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…their right of free speech. The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty released a report about Hopper 4 homeless children attending school. Homeless children are often denied their right to attend public schools because of residency requirements…

…Americans. In Lorraine Hansberry's ,A Raisin in the Son, she examines an African-American's family's struggle to break out of the poverty that is preventing them from achieving some sort of financial stability, or the American Dream. It focuses on Walter's…

…gang membership, is a common feature of youth’s identities. It is a symbol of profound social forces at work, such as poverty and discrimination, as well as youths’ needs to establish a sense of “identity” and community (Bortner 53). Bad companionship, lack…

…for crop and livestock production; §Lack of off-farm employment opportunities, contributing to low and uncertain incomes in urban and rural areas. The causes and consequences of food insecurity and poverty are inextricably linked. That means in general, we…

…to lift themselves out of degradation and poverty in order to succeed. The Nasturtium grows out of poor soil-wasteland, in this poem it manages to find a knot-hole to escape through. When describing the flowers' struggle Gunn uses a humanising metaphor…

…of the suffering of all, not just themselves. One example of a Buddhist view on social reform comes from the Digha-nikaya, where it teaches that poverty breeds many crimes such as theft and violence. And that in order to eradicate this evil, government must…

…it is the perfect ideological guide for destroying poverty, racism, and sexism. All these oppressions are systems of power based on hierarchy. Hierarchy means top-down, like a pyramid. Hierarchical constructions of power create positions of relative privilege…

…government 24 billion dollars. An example of how food stamps are distributed is given by the Congressional Digest, "A four-person household with countable income below the federal poverty guidelines and specified assets of less than $20,000 qualifies for up…

…unable to resist oppression from whites during the late nineteenth century. Blacks believed the sole reason for their unhappiness was due to their dark skin. Sadly, the poverty and discrimination that blacks faced causes them to idealize the white race…

…likely to commit an act of violence. Between 1976 and 1996, the number of juveniles living in poverty grew 42 percent. Along with this growth, crimes committed by juveniles also grew. >From as early as the turn of the century, experts in juvenile delinquency…