1 in 7 American people are living in poverty. They are cold, hungry, and they are not getting help from the government. People who have homes view the homeless as bad people and believe that they are too lazy to work (video). In reality, they are working to get a job and provide for their family. Also, the government is also not helping the homeless (video). They’re giving less and less support to the homeless and giving support to the rich population (video). Next, serfs in the middle ages were in the lowest class in their feudal system. They were part of the land. Whoever owned the land was in control of them, but serfs weren’t slaves. Their role in society was to farm. They had to give a piece of their food to their vassal or lord (owner …show more content…
Serfs had gardens where they grow food. Cabbage, turnips, onions, peas, and beans (Doc A). If serfs had gardens that grow food, then they can have extra food if they don’t make enough from the farm. If serfs food supply gets larger the harder they work, then their food supply is in there own hands. On the contrary, the homeless sometimes have to go through trash bins for food or beg for money (Doc B). If the homeless have to beg for money and search trash bins, than they have no food to eat. If they are begging, then their food supply is in the communities hands. Next, Serfs had animals (hens, geese, hogs cow, and oxen) but mostly used them for other things than meat (Doc A). If the serfs had animals, they could get milk, eggs, and other things from the animals. Then they will have additional food to eat. If they are starving and have nothing to eat, then they can use the animals for meat. On the other hand, finding food is a challenge for the homeless. (Doc B). If finding food is hard and one day you didn’t find any food, then you will have to beg for money. If you’re begging your in the communities hands, not in your own hands. The serfs food situation was better because they had more food and the amount of they get was in their own
... a dinner meal can become a luxury. Soup kitchens sometimes become overcrowded and unable to serve everyone in need. As a result, malnutrition is not uncommon among these underprivileged families.
One of the reasons the serfs led an uprise against the government in the early 1520s was a wanting for economic equality. In a letter written from a Count to a Duke, describes the attacks the peasants were planning and executing in which they attacked the houses of the nobility (Doc 11). The peasants started with the most wealthy individuals and stealing possessions from wealthy areas (like consuming all that was available in the monasteries) and then continued to attack other rick noblemen is descending order of wealth. This systematic approach of attacking the wealthy, and the wealthiest first, shows the dislike by the peasants for the economic system at the time. In addition, in an article written by peasants, called Twelve Articles of the Swabian Peasants, the peasants demanded better compensations for the services they provided their lords (Doc 2). They believed that they were being severely underpaid and were suffering conditions almost equal of that to a slave. They believe that they are simply demanding what is, in their opinion, just. On another instance, in 1525, in a letter written to the Archbishop of Wurzburg by an unknown source, the peasants demand a wealth redistribution (Doc 8). Lorenz Fries, the chief advisor to the Archbishop, discusses that the secret lett...
In the Middle Ages, three distinctive kinds of peasants existed: the serfs, slaves and the freemen. However, the majority of the peasant society consisted of the serfs (Gilberts para. 1). Serfs made up only half of the population for peasants in the 14th century, but during the mid-11th century, an astounding ninety percent of peasants, in distinct areas, were attributed to serfs. A serf was under the command of his lord and had to abide by his rules (Singman 8). He then contained absolutely no political rights (Gilberts para. 2). Alike the serfs, slaves were permitted to be sold and purchased, but, in fact, buyers of serfs did not have full ownership over them (Singman 8). If a serf happened to flee and stay hidden and unrestricted for a total of one year, he could then declare himself a freeman (Gilberts para. 2). Freemen were, indeed, permitted to roam around at liberty and own tiny pieces of land (Gilberts para. 1).
In the medieval times everything had an order to follow, a price that had to be paid, and a contract that had to be obeid. Each person had a rank, which decides on your lifestyle and future for you and your descendants to come. A serf was at the bottom of the pyramid, therefore they had to work at sunrise to sunset. The lords and the ladies lived conformably in their glorious castle, which was flooded with servants. Alot of things obviously had change, which is the more reason to learn more about our history.
Farming, sewing, and taking care of livestock were just a few responsibilities that were left to slaves during the 1600's. White families received all of the benefits from the work done, yet they rarely had to lift a finger, unless it was to correct a slave. Today's generation reads about slavery and regards it as morally wrong. While I agree that slavery was one of America's greatest wrongdoings, it paved the way for America as we know it today.
He could also make them work as hard as he wanted them to. Except, the risk of losing a serf was too high, especially since the Black Plague was going around. The Finer Times said that the health of a serf wasn’t anywhere near perfect. The water was polluted from the waste of the towns. Homes without bathrooms threw their waste into the gutter or in the streets and small businesses produced rotting garbage that attracted bacteria, rats, fleas, and flies. Medieval Times Info states that every four out of ten babies didn’t reach the age of five due to illness. The Black Plague spread to the manors and killed one-third of the population. Other than illness, hunger was a problem for the serfs. With everyone dropping like flies, there weren't that many serfs left to work in the fields, causing the crops to die out from not being able to get harvested or treated in time. The ladies of the manor had it easier, but not
Throughout history there has always been a lower class society and some even lower than that which are known as the homeless. The homeless are people who don’t own homes or don’t live in their own home so they have to live in public places like shelters or even on the street. Homeless like to come out from the shadows and target the weak like a father with his daughter. They target specific groups so they know they can get money out of them easily instead of having to work for it. Homeless people are lazy to get jobs unless they are handed it so they would just sit down on their butts and do nothing until an opportunity comes to them. Homeless people are lazy and don’t want to work for themselves and have to get others to do their work for them because we think they are useless and therefore won’t do anything.
“Homeless is more than being without a home. It is tied into education needs, food, security; health issues both mental and physical, employment issues, etc. Don’t forget the whole picture.” (“Boxed In” 2005 pg. 108)
As Western Europe was in chaos the peasantry was left with nothing to protect them from local warlords. The biggest change the peasants suffered was the subjugation to the knightly class.This European Feudalism was developed with the idea of creating an arrangement between rulers and
It was said that the only thing a serf actually owned was his ability to eat this is because everything, even his own garments were not his property. A male serf’s clothes were actually the possessions of his master therefore meaning that a serf’s main right was the ability borrow a small section of his master’s land in exchange for hard work and currency. It was quite rare for a serf in the middle ages to earn enough money to buy his own private land and gain and ultimately become richer than a regular free man, however, this did happen sometimes during the medieval period. In some cases, a medieval serf could also gather enough money to buy his way to freedom (his was also a very uncommonly rare thing to occur).
In Idaho alone, according to Move For Hunger, there are over 240,000 that are food insecure. Thankfully, there are programs that feed the insecure and homeless, because of this, only 11% of homeless people in 2016 needed emergency food assistance. In New York City over 80% of children get free breakfast and lunch at school. The Holy Apostles organization serve 1,200 lunches a day, lunches that are nutritionally balanced, all year round. Unlike these destitute, the serfs had fruits and vegetables when they were in season. Winter was a time of starvation, for there were no crops. Protein was needed especially by serfs, who performed back-breaking work daily, however they were only able to pull this nutrient from beans, lentils and peas. Each meal was very bland, spices were too expensive. They hunted only squirrels and rabbits because they could not even hunt deer, which were saved for nobles. Cooking meat was troublesome because there was no ventilation system in their mud
Your social class often told you your place in society. The social class usually went like this: Peasants at the bottom of society, Lords were above peasants, Barons above lords, bishops above barons, and kings above bishops. Due to the Peasant’s position on the Social Class scale, they were often more like slaves to the Lords. The Lords owned them and all their possessions that they had (even though they had little). Peasants could gain their freedom from this slavery by marrying a free person or buying their own property. Although they would probably have to do this at a young age if ever because the average lifespan of a peasant was only 25 years. To put this into perspective, 90% of the population in Medieval Europe lived and worked off the
Every shabby house on that road fended for itself, now. With public street fights over food and men fighting over everything they found, the village food reserves were nearly depleted. Even dry vegetables like beans and peas had been scavenged, as villagers dug up hidden food that a few had successfully kept from the State. The cruelly treated livestock was now gone too, with their skin clinging to bony rib cages, eaten to keep them from grazing on bare pasture land. Mostly, livestock that the State
Perhaps one of the main globally covered epidemics that provide high sympathetic rating among the public is third world citizens struggling with extreme hunger. Many news outlets take advantage of this very real epidemic to showcase social inequality factors because of capitalism. Robbins, mentions in chapter six, the effects that labor has on food production. He states that, "…people are more vulnerable to hunger if opportunities for employment decrease, if wages fall, or if food prices rise…" (Robbins 2015:176). The labor and food production correlation is a micro level issue that can affect anyone in borderline economics-from the lower class citizen who lives pay check to pay check or the middle class citizen
The Feudal system was a system in which the poorer you were the lower you were. The reasoning for the feudal system was to protect everyone from vikings and magyars. Everyone worked for someone else, except the king. The social classes of an average system consisted of peasants, knights/lords, nobles, then the king. The peasants were the farmers. They gave food to the soldiers and in return they got some protection. The lords gave soldiers to the nobles. They got money. The nobles gave protection to the king and food. He gave them overall protection and money. That was the first movement. They went from huts to castles. The second step to rights was the enlightenment. Enlightenment was more about you instead of traditional us. In the