have to be responsible for the poor. The wealthy should not be obligated to help the poor because they‚ in most cases‚ have earned what they received. The poor don’t deserve to live in the conditions they do‚ but it is all about opportunities. The wealthy took advantage of their opportunities and got a lot out of it. The poor cannot expect the wealthy to give them a certain percentage of their income because they will become dependent on that money. Therefore the poor just need to apply themselves
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Gans Reflection As I was reading “The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All‚" I was enlightened to read about the social phenomenon of poverty that I had never come across. For example‚ how the poor “buy goods others do not want and thus prolong the economic usefulness‚" is an ingenious way to put the unique situation that is addressed in this essay. Although Gans is using satire to poke playfully at the rich for looking down upon the poor‚ I conceived from it that both sides need to open their eyes
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"Oh my God look at this rich countries just sitting there and watching the poor countries suffer."Don’t you think that this rich countries should wake up and start doing something to help these poor countries such as Haiti due to the Earthquake it went through and also many other countries. One reason rich countries should help these poor countries is because if you take Haiti for example after the earthquake they had in 2010 there were many damages done to people and land because Many buildings
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Jeffrey Reiman‚ author of The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison‚ first published his book in 1979; it is now in its sixth edition‚ and he has continued to revise it as he keeps up on criminal justice statistics and other trends in the system. Reiman originally wrote his book after teaching for seven years at the School of Justice (formerly the Center for the Administration of Justice)‚ which is a multidisciplinary‚ criminal justice education program at American University in Washington‚ D
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THEME: Accelerating Rural Growth and Empowering the Rural Poor TOPIC: The efficiency of the Samurdhi program in accelerating rural growth. By Fathima Shazana Magdon Ismail (Department of Economics‚ University of Colombo‚ Colombo 3‚ Sri Lanka) Background paper for the 5th South Asian Economics Students Meet‚ 28th January to 3rd February 2008‚ New Delhi‚ India Accelerating Rural Growth and Empowering the Rural Poor The efficiency of the Samurdhi program in accelerating rural growth
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understood that these institutions‚ which could be costly‚ were also successful when serving people in need. The exact details of Boulder County’s history relating to poor houses and poor farms are vague. They are scattered among local institutions‚ memories of older residents‚ occasional books and newspaper clippings. The first poor farm/poorhouse started informally in the 1870’s. During this time the county commissioners realized they were spending a lot of their time dealing with issues related
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One of the many ways that the poor have unequal access to justice is not being able to afford their own attorneys. Court appointed attorneys are usually very young‚ inexperienced‚ and have massive workloads. Court appointed attorneys cannot defend a client in the same manner as a lawyer that cost $200 an hour. Most court appointed attorneys don’t get to meet with their clients often‚ usually meeting only a few times before the trial. Because the court appointed attorneys don’t get to meet with their
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“Globalisation has allowed the economies of some poor countries to develop‚ but such development has often led to increasing gaps between rich and poor in those countries” Discuss this statement with reference to contrasting countries you have studied. Globalisation is the increasing interconnection in the world’s economic‚ cultural and political systems. Philippe Legrain described globalisation as ‘the way in which peoples lives are becoming increasingly intertwined with those of distant people
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effortlessly. This period of globalisation‚ however‚ has not benefitted all realms of life and the gap between rich and poor countries is constantly growing larger. The objective of this essay is to assess the effect of globalisation on wealthy and developing countries and conclude whether it is to blame for the worldwide inequality of wealth. Every society started off in the same way: poor.1 However‚ by now most countries have been able to shift from this economic status due to globalisation. Globalisation
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Both Holt (1997‚ cited in Gardner 2005:59-63) and Rothenberg (1969‚ cited in Gardner 2005:68-72) suggest that teachers have contributed to the negative attitudes and poor learning habits of students. Both writers suggest that student¡¦s poor direction of viewing and bad habits of learning is due to the way of treating others‚ learning and thinking they are taught by teachers. Both of them think that As Holt (1997‚ cited in Gardner 2005:59-63) has described‚ students are taught to feel indifferently
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