On a geographical scale, Asia holds the highest rate of malnutrition with a staggering 70%, while Africa has 26% and Latin America only 4%. ... Throughout history, Bolivia has been consistently known for being one of the poorest countries in Latin America and the world. ... The reason Bolivia is so unique compared to other countries in Latin America, is it seems to be the only one in Latin America suffering from high death rates due to malnutrition. ... Bolivia is burdened with one of the highest rates of chronic malnutrition (the percentage of children under 5 that are growth stunted) in Lat...

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The term, "Third World " is a name applied to the technologically less-advance, or developing nations, nations like Asia, Africa, and Latin America. ... And that is mostly where the money goes, back to America . ... 2 Foreign aid is a powerful tool in promoting American interests overseas. ... For example, in the early 1960's, under the Alliance for Progress program, the U.S. used the foreign aid to prevent communism from spreading to Latin America. In the 1970s and 1980s, American officials sent large amounts of military and economic aid to the Philippines. ...

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Religions of the World REL 100-01 Reaction Paper on Oscar Romero and "Liberation Theology" "Liberation Theology" A school of theology, especially prevalent in the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America, that finds in the Gospel a call to free people from political, social, and material oppression. (http://www.dictionary.com) Two inescapable facts confronted Latin American pastors in the latter half of this 20th century: that most of their parishioners lived in grinding, miserable poverty and that the Church represented the only viable community organization in their world. ...

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Unlike the history of many neighboring Latin American countries, the Dominican Republic gained independence from their next-door neighbor, Haiti, rather than Spain. ... The Dominicans that do make it here are from the poorest of the poor, therefore it is much harder for them to adapt to the American standard of living. ... This is why most Cubans have achieved such great success in America (Novas 217). ...

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Many Americans waste food every day within their own homes. With so much "left over" food in American how is it that an estimated 800 million people around the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition? ... Americans are not the only ones who waste food. ... And the though it seems that America has too much food, we Americans have hungry people living right here in our own country. ... "In Latin America and Caribbean, studies indicate that malnutrition is the primary cause of or major contributing factor in 60 percent of deaths of children under the age of five." ...

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In Africa and Latin America, for example, the richest 5 percent of the population earn almost 25 percent of the national income, while in industrial countries they earn only 13 percent (World Politics, pg.42). ...

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"In 2006, 9 percent of Americans ages 16 to 24 left high school before getting a diploma, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. ... Hispanics' median income is less than half the average American income, whereas their pregnancy rate is one and a half times as high (Rivera and Berkeley 2). ...

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MAKE TRADE FAIR Here in Britain we try to live our lives to the fullest. We are taught from a very early age to have ambitions, work hard at school and at our careers, achieve our dreams and desires, to keep strong relationships, to love and be loved, to lookout for one another, to lend a hel...

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Poverty The Young girl thought to herself as she sat under the Cypress tree in the blazing sun watching the heat waves shimmer above the blinding brightness of the hot sand, "I wish I had food in my stomach. My back aches and my body feels weak and enervated. In the last week, I have eaten on...

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