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    In chapter one of Joseph E. Stiglitz, book; “The Price of Inequality:How today’s Divided Society Endangers Our future.” He talks about America’s one percent Problem in which he includes the 2007- 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession America went through that affected millions of American families. As a result a lot of families lost their homes, lifetime savings, and jobs. During the Great Recession the middle aged people were greatly affected as many were straight out of college with a

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    still believe that one thing “wrong” with growing inequality is that it breeds immorality. On the other hand, I believe one thing “right” about growing inequality is that it is created by capitalist globalization. While I still agree with these points, there is no doubt that the arguments throughout the past readings and class discussion have changed my outlook on the statements themselves. In my opinion one of the biggest things “wrong” with growing inequality is that it breeds immorality.

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    The Prison Industrial Complex & Police Brutality as a Poor Black Man The prison industrial complex and police not be punished for the actions that they make are the most growing concerns of the safety of the Black man in America. The United States and Blacks in America are known to not have a great relationship historically. Racism and the power of money has made the prison industrial complex grow into the monster it has today. While Corporations like Mcdonald’s and Walmart profit from the prison

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    millennia. Crop diversity helps when trying feeding growing populations with smaller amount of cropland. Crop biodiversity is used in several different ways like pest control, pollination, pollution and sediment regulation, maintenance of the hydrological cycle, erosion control, and climate regulation and carbon sequestration. Crop diversity in pest control has made a big impact on growing crops in areas that are dominated by pests that would eat up a crop as soon as it flowers. Crop biodiversity has

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    A Poor Child Of Poverty

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    A poor child sentenced to a lifetime of poverty is caused by the foundations of his or her education. When a child is raised on the losing side of the social spectrum goes to school, it isn’t the school that could potentially bring them out from the depths of poverty, but one that keeps them drowning in the same things their parents did. Unlike the poor, the middle class has a lead way to both sides. They are far enough up the spectrum to work hard to reach the top or give up and hit the bottom and

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    Child slavery is a growing problem and needs to be stopped. The difference between child labor and child slavery is labor is where they work because they want to not because they are forced to work and get no pay. Child labor occurs in many countries. The children are used for mining, agricultural work, and soldier are some examples of what the kids are used for(“Child slavery: what is it?”). They are used because they are easy to bribe and control because they are not good at decision making at

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    Swanbrow Research Paper

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    Swanbrow, Diane. “Growing up in bad neighborhoods has a ‘devastating’ impact.” University of Michigan News, October 2011. ns.umich.edu/new/releases/8588 Diane Swanbrow, a student publisher at the prestigious University of Michigan, based her research on the studies of Geoffrey Wodtke, a national science foundation graduate research fellow who’s found out just how much growing up in a horrendous neighborhood can harm a child and hinder them from attending the most prominent grade school

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    for immigrants challenging because of the cheap and poor constructions of the tenements, and as well as overcrowding. Immigrants migrated to the cities because the need for unskilled labor to help the growing economy was high in the cities. In just under thirty-five years, the city that had less than a hundred thousand people boasted a population of at least a half a million individuals, in which housing was limited. Most immigrants were poor when they arrived in New York; they frequently lived

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    The One Percent Summary

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    Although Jamie has lived his entire life by reaping the benefits of his family’s inheritance, he has come to realize just how privileged he and his family truly is. Jamie discussed how families from similar socioeconomic classes, such as his, make up an incredibly small percentage of the American population. This is why the film is

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    paying rent, feeding their children, as well as putting up with overpopulation which contributed to the overall growing problem of poverty. During this time of suffering, many began to question whether Britain acted as hastily and as effectively as they could have, as well as believing that centuries of British rule and/or political oppression was a fundamental cause of the famine (which originated from a potato crop failure). Jonathan Swift, a poor-boy who found his niche as a social critic/spokesman

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