚ Della vita ed Istituto del Ven. S. di D. Alfonso M. Liguori‚ I 66). To understand Redemptorists spirituality towards the poor‚ it is crucial to have a light of St. Alphonsus

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    Helping the Poor!

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    Helping the poor! The point of helping someone in need is that the person who you helped could now be living the life always telling others about you‚ praising you‚ but for example if you haven’t helped out a person in need he or she will be living a life of terror. They won’t have money‚ food‚ and a family. That’s why I think it’s important to keep care of others! But to be honest‚ would it really kill you to donate a low amount of money a month. A fifty riyals a month to any charity helps‚ it

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    Aging Myth

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    > The Myth of Senility Myth:  Older persons "naturally" grow more confused and child-like‚ become forgetful‚ and lose contact with reality. They become "senile". Reality:   Senility is an outdated term referring to abnormal deterioration in the mental functions of some older people‚ linking the process of growing old to symptoms of forgetfulness‚ confusion‚ and changes in behavior and personality. Such an image is false‚ stereotypical‚ and is neither a normal sign of aging nor even a disease.

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    Urban Poor

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    quite obvious and the solution is staring everyone in the face; there are just not enough public servants with enough guts to address the issue. But someone has to put an end to the vicious cycle of squatting particularly in Metro Manila where most poor Filipinos from the provinces seem to converge. Arrogant Filipino squatters The squatters or illegal settlers need to move out of wherever they have been squatting for years or even decades because they simply do not belong there. They have long

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