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    slums. In today’s world there is an estimate of three-billion people that live in poverty. The average poverty person live off of just $2.50 a day. One third of the people that live in poverty are children. Over twenty-two thousand children die due to poverty. People lose their everyday life due to living in poverty. Those are just some facts that gave me interest on this topic to see a sense of understanding of it. The number one killer in the world today is hunger. The way the world is set up, nobody

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    Volunteering will teach you traits that can lead to phenomenal contributions for the world such as empathy. How does volunteering teach you empathy? Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within another’s frame of reference; the capacity to place oneself in another 's position. It’s what makes a person want to make a difference, make the world a superior place and while you can discuss this matter at great lengths, and read countless testimonies

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    The World Is Not Perfect

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    by its most primal definition, is extremely beneficial to First and Third world countries alike. Ideally, Globalization would create more jobs in the countries involved, increase trade between nations thus lowering the price of goods, and spread information about the dire effects of sexism, racism etc in order to improve the lives of people being affected by these institutions. However, the truth is that the world is not perfect. The world is currently run by capitalist and racist people who use Globalization

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    change that came in the doctrine of the Rerum Novarum, which focused on the laboring class. In first world countries, they have labor laws to help benefit the worker, but those first world companies take advantage of third world countries, and impoverished individuals. The focus of this paper will focus on how labor laws and the work of the individual and how they have a major effect on poverty. In first world countries, labor laws were created to protect and benefit the labor workers and to enable them

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    How long has money been around for and why does it exist? Money is the universal item to purchase any sort of good today. An environment where the rich are in control of the world, the existence of starving third world countries continue to exist. According to (www.gizmodo.com) there is “60 Trillion dollars” in the world. This is more than enough money to share $8571 amongst the “7.125 billion people” who live on Earth as stated on (www.worldometers.info). Money, a current medium of exchange in the

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    people in the third world countries, rather than them being a terrible thing. Throughout the article, he brought up some relatively good points, but not all he had to say was backed up with evidence. Therefore, Powell’s article was semi-effective. In Powell’s piece, he talks about how people in the United States view sweatshops as a terrible thing, but sweatshops are not the same in our first world country as they are in third world countries. He talks about how in third world countries, workers try

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    many bright and capable young women around the world who are declined their opportunity of education due to narrow minded thinking. The lack of education for girls is a serious problem that needs to be addressed with better solutions such as creating more awareness, fundraising, and supporting girls to fight for their education; needless to say, these solutions must be implemented to help decrease the drastic numbers of uneducated girls around the world. According to an annual report done by the United

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    the US tend to portray poverty as what is seen and thought of as living conditions in Third World countries (683). In reality, poverty is all around each and every one of us in this country on a daily basis, and people might not always recognize it for what it is (681,682). Furthermore, the majority of people living in poverty in the United States do not live like or look like someone living in a Third World country. But in reality they are still living in poverty nonetheless (682,683). Organizations

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    's book Detroit City is the Place to Be, it is difficult to believe that the city he is writing about exists here in the United States. This is after all, an economically prosperous, first world country. What Binelli so vividly describes is a place that could very well exist in some third world country. A third world slum-like city that boasts of not only one, but two professional sports teams. It is intriguing to ponder the whys and how’s of Detroit 's condition and failure to thrive. Despite the

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    country is it distributes technology and economic growth and a fairly even distribution of power. Even though other countries have been known to steal products and ideas from us to further their advancements in world economic growth. Everyone wants to be the world power. Unfortunately, the world power is really longer us because we started sucking at keeping everyone in peace and harmony and forgot we have an economy and now we’re screwed Some disadvantages to global trade are that other countries can

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