Imagine living in a cardboard box, with nowhere else to go, no food to eat and the rain pouring down hard. This is a horrible way to live. Yet worldwide millions of people are living in these conditions. True, the United States has poverty nationwide, but nothing compared to what is happening in third world countries. In some countries, no middle class exists.
It was a poor community; crops were not often grown for profit, but for merely sustaining the lives of many in one household. Nujood’s family was forced out of the town as a result of Nujood’s sister, Mona, refused to marry a man there, and their father drew his jambia out of anger. This is against culture, as the jambia is a ceremonial and decorative dagger; the mark of a man. They were forced to leave by the next sun. Shortly after leaving, the family settled in Sana’a.
People who lost their jobs could not feed themselves, pay their rent, and support their family. This forced families together in crowded houses or apartments. People couldn't afford to separate or get divorced because they needed the income of everyone to pay the rent. Men who lost their jobs often felt ashamed of themselves. The man from the “Cinderella Man,” had been ashamed as well as felt unimportant, but he loved his family so much that his pride did not overcome his feelings for his
Unfortunately this was not really possible in the 1930s, as people were prejudiced against the mentally handicapped, such as Lennie, and the Wall Street Crash, followed by the Great Depression, meant that the characters could suddenly end up unemployed and starving. George had two dreams, one was the stereotypical American Dream: to have his own farm with Lennie (and Candy) and ‘live off the fatta the lan’,’ without a boss to answer to. His other fantasy is of life without Lennie, who often caused him trouble and constantly needed looking after, ’I never get no peace.’ Without Lennie, George could be like any other worker, only looking out for himself and not caring as much about the way he leads his life. However, George needed Lennie for companionship to help make their joint dream vivid and keep them going. This also links to the theme of loneliness and companionship, and shows how two men travelling together was a rare situation.
Therefore, because people were so undernourished they had many diseases which became epidemics. Many people weren’t having enough vitamin c therefore resulting in them having scurvy, other diseases became epidemics; influenza, small pox and syphilis due to poor living conditions. Also, due to poor conditions the infant mortality rate was high and many children did not make it to their fifteenth birthday while life expectancy for adults was mid-thirties. Poor people died so young because their living conditions were terrible. They lived in their own filth and waste because there were no sewers or drainage to take it away, even when they threw it out of the house it would drain into the nearby rivers.
Many times people face poverty because they lack the means to move up in life. This barrier often times comes from lack of education. In many areas instances, children never even make it out of high school because their presence is needed to work and help the family survive. Seniors are often faced with many challenges which lead them to fall into poverty. Companies are known to let seniors over 50 go from their jobs.
The town is portrayed through the words of Scout Finch as a small, sleepy town, in which “a day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer.” Due to the Great Depression, the people of Maycomb, even the well-off citizens like Atticus Finch, are all very poor and the exaggerated length of the days appears to owe to the fact that “there was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.” The poorer citizens have to rely on trading with farming supplies and livestock as they, already indigent, were so further crippled by the depression that they have no real money to spend. This is more deeply explored on Scout’s first day of school, in which a boy named Walter Cunningham is offered a quarter by the teacher to buy lunch but refuses because the Cunninghams “never took anything they [couldn’t] pay back”, including money. From Scout’s various descriptions telling of Maycomb to be “a tired old town”, along with the situations and behaviours of its residents, it is clear to the reader that the district is suffering at the hands of the depression and is not a particularly thriving place in terms of modernisation or cultural development. It is a fairly basic town without basic attributes such as paved roads, instead featuring dirt paths which turned to “red slop” after rain, and the townspeople’s traditional
Forty two percent of all families below the UK poverty line contained no working members(CPAG, 2009/10). This shows that a lot of poor people do not work. Low Paid Work is another cause of Poverty. You find people working, but their earning is not enough to support their families. The cost of living keeps getting higher and higher.
The need for crop production was fueled by the lack of economic prosperity. This occurred right after World War II, which could explain why “more than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery.. Their food is inadequate.” (3) People were faced with little to no food sources and disease. Because of World War II, the lands were fought on and filled with dirt, which was not usable for developing farms. It did not help the prosperity of agriculture in those lands. “The land is tired, worn out, depleted of plant nutrients.”(4) Document 3 is the inaugural address of the US president Harry Truman.
How does Barry Hines present the character of Billy Casper? Billy’s life was hard in every aspect/area. He lived within a mining community where there was very little money around and any money brought into a household was accounted for and spent before it had even been earned. The writer proved this point when he showed how angry Jud was at Billy when he didn’t put the bet on and the horses and they won. “Ten quid.