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    The way you grow up directly affects how successful you are in the future. Many parents can’t provide as much to their children to give them the necessities they need for school, medical care, and even the basic needs. When it comes down to it, the way a kid is taken care of shapes who they are as a person and their development in this world. An important aspect to take into consideration is education, which is a critical part of a bright future. Families in poverty are unable to send their children

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    wealth. But it can also be resource poor such as; education and good health

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    Gospel Of Wealth Summary

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    By dominating the steel industry. Carnegie believed that people like him had a responsibility, to use their wealth (money) to benefit the good. So, people like him should promote the welfare of others or charity to close the gap between rich and the poor. This belief became known as the Gospel of Wealth. Carnegie believed that leaving all your money to one person was unacceptable. While you are alive they should use their money to benefit society. Carnegie gave about 90% of his wealth during his lifetime

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    “Not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat,” A principle that every human forgets to follow at one time or another. As a society, humans tend to define each other by the how they look or the items they own which can ruin their self image for life. Sandra Cisneros portrays this idea through her fictional character, Esperanza, and her life experiences growing up poor. The House on Mango Street suggests that those who grow up in broken neighborhoods cannot escape their circumstances

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    increase of chronic diseases and complex medical conditions within our society of health and social care as a result there is a growing need of health and social care services to provide support and high quality care to these service users. To ensure safe and effective care health and social care organisations need to recognise and understand the relationship between this growing disease and how more services are required to offer support and guidance for individuals for example the need for expertise

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    arrests the people being arrested were mostly of minority origins. Although poor whites from the South did get arrested as well, most of the jails and prisons were made up of blacks, hispanics and latinos. McGirr said that “Uneven enforcement was the hidden reason the white, urbane upper-middle class could laugh at the antics of Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith, while Mexicans, poor European immigrants, African-Americans, poor whites in the South, and the unlucky experienced the full brunt of Prohibition

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    When you see Joann for the first time , you probably will end up thinking that she would be this little quiet old lady. But little do people who get an outside look on her know that later she would turn out to be a chatty woman and bless us with not only her words of wisdom but also memories from her past. When Joann was a child her father was drafted two years after WII. He was captured and put into a prison camp in Germany. Her father weighed 210 lbs before he went in, and when he returned home

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    poverty is caused by economic inequality; income not divided evenly, and class structure in the USA becoming like a fat jar with small base. With the growing concern of poverty, people begin to think whether American Dream still exists in this country. However, the poverty phenomena is gradually being changed. In contrast to modern society, the working poor nowadays have better condition than the situation that described in the book of Down and Out of Paris and London. During the Orwell’s period, he described

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    the poor migrant farmers during the

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    affected how welfare is distributed among single mothers. Some factors that contributed to this social problem are the economy and he increasing amount of people who lived in poverty. The government felt that it was necessary to be proactive about the growing issue of poverty. The government was also taking a look at how money was being spent and how that contributed to the nation’s debt. As a result some policies were put into place to address those issues. Many programs were on a trial and error period

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