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    SERIES Theories of Poverty and Anti-Poverty Programs in Community Development Ted K. Bradshaw RPRC Working Paper No. 06-05 February‚ 2006 Rural Poverty Research Center http://www.rprconline.org/ RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center 214 Middlebush Hall University of Missouri Columbia MO 65211-6200 PH 573 882-0316 RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center Oregon State University 213 Ballard Hall Corvallis OR 97331-3601 PH 541 737-1442 Theories of Poverty and Anti-Poverty Programs in Community Development

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    Bangladesh is once again engaged in its liberation war and like then (1971). The Shahbag area — the epicenter of the protests — has been now christened as “Projonmo Chottor”; the place of protest against the war criminal and overall corruption of Bangladesh‚ the place where people protested through different cultural performance and movement. Shahbag Square in Dhaka had a festive look‚ with people holding various cultural events as part of the protest. Groups within the throng sit in circles‚ singing

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    loyal followers believed that by him speaking out against the war in Vietnam he was ignoring his work fighting against racial discrimination in the south. The question then becomes to what extent this accusation was true‚ and whether or not King should have ignored the Vietnam war in favor of continuing his work in the Civil Rights Movement. By looking at the arguments King makes in his earlier works and comparing it with his speech about the Vietnam war‚ we can see that King has preached the same ideas

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    Since 1991‚ the southern half of Somalia‚ a poverty stricken African nation‚ has seen various tribal militias battle for dominance and power over individual regions of the country. Violence has plagued Mogadishu‚ the capital‚ since warlords ousted the former president. Mere months after the collapse of the government‚ men‚ women and children in torn clothes ran helplessly towards packages dropped from military planes towards the hot sand of their tiny village. This action was one of many attempts

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    Topic: Choosing adoption instead of abortion Purpose: To inform my audience about the many options there is instead of abortion. Introduction: Abortions kills as many Americans daily as the tragedy of 9/11. Every single year‚ abortion kills the same number of Americans as have been killed on all the battlefields in all of the wars in U.S. history combined. Central Idea: There are options‚ there are millions of childless couples who do not have the honor of knowing what it feels like to

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    serious problem in the US‚ even though the drug war has made these substances less accessible. There are a lot of supporting views for the motion that government should legalize drugs‚ the reasons being: to spend less on war drugs‚ to make drugs more accessible to people and scientists in need of drugs‚ to collect tax revenues‚ etc. Two well-known professors and authors‚ Michael Huemer and Gabor Maté‚ argue‚ in their articles‚ against America’s drug war with two different approaches. Even though some

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    SOCIAL WELFARE pOLICY Poverty It’s All Over the World. Rhoiney‚ Andrea 4/23/2014 What is poverty? We live in a world full of Poverty. Poverty is being poor. Poverty is having low income. Poverty is not making ends meet. Poverty does not know where the next place you will eat‚ sleep or even shower. Poverty is around us‚ it’s all over the world. Homeless people are everywhere‚ an estimated of 100 million people are homeless worldwide. The sad part is that number could be so much bigger

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    Midway through the 20th century‚ towards the end of World War II‚ one of the most feared and important weapons was fabricated. The nuclear bomb‚ also known as the atomic bomb‚ was first constructed by the United States‚ with the initial project starting in August of 1942 (“Nuclear Weapons”). The first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the United States on August 6th‚ 1945‚ and on August 9th 1945 a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki (“Science behind”). By dropping two nuclear

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    A Review on Lifeboat ethics: the case against helping the poor Lifeboat ethics: the case against helping the poor is a famous essay written by Garret Hardin‚ a human ecologist in 1974. This article aims to re-examine the lifeboat ethics which was developed by the author to support his controversial proposal. In the theory‚ the world is compared to a lifeboat with a carrying capacity of 60. There are totally 50 people on board‚ representing comparatively rich nations‚ while the 100 others swimming

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    Speech Against War Message As a senator of the United States‚ I feel it is my duty to help keep the country in a neutral state in order to stop the risk of getting into problems. At a time like this‚ we cannot run the risk of ruining our economy and getting involved in a national conflict. There are many points in Wilson’s war message that I would like to point out as unreasonable. Throughout the message he makes sure that he talks a lot about democracy‚ other nation’s choices‚ and future plans

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