"A Question of Justice?"

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Paramita Sutanto

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“A Question of Justice?”

Poverty, the gap between the rich and the poor, ignorance and capitalism is what I see from the image of the cover from the Economist magazine that was given by Leslie last week. This image gives a clear image for us on how the people in developed countries are trying to collect more money and pursue their own happiness while as the poor people are getting even poorer and they could not pursue their happiness; which I will explain more in the passage.

        First, in the image, there is a young African boy (I assume that he’s African because he has black colored skin), holding a bowl and a paper. This symbolizes that he is poor and he lack of food which made him very skinny, most probably malnourished. Also, it tells us that poor people could not grasp a good education due to the school fee is getting higher every time. It is very ironic, realizing that with our allowance fee, we could have help the people in need; we could pay their school fees or give them food.

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        Second, at a glance, we can see that the boy is walking toward the developed city. This shows us that the boy doesn’t belong to the community in the big city, he might have segregated into an undesirable area, in other words, a slum area; this indicates us that there is a huge gap between the haves and the have-nots.

        Those well-heeled people seems to be enjoying their jet set lives and seek for more fortune; since there are less people that cares for them, the down-at-heel people are being ignored, and they are getting even more penniless because they ...

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