Poverty Project There are so many things we've seen or heard about poverty. We have heard stories, read about it in newspapers, and mo

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Poverty Project

There are so many things we've seen or heard about poverty. We have heard stories, read about it in newspapers, and most of the time we have seen it on the television. We are all aware that there are thousands of people suffering from poverty; whether they are black, white an elderly person, or young innocent child. Although we are attentive towards the subject of poverty, we hardly ever do anything about it. The things we see on the news or read in the newspapers about people dieing because of poverty seem so unrealistic to our naive minds that we don't think to take a little time out of our day to actually try to help and perhaps make a difference in someone's life.  

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Years, weeks, and days have passed with someone dying because of poverty or someone looked down upon because of poverty. What is the society's definition of poverty? Who are the poor in our country today? Well, the original definition of poverty is: 1. the state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts. 2. unproductiveness; infertility: the poverty of the soil. 3. Renunciation made by a member of a religious order of the right to own property.  The society's definition of being poor would be a homeless man with unreasonable dirty clothes, lack of education, living ...

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