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    Introduction Modernization is a principle that looks at the domestic elements of a rustic with the belief that, with help underdeveloped nations can be brought to improvement in the use of the equal strategies that greater advanced nations used. Modernization concept specializes in the social factors which facilitate social progress and improvement of societies, and similarly aims to provide an explanation for the procedure of social evolution. This concept now not handiest stresses the manner of

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    Growing up, the commercials of starving children in Africa in need of food because of rampant starvation and the pervasive threat of death have been streaming on various media. World Hunger is one of the main problems that a large portion of the global population faces today. Hunger varies with severity but in this case it is the want of food in a third world country. World hunger is a problem that has existed for much of our known history; it has faded away from central concerns because it is barely

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    effects of poverty on one's life can cause many issues in pursuing a better life or make it harder to change the ways in which one has known all their life. J.D. Vance, a now successful layer, wrote a book about the struggles and true life of someone growing up in poverty. Vance proves that escaping poverty is not impossible, but also not easy. through hard work and

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    confusion and potential problems of growing up in the adult world. Throughout the United States many people become confused of who they are as a person growing up, such as the protagonists of The Catcher in the Rye and The House on Mango Street who both experience difficulty in leaving childhood life for adulthood life. These two characters

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    The Pros and Cons of Globalization, points that globalization is an approach aimed at raising the social, economic and political status of both the poor and rich states through a global strategy. The approach, however, has come with its drawbacks that cannot go unnoticed. The most evident negative effect is that it has led to the exploitation of the poor, subjecting them to more poverty conditions, while the rich accumulate more wealth than ever before. With increased

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    determine a child’s development. His ecological theory is made up of five systems. The microsystem which involves the environment in which the child lives in. Though as homeless this child will have a significant difference in their upbringing then those with homes. A homeless child may also be most likely rejected and avoided by others due to the stigmatisms. This means a homeless child will not have many relationships when growing up due to being shunned away. The mesosystem can affect a child by

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    to 1852, when a couple, William and Catherine Booth started with an ideal about helping the London poor. They felt that there was a growing number of poor being over looked and the poor were growing away from the Christian roots they were raised. In this paper I want to introduce the social and economics despair London went through and how the Salvation Army played a major role in helping the poor in social turmoil. Before we can explore and tell about the contribution the Salvation Army provided

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    People Who Escape Poverty Retain Poor Spending Habits Growing up in poverty has a significant effect on the brain. While poverty affects many aspects of the brain processes, spending patterns are greatly impacted by the mindset of poverty which in turns affects quality of life. Occasionally, those in poverty make it out. Despite gaining a higher socioeconomic class, quality of life can still be influenced by the impact of poverty. This is because those who grew up in poverty continue their impulsive

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    As a muckraker myself, I plan on exposing the truths of these issues so hopefully these problems can be resolved. Beautiful landscapes turn into dusty, fields of dirt. With the growing population there is a growing demand for crops and settlements. Westward expansion assisted the need for this by adding land to this growing country. However the more people moved to the west, the more destruction they brought with them. Trees are being cut down, cattle and sheep are stripping the land of its vegetation

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    Growing up in the projects in hard enough as it is, but throw in the fact that you are a white kid, and you have an idea of what Dalton Conley has had to grow up with. Now a successful sociologist, Dalton Conley explains in his book, the trials and tribulations he had to face in order to survive in the projects and his battle with race. Conley had more exposure to the idea of race than most children, growing up one of the only white kids in New York public housing projects populated by Black and

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