Analysis Of The Documentary Poor Kids

In the 2012 documentary Poor Kids, children living in the Quad Cities reflect on their lives in poverty. Each story is different but similar in many ways. At the time of the film, there were sixteen million children reported who were affected by poverty. The film also stated that one in five children were living in poverty. With large quantities of children being affected by poverty, the important to understand how these children are dealing with the factors of poverty.

But it is also a challenge for the people actually in need to understand they are living in poverty and need help.(682) When it comes to poverty people tend to have imagery in their mind that comes from all around the world of different people living in deplorable conditions.(683) The problem is poverty like many things is relative. To compare someone in need in the United States on a guideline or scale based on people in need from impoverished countries around the world is not exactly fair.(681) The fact that the United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world also means it’s one of the most expensive places to live. Taking this into consideration it is unreasonable to compare the poor and needy in the United States to the poor and needy in countries where their economic systems are much farther behind than that of the United States.(681) The issue is that just because you’re not in tattered close or homeless does not mean that you are not living in poverty in the United States.(683) What stereotyping like this does is gives a very restricted view of what an individual in poverty looks like, while also causing the help that might be provided to individuals in need to be

Today’s children can grow up with this same feeling of animosity. Because of the environment they are exposed to, mothers worry about the effects of poverty on their children. Parker predicts that because “your children won’t play with my boys, they will turn to other boys who steal to get what they want. I can already see them behind the bars of their prison instead of behind the bars of my poverty” (Source I). The goal of any parent, rich or poor, is to provide their children with a good life. And these parents are trying their best to provide their children will the best lives they can. But when you’re living in destitution, the odds are continuously stacked against you. Parker “once I saved for two months to buy a jar of vaseline for my hands and the baby’s diaper rash.” But when she went to buy it “the price had gone up two cents” Source (I). It's hard to provide for your family when injustice continues and spread. When families are troubled with poverty, the anger and animosity boils in their blood due to this rejection from most of society. Since they are rejected society due to their social

In America today, there are 47 million people living in poverty, 15 million whom are below the age of eighteen. Even though The United States is the seventh wealthiest country in the world, there are still 1.5 million people living on less than two dollars a day. My heart’s desire is to change these statistics.

Americans have always been very prideful. Its original citizens took pride in their independence, nationality, and

Just like the people of the districts, people in real life cannot afford to buy food for their families. They do not have the money to support their family, they make less than minimum wage, and they are living in unstable living conditions. Only 1% of Americans hold 40% of the nation’s wealth, 80% of the world lives on less than ten dollars a day, and approximately 22,000 children die each day due to poverty. More people live in poverty than what most people think. While the rich lavish in their luxuries, people are dying because they cannot feed

1. Summarize the video so the reader understands the theme The documentary that I chose to watch was titled “Poor Kids.” The short film was based on the struggle with poverty, but through the eyes of kids. It featured 3 main children and basically showed how each of their families was dealing with being poor.

(Indent) Throughout time there has always been the rich and the poor. There have been numerous ways that people have helped the less fortunate. But even though billions have been spent on helping out the poor, there are still many people who go to sleep without shelter, the proper medical attention, proper education, and basic human rights. I have always seen this as an issue that is not a huge priority in everyone’s minds. We all go on with our lives working taking care of people close to us and keeping ourselves busy with movies, games, etc. But we never stop and think about the people who aren’t as fortunate as us. There have always been many people who wanted to help, but what they're really doing, is mostly just talking. In my generation,

This is something that need to be stopped immediately. We are wasting billions of dollar every single year for all the wars outside of the country to protect the U.S allies ,keep many big companies benefit in those country where they have business at and keep the “peace” around the world , while there are millions of children in our own country need their indispensable things to live and grow up . “ Numerous of children are black and Latino because they have the highest number of poverty in America.” (Moore, Jina). They are the future leaders for next generations of our country , and they are not receiving what they should have to support them to grow up . In the poor area , many kids can’t have accessories, books, and tools for studying because their parents are not be able to support them , so they will have difficulties to fall in line with the communities . They feel ashamed and get depressed easier than other friends when they compare themselves with their friends in family’s condition . They don’t get the good health services since parent can’t pay for expensive health cover and have to live by government healthcare cover. Children don’t have access to the things they need and have to have, so many of them will not be able to get a good education to graduate high school or going to college . It gets harder for children to get rid of poverty. The more we let the kids live in a bad environment with lack of benefits, education and caring from parents, the bigger chances

During my time living and traveling abroad, I have experienced the most severe examples of wealth inequality, from the one room tin shacks that I visited in the townships of South Africa to the communal huts that housed multiple families in Ethiopia. Witnessing these circumstances, I could never wrap my head around the immense fortune that I had been born into. Even when I was young, I knew that it was my responsibility to do everything I could to help those who had not been born into conditions as favorable as mine. As a teenager, I brought these experiences back with me to the United States and was disappointed to see the most powerful nation in the world was facing the same problems as their poorer counterparts. I decided that if there was anyway to make a change, it would have to start

This documentary caused some compelling points about poverty and its impact on the education of our youths. In our society for well over than five decades, we have placed values on the failed efforts of equality in education. America’s failed attempts even with the increase fundings based on assessment scores and other harsh realities that have created an unstable economy and increased drop-out rate of students within America. Trying to fix a system based on hidden agendas and racism, as parents and educators, as well as legislators, we have created educational genocide (No Child Left Behind).

The situation in Uganda as shown by the documentary Invisible Children was a dire one. Millions were dead or fleeing because of the civil war. Many wanted to come to the US, and were discouraged because of the lack of supplies and resources in the camp. One town called Gulu had thousands of children with no adults. The children here and elsewhere had lost their parents to AIDS or the conflict.

Growing up in a community that has at its heart the deepest forms of apathy, and the cruelty of selfishness and greed; I have had a close brush with the suffering and sad circumstances that cloud the lives of many in this ‘survival-of-the-fittest’ world, that runs-off after wealth leaving behind the weak to perish. I have seen children die of illnesses as malaria and dysentery that would have been taken care of at hospitals, simply because their parents for no fault of theirs are unable to meet the high prize of these hospitals; and on the other hand, the hospitals have managements with no sense of human sympathy. I have met brilliant children drop-out of school as early as the eighth-grade, simply because there were no schools in their community

The government may play a substantial part in helping people in poverty, but they’re not the only ones who can do something about the crisis the people of Earth are going through. Around the globe, people have started producing companies and organizations to help people going through an everyday life of poverty, and are still trying to create more. More companies means more people helped every day. This includes The Children’s Hunger Alliance helps feed kids who live in poverty, along with many other organizations created for that purpose, although they may focus on adults, or the elderly, or infants. Whoever it may be, there is an organization out there that can help. Moreover, there are over 99 known organizations entirely made to help people in poverty! Which is amazing, considering many people don’t usually recognize the sort of ideal poverty is, and how much damage and hurt it could cause. Although many people may not know about how excruciatingly hard it is to control poverty’s rampage, nevertheless, the section of Earth’s population that does know about this problem has introduced themselves and others to constructing organizations to actually help the citizens dealing with poverty, throughout the Americas, or Africa, where some kids have never had three meals

Poverty in the United States today has many faces. There’s the pleading face of a middle-aged man on a city street holding up a sign that says “Hungry, Need Help.” There’s the anxious face of a young child in a schoolroom somewhere, whose only real meal today will be a free school lunch. There’s the sad face of a single mother who doesn’t have enough money to buy clothes for her children. And there’s the frustrated face of a young man working at a minimum-wage job who can't afford to pay his rent. The sad thing is everyone knows someone like this. What are these people to do? What lengths should they go to be happy? Many times a person’s virtue is challenged. Especially when they are forced to choose between