DISPATCHES FROM THE EDGE A Memoir of War‚ Disasters‚ and Survival ANDERSON COOPER To my mom and dad‚ and the spark of recognition that brought them together Contents Introduction 1 Tsunami: Washed Away 9 Iraq: Inkblots of Blood 47 Niger: Night Sweats 83 Katrina: Facing the Storm 121 Photographic Insert Aftermath 165 Epilogue 203 Author’s Note 209 Acknowledgments 211 About the Author Credits Cover Copyright About the Publisher Introduction I WAS TEN WHEN my father
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INTRODUCTION Poverty refers to the condition of not having the means to afford basic human needs such as clean water‚ nutrition‚ health care‚ education‚ clothing and shelter. This is also referred to as absolute poverty or destitution. Relative poverty is the condition of having fewer resources or less income than others within a society or country‚ or compared to worldwide averages. In the Caribbean‚ education is the most dominant way of getting out of poverty. It seems to be the main thing
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Poverty The state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts. 2. Deficiency in amount; scantiness: "the poverty of feeling that reduced her soul" (Scott Turow). 3. Unproductiveness; infertility: the poverty of the soil. 4. Renunciation made by a member of a religious order of the right to own property. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/poverty What is poverty? Poverty is defined by Encarta online dictionary as‚ "the state of not having enough money to take care
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Below Poverty Line is an economic benchmark and poverty threshold used by the government of India to indicate economic disadvantage and to identify individuals and households in need of government assistance and aid. It is determined using various parameters which vary from state to state and within states. The present criteria are based on a survey conducted in 2002. Going into a survey due for a decade‚ India’s central government is undecided on criteria to identify families below poverty line.
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Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the front lines of the globalization debate. Klein‚ N. (2002). Toronto‚ ON: Vintage. Through personal and deep rooted ideals‚ Naomi Klein provides a chronological account on two and a half years of various protests and speeches all over the world that revolve around the issue of globalization. "Fences and Windows" is a tightly bound compilation of newspaper articles and speeches packed together to encompass basic themes of a dwindling democracy caused by the "
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Dispatches Paper As I read Dispatches by Michael Herr‚ there is an overwhelming sense of fear and horror. His dispatches are populated by soldiers called ’grunts’‚ whose enemy was everywhere and nowhere. Their maps were blank; their names for the enemy‚ ’Charlie’ or ’VC’‚ told them nothing. How do you recognize them? They all wear black pajamas; they are all alien to us. They are everywhere. That’s where the paranoia began. Herr’s dispatches are disturbing because he writes from inside the nightmare
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Because black dispatches were able to gather valuable intelligence from their owners‚ the Union had a near constant source of information. During the civil war‚ African American’s who gathered information on the Confederates were called Black Dispatches. Black Dispatches varied from a free African American to a enslaved servant working in the house of wealthy planter. Since slavery was so common in the South‚ Black Dispatches were able to fulfill their duties unnoticed. The tasks of a Black Dispatch
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article discusses the global effects of workplace stress. In this day’s business world‚ employee’s psychological health is overshadowed by the need to meet numbers and expectations. With a higher demand to meet goals‚ along with the increased pressure from competing firms‚ companies have been distinctively increasing employee workload; which in turn‚ produces a build-up of work-related stress for the employee. As a result‚ more cases of employee dissatisfaction and burn-out are amounting and becoming
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females so that they accept their inferiority. In a patriarch society that facilitates female inferiority it seems that unification of women is the only way to achieve liberation. In Cherrie Moraga’s Loving in the War Years‚ the chapter entitled “From a Long Line of Vendidas” teaches that patriarch society negatively influences the way women feel about themselves‚ thus influencing the way women relate to each other. This cultural environment perpetuates gender hierarchy by both ruining the self-image
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of living being different from state to state and minimum wage being so low why do we wonder there are so many individuals working multiple jobs‚ or the crime rate raising or the unemployment being at its highest it has been. How do we expect to be putting money back into the market and getting this country out of debt if we cannot even get ourselves out of debt. Someone once said‚ “More money‚ more problems.” The federal minimum wage was just recently increased from $7.25 to $7.36 (Department
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