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well. John Edwards, a former U.S. Sentor, adressing a crowd at The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice's eleventh annual symposium, related to this by saying “We also have to deal with the very clear fact that society and culture play a role in the cycle of poverty. They just do. And when you have thirteen- and fourteen-year-old girls having their second and third baby, and they are in a family that lives in poverty, the odds are overwhelming that their children are going to live in poverty, too”…

These children’s medical needs go without treatment due to not having health care, and they don’t have access to academic tutors or other academic opportunities like children in middle or high class society have. The obstacles placed before children in poverty hold them back from moving forward in life, crippling them, paralyzing them, and creating an overwhelming atmosphere. An unhealthy home environment along with not being ready for school are two key factors that dictate negative future…

According to a collaborated study conducted by Daniel Milton, Megan Spencer and Michael Findely on the influx of refugees and transnational terrorism, countries with a significant refugee population are at high risk of transnational terrorism. This study focuses on the radicalization of refugees with respect to conditions in refugee camps and on the treatment of refugees in the host country. According to this study, most refugees experience miserable living conditions inside the camp as most…

The clothes you are wearing right now were likely made in a sweatshop. Whether expensive athletic wear or cheap and trendy fashion, much of what constitutes America’s retail fashion industry is produced in sweatshops. America relies on sweatshop labor to sustain its business model revolving around consumerism. By outsourcing clothing production overseas, American companies are able to increase profits by saving money. Capitalizing on cheap labor allows for companies to constantly sell clothes…

According to the British economist John Maynard Keynes, the Treaty of Versailles was nothing more than a ticking bomb threatening the European economy He predicted that this Treaty would result in “the dead season of our fortunes.” (The Economic Consequences of the Peace, p. 2) Keynes thought the Treaty proved that the Council of Four was shortsighted, and cared about nothing more than their own interest. Therefore, he foresaw that the Treaty would lead into an economic depression in Europe. We…

2.1.7 Consequences of Unemployment in Iraq The consequences of unemployment for the individual are financially and often emotionally destructive. The consequences for the economy can also be destructive if unemployment rises above 5-6%. When many people are unemployed, the economy loses one of its key drivers of growth -- consumer spending. Quite simply, workers have less money to spend until they find another job. If high national unemployment continues, it can deepen a recession or even cause…

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is, without a doubt, a controversial book. It faces challenges every year for a multitude of reasons, one of which being that the book is “too inappropriate” for children to read. The book was written in 1976 by Mildred D. Taylor, and it depicts the lives of an African-American family during the Great Depression, as well as the racism they faced. The Great Depression, which lasted from 1929 to 1939, was a major economic decline. It had devastating effects in…

The Great Depression is known to have many origins, including the “Great Crash”, the credit structure of the economy, and a lack of diversification in the American economy. The American economy was involved in most of the causes of the Depression. The most often believed cause of the Depression was “The Great Crash”, which occurred in October 1929. In the Great Crash, the market fell apart, destroying the gains from stocks of all previous years. People established the stock market crash as the…

Written by Zachary Mason; The Lost Books of the Odyssey was originally published in 2008 by Starcherone Books and then later republished in 2010 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. The book is made up of 228 pages with 44 chapters. Mason tries to show that the last 44 books of the Odyssey are new stories about Odysseus that show new points that are not in the Odyssey as well as a different way of thinking about the people that appear in this book. Mason wants to show that in these 44 books the…

children in underdeveloped countries and realizing that this cycle of poverty can only stop with education. Viewing the extreme levels of poverty in the world and seeing young children forced to give up education to provide for their families made me realize the inequality in our world, and this is what led to me joining the Project Darasani team. These children will be able to gain an education with these supplies and diminish the cycle of poverty. Together, it is our goal to send every child…