Essays on Impoverishment

Introduction

In a world where the Pandora's Box opened a long time ago, every day new diseases are being discovered. New cases with new (or old) illnesses come up every day in huge numbers before the medical fraternity. While prevention and control measures safeguard the majority of the population from transmittable diseases, developing nations still find it hard to curb transmissible illnesses, thus increasing the incidences of illness or a disease in a household by manifold. In such a scenario, the point to ponder is how the citizens across the world, especially those of developing nations afford to pay for the medical treatments. Now ...

Two individuals who decide to enter into a relationship, and get married or live together often to start a family, both intend to “live happily ever after.” However, this is not always the case in our present society. Violence in the domicile has become more prevalent, either because there have been an increased number of reports or such cases have increased in frequencies. This paper looks into the existing body of literature to identify the areas which have been extensively studied. The findings of a select number of scholarly materials will be presented in the succeeding sections focusing on the following aspects: (a) ...

The process of impoverishment of workers in Puerto Rico had its genesis way before 1898. However, events that followed after 1898 amplified this process to a greater level. According to Cesar (25), the Census of 1899 showed that 85.9 percent of the families in Vieques were landless. Vieques is an island-municipality found in the northeast of Puerto Rico. The main event that aggravated the process of impoverishment was the United States invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898 when Spain ceded the island in a brief and relative bloodless war. Prior to this invasion, coffee and sugarcane were the islands main cash ...

Illiteracy has a potentially enormous societal impact in Canada. Because some sort of literacy is a basic assumption of many areas of lire in the twenty-first century, illiteracy has a far greater impact on society now than it may have done two hundred years ago, as we shall see. Its biggest social and economic impact is on the poor, condemning them to poverty and to a lack of social mobility, and with the risk that the problem will be passed on to their children, who will thus remain trapped in a vicious cycle of the illiterate underclasses. People who are illiterate suffer economically ...