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Edgar Lee Masters William Jennings Bryan
2,008 wordsEdgar Lee Masters was an American poet, known principally for his poems about life in the Midwest. It has been 49 years since he has died and today he is virtually forgotten. His book of poems entitled Spoon River Anthology may spark a small amount of recognition. This book is a work of free verse poems about the secret lives of the inhabitants of Spoon River, a small Midwest town based on Lewistown and Petersburg, Illinois. This book remains a landmark in the literature world of realism and rev...
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Rich And Poor Poor Countries
1,449 wordsEvery day hundreds of thousands of people are starving. The issue of who should assist them is brought up time and time again. Should we give of our own? If so, how much should we give? Since only one third of the nations in the world are rich and the other two thirds are poor can and should the rich countries be expected to provide for the less fortunate? Garrett Hardin, author of Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Aid That Harms states that each country has a carrying capacity and by helping ou...
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Population Growth Carrying Capacity
1,300 words... ered around, it was be painfully obvious that this could only mean one thing: the resource is very abundant now, compared with the demand for that resource. However, the only thing that this means is that resources just aren't as scarce right now, as they used to be. One of the major causes for this is quite possibly the over-saturation of the market with such resources. Because mankind's economies are using the resources so quickly, there doesn't appear to be as much scarcity as there once ...
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Racial Mixing Socio Political
779 wordsLiving on a Lifeboat In his article Living on a Lifeboat, Garret Hardin outlines a general idea of what is going to happen to the world, as we know it, if proponents of Liberalism will be allowed to impose their degenerative social doctrines upon citizens in Western countries. By applying a scientifically proven statistical data, Hardin leaves us with no doubt that it will only be the matter of time, before Western civilization descends back into barbarism, if we embark on fitting everybody into...
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Isaac Asimov Human Behavior
719 wordsControl or Freedom In the book The Foundation Isaac Asimov get many points across to the reader and tries to impact their thinking. In The Foundation Asimov gives the reader narrowed insight into the path history forges, how politics shape a populace, and how human behavior is very predictable. In The Foundation Isaac Asimov shows the reader that the history and the future is not in control by one individual. By setting up this theory Asimov shows how it is possible for the psycho historians, li...
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Middle Class Families Lifeboat Ethics
898 wordsHardin's Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against The Hardins Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against The Poor No! You Cannot Come In Hardin's Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against the Poor No! You Cannot Come in Garrett Hardin writes about saving the poor in his essay Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against the Poor found in The Blair Reader. Hardin writes about how the rich countries are in the lifeboat and the poor countries are swimming in the ocean. He also writes about how the United States helps other countries...
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Low Income Housing Minimum Wage
1,441 wordsHomelessness: What We Can Do About It Being homeless is often defined as sleeping on the streets. Although this is the most visible and severe form of homelessness, there are many other types of acute housing need. These include living in temporary accommodation, poor or overcrowded conditions, or being in mortgage arrears and under threat of re-possession. (Hope, 27) It is a symptom of many complex problems: mental illness, emotional instability, illiteracy, chronic substance abuse, unemploymen...
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Louis Armstrong King Oliver
621 wordsLouis Luis Armstrong Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong was the most influential person in jazz's history. He contributed greatly to the growth of jazz and was able to play in a variety of ways. His amazing and interesting life came from his straight talent for the music. He deserved every bit of fame he got simply because he was an incredible musician. Louis Armstrong was born in 1900 and raised by a poor New Orleans family. At twelve he was sent to reform school for firing a gun in the air on New...
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Number Of People Standard Of Living
3,047 wordsPopulation Problem Two hundred years ago, Thomas Malthus, in An Essay on the Principle of Population, reached the conclusion that the number of people in the world will increase exponentially, while the ability to feed these people will only increase arithmetically (21). Current evidence shows that this theory may not be far from the truth. For example, between 1950 and 1984, the total amount of grain produced more than doubled, much more than the increase in population in those 34 years. More r...
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Moral Obligation Absolute Poverty
1,137 wordsRobbing the Rich to Give to the Poor Poverty has conquered nations around the world, striking the populations down through disease and starvation. Small children with sunken eyes are displayed on national television to remind those sitting in warm, luxurious houses that living conditions are less than tolerable around the world. Though it is easy to empathize for the poor, it is sometimes harder to reach into our pocketbooks and support them. No one desires people to suffer, but do wealthy natio...
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