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documentary Poor Kids, children living in the Quad Cities reflect on their lives in poverty. Each story is different but similar in many ways. At the time of the film, there were sixteen million children reported who were affected by poverty. The film also stated that one in five children were living in poverty. With large quantities of children being affected by poverty, the important to understand how these children are dealing with the factors of poverty. Three different children; Brittany

The Struggle of the Working Poor Revised Essay Sociology 113 Yvonne Barney October 19, 2012 The Struggle of the Working Poor Society often describes the impoverished with one word, lazy. Society has taught us that if a person wants to be financially successful, it is a simple process of education and hard work that will equate to a successful income. This is the American dream. If the impoverished simply would get a job instead of being lazy, they would not need to rely on programs like

The Fenian Movement Fenian Movement, which was organized 1858, started as a secret revolutionary society in Ireland and the United States. This movement was created in the honor of the Fianna, known as the ancient Irish warriors. Fenians wanted to achieve Irish Independence from England by force. This movement was also known as the Fenian Brotherhood, Fenian Society, Irish Republican Brotherhood, and Irish American Brotherhood. The Fenians also had a very strong military force located in

million children live in poverty. In the news today we notice many examples of poverty due to the lack of jobs. Job scarcity is a root cause for lower-income families. Poverty has a substantial effect on children: physically, mentally, and educationally. First, children who live in poverty experience serve physical extremities. The children born into this underprivileged lifestyle subsist to low birth weight. Children living in poverty stand a greater risk of poor nutrition. Most children living in

other problems to escalate, and caused many people to flee into the cities, as well as caused a differentiation between the rich and the poor. However, after the civil war, industrialization affected the US politically, economically and environmentally way more than them benefitting from it. The negative effect brought political controversy and resulting in riots, poor working conditions, child labor, greed for the rich and immigrants also wanting to work and the positive effect were improving and developing

of the poverty in order to maintain their wealth. With this implementation of a Marxist critique, it is necessary to understand the intersections of oppression that affect Katrina: not only is she poor but she is a woman. As a working single mother, Katrina must provide everything for her three children. At the start of the documentary, her husband is mostly absent with no income and only finds work toward the end. Katrina is forced to play a pivotal role in her children’s upbringing, one that holds

We never really hear about those who live in poverty. It is as if those who are affected get pushed to the side and forgotten about. Everyday we are plagued with the harsh reality that everything we have could easily be taken away from us. That reinforces the importance of doing everything we can to succeed and to not be subjected to a very unpleasant lifestyle. In Order to do so, we first must gain awareness of what poverty is and the harsh reality to being in poverty. Not only that, you have to

The idea of the American Dream has had a significant influence on American society throughout history. The American Dream is a simple set of ideals that includes democracy, rights, liberty, opportunity, and equality which promotes opportunity for prosperity and upward social mobility for families through hard work and dedication. Historically, the underlying message of the American Dream states that anyone can turn their lives around and become successful in return for hard work. For those low-income

recommendations shared by David Ellwood and Herbert Gans (see below). In No Shame in My Game, anthropologist Katherine Newman attempts to draw greater attention to the plight of the working poor rather than the jobless poor. She and her research team explore the lives of Harlem's working poor, primarily focusing on the fast food industry or "burger flippers" as the subject for her largely ethnographic study. One of the important insights articulated in her study is the extended familial

After reading the articles, I was surprised that 68% of our population lives in poverty once in their lives time. There are so many poor people living in poverty, but also working really hard to achieve “the American dream”. But due the lack of support, many People think that the poor are all lazy and do not want to work, just because that is the idea of a poor person. However, reflecting back if 68% of the population has once lived in poverty, then how it could be laziness. The problem is that the