Her name is Nadima. She was born and raised in Kabul, Afghanistan where she still resides today. Nadima is thirty-eight years old, and a single mother of five teenaged children. She is one of many individuals seeking help through FINCA, and other websites to try and receive a loan of money from other people around the world. These people are searching for just a little help to get them on their feet and put them right back into functioning in society, and helping their economy. For many years she has worked as a clothing sewer, making and repairing clothing. But lately wages have been very low and Nadima is having difficulty paying for her children's educations. In effort to make wages and help her support her large family she applied for a FINCA loan in effort to start her own sewing business. Now, with the loan she is able to have customers coming constantly and she is also able to now support her family and hopefully someday send them off to school to get a better education. When I came across Nadima's story I instantly connected with her. I immediately put myself into her shoes....
Theresa Campana, CEO of the Buckeye Group, is a manufacturer’s agent for three companies that sells different types of software. As a sales agent for Accto Co., Saleco Inc., and Invo Inc., the Buckeye Group is responsible for calling business customers to sell accounting software, sales management software, as well as inventory management software out of Columbus, Ohio. With regards to logistics, according to the case, the Buckeye Group has sold $550,000 of total software, with Campana earning a 10 percent commission from Accto and Saleco, as well as a 7 percent commission from Invo per her dollar value of her final sales. Evidently, Campana’s initial ease of making sales come from her high knowledge of the products, background in business,
struggling even more to make ends meet. She is being paid nine fifty an hour and most of the money she
She put American combat troops in harm's way, betrayed her own people and handed over so many secrets that experts say the U.S. may never know the full extent of the damage. Ana Montes was the Queen of Cuba, an American who from 1985 to the September 11, 2001 attacks handed over U.S. military secrets to Havana while working as a top analyst for the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency. But despite her crimes, Montes remains largely unknown. The threat increases, when Havana goes on to sell those U.S. military secrets to nations like China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela and North Korea. Montes' anger about U.S. foreign policy complicated her relationships and drew the attention of Cubans who enticed her to turn her back on friends, family and
those who were poor and unemployed. With this in mind and her experience, strong faith and family past
Matt Groening once said “ I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me” which is how I felt when I first started reading Nadja by Andre Breton. The novel Nadja is based on two characters, one being Nadja and the other Breton who meet while wandering the streets of Paris and click. Breton becomes fascinated by Nadja’s view on the world and doesn’t seem to ever think of anything other than Nadja. Nadja ends up sharing too many details from her past causing Breton to realize that he cannot continue with the relationship he had with her. Nadja in the end of the novel is put in an asylum due to her madness. Although many believe that Breton is taking advantage of Nadja, I believe that Nadja is the one taking advantage of Breton because of her badgering and her control over Breton.
Joyce Stewart is seventy two year old, white female that lives in the small town of Candor New York. She has spent the majority of her life taking care of other people, including her eight children; now six due to tragic circumstances. She also was a house wife trying to survive being a mother to her children while her husband was away in the Navy. She now is a widow; her second husband passed away about ten years ago. She grew up on a farm with a low socio economic status; she overcame circumstances that she was dealt by working her entire life and eventually living a more financially stable life. Joyce is not rich by any means, but is able to live comfortably. She owns her own house that she and
obtain. Her new job will not allow her to afford the material things she wants. Edwin Arlington
Maya Angelou’s autobiographical essay “Graduation” was more than graduation. Upon reading the story I realized that Maya highlights that the African-American families at the time regarded the eighth grade graduation to be a big event. Initially Maya was excited and hopeful about the event, yet when she took her seat in the auditorium, she felt anxious. Mr. Edward Donleavy, a white speaker delivered the commencement speech in which made Maya upset because told them that black people only achieve success through sports, not through academics. “The man’s dead words fell like bricks around the auditorium and too many settled in my belly” (21). I related to many things from this essay like Maya’s academic success and her ability to
In this story, the horse dealer's daughter is a young woman named Mabel, who has recently discovered that her family has lost all its money, her brothers can go off and make their own way in the world, but Mabel has nowhere to go. There are a few options open to her -- going to live with a sister, becoming a servant -- but she has run her family's household ever since her mother's death and none of these options are acceptable to her.
Aphra Behn, a remarkable author who “‘…earned… [women]…the right to speak their minds’”, who was not afraid to speak her mind herself as evident in her works, and was a writer that aided in paving the way for women’s rights through the literature world (The Norton Anthology 2308). A majority of Behn’s works serve to further the voice of women in the oppressed society in which they were living in and this work being examined is no exception to this. The Disappointment serves as a perfect satiric companion to John Wilmot’s satire The Imperfect Enjoyment, in which instead of the sympathy being placed on the “unfortunate” man who cannot perform, the consideration is retained on the woman’s feelings during this situation instead. This may not seem awe-inspiring, but for a time period when a gender whose side in not often portrayed, this is very significant. In the text, Behn is acting as a voice for the women of that era. She is giving women a platform to stand on to push against this male dominated society; thus providing power for the unheard. By using specific diction, meter, and so forth Behn’s work, The Disappointment, is a vessel in which she demonstrates and satires the patriarchal dominance over women in society.
NS was born in raised in Poland; she came to the United States when she was 7 years old. Her first language is West Slavic, which only a small portion of Poland speaks. NS support system is her husband who collects disability from an injury that happened at work. She also gets support from her son, and daughter in law. Her son is a computer technician and daughter in law is a stay at home mom. Lastly, herself she gets support from social security. She was sixth grade English teacher for 27 years at Clifford Jr. High, now she is a retired. She currently resides in Aurora, IL and lives with her son, daughter in law, grandchildren, and her
Those who struggle with poverty know that there are few opportunities for change and ways to get money. With a growing poverty threshold resulting in massive amounts of poor people living in inadequate living conditions, it makes it hard to obtain the essential life necessities. Many factors lead to this steadily growing tragedy. Many of those who live in poverty have few resources necessary for them to acquire money, resulting in the decision to get cash through payday loans, or quick cash. Despite the amount of money Payday Loan Companies lend to lower classes, they actually cause more harm to those who receive assistance than it actually helps them. ...
in mind and financial help from family and friends Lee resigned from her job and
The first and arguably most common effect of poverty on society is its financial impact (Veritta, 2008). In many of the societies that experienced significantly high levels of poverty, debt was increasingly common, and especially debt accrued from moneylenders (Hatcher, 2016). For many individuals living in poverty, access to financial services such as banking is often stifled and rudimentary, making it difficult for such individuals to access self-improvement loans at standard and fair rates (Yoshikawa, Aber, & Beardslee, 2012). For these individuals, moneylenders are the best option available, which results in them paying exorbitant interest rates. The interconnection between poverty and finance, however, is cyclic in nature. The lack of finances or access to financial services causes poverty, which in turn causes an isolation of individuals from finances and financial services (Hickey & du Toit, 2013). This makes poverty a fairly complex problem to