Pine Ridge Reservation Thesis

Native American reservations suffer from a lack of economic stimulation. Most jobs on reservations are low paying federal employment that will not fuel the reservation’s economy. Because of the lack of employment, it is typical

Congress authorized expansion to 35,000 but service was voluntary and unpopular and pay was low. There were few trained and experienced officers. By 1814 with the British blockading the US, the American economy was near bankruptcy. Within a few decades the US was again at war, this time the Civil War. The Northern forces outnumbered the South by 4 to 1; approximately forty percent of the Southern Army were slaves.

Power flows down to us through that smoke, through the pipe stem.” The Indians lost connection to their rituals because the land resembled much more than a place to live. The land breathed life into the people who lived on its nourishing surface. The spiritual items utilized for the rituals most likely seemed like junk to the outsiders. The reservations in my opinion resembled the end to the beginning. Most of their ties to their ancestral traditions slowly diminished.

The depression started in 1929 when the stock market crashed, and a lot of shares from people and companies were worthless. This left many people in the United States jobless and without money. The dollar bill would not have the same value until 1944. In the book, Scout sees that Maycomb was a poor town and that nothing bad would really happen that could be worse than the way they were living by saying “There was no worry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with”(Lee 6). For example, Mr. Cunningham, who was a poor neighbor, has to pay Atticus with vegetables because he cannot pay him with real money for his work.

She said that when she “was so young”, she “heard (her father) cry every night in (his) sleep”. Though the song does not delve much about Kelly’s feelings, I believe that seeing her father in that state and not being able to help him, must have been very heart breaking for her since Kelly sang afterwards “You should have known; better than to lean on me”. This hints that she deems herself incapable of offering sufficient moral support for her father, eventually “(watching) (him) die”. This is very similar in Lena’s case, where Ying-Ying plays the part of the ‘depressed parent’ where she repeatedly shouted accusations at herself for not preventing the death of Lena’s little brother. However, Lena could not bear to let her father know what Ying-Ying said, and translated the accusations differently in English.

Due to its poverty rate of 81.2% the average lifespan is 56 years old compared to America 's 78 years old. An important demographic for me is Togo 's lack of education. The adult literacy in Togo is under 60% and child labor is 30% of all labor. The lack of education is one reason why the poverty rate is so high. Religion is a big part of the culture, and they use it to cope with their poverty.

His mother, father and sister don’t work at all. “The father was a wealthy man… he hadn’t worked in five years… in those five years, he had put on a lot of fat and became very slow moving… And was Gregor's old mother supposed to collect money now, a victim of asthma… and was his sister, at seventeen still a child whom could hardly begrudge the way she lived until now” (Kafka 30). At his job, he probably worked more to be able to support his family on top of paying debt and supporting himself. Gregor hides from his family for two reasons. One: he is more comfortable being in confined spaces rather than being out in the open.

Is College Worth the Cost ”If you get this wrong, it’s actually a mistake that’s hard to undo for the rest of your life.” (Wieder 2) Students spend on average $9,410 a year on instate college tuition and out of state is excessively more coming in at $23,890 a year. This merely covers the cost of tuition and even those costs are rising every year. Many students fall into debt trying to afford rising tuition and the cost of living, but is the price of the degree worth it? College is not worth the cost because it causes excessive debt, students do not graduate, and college degree does not guarantee learning or job preparation. A disturbing amount of students do not graduate college.

Nearly 33% of households where no-one is at work are at risk of poverty while the rate for households where two people are working is just 5% (EAPN). Which leads to a conclusion that’s, even if only one person in the family is employed, it’ll decrease the risk of poverty, therefore, unemployment causes poverty. Although the causes of poverty are bad, the effects are even worse. In conclusion, there are three main causes of poverty: trauma lack of education, and unemployment. Poverty has been present from the beginning of mankind and is increasing heavily.

Oprah’s parents Vernita Lee and Vernon Winfrey are unmarried and separated soon after she was born. She lived with her mother in Milwaukee, a dangerous neighborhood. In her mother’s absence she was sexually abused by male relatives at young age. The abuse, lasted from age nine to thirteen, it was overwhelming for a teenager. At age fourteen, she

But on the other side, the Furesians are the absolute poverty; they are in an economic position in which one lacks the sufficient income in cash or kind to the most basic biological needs for food, clothing, and shelter. Economically speaking, the poverty and morality rate of the Furesians is quite low, most suffer from starvation, dehydration, and not having a home. "An American household with an income of $50,000 spends around $30,000 annually on necessities, according to the Conference Board, a nonprofit economic research organization. "(Singer 3) This quote represents the same situation of the economic differences between the Eggonians and the Furesians. With the help of Singer, I will propose a solution for the Furesians.

Mary and Charles were close from their childhood to adulthood (Charles Lamb Poetry Foundation). Their bond was tested when Mary when into a fit of insanity and murdered his mother and injuring his father (Encyclopedia). Mary went into her rage because the family was struggling and she went into work but was not able to handle the pressure and stress that came with her job (Concise Dictionary).Their lives were forever changed after this day because Lamb would never be alone and was always taking care of Mary for the rest of their lives. () Lamb’s responsibility of Mary began when he was only 21. Mary did have period of recovery but she would return to having severe and violent moments of insanity (Concise Dictionary).

On paper, the numbers all add up and fit together to make a good budget plan, but some months you don’t make as much money or you have an emergency that requires all the paycheck. These jobs also don’t pay once a month at the beginning and people tend to live paycheck by paycheck. A lot of low-income families also develop bad habits, such as smoking, and they spend more money on that. It is easier said than done when putting together a budget plan for a low-income family. I don’t think that minimum wage is a living wage.