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    The Poor Poverty is everywhere in the world. Not everyone knows that there are people that are poor right in their own back yard. The new Pope Francis is very big on helping the poor he has gave a lot of speeches about the subject. In the world there is around 1.29 billion people living in poverty‚ in the U.S.A there is around 46.5 million homeless‚ and around 6% of the people that live in Sidney Ohio are unemployed. To end poverty in the world would be great. It would take the whole world

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    The 1920s had seen robust economic growth in the United States. Mass-production techniques and the growing availability of electricity allowed industries to increase their output—and profits—dramatically. Employment levels surged‚ and many workers saw improvements in their standards of living. Consumer demand for new products also drove creation of new loan programs: for the first time middle-class Americans were able to purchase such goods as refrigerators‚ washing machines‚ and automobiles by making

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    fleeing Americans‚ there could have been a worse time to migrate‚ due to harsh working and living conditions‚ and new immigration restriction laws‚ the many negatives outweigh the positives for the new immigrants. The New Immigrants during the 1880-1920 period typically settled in the cities along the eastern seaboard and entered low-paying‚ wage-labor jobs‚ which meant they filled the growing factories and also worked at other poorly-paid jobs such as construction work or sewing. Because the living

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    eradication of slavery‚ Black people were still ostracized and treated horribly in mainstream society‚ despite claims that they were free. There are widespread notions that Black people were and are treated terribly in the South but that when they move and migrate to other areas‚ the treatment ceases. The lynchings stop‚ the policy changes are better‚ and the micro-aggressions are nonexistent‚ but this is simply not the case. The idea that the South was the only place where Black people were mistreated is

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    classes of people. Some of them are rich and the other are poor ad thats why we have different living in this world. I have read that poor people are more ha rich ones ad thats due to the money management and other reasons However we can be rich from different ways such as working hard and make an excellent use of money. Therefore‚ this world is full of different classes of people due to the family background‚ environment and self-work. This world is full with different kinds of people‚ I mean in

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    PHYSICAL AND MENTAL ACTIVITIES IN 1920s and 1930s The lifestyle of Canadians changed dramatically from 1920s to 1930s. In the 1920s‚ everybody was living happily until the stock market crash in U.S. which caused the great depression. Canada was greatly affected by the depression. In the 1920s‚ technology and inventions grew rapidly‚ entertainment was booming and sports were becoming very popular while in the 1930s‚ Canadians no longer had money to afford anything and had to live without home‚ food

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    their parents had subjected them to the same treatment. While on the other hand‚ my mother’s side of the family is Irish‚ German‚ and Indian. They despised the fact that my father was an African-American man. I would hear my mother’s mother talk badly of my father. She even went as far as not to allow my father in her home. She was the hardest on me out of all the grand children when it came to disciplining us‚ because my father’s skin tone was that of a black man. They also tended to favor my mother’s

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    discussed the language used in the Declaration of Independence‚ and that used in the United States Constitution to describe the rights to which everyone is entitled. How do they differ and what greater conflict does this discrepancy represent? * ‘Our people are basically decent and caring‚ and our highest ideals are expressed in the Declaration of Independence‚ which says all of us have an equal right to “life liberty‚ and the pursuit of happiness.”’ * The America that we “know is a country that

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    POOR COUNTRIES ARE POOR BECAUSE THEY ARE POOR Poor countries are poor not because they are poor but because they lack the essential resources which are significant for economic growth and development. The African continent is considered as the poorest continent in the world. This is due to political instability which tends to scare away investors thus stunting economic growth of a country. Some of the reasons as to which developing countries are poor are; corrupt governments‚ low illiteracy levels

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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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