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…for clerical corruption. The importance of community life and prayer, as well as the oath of poverty, became obsolete as many monks retained inherited estates and acquired wealth. This directly violates all that a clergyman embodies. The corruption associated…

…problem at Pine Ridge is just one of the ingredients needed for its heavily depressed society. There is plenty of poverty, alcohol related crimes and lack of interest to pursue a better lifestyle among the tribe. "Wherever there is poverty and misery, people…

…that those were the unavoidable alternatives for me.” (“Such, Such Were the Joys...) At Crossgates the neurotic dread of poverty and the assumption that not only money and privilege are the only things that matter, but it is better to inherit them than have…

…IN CUBA/US America is the richest country in the world, Cuba is amongst the poorest. While the supporters for each side have been throwing insults about the adopted economic models of each what is the reality? On questions such as poverty, hunger, literacy…

…suggest that the legalization of abortion might have indirectly caused the lowering of crime which have been observed during the 1970's. Their reasoning was that abortions prevented the birth of many people who would have been brought into poverty. This could…

…persisted in the belief that to grant reforms would undermine his autocratic power. Peasant poverty was a long-standing problem. Russians peasants gained their emancipation in 1861 in the form of a decree from Tsar Alexander II. They then received pay…

…that the mention of their condition of poverty is unpleasant to her, apparently because it causes her to feel inferior." This further shows the disillusionment that Sylvia has regarding poverty. The other children that were part of Sylvia's group began to learn…

…would have most certainly, most likely concluded with different results. In short Shweder's explanation of economic development in a nut shell is this, " It would be nice to have in hand a valid general causal explanation for the wealth and poverty…

…Contemporary cities across North America are in crisis, and Toronto is no exception. Growing poverty and homelessness, mounting waste, air pollution that impacts residents' health as well as the environment, inadequate transit, and failing infrastructure…

…on what is holding down minorities today. Let us turn our sites on poverty, poor family life, poor schooling, for these problems are colorblind, and can hinder an individuals chances for success more than anything else. To equal the opportunity of minorities…