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    The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was of the most powerful natural disasters of the 1900’s in 11 states along the Mississippi River from Illinois to Louisiana. The flood lasted from the beginning of April‚ through May‚ June and July and finally ended in August. During the flood‚ the river got to be as wide as 80 miles in some places and submerged residential areas in as much as 30 feet of water. The flood affected multiple states and the country in countless ways. Some of the ways it changed the

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    Working with the Poor

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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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    Banker to the Poor

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    Banker to the Poor: The Autobiography of Muhammad Yunus Author: Muhammad Yunus Copyright: 2003 Introduction Banker to the Poor narrates the life of Muhammad Yunus and his conception of the micro-lending institution‚ Grameen Bank‚ to provide help to the poor. Yunus had a dream of providing help the poor to be able to help themselves. He believes that if the poor can receive financial help in the form of very small loans and are taught some basic principles of financial management‚ they will learn

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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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    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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    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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    How Do Floods Occur?

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    When floods develop‚ the places in which they do so are called water sheds. These water sheds can be either man made or they can be natural. A watershed is defined as an area that is between a land mass and a water source. A watershed can be a lake or a river. If this particular watershed is working appropriately‚ then the water should be drained into the ground naturally. However‚ if there is too much snowfall or rainfall‚ then the watershed cannot hold so much water and this results in overflowing

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    Selling to the Poor

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    poverty in the long-run. Then‚ it will be discuss further in what sectors and in which ways (the strategies)‚ do the companies selling into emerging country. We choose selling soap in India as an example to illustrate this idea. Part 1: Selling to the poor‚ the problem and its potential benefits The problem: The greatest misperception is that selling to low-income is not profitable. Even worse‚ sometimes those companies were condemned for exploiting low-income community as cheap labour and for extracting

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    The working poor

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    The Working Poor: Invisible in America David K. Shipler David K. Shipler is the author of The Working Poor: Invisible in America‚ also winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his book Arabs and Jews: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land‚ and a Journalist/ Foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Shipler is a well known author who shows have had plenty of life experiences and education‚ while studying society and trying to understand the

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    The Struggle of the Working Poor Revised Essay Sociology 113 Yvonne Barney October 19‚ 2012 The Struggle of the Working Poor Society often describes the impoverished with one word‚ lazy. Society has taught us that if a person wants to be financially successful‚ it is a simple process of education and hard work that will equate to a successful income. This is the American dream. If the impoverished simply would get a job instead of being lazy‚ they would not need to rely on programs like

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