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    Elizabethan Poor Laws and the Unworthy Poor Tara McFadden Indiana University School of Social Work Abstract Beginning in the Elizabethan Era‚ unworthy poor was a label placed on able bodied people that appeared to choose to not work. They were often treated harshly and in extreme cases‚ put to death (Shelly‚ 2011). In today’s society such treatment would be unheard of. The act of even labeling this group of people or other groups is discouraged and even against the NASW’s The Code of Ethics

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    order to differentiate between these two terms‚ one must keep in mind the clear-cut differences by defining the prevailing ideology of each term. The tenets of socialism assert that the state should wield total economic power by manipulating prices of goods and wages of workers. Furthermore‚ socialism requires people to submit to the rule of law. In return for their compliance‚ citizens are provided with resources rationed by the government. On the other hand‚ liberalism is more challenging to define

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    economic development provide exhaustive lists of all the factors impeding or accelerating economic growth without mentioning the conditions under which entrepreneurship languishes or flourishes‚ and the learned comparisons between “socialism” and “capitalism” are virtually silent about the role of entrepreneurship under regimes of collective rather than private ownership. According to modern economic theory‚ an entrepreneur is an individual who takes on certain tasks based solely on a perception

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    SOCI 2013 17 April 2013 How Capitalism Affects the American Dream Capitalism is defined as “an economic system in which the ownership of the means of production- like land‚ factories‚ large sums of money‚ and machines - is in private hands” (SOC 10). Social Philosopher Karl Marx strongly believed that in the end‚ capitalism simply wouldn’t work for several different reasons. His idea became known as Marxian conflict theory. While the functionalist theory examines groups’ order and cohesion‚ the

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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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    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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    political system ‚ aiming to create a classless‚ moneyless and stateless social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production. It also aimed to change the social and economic ideology of capitalism ‚ which was thrived on the principle of the rich getting richer‚ the poor ‚ poorer. To understand why Communism spread so rapidly we must learn about the origins of communism. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels were the founding fathers of communism in 1848. Marx wrote a document

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    Capitalism is a system that promises equality for all‚ but some believe that this is only a promise of false hope. The way that people view this statement varies. The view that capitalism is a system that only benefits those who are already wealthy is a concern that many have. While this view is held by many people‚ others believe that capitalism is beneficial since it provides ways to move from social class to another social class. In school‚ one always tries to achieve passing grades to advance

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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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    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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