Poverty In Angela's Ashes

Angela’s Ashes takes place in Ireland during the 1930s, a period of time when the economy in Limerick was declining. The Street takes place in Harlem, New York City during World War II. The settings in both novels take place in the bitter cold during hard times. The settings play a huge role in the theme because it shows how the characters live. Frank McCourt and Lutie Johnson are two characters who deal with poverty throughout their lives. Frank McCourt, the author and main character of Angela’s Ashes, writes about the struggles with poverty he had as a child. Through this time he has to make hard decisions in order to survive. Ann Petry portrays poverty in her writing by using the cold to show the despair of the people walking along the streets of New York. The authors’ way of showing poverty in their novels differs in some ways but is very similar to one another. The author of Angela’s Ashes and the author of The Street convey the theme of poverty through their similar settings and the characters’ need for survival.

Angela's Ashes and The Street experts both display the common theme of poverty and the struggles that come with it. In Angela's Ashes the author make the setting cold. Winter time is one of the hardest times for families that live in poverty, in the winter food and warmth is a necessity and not having it can really impact your health; like in Angles's Ashes the mother is sick due to the cold and lack of food, this is an exsmaple of how the auother uses the charcters and setting to creat an overal theme. In the expert The Street the overall theme is also proverty, the theme was created through the setting and characters also.

Everyone has a dream or something they want to follow in life. Some want material gain while others want to help as many people as they can. I’m not saying wanting material gain is a bad thing, but what I am saying is that for me, money is not the number one concern when my dream is to help others. My hunger to help others only grows by the day. Because of what’s going on in the world we live in today, I believe that it is important that those who are less fortunate than others have the assistance they need to get to an even playing field, health-wise, with others.

My view of the world is different from the protagonist. This world has hatred, war and greed. This world have some people that just living in this world and can only care about themselves which is selfish. If the selfishness people would understand that it 's about them but it 's about everyone the world would be better than it ever have. Then on the other hand the world can be view the opposite way. They can have people that are loved, peaceful, respectful and humanity. There are some people in this world that knew if something was wrong in their community they would do whatever they can to get back their community how it was at first.

Mark Twain says greed is another of man’s failings. Of course, man is somewhat greedy. But, lots of men know how to control their greed, and also know to do favor for others. In other words, they are thoughtful (kind) and have mercy. For this moment, numberless charities are gathering the helpers and donations to support others who suffer by hunger and poorness. For a common example, there’s UNICEF. They work for saving children in hunger, teach them basic education and gender equality, try to prevent HIV & AIDS to children, protect children from violence, exploitation and abuse, and do policy advocacy and partnerships. They do these things only for the needy.

CHAPTER 3 Driving down Mountaineer Boulevard, Louise was nervous and upset thinking about going to court. Being unsure which would upset her more, listening to her husband’s yelling about her drinking or Judge Lucas’s lectures. Pulling into the parking lot, she glanced at Mike sitting in his car as she parked. Rolling his eyes, he watched as she got out of the car, and walked towards him. Opening the door, she noticed the expression on his face as he backed out of the parking space without saying a word. He never smiled or acknowledged her while driving toward the courthouse. At last, tears rolled down her cheeks, “Mike, I can’t handle this. Please, say something. I can’t take the thought of going to jail and even worse, you won’t talk to me.

It is crazy to hear that the top richest people in this world have the same wealth as the poorest 3 billion people in this world. Even though rich countries are giving aid to poor countries, the huge gap difference between their wealth is due to large corporations form rich countries taking more money from poor countries, and this really explains a lot why poor country never have the chance to actually thrive. The thought that poor people should be able to come up from where they came from, which is a thought in many people's minds, especially those who have money, isn't all that simple.

Application of the same example to a more global perspective of poverty, if we can reduce avoidable death of 400 million people

In Mark 21:31, the bible tells us, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.” Humans were created by God to enjoy life more when we care about another individual's needs besides our own. Thus, all humanity should be concerned for the rest of the population's well being. In today’s world, we are more connected through internet and express transportation than we have ever been before and have ample opportunities to improve other people’s lives. A line from the movie, National Treasure, paraphrases our responsibility in regards to poverty and disease, “Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.”

Therefore, wealth can only create temporary happiness; it creates a never ending desire that cannot be satisfied. The ideal life is an illusion that deceives humans to want more than they can ever have. Firstly, the cars show the carelessness of the rich. Then, the green light was a symbol deceiving others disguised as a symbol of dreams. Finally, with the representation of the Valley of Ashes being the hopelessness values of the American Dream never happening. So, while every human wishes to be wealthy and carefree, it seems to bring only more problems than it is worth.

This documentary tells the story of brothers Clifford and Jeffrey Azize as they travel the world, during their travels they slowly learn what it truly means to be human. These brothers embark on a journey to New York and live on the streets for a week. This film prompted me to think about how self centered and short sighted most humans are. If a person sees a hungry dog on the side of the road they will likely feed it, maybe even take it home, but if someone sees a homeless person on the side of the street they will most likely just ignore them. This aspect of human nature is something that really makes me upset because as humans it's in our best interest to help each other survive and thrive, but most people won't even try to understand the

Unfortunately, it was estimated that roughly 1.2 billion people in 1993 lived in extreme or absolute poverty, that which Robert McNamara regards “‘a condition of life so characterized by malnutrition, illiteracy, disease, squalid surroundings, high infant mortality and low life expectancy as to be beneath any reasonable standard of human dignity’” (Singer 219, 220). These estimates can be projected at nearly 2 billion today. A large majority of the people living in absolute poverty resides in underdeveloped countries. Among the nearly 4.4 billion people in these countries, “3/5 lives in societies lacking basic sanitation; 1/3 go without safe drinking water; 1/4 lack adequate housing; 1/5 are undernourished, and 1.3 billion live on less than $1 a day” (Speth 1).

There are many homeless people these days. Some of them get help from random people. That is one example of why the world is still good. This an act of kindness and unselfishness.When Anne Frank was still alive, this rarely happened. The Nazis would pick on the homeless people.

Poverty in Britain When the Liberal government came to power in 1906 they had no stated intention of government intervention of social policy. Between the years 1906 and 1914, the Liberals took steps to improve the health, living and working conditions of the groups of individuals their policies were designed for. The victory for the Liberals was a surprising landslide which left the Liberals with 401 seats and Labour with 53 seats.

I come from a small village in Kenya where I grew up and learned that not everyone is fortunate in this world. As long as the concept of