Food Hunger and Food Waste Most people believe starvation exists in poverty infested neighborhoods because those individuals don’t realize hard times can strike at any moment for anyone no matter what their economic status is. However that’s usually the lesser problem. Without a doubt, the…
Essays on Poverty
The enduring issue of scarcity has hurt many people over many decades. Scarcity is the lack of appearance, amount, or supply. Scarcity can be caused by citizens panickily over buying goods. An enduring issue is a conflict that society has faced over a long period…
Abstract This brief was prepared for the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) hearing on rural health. It serves as an analysis of the health issues affecting the Delta Region (DR) of Arkansas; also known as the Mississippi Alluvial Plain. This…
Access to quality healthcare services is important in promoting and maintaining health, preventing and managing the disease, reducing disability and premature death, and achieving health equity for all Americans (Access to health services, 2019). Though oral healthcare is necessary for everyone yet, there are several…
In our world today, the second most leading cause of death is cancer which was recorded in 2015 (Zuber, 2019). The two health disparities that are associated with this cause of death is socioeconomic status and underserved populations (“Examples of Cancer Health Disparities”, n.d.). Socioeconomic…
It was a crowded coffee shop and I was nervous to make an appearance. I had just started taking a course in American Sign Language (ASL) and one of my very first homework assignments was to attend a Deaf event- a social gathering where you…
There are four phases to enforce translational research. However, there is a hidden phase. The preliminary phase (T0) involves all activities prior to clinical research (Gannon, 2014). Typically, T0 could be combined with T1 phase (Gannon, 2014). Phase one (T1) research involves groundwork and pre-clinical…
As Anne Frank said in her diary, “people can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn’t stop you from having your own opinion” (Tscherry, 2015). The courageous girl Anne Frank who wrote in her diary during the Holocaust tries to convey is…
Throughout the Second Gilded age, this term defines the wealth distribution of modern day and comparing it to the decades before 1928, originating in the United States history. Economist Robert Reich believes there is a connection between the increasing wealth of the top 1% and…
Hunger is still a major problem in some countries, especially developing and underprivileged countries like Africais done, it is difficult to get water and food there. Many people die, especially children because of hunger and malnutrition. Starvation can occur due to lack of food security…
For the year 2019, until October there have been 110 million births and only 46 million deaths. The life expectancy of humans is also steadily increasing and it has more than doubled from the last 2 centuries! As of 2018 the average life expectancy worldwide…
Tressie Cottom’s “The Logic of Stupid Poor People” and Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Serving in Florida” both explore the observations and experiences of living in poverty. As Ehrenreich highlights the struggles of surviving with minimum wage jobs, Cottom explains the logic and decisions of a community from…
Ehrenreich and Hook both argue in their papers that we, as a society, view those who are considered poor, negatively and incorrectly. I agree completely with this statement. As Hook mentioned in their paper, we see people of poverty as dishonest, lazy, and unreliable, and…
Homelessness is a global problem and its effects are far reaching including the UK. It could be viewed from two broad perspectives, the micro-level (individualistic) or macro-level (structural) factors, just to mention. This literature review examines some of recent studies conducted in trying to explain…
As of 2019, the world’s population is 7.7 billion. The number of fertility and life expectancy is the main factor that makes up population growth. You may ask why is our planet overpopulated? There are several reasons why overpopulation occurs. According to an article I…
