My Mother : Diverty And Poverty

Living in a household of ten members was really tough. I can remember going to the store and not being able to buy anything I wanted. We barely had enough money to buy something for us to eat. It was hard for me to understand why my parents always said no to me when I asked for a candy, but later on, I realized my parents were struggling to get food on our table. Sometimes I would go hungry to bed, worried about what we would eat the next day. Living a childhood in poverty has made me realize that the little I had was enough for me to be happy and to appreciate what little we had because my mom always told me “there are other people who have less than we do”.

To some, being poor is embarrassing and shameful, but to a select group of people; being poor is something they’re grateful to be. They embrace it and use it to their advantage to achieve better lives

Nelson Mandela once said, “Poverty is not natural it 's man-made.” This quote states that a person can overcome poverty if one has the desire to live a better life. In a novel called Poor People written by William T. Vollmann, the author travels around different countries and places to learn about poor people and to get a global perspective view. While interviewing different kinds of people, Vollmann would ask them one question: why are you poor? Looking at people 's answers Vollmann noticed that some of the people gave quite interesting answers. Vollmann went through a lot of situations where he just couldn 't imagine what life would be if he was ever to live like that. Another novel that has a similar poverty situation is called Let The Water Hold Me Down, written by Michael Spurgeon. Hank, the main character of the novel, experiences a tragic moment in his life. Losing his wife and daughter while drowning, this tragedy left him feeling like it’s all due to his miscarrying about them. His life becomes full of sorrow, and the only way out it was to go to Mexico to his friend’s place and restart his life over. In a new country of Mexico, this story takes place. Even though he had money, a house, and friends’ support, he still experienced lots of pressure trying to survive in Mexico. Poverty has different meanings in everyone 's lives but by reading these two novels, there are three similarities that can be made about people living in poverty.

Since poverty can span multiple generations its important how socioeconomics keeps the disadvantaged from achieving success. Poverty and the distribution of wealth are class issues, admittedly complicated by race and gender, we are born into a particular social class, and most of us will die in the same one into which we are born. While some will rise above our class origins, many more equally conscientious willing and able will remain in poverty. Although there are some cases that maybe used to counter the effects of socioeconomics on success, overachieving through hard work may still be halted and misunderstood. When people ask me how I managed to move out of poverty, I always get a lump in my throat. It is not because I am embarrassed to tell of my journey or because I want to forget that part of my past. Instead, I fear that people will think that I just decide to pull myself up by my boat

In our sociology class, Social Problems, we learned about poverty. Poverty is described as lacking the economic resources to live at an adequate standard of living. Lourdes grew up in an impoverished family. They struggled to find food and clothing. She didn’t want her children to grow up the same way so she left them to earn money for them. Unfortunately, her children still struggled with poverty, especially her son Enrique. He was forced to work at a very young age and was only economically secure for a short time with his

People often have problems with being able to get out of poverty because they don’t know how to handle or control where their money goes. These problems root from the family; a person’s family is a big contributor to how a person decides to save money and whether or not they come from an impoverished environment. At a young age a person learns how to save money, be responsible, and spend just want is needed. Also, if a person is born into poverty that may dictate many things for the future because this way everything will be more difficult; this is more common in African American households all over the country. It could be very difficult to come out of poverty and become financially free, it's possible

For practically every family, then, the ingredients of poverty are part financial and part psychological, part personal and part societal, part past and part present. Every problem magnifies the impact of others, and all are so tightly interlocked that one reversal can produce a chain reaction with results far distant from the original cause. A run-down apartment can exacerbate a child's asthma, which leads to a call for an ambulance, which generates a medical bill that cannot be paid, which ruins a credit record, which hikes the interest rate on an auto loan, which forces the purchase of an unreliable used car, which jeopardizes a mother's punctuality at work, which limits her promotions and earning capacity, which confines her to poor housing.

First, my mother, Reina, (the fourth child out of six) was born into poverty in Ajuterique, Comayagua- Honduras. She was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of three from eating contaminated pork. However, as a young child, about the age of 6, she was forced to work in order to help her mother support the business and family affairs, thus education and work came hand in hand, and both things had to get done every day with no excuses. She would have to go door to door and sell merchandise consisting of meat, tamales, chicharones, milk products such as: cheese, sour cream, etc. and much more. Moreover, her days would begin at 3 AM to help in the house, get ready for school, and then go to work. My mother would not come home until she sold mostly all of her items making her days long and tiring. Due to the way of life and customs she lived in Honduras, she decided on taking a different course in her life when the opportunity became available. She wanted to prosper, have more, and become a better person.

She talks about the lack of health condition she and her three children suffered from. She explains, poverty is sacrificing one’s own life and health, being ridiculed and judged by outsiders, constantly worrying about children and how they will never have a happy life, and feeling broken because

More, I would see panhandlers seeking monetary aide from passerbyers, for many of them their requests for money would go unanswered. Some were fortunate to receive change from few passerbyers. At the time I wasn’t interested in knowing the why or how did this happen to them. I was simply subconsciously not to ‘see’ them. One day our live would became unexpectedly interrupted due to financial inequality as it related to my mother. I also didn’t know the definition of what poverty was and that was the lifestyle

When my mom got the chance for her and her kids to come to American this was a opportunity she could resist. Seeing that poverty in my country is high education was limited for those who couldn't afford it.Education in my country was for the people of wealthy who could afford it .When I came to America when I was 3 , my brothers 6 an 7 and my sister 5. My mom wanted the best for her fours kids seeing that growing up education was limited to her because she couldn't further her education from high school to college cause my grandparents couldn't afford it and also there weren't as many oppurtineties in a third world country. Even though My mom was limited of her education she never gave up on making sure her four kids didn't have to that

Ever since I was little, whenever I looked at my mom I always noticed the long scar on the side of her chin. It’s deep and slightly curved, and it almost resembles a small mole if you do not look close enough. It compliments her face nicely. I compare it to a unique beauty mark, something that sets her face different from the rest. She got the scar when she fell roughly on her face back home in Rwanda. My mom never really talks about her life in Rwanda, mostly due to the Rwandan genocide, but when she does it is filled with stories of happy family moments as well as stories of fear as she was separated from her family and forced to fend for herself. Recently, my aunt was diagnosed with a brain tumor. When we heard the news my mom immediately

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