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    Ashley Duran Sociology 1101 August 9‚ 2010 Poverty and Crime A social issue that has always intrigued me was crime (petty crime‚ violent crime‚ etc) in impoverished urban areas and the social and economic impact that crime causes in these areas. Before conducting my research into this topic‚ I have always pondered why crime and poverty are so closely related. Are these two so closely linked solely because of the lack of income in the area? Or are there some

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    Effects of Poverty on Children Poverty is defined as the lack of the minimum food and shelter necessary for maintaining life. A child who grows up in poverty face an uphill battle throughout their lives‚ as poverty often forces them to drop out of school in order to help provide for the family‚ and denies them the medical care that they need to grow into strong‚ healthy‚ productive adults. Children are dependent on others; they enter or avoid poverty by virtue of their family’s economic circumstances

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    Thousands of people worldwide are suffering from poverty. People do not choose to live in poverty‚ society leave them with no choice. They usually live in isolated areas and have little business nearby. Poverty does influence‚ power because there are less opportunities and poorer health‚ which makes life more difficult than someone that is wealthy. Power is affected by poverty because there are less opportunities for the less fortunate making life more burdensome. In the article A Look Inside America’s

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    Child Poverty When a tree fell in July and destroyed her family’s mobile home in Leicester‚ North Carolina. Kwana Bailey considered giving up. Perhaps it was time to throw in the towel‚ the mother of six wondered. Maybe she would go camp out in front of the social services until someone came to her aid. Her landlord was refusing to fix her property‚ and being homeless for the second time was a setback‚ she wasn’t sure if she could handle it. Then‚ Bailey remembered why she cleaned up her act in the

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    A Global Problem: Poverty

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    A GLOBAL PROBLEM: POVERTY Poverty is one of the biggest problems of the world. It can be seen that poverty is almost everywhere. So we can see poverty even in rich countries. A research‚ which carried out at Oxford University in 2004‚ shows that %12 of the total population of the world earn 25‚000$-50.000$ per year and this group of people called high-income group. 30% of the total population of the world earn 5‚000$-10‚000$ per year and this group called average-income group. Lastly‚ 58%

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    and children living in absolute poverty have extreme difficulty surviving. Poverty at its worst involves hunger leading to starvation‚ inadequate shelter or housing‚ and lack of clothing. Absolute poverty is more common in third world countries but also exists in richer countries. In countries such as Africa‚ Asia‚ and South America poverty often affects the majority of the population. Richer countries have poor who are the minority and suffer relative poverty. As food prices rise worldwide

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    Poverty is such a big issue; you could write on so many topics. I think choosing something specific is best. If it’s too general‚ it could be too difficult to write about. How about you find something that connects to poverty that you’re interested in. Then if you would like to narrow it down‚ choose a particular group of people and/or a particular part of the world. For example you could look at the connection between: - poverty and health/disease‚ - poverty and education or - poverty and

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    have been taken out of poverty.” (Guadiana). This quote demonstrates how crucial the new capitalist economy plays in providing developed nations citizens with equal and beneficial opportunities. The readers can imply these observation to be signifying the main influences as to why communist countries such as North Korea and China pertain such a high poverty rate which is due to the strict governmental policies. The author provides context to the idea that the government and economic systems have

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    Living with a poverty level income is a difficulty facing many people around the world; poverty is a cultural universal‚ or trait found in every known culture – not an expression of individual differences. The most basic explanation for this is the trend towards social stratification‚ the system by which society organizes itself into a hierarchy. In some cultures this is manifest in the form of a caste system in which people who are in poverty have little to no chance of escaping it. In the United

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    Speech About Poverty

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    new one‚ but an enduring one. According to the United Nations‚ poverty in our world is still a very real and distressing problem. Based on their annual report‚ over 40% of the poorest people in our world live with less than £1.03 a day. One may wonder who exactly these people are‚ and may think about all those poor people in Africa. You may take pity on them‚ but may be left puzzled on what exactly you can do to help. But what if poverty was a great deal closer to your home than thought possible? It

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