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    Poverty is the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty or destitution refers to the deprivation of basic human needs‚ which commonly includes food‚ water‚ sanitation‚ clothing‚ shelter‚ health care and education. Relative poverty is defined contextually as economic inequality in the location or society in which people live. For much of history‚ poverty was considered largely unavoidable as traditional modes of production were insufficient to give

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    Livelihood Finance and Training POVERTY IN THE PHILIPPINES Uplift Training By Vivian G. Villegas – Uplift 2004 General Objective: To understand and know about some causes and effects of poverty‚ its impact on society. Objectives: At the end of the seminar the participant will be able to: 1. Describe the situation of poverty in the Philippines. 2. Identify some causes and effects of poverty. 3. Enumerate some programs and some solutions to alleviate poverty. Participant: All Staff Length

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    Poverty alleviation programmes in India - Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_alleviation_programmes_in_India Poverty alleviation programmes in India From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Contents 1 Jawhar Gram Samridhi Yojna 2 Employment Assurance Scheme(EAS) 3 National Old Age Pension Scheme(NOAPS) 4 National Family Benefit Scheme(NFBS) 5 National Maternity Benefit Scheme 6 ANNAPURNA 7 Integrated Rural Development programme 8 Rural Housing-Indira

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    The planet that shouldn’t exist‚ also known as Kepler-10c. Kepler-10c is 560 light years away from earth. Kepler-10b shares the same star system as Kepler-10c. Which if you were wondering Kepler-10b is a “Lava world” that has a year of 20 hours long. Kepler-10c was discovered by the Kepler space probe. This “planet that shouldn’t exist” has a structure similar to the gas giants of the solar system. According to (Place Citation here) “Scientist looked at Kepler-10c with the HARPS-North Instrument

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    STILL SEPARATE STILL UNEQUAL The newest CPS leadership frames the district’s current inequities as an inevitable result of demographic trends. Their fraudulent attempts to absolve corporate reform of any culpability in our separate and unequal school system are an extension of the resistance that enforcement of desegregation faced in the decades after Brown v Board. The constitutional principles of Brown were narrowly intended to eliminate de jure segregation‚ segregation that was approved and

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    Is it still relevant to discuss social class? Social class is a division of a society based on social and economic status. It could be argued that it is clear that social class is relevant in our society‚ this is because there are a multitude of social establishments that are currently affected by differences in class‚ such as the education and health system. Social class is a system of social stratification‚ a system which creates different types of social inequalities. Social inequality is defined

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    Topic: The devastation of Nuclear Weapons and why they should cease to exist. Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that the use of Nuclear Weapons or WMD (weapons of mass destruction)‚ should be eradicated for the safety and preservation of humanity and the world Thesis Statement: America‚ and humanity as a whole‚ should agree to stop the use and creation of Nuclear weapons because of lessons learned through history‚ as well as logical and moral conclusions based on the facts surrounding

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    Poverty and inequality in the Philippines remains a challenge. In the past four decades‚ the proportion of households living below the official poverty line has declined slowly and unevenly and poverty reduction has been much slower than in neighboring countries such as the People’s Republic of China‚ Indonesia‚ Thailand‚ and Viet Nam. Economic growth has gone through boom and bust cycles‚ and recent episodes of moderate economic expansion have had limited impact on the poor. Great inequality across

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    Poverty The first theory that we will use for Poverty is the Conflict Theory. Conflict theory is defined as‚ “a theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of groups that are competing for scarce resources‚”(Copyright © 2009 by James M. Henslin‚ pg G9). In other words the outside forces prevent individuals from achieving a desired goal or to live a certain way. When it comes to poverty‚ people would like to be involved in an upward mobility to have a better quality of life for

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    itself. One of the biggest thing that constantly changes is our country‚ the United States of America‚ Thomas Paine writes Rights of a Man (1791) arguing that America is a country where concord is least expected. Although Paine makes a compelling argument it’s hard to look at this country today as a land where “the rights of man” exist? Is it a land where the rich aren’t privileged? He characterizes America as this great country that our government created "on the principles of society and the rights

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