When he sings, “I made a G today but you made it in a sleazy way. Sellin’ crack to the kids. I gotta get paid.” It shows what the unfortunate people have to do in order to survive. Even though people know it is the morally wrong and dangerous occupation to take up, they sell drugs to get by because there are no other opportunities. Some communities are so torn that legal economic opportunities to support families are nearly nonexistent.
McKenzie Schmitt Ms. Crosbie AP English 11 1, December 2011 We all Need a Helping Hand With the Grain Growing up in a poor household Dennis Clausen and his family were the true image of the less fortunate side of America in the 1950’s. Clausen wrote an essay entitled, The Kindness of Strangers, where he states how he benefited from outside factors such as welfare, to help him and his family survive. This family, which consisted of an injured mother, an absent father, and five children, are one of the common families that would go through welfare. The benefits of welfare are able to shine throughout this paper, where the reader is able to see first hand how it was able to change a whole family. One is able to see how greatly Clausen’s family benefited from these welfare checks and how in the end the family was able to complete the circle of welfare and give back to society.
The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure deprivation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high. To be
Acsher purpose, speaker, and intended audience isn’t evident until the end of the essay. Her main reason and purpose or writing the essay seems to be first that a way of defeating loneliness is to become your own best friend, and second to explain that even a homeless man can have dignity and can achieve self satisfaction . She depicts this when she describes him standing “unselfconsciously” tossing boxes aside. This shows he that even a homeless man is too good for a box demonstrating dignity. She then references Boxcar Child to endorse The Box man’s life and how he’s defeated his loneliness, and lives a more free and liberated life than the average person.
“He prayed loudly and strenuously, as if heaven were to be taken by force of lungs”. (Irving 250) This also shows that Tom Walker regretted his bargain with the “black man”. The third-person omniscient narrator provides the people’s thoughts and feelings of all the characters in the story showing us how they felt towards moneylenders and giving us a better understanding towards them. The poor land jobber asked Tom for a few months’ indulgence, not giving the poor man any sympathy. “I must take care of myself in these hard times.” said Tom “You have made so much money out of me,” said the speculator.
Peter Singer was a man with good ideas. In the seventies, he wrote an essay on Bangladesh war refugees that were poverty stricken and starving. When one loses his/her ignorance to some critical issues in the world around them, often times their eyes are open. Upon learning about the refugees, Singer presented some ideas to help these people out that probably “stepped on some toes.” When we, in our world see someone with a lot of money, it is a natural thought to wonder what it would be like, what could we do for ourselves, how could we help our families and friends and other loved ones with this treasure? However, do we ever take the time to think of how we could help others with our fortunes?
Singer used Ethos by mentioning his book that he wrote in 1996 called “Living High and Letting Die” to help support his thesis. The book was designed to probe the reader’s intuitions about whether it is wrong to live well without giving substantial amounts of money to help people who are in hunger, malnourished on dying from illness that could easily be treated (Peter Singer). Singer uses a particular pathos, in his article to make his readers feel guilty about not helping to feed the needy. By providing information in his article, Singer encourages the reader to donate their
The law brought positive changes to the country encouraging more people to seek employment, “working people developed their own self-help movement”. Walsh M, et al, 2000. But also created some negative changes, working conditions were extremely harsh and families were split up. The amendment act was disliked by the poor population of the country because of the leissez-faire system the government had in place, the government’s approach on leissez-faire was to intervene as little as possible with the direction of economic affairs. This had an impact on the poor, it caused stigma and the poor had a mark of disgrace on their reputation.
The city revolved around a “survival of the fittest” manner and would chew you up only to spit you back out for another beating if you didn’t comply. The unfair techniques politicians used to scam elections made it close to impossible for the weak to gain any strength. So the days carried on for the immigrants, who mainly worked in factories. Low pay kept the people on a tight working schedule and made it tough to live. The conditions were so bad many people ended up unable to work due to sickness or death from either the meat or exhaustion.
For example, welfare benefits do it can help subsidy their family. By its very nature, the aspiration of this thesis toward Carol Stack and The Moynihan Report clashes with conflict with how black communities lived in poverty and how the only way to survive was through solidarity and exchange/ swapping within the African American communities (Stack) and how the black family structure was decrepit due to dysfunctional number of "matriarchal" family hierarchy or the diversity within and among black families. The lack of the economic mobility and social mobility of the people/workers are necessary for the upper and middle classes because it keeps the economy going. It helps a lot of policies like for example welfare. Welfare positions the current situations rather than the policies that would probably change the structure of our economics that forces our black urban poor people into the high poverty range.