An essay on poverty though Galbraiths perception
Imagine a sumptuous chicken dinner accompanied by a bed of garlic mashed potatoes potato's, and a fresh baked apple pie permeated throughout the dining room. Then imagine a piece of bread accompanied by some butter with a glass of water. See the difference? Innumerable people take for granted the simple luxuries, such as eating a nutritional meal, while others struggle just to keep alive. Almost a third of the worlds population lives under the poverty line, earning less then one dollar a day. Although the gap is narrowing between the rich and the poor plenty of other problems such as families without medical insurance, to students attending lousy schools, are far from being solved. In both of my articles "Poverty in America" by Ann Therese Palmer, and "Forgiving and Forgetting" by Pranay Gupte, individuals make the effort to lessen the suffering of the poverty stricken. They explore society's effort to hand workers at the bottom of society real economic progress, but " how much longer can we keep the good times rolling?"(pg1 Pov. in Amc.) "Poverty is self perpetuating partly because the poorest communities are poorest in the services which would eliminate it"(246) is a principal motif throughout my first article "
Clinton announced last week that the U.S would "forgive" all the debt that the world's 36 poorest countries owe to America. He feels that the unsustainable debt is keeping to many poor countries and poor people in poverty. He emphasized that almost 1/3 of the world's population lives under the poverty line, earning less then one dollar a day. In Galbraith's essay, he elucidates on the theory that " We ignore it (poverty) because we share with all societies at all times the capacity for not seeing what we do not wish to see"(247). This, however, is not the case in this news article. This is why I have come to the presumption that Galbraith would be elated with the country's effort to do away with the afflictions of poverty. Destitution might not be eliminated, but the attempt to raise the standards of living is a conception Galbraith does not think is viable. " Such steps to eliminating poverty demands the nations will, however, and he warns that the nation may lack the will"(238). A similar endeavor to assuage poverty arises in my second article Forgiving and Forgetting by Pranay Gupte. In contrast to the above editorial the effort to eliminate poverty is made by one specific person, President Clinton, instead of a group of people In both articles, Galbraith would presumably be pleased that countries and individuals are putting forth the effort to attempt to pull others out of poverty. As established in the essay his main concern is that people ignore what they do not wish to see. " Anciently this has enabled the nobleman to enjoy his dinner while remaining oblivious to the
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Approximate Word count = 1094
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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