Essays on Poor Family

Poverty is one of the most acute social problems of nowadays. Today, it seems that the technological advancements as well as the profound changes in social structures make it possible to get rid of poverty entirely, especially in well-developed industrialized countries like the United States. However, poverty is not as easy to vanquish as one might think. In order to understand how to eliminate this social failure of even the most advanced societies, one should understand clearly the factors which lead to it in the first place. The story of Sue Christian, described by a journalist Monica Potts in ...

Gender and Racial Discrimination in Public School Punishment

The American education system is based on inequalities and disparities in terms of the treatment that the students get from the administration. This is because the first incidence of disproportionality of punishment based on race and gender was first documented by the children’s defence force in 1975 and up to until now the situation has not changed it is still the same. The differences in the way the students are treated is mostly based on two conditions.

The first condition is the stereotype that is always surrounding the people in different race and gender. White people have always ...

The Positive Theory is a theory in Criminal Justice has generated a lot of interest in recent years. The theory tries to explain the reasons why criminals engage in criminal activities and how their behavior can be mitigated. For many years, criminal justice experts have tried to deduce the fundamental principles of human psychology and philosophy that contribute to criminal tendencies among some members of the human race. One particular theory has been in existence, and that has been applied widely across the criminal justice fields across the globe is the Classical theory. This theory suggests that criminals possess free will, ...

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Interviewing a senior person is such an eye-opening experience considering the wealth of knowledge and wisdom they have to share. In this exercise, I interviewed someone who comes from a poor family and lived through the ravages of war. Despite the dire situation they were in, Eduardo Jimenez, the interviewee, shared he was able to overcome all hardships as his parents taught him to love and persevere no matter what happens in life. Although he was the youngest and was adored by everyone in the family, he learned to become as responsible and as persevering as his older siblings. Faith in ...

My journey into attaining my Bachelor of Arts in political science has been a tedious process. I had to overcome several obstacles to finally achieve this level of education. However when I take a look at my journey and compare it with the Frederick Douglass story several similarities can be drawn. We cannot deny that Frederick Douglass lived at a time when life was harsh for Blacks as they were not allowed to learn how to read and write. This might not be the case now but I draw my determination from him and how he tried everything he could to succeed ...

Introduction

Global warming and climate change refer to increase in the overall global temperature. This might happen not only due to the natural events, but also due to human activities that are carried out on the given Earth’s surface. The major contributing factor from the human side is due to the effect of the increase in the greenhouse gases such as Carbon Dioxide. There is no particular phenomenon happening, due to which first of all there is a temperature change in the given world, which ultimately leads to global warming. As a result, we can observe several changes in the climate ...

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Guy de Maupassant is one of the most popular French writer and is always considered the father of the modern literature. He was born in the year 1850 in Dieppe , France and died in the year 1893 in Paris France because he was infected by syphilis. He studied at Lycee university in Paris. From his short story we can easily tell how the views of the society by this writer during his time.His stories also explain what this writer thinks about the human nature. From the analysis of his different stories we can be able to tell his views ...

Everyone suffers from guilt sometime in their life while some people suffer these bitter feelings for a lifetime. Guilt is a bothered conscience that occurs when a person commits an offense, crime or violates a moral standard or code. It is associated with the beliefs of what is right and wrong, moral and immoral. A person’s guilt not only affects his/her own life but also the lives of everyone involved. This particular emotion is the subject of my analysis in which I have chosen to evaluate the novel, “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” written by a Colombian writer, novelist and journalist, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. ...

‘A Raisin in The Sun’ is an excellent literary work by Lorraine Hansberry that touches very emotional aspect of human life. The story moves around a poor family who lives on south side of Chicago. The story is very impressive and easy to understand. The family described in the story struggles for their daily needs and maintains dignity along with a dream of better future. The story very effectively describes relationship between family members. The story depicts how conflict arises in a poor family and how different family members react to those conflicts. The story successfully spread its magic on human emotions. ...

Joseph Conrad and William Faulkner are two of the most prominent writers of the modern literary era. In fact in an event held in the year 1957 at the Virginia University, Faulkner openly stated that his works were influenced by Conrad’s writing style. Faulkner have rated ‘ A Heart of Darkness’ as one of his favorite books, and reportedly when he travelled through Kent he remarked to his mother about the serenity of the place, and commented that ‘ no wonder Conrad writes such fine books from here’. Such was the admiration he carried for Conrad. Both of them wrote ...

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The 1997 movie “Children of Heaven” presents a touching story of a common poor family from Iran that barely stays afloat financially, and can afford only the first need goods and services. Despite working hard all day, main characters’ parents are not able to earn the money to buy all of the needed things for their family. But nevertheless, almost penniless, the whole family stays friendly to each other, not forgetting their family responsibilities and cultural values.

Physical setting between poor and rich neighborhoods

Watching the movie, the difference between poor and rich neighborhoods can be seen only once, thus not being the main point of the movie. ...

The book “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins takes place in a dystopian fantasy world. This genre is adventure fantasy. While reading one quickly realizes that things are not as we now know them. There is a great gap between the poor and the rich. The rich take advantage of the poor by using their children for entertainment is a televised event called “The Hunger Games”. Children are thrown into a generated environment and forced to fight to the death. The brutality of this treatment eventually leads to need to change the current political system. The setting of this book takes place ...

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The World Health Organization describes poverty as the greatest cause of human suffering. This is based on income and consumption levels in relation to the poverty line. The WHO and World Bank perceive those people living below the poverty line as poor implying that they do not have the ability to access basic needs, resources, education, and above all proper health (Greenwood and Holt, 2010). Poverty leads to diversity and alienation in emotional, behavioral and psychological concepts. It is an obstacle to future development among many who grow in it as they cannot have proper education to sustain themselves ...

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First published in 1818, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley has been one of the most renowned novels in the world of science fiction, Victor Frankenstein’s, the antagonist, is successfully able to use a dead body to create a creature. The creature has more capabilities compared to the contemporary human being. The so called “Frankenstein’s monster’ lacks the ability to interact with mankind. Mankind seems to reject its cooptation to society often viewing the creature as being the ‘other’ within the societal hierarchical framework. By spying on a poor family the monster realizes that it is not part of society and therefore ...