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  • Poverty Vs. Low Birth Weights

    Poverty Vs. Low Birth Weights

    Abstract There exist some evidence that poverty can result in low birth weight in newborn infants. On Prince Edward Island, low birth weights are currently the lowest as compared to the national average according to Statistics Canada. However, the link that exist between poverty and low birth weights leaves unanswered questions as to what can be done to reduce these low birth weights in newborn infants. The effect of Poverty on Low Birth Weight in

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    Essay Length: 997 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Bred
  • Globalization’s Other Side: The Negative Impacts on Poverty and The Environment

    Globalization’s Other Side: The Negative Impacts on Poverty and The Environment

    Critiquing Jagdish Bhagwati's Interpretation of the Social Impact of Economic Globalization Date Submitted: November 19, 2004 There have been countless numbers of books and papers written on the controversial topic that is globalization, and it seems every author or activist has their own arguments against or in support of the liberalization of trade and the social impact of economic globalization. However, in regards to the novel In Defense of Globalization, there is no doubt on

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    Essay Length: 1,939 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Victor
  • Inequality and Radical Theory

    Inequality and Radical Theory

    INEQUALITY AND RADICAL THEORY Inequality and Distribution of Crime Theorists attempt to attack the engulfing problem of crime from many different angles. Crime is so encompassing that it is difficult to know where to begin. Often times it is toiling to decide on a definition of the intangible subject of crime. This paper proposes that the problem of solving crime is difficult because crime is very diverse. It is just as equally difficult to devise

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    Essay Length: 521 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Poverty

    Poverty

    Throughout the last century, poverty has been a major issue in the society of the United States. The government has tried to help those who are living in poverty through numerous acts including Franklin D. Roosevelt’s plans to get the country out of the depression or the welfare reform in 1996. Although the government has sought to ease poverty, mainly by creating government anti poverty programs, their methods are in fact ineffective. The Federal governments

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    Essay Length: 3,003 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Top
  • Poverty in the Us

    Poverty in the Us

    Abstract The issue of poverty in the United States seems to lie on the grounds of race education and family structure. As expected I found that educational levels paralleled poverty levels. Unexpected , research was found to prove that race did in fact play a substantial role in poverty. Family structure along with other influential factors either locked an individual into poverty or provided a means for escape from the continuing cycle. Other factors contributing

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    Essay Length: 777 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Jon
  • Poverty

    Poverty

    Numerous amounts of Americans continue to live in poverty. In 2005 statistics taken from “Newsweek”, illustrate on graphs the percentages of each ethnic group, including Black, White, Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islander and American Indian living in poverty in the United States. “Newsweek” also illustrates the number of people living in poverty by race. Statistically more than half of the people living in poverty represent people of color. The high poverty rate for people of color

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    Essay Length: 310 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Top
  • Poverty in Our Nation

    Poverty in Our Nation

    Poverty In Our Nation Although the United States is one of the richest countries in the world many of it's people sleep in the streets, dig through garbage cans to find food, and carry all that they own in this world on their backs or in shopping carts. These people are classified as the homeless. I believe that being brought up into a lower class, defines your social status in this country. I believe

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    Essay Length: 762 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Janna
  • Race, Poverty & Globalization

    Race, Poverty & Globalization

    Race, Poverty & Globalization INTRODUCTION How is poverty related to globalism, and why are people of color under the most severe threat from this process? Certainly, other people are also under a threat from this globalization process, and some would assert that democracy and capitalism itself may be undone by this process if it is not checked. To answer the above question and to understand why minorities and other marginal populations are most at risk,

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    Essay Length: 907 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Mike
  • Effects of Poverty in Our World

    Effects of Poverty in Our World

    All over the world, disparities between the rich and poor, even in the wealthiest of nations is rising sharply. Fewer people are becoming increasingly “successful” and wealthy while a disproportionately larger population is also becoming even poorer. There are many issues involved when looking at poverty. It is not simply enough (or correct) to say that the poor are poor due to their own (or their government’s) bad governance and management. In fact, you could

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    Essay Length: 1,583 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Vika
  • The Inequality in America’s School System

    The Inequality in America’s School System

    The Inequality in America's School System One of the major problems in America today is the overwhelming incidences of inequality in the schools, particularly the differences between schools in the suburbs and the urban school system. This inequality is jumping off point, if left unresolved this problem will continue to contribute to the growing strain on the economy. It will lead to an increase in the numbers of teen pregnancies, the unemployment rate, the number

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    Essay Length: 1,109 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Yan
  • Globalization: Does It Help or Hinder Poverty?

    Globalization: Does It Help or Hinder Poverty?

    Introduction Globalization is one of the most widely debated topics in the world today. There are many different schools of thought on the effects of globalization on world poverty. Certain people believe that globalization increases global poverty and that the poor of the world are cheated because of it. However, others believe that globalization decreases poverty and helps aid the poor. Further to this, another group of people believe that poverty and globalization are not

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    Essay Length: 1,660 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Steve
  • Gandhi on Poverty

    Gandhi on Poverty

    Circumscribed amongst the seemingly endless list of ecological problems our world is currently staring face to face with, there is one that, depending on what region of Earth is analyzed, could be considered one the worldпїЅs most overlooked dilemmas. Poverty is making its way across the globe like a disease, affecting not just those without employment, but everyone. Anyone who pays taxes helps to fund AmericaпїЅs welfare program. Anybody who lives in or frequently travels

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    Essay Length: 999 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Tommy
  • “gender Inequality Is Common at the Workplace”.To What Extent Do You Agree with the Above Statement?

    “gender Inequality Is Common at the Workplace”.To What Extent Do You Agree with the Above Statement?

    The gender inequality in the work place is one of the high rated issues that have been publicly ringing through society for years. With that statement above, definitely, I do agree with it. Gender inequality can be refers to the obvious or hidden disparities among individual based on gender performance. In this case, we will see the inequality towards the women in the work place. In order to identify this situation, we must try to

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    Essay Length: 1,438 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Mike
  • Racial Inequality in Master Harold

    Racial Inequality in Master Harold

    Racial Inequality in Master Harold In the play “Master Harold”… and the boys and the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a common theme of racial inequality is conveyed through the main characters of both narrations. Both the novel and the play’s central characters are a young white boy and an older Negro worker. The authors of these two works send out significant messages about how misleading racial discrimination is. Through the representation of Jim

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    Essay Length: 2,136 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Max
  • Hunger and Poverty

    Hunger and Poverty

    Hunger and Poverty Hunger and Poverty During the course of this particular essay, I will prove to you many points. Maybe not to the extreme that it will change one's thought processes on the subject of hunger and world poverty, but enough to form a distinction between moral obligation and moral capacity. What I will not mention is the fact that Peter Singer's outdated material (1971), though thorough in the sense of supporting his view

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    Essay Length: 799 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Vika
  • Inequality in Legal System

    Inequality in Legal System

    4/17/05 Inequality Paper Inequality in the Legal System In the United States, true equality has never existed. From the Declaration of Independence to modern times, the US legal system has failed at any attempt at equality. ‘...all men are created equal...’ may be what the Declaration says, but ‘some men are more equal than others’ is how the legal system really interprets that phrase. The actual reality of the Declaration of Independence is that all

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    Essay Length: 1,148 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: July
  • American Homeless and Poverty Issues

    American Homeless and Poverty Issues

    American Homeless and Poverty Issues There is a dilemma in our country it affects all of society it is called homelessness. Each night in America there is over “500,000 families are sleeping in shelters, hotels and in the streets and over the course of a year 3.5 million will experience homelessness”. (National Collation for the Homeless) It is hard to get an accurate number on the homeless population, due to the fact that the census

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    Essay Length: 1,776 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: Jon
  • Ethnic Culture and Culture of Poverty: The Gypsy/roma

    Ethnic Culture and Culture of Poverty: The Gypsy/roma

    Peter Szuhay asked in “Constructing a Gypsy National Culture” whether the Gypsies are an ethnic culture or a culture of poverty. I would like to argue that the Gypsy identity is a product of traditional ethnic culture as well as the product of a marginalized social stratum. There are many aspects of gypsy ethnic culture to which can be contributed to the result of marginalization and sometimes those same ethnic cultural traits become stereotypes

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    Essay Length: 1,386 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: Bred
  • Social Inequality

    Social Inequality

    way telecommunication networks and services are implemented will have significant impact on the way these networks are used. We will do so by focusing on the participating actors in the implementation phase of network development, and especially the role of system integrators in this process. Case studies have been done in the Dutch sectors of music retail, construction, agriculture and the hotel industry. INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL COORDINATION Relationships between organizations develop on the basis of certain

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    Essay Length: 457 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Mike
  • Inequality in the Newsroom

    Inequality in the Newsroom

    At first glance, one may see numbers of female correspondents and news anchors on public television, read letters from female editors of fashion magazines, or read columns in newspapers written by famous female faces. If one looks farther, however, at statistics and studies, we find that women are not represented equally in the field of journalism at all. In a world that consists half of women, ratios in the workplace should reflect the gender

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    Essay Length: 1,436 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 12, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Globalization, American Wages, and Inequality

    Globalization, American Wages, and Inequality

    A strange argument has begun making the rounds in the globalization debate, one that asserts there is a puzzle in American politics: economics teaches that globalization leads to national gains, yet popular opinion is am bivalent at best about it. This puzzle even comes with a plausible-sounding explanation: globalization’s benefits are huge but diffuse (consisting of lower prices for imported goods), while its costs are small but concentrated (workers displaced by imports); hence, the gains

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    Essay Length: 278 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Monika
  • Poverty and Sociology

    Poverty and Sociology

    Poverty and Sociology Poverty: a problem that affects us all, affecting more worldwide than Aids, lowering education, health, and housing standards. All of this is can be seen a few blocks down from our own houses. It is even seen in touristy vacation destinations such as Santa Cruz, having 27,000+ residents living below the federal poverty. While this may seem unusual, poverty is a huge social problem that sociologists seek to study and explain through

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Mike
  • Poverty: Who’s to Blame?

    Poverty: Who’s to Blame?

    Poverty: Who’s to blame? It’s no secret that poverty has haunted many families and individuals all over the world, these people have insufficient funds to buy the fundamental necessities for living such as food, clothing, and shelter. But if America is suppose to be the ideal place to live in because of its economy and living conditions and has the reputation for being the most dominant diplomatic country; then how is it that families suffer

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Wendy
  • The Harsh Poverty-Striken Environment of Aqua Traverse Lead’s Both Children and Adults to Search for Forms of Escape. to What Extent Do You Agree?

    The Harsh Poverty-Striken Environment of Aqua Traverse Lead’s Both Children and Adults to Search for Forms of Escape. to What Extent Do You Agree?

    The harsh poverty-striken environment of Aqua Traverse lead’s both children and adults to search for forms of escape. To what extent do you agree? I do agree with this statement greatly and it is evident throughout the text. A perfect example of this is the kidnapping of Fillipo, as we found out later in the story most of the adults in Aqua Traverse, played some part in the kidnapping of this boy, all hoping for

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    Essay Length: 458 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: David
  • Poverty in America

    Poverty in America

    Poverty in America Who are the people sleeping and living in public places? Why are they homeless? People become homeless for different reasons. Usually, they cannot pay for housing. People with little education and few jobs skills cannot earn much money. With low income, they stay poor. As housing costs rise, more and more people cannot afford homes. Around thirteen million children in America live in poverty at any given time nearly two hundred

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    Essay Length: 2,231 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Kevin

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