The census bureau's report, "Measuring Fifty Years of Economic Change," contains a graph (attached to report) entitled "The Average Income-To-Poverty Ration for Families by Fifths Is Another Measure of Income Inequality." This graph relates incomes to the poverty line. ... This graph also shows that in 1997, the top fifth's income was ten times that of the poverty line, while the bottom fifths was slightly less then one. ... The poverty line is the absolute minimum that the government deems necessary for adequate nutrition for a family of four yet the poor are not even making this...

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Son and heir of Comte Alphonse-Charles de Toulouse, he was the last in the line of an aristocratic family that dated back a thousand years. ... Latrec uses the setting (a dark, dirty room) to relay a feeling of poverty and deprivation. In his next painting "Alone,"" Latrec, once again pictures a low class, poverty stricken woman who appears to be some kind of factory worker or maybe even prostitute. ... Restricting his color scheme to blue, Picasso depicted poverty stricken, depressed figures whose body language and clothing show the lowliness of their social status. ... Picasso emphasized th...

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They are considered "unskilled" laborers who never worked hard to break free from the poverty line. ... There is a vicious cycle of poverty that makes things like this hard for poor people. ... The low-wage work and the poverty it creates is essential to the economic success of business. ... For those at the top of the economic food chain, such an attitude further distances them away from poverty. ...

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In president Obama's State of the Union speech, I think the main topic he addressed was issues surrounding middle class economics. The medium I choose was the video because a visual is better for me to be more engaged if I am watching a speech and to try to determine ethos versus just reading a ...

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But it semained practically the only one of the period Accounts of travelers, English and foreign, show London to have been dirty and harmful, lacking the common amenities, a city of violent contrast between luxury and elegance and poverty and inglincss, and above all of great disturbances... The big provincial towns were like London but with less wealth and more poverty, more despair, less social order, more disease, but, like London, full of opportunity for men tough temperament, endless vigoure to acquire the modest affluence necessary to enter the demi-paradise of comfort and ease which th...

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With its rush and roar echoing yet in our ears, we have turned the corner from prosperity to poverty. ... " The "Elevated" image symbolizes the rich and upper class, and going down, "from prosperity to poverty.... He also draws a line between the natives and the settlers, which is interesting because he looks down upon the settlers even though he once was one. ...

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The Turkish working class have to work long hours for a very low wage resulting in a lot of poverty and there is a bigger class divide between upper and lower class whereas Britain now has a broader middle working class system. As of August 23, 2014, the proportion of the population below the poverty line in Turkey is 16.9% whereas in the UK it is 14% (CIA, 2014). ...

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Karl Marx, a German philosopher, once predicted that a revolution would arise among the working class. The misery of the proletariats would set off a world revolution. The proletariats would triumph over the bourgeoisie and set up a new classless communist society. This "scientific socialism" theory...

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An old woman endures a long journey to get medicine for her grandson. The journey itself is symbolic. Phoenix endures many obstacles throughout her journey. "Seem like there is chains about my feet, time I get this far" (Welty paragraph 5) She is describing her weakness and how hard it is for her to...

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The Poor Amendment Act of 1834 (promoting both individualism and capitalism within 19th century Britain society) withheld a heavy impact to the country's poverty relief system. ... For example, Dickens' plot line for Oliver Twist, is merely a sequence of events related by the forces that cause them to take place. ...

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Around the 1980s, Flint, a city in Michigan, was in a catastrophe because General Motors" (GM) plant-closings led to the crisis of assembly line workers" layoffs and home evictions. Michael Moore, a former editor of Mother Jones, directed the documentary "Roger and Me" to inform viewers about GM's bad treatment towards assembly line workers. ... The town's condition proves how "poverty really is lower" (357) since people could not afford to live in their homes. ...

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Kings tended to make "laws, attempt to remove poverty from the Kingdom and take care of the citizens in his kingdom" ("Social Classes in the Middle Ages"). ... Nobility was second in line as to hierarchy right after Royalty. ...

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How they survive the cruelty of the landowners that take advantage of them, their poverty and willingness to work. ... He alludes to colors, to help describe how trite races and culture really are, when the bottom line is the existence of slavery, the ultimate separator in any and all societies. ...

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