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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WORKING WITH THE POOR As a Social Work student‚ I have been exposed to different faces of poverty especially during this school year. These exposures have taught me a lot of life lessons and helped me grow as a person. One of the realizations I had with these exposures is how poverty differently shaped the lives of the poor. Thus‚ I had different views of poverty. If you dig deeper into the causes of illegal activities‚ one of these is poverty. Once‚ I had given an opportunity to interview
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Discrimination has been around for centuries and even though there have been many improvements in the way society deals with discrimination‚ we still have a very long way to go. Gay and lesbian youth are two to three times more likely to commit suicide than other youths and 30% of all completed adolescence suicides are related to sexual identity. Parents‚ teachers‚ students – everyone needs to be more open about homosexuality and there should also be an understanding that being gay or lesbian is
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help the poor families get back on their feet by providing them with an education. If low-income families have the opportunity to receive an education‚ a lower class would no longer exist. Everybody would benefit by this change that education would make. The wealthy stay wealthy‚ and the poor better equipped to get a job and earn a salary to support their family. The rich should help the poor by providing them with the opportunity to have an education. The wealthy should offer the poor and low
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Discrimination in a Classroom Today‚ I would like to tell about a racial discrimination which happened when I was studying at high school of “Computer Technologies”. I personally witnessed that discrimination. The situation was between the teacher and the students. The teacher‚ who was a white female of Uzbek origin‚ behaved very differently towards her white students and the two black Egyptians. She was unjust towards her black Egyptian students.A white Uzbek student always arrived late‚ put her
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The Working Poor travels into the forgotten America. It is a book about people and places that most us have never thought about. We have our debates about these people‚ their lifestyles‚ how they raise their children and where they work but we don’t really know them and for the most part don’t care. How many of us notice "the man who washes cars but does not own one‚ the clerk who files cancelled checks at the bank but has $2.02 in her own account or the woman who copyedits medical textbooks but
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The American War against De Jure and De Facto Discrimination Throughout the semester‚ we have examined the differences between de jure segregation‚ that which is written into law‚ such as slavery and Jim Crow‚ and de facto segregation‚ that which is seen as customary. Even though the battle against de jure discrimination has been a victorious one‚ with the desegregation of the American military and federal government in the 1940s‚ the reversal of Plessy vs. Ferguson in the 1950s‚ and the passing
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What Makes Poor Countries Poor? In the past century‚ the world has seen countless scientific and technological advancements that have greatly improved the human condition. Thanks to these developments in communications‚ transportation‚ medicine and agriculture‚ the wealth of developed nations has increased at phenomenal rates. Unfortunately‚ not all countries have experienced these benefits. Many nations still have a per capita GDP of $1000 or less. These countries continue to be poor because
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DISCRIMINATION Discrimination is the unjust treatment of people or things‚ especially on the grounds of race age and gender. Everyone is discriminated in somehow on a daily basis it is something that everyone faces. As a colored skin person have come across this many times‚ I walk into a shop and everyone looks at me like I am going to steal something‚ I ask someone for directions and they just walk by me like I was invisible. This had been ongoing issues for decades and it still is‚ but it takes
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The working poor are those people that work the hardest for their dollar‚ work the hardest to get their paychecks‚ work the hardest to survive. Most of the working poor live paycheck to paycheck and like the saying goes‚ “robbing from Peter to pay Paul.” There is a way out of poverty‚ and there is a way for these struggling individuals to escape the perils of their life in poverty. It is not an easy road out‚ but it is possible. It is important for those that are born into this lifestyle to know
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