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    Due To Immigration

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    The Positive Effect on the United States Due to Immigration Immigration has been a struggle to deal with in the United States. Thousands of immigrants have come to the United States looking to escape the problems they were facing back home‚ just like our great-grandparents. There are parts of the world that are not the friendliest and safest. They may have entered the United States through the Mexico-United States Border‚ Pacific Ocean‚ Atlantic Ocean‚ or through other ways. Immigration is the action

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    The Man Who Saw the Flood

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    "When the flood waters recede‚ the poor folk along the river start from scratch." In Richard Wright’s "The Man Who Saw the Flood‚" the catastrophic flood-losses facing a poor family of sharecroppers reveal the circumstances that force the emancipated but still ignorant and debased blacks to become indebted to and thus re-enslaved by the same whites from whom they received freedom. Wright’s resigned yet resolute protagonists show that even hollow hopes can drive people to noble perseverance in

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    The Working Poor

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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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    BETWEEN RICH AND POOR NATIONS DUE TO GLOBALIZATION INTERNATIONAL INEQUALITY Inequality must be defined and be able to be measured so that comparisons can be made between rich and poor countries. Once the causes are determined‚ the effects of globalization can be evaluated and be measured. The World Bank defines inequality as the disparity of income and standard of living among nations and their citizens (Birdsall‚ 2002) The income gap that exists between the rich and poor countries has become

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    Cumbria floods 2009

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    Cumbria Floods 2009 Between Wednesday 18 November and Friday 20 November 2009‚ up to 372mm of rain fell on Cumbria. In the 24 hours ending 00:45 on Friday the 20th‚ 314mm of rain fell on Seathwaite. This is a record daily rainfall for the UK. The rainfall earlier in the week ensured that the ground was saturated in many areas. Flooding occurred in five out of the six Boroughs‚ the only one escaping being Barrow. The effect on properties was concentrated in Allerdale and South Lakeland with the most

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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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    The Working Poor

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    Inescapable “They spend everything and save nothing” (Shipler 4) David Shipler states in The Working Poor when he refers to the working poor in America. Unfortunately‚ for some work just does not work due to conditions such as having to raise children and the inability to fully participate in school. Shipler specifically analyzes three mothers who exemplify those who will be poor for the rest of their lives due to the necessary expenses of their children and household bills. These women will never be able

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    During the 2010 monsoon season (July and August)‚ Pakistan experienced the worst floods recorded in its history. Heavy rainfall caused flash floods in the north and north-western regions of the country. The subsequent run-off created a southward moving mass of water approximately the size of the United Kingdom. The flood waters travelled downstream through Punjab and Sindh until they reached the Arabian Sea. Many of the main tributaries feeding into the Indus River were also flooded‚ further inundating

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    The Working Poor

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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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    researched‚ detailed account of the Johnstown Flood of May 31st 1889‚ which provides arguments for why the disaster was both "the work of man" and "a visitation of providence". However‚ it is apparent that McCullough believes that man was more responsible than nature/god for the extent of the catastrophe. In McCullough’s opinion‚ the storm that caused the flood was no more than the inevitable stimulus of the disaster‚ whereas the deferred maintenance and poor repairs on the dam were the primary reason

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