"Attitudes towards the homeless have gone from indifference to pitying to hatred," says Kozol. He made his point very clear; people who do not understand homeless people and their individual situations are ignorant and have no real empathy to the struggles they face on a day to day basis. Author describes heartbreaking situations; how people avoid touching the hands of the homeless people while giving them money, how Amtrak officials do not let them use the bathroom, and how homeless woman dies of pneumonia just because ambulance was not called in Grand Central. Without understanding, there is no compassion; Kozol emphasizes this main theme throughout the essay. This article just hit my heart and made me feel very emotional.
View of a Typical Citizen Officers like this ruin the faith entrusted in police officers by the community. Officer within the department lack control. Officer are not to be trusted, are incompetent and unprofessional. Problems She takes pride in being of the “old school” Developed a clique Driving skills Reality check? Look what I have in my hand?
Phone lines were cut and people had to stay on the side they ended up on when the wall was built; emigration was near impossible because of high security levels, and gaining access by means of a visa was also difficult as well as expensive. People were devastated; this was the first sign that they were losing their freedom in terms of travel and many panicked citizens tried to escape before the Wall was finished and fully guarded. This negatively affected the GDR as their people felt trapped, they were unhappy with the government system thrust upon them purely because of the district they happened to be in. Another negative impact of the Berlin Wall was that the GDR had to constantly strengthen the wall and its defences as they felt threatened by the West's increased military forces. The initial barbed wire barrier soon transformed into a concrete wall with weaponry and military forces defending the inner German border; so many military resources were devoted to the defence of the wall, a constant drain of the GDR's time, money, and work force, which could have been used elsewhere if the wall did not exist.
The German government thought that the terms of the treaty were very harsh, but had no choice but to accept them. Apart from the many harsh terms Germany had to follow they also had o pay back an extremely unrealistic amount of money, which ruined its economy. A few months after the treaty was signed, German money was practically worthless. German people had to live in very poor conditions and there was hardly any money in the country. After the shame the Treaty of Versailles caused for
Gangs are one of the results of poverty, discrimination and urban deterioration. Some experts believe that undereducated young people, without access to good jobs, become frustrated with their lives and join gangs as an alternative to boredom, hopelessness and devastating poverty. Studies have attempted to determine why gangs plague some communities but there has been no definitive answer. Consequently, people working to solve gang problems have great difficulty. They find the situation overwhelming, and the violence continues.
Unfortunately, because of such extreme poverty and no resources for food, the Batwa are disappearing. Those that have chosen to integrate into society are faced with constant discrimination and prejudice. “Batwa children say they dislike going to school because other children throw things at them and call them dogs” (Matthews, 2006, Para 12). The degrading has been so horrific that the Batwa people are ashamed of whom they are. In 1906 a young man named Ota Benga, lived one of the most degrading and appalling 12 years any one person could ever live.
The valley of the ashes represents the moral and social decay that results from unreached pursuit of wealth. George and Myrtle Wilson live on this land, and they represent the difficulties of the poor. The results of unreached goals is what is reflected when one thinks of this horrid place. It is dusty, clogging up car engines, perhaps also representing the numerous regrets of not reaching personal and financial goals. The valley of the ashes connects with Gatsby’s failure in obtaining the American Dream because it is obviously is the root of a lack of success.
Besides, all kind of illegal or immoral activities would remain and root deeply in the society if most of citizens are ignorance. In the play, ignorance is apparently portrayed and paralleled to the compact majority. The compact majority can be compared to un-educated people who are generally seen in many developing countries. Compared the Bath to technology development or social development, the city cannot accomplish this development surely since the compact majority is ignorance. Ibsen, faithfully, wrote the play as a way to criticize Europe society at the times when people were not interested in any technologies and truths.
I think that she could've left for three reasons; Her childhood was not good, her father was an alcoholic and treated both Eveline and her mother with disrespect and cruelty, as well as her being forced to take care of the family when her mother died. My first reason that Eveline could've left was because of her terrible childhood. In the story Eveline is described as poor and probably does not have a very comfortable life. Eveline's struggle for money is constantly mentioned in the story. There are very specific details that show how miserable her life is.
Firstly an argument for compulsory voting in Britain is that in all democracies around the world, voter apathy is highest amongst the poor and uneducated. These are the most poorly represented people in society as they are intimidated by politics and feel that their one vote would make no difference to their situation so feel that voting would be a waste of time. However, because these groups in society such as the unemployed do not vote, political parties do not create policies to meet their needs. This means that a vicious circle begins and the unrepresented go on being unrepresented because they do not vote. If voting was compulsory these groups in society would have no choice but to take a greater interest in politics and by voting or talking to their local MP their situation may be improved by the introduction of new policies.