- - - “WHY DOES INCOME INEQUALITY EXIST?” Submitted to: - Submitted by: - - - - 4. Why does income inequality exist? Income inequality‚ also known as economic inequality or wealth and income differences typically refers to inequality among individuals and society‚ but it can also refer to disparity among countries. There are many reasons for this phenomenon to happen within the societies‚ most of them are often inter-related. However‚ we could say that the most important
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Poverty has always been with us from beggars outside the gates of Jerusalem to the mentally ill homeless woman in the park. America is known for our huge difference in culture and class. This is due partly to the dynamics behind the political decisions of this country. The president himself admits that America is more unequal than it’s been since the great depression and many of his own supporters say he has failed. America now has‚ by many standards‚ the lowest social mobility of all of the high-end
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Why does rape exist and what causes it? What is it about our society that makes rape one of the fastest growing violent crimes in this country? The causes and reasons for rape are deeply entrenched in our social structure. We can explore some of the motivations and circumstances‚ which lead men to rape. We have learned that some men rape out of anger and a need to overpower‚ dominate‚ and humiliate. We can also look at some of the historical attitudes from which today ’s beliefs and stereotypes have
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Poverty Poverty has been on the rise in America‚ mainly because of the recession and now it is reaching new heights. Even though the government is trying to make more beneficial tax cuts‚ and find other various solutions‚ poverty levels continue to rise drastically. But to first find the solution ourselves we must first know what causes poverty and what it is. A simple definition of it is‚ poverty is the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or finances. Absolute poverty
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Michelle Chai Why does war exist? Conflicts occur everyday between individuals such as siblings or even between the local grocer and his/her customer. When conflicts are magnified at the national or even global level‚ it can result in a war between the two parties. More explicitly‚ war occurs when two groups are in conflict with each other for any reason over a period of time. Therefore‚ war exists because people are not happy with the government and also because of greed. War exists because people
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Poverty in America Poverty‚ the state of being extremely poor‚ exists all over America! There are several different types of poverty‚ and the causes of poverty. Most people think of poverty as just somebody who is homeless and has no job‚ somebody who has no money to support the basic needs of life‚ and wears ragged clothing and lives under a bridge. What people don’t know is there are people living in poverty that have jobs and make money but live so poorly that they are categorized with people
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important in understanding the divisons and inequality on which the system of stratification is based in modern industrial societies. Some post-modern theorists have gone even further by questioning whether class still exists. Jan Pakulski and Malcolm Water (1996) argue that classes exist only if there is ’minimum level of clustering ‚ or groupness ’ and such clusterings or groupness are no longer evident. People no longer feel that they belong to class groupings‚ and members of
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Poverty is an issue on a grand scale. People all over the world especially politicians make statements everyday about how they plan to end poverty in their countries but everyday poverty gets worse and worse in those same countries. Poverty isn’t a new issue‚ yet it is still one of the biggest issues in the world. According to Anup Shah “around the world‚ in rich and poor nations‚ poverty has always been present.” (Poverty Around The World‚ by Anup Shah) Most people believe that they are poor
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solutions and theories as to how to go about putting an end to poverty in the United States. Books like Senator and presidential candidate John Edward’s Ending Poverty in America: How to restore the American Dream‚ academic economist Jeffrey Sachs’s The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time and Robin Marris’s Ending Poverty are unproven‚ unimpressive and unrealistic dreams of how our society should go about eliminating poverty. We need poor people in our society to maintain a solid‚ functioning
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Heroes: Do They still Exist? In modern times we hear the word hero all of the time. The news media throws the term around as if it is an everyday word. So who‚ or what‚ can be classified as heroic? The definition of a hero is a person‚ typically a man‚ who is admired for courage or noble qualities. To the average person‚ however‚ a hero is much more. To better understand what a hero is it may be easier to describe what a hero is not. A hero is not a football player who scores the game-winning touchdown
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