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Behind the Beautiful Forevers written by Katherine Boo is based on an extraordinary story of life, death and hope in a Mumbai under city named Annawadi. It is written in non-fiction, which makes the story very compelling to the reader. The economic inequality in Behind the Beautiful Forevers is regarding developing countries more or less regarding health, poverty, socio economic status and infrastructure. The number of people currently populated in poverty in India is more than 300 million, which is almost one third of the countries population. It is the deepest among rural and remote populations in India. Residences range from dwellings with poor quality deigns to poor structure called slums. A slum is a heavily populated
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Poverty creates ill- health because it forces people to live in environments that make them sick without clean water or adequate sanitation. Poverty denies people access to reliable health services and affordable medicines, and causes children to miss out on vaccinations which would be given routinely in more developed countries. Poverty creates illiteracy, leaving people poorly informed about health risks and forced into dangerous jobs that harm their health as well as poor choices when it comes to contraceptive use and children. Cities have become the best place to foster poverty amongst the outskirts of Mumbai. As cities grow so do the slums as well as more migrants from low socio economic status. Home to a rich culture, delicious food, a thriving economy, and over a billion people, India is a land of extremes: extreme wealth, but also extreme …show more content…
The pickers and collectors of waste are at the very bottom of the social order. Even by the standards of urban poverty in India the living conditions are at best appalling. The bare necessities are enough for inhabitants in the terrible slum of Annawadi to be happy.
With Australia being a more developed country with a population of currently 23.5 million people and growing Australia is seen as a rich country with money, jobs, infrastructure, clean hygiene and clean water. There are financial benefits for individuals whom lack funding from jobs or broken families. We are seen as a higher-class society and are rich not because of money because we have the access to these necessities. Sewage systems and water facilities are kept out of the way in treatment plants closer to rural areas of Australia providing clean cities. I believe we live in a society where water scarcity is unseen and poor hygiene is almost unheard
While it may be easier to persuade yourself that Boo’s published stories are works of fiction, her writings of the slums that surround the luxury hotels of Mumbai’s airport are very, very real. Katherine Boo’s book “Behind the Beautiful Forevers – Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity” does not attempt to solve problems or be an expert on social policy; instead, Boo provides the reader with an objective window into the battles between extremities of wealth and poverty. “Behind the Beautiful Forevers,” then, exposes the paucity and corruption prevalent within India.
The concept of social status is vitally important in the documentary “The Real Slumdogs”. As defined in our text books, “ascribed statuses is involuntary. You do not ask for it, nor do you choose it (pg. 98).” All of the citizens of Dharavi are either ascribed their status or achieved their status in this mega-slum city. It is seen throughout the documentary that many rag-pickers are generational. This is most noted in Sheetal’s family- her grandmother is a rag-picker and so is her mother and this has become a form of a family business for many of those living in poverty in Dharavi. While some people living there generationally, some find themselves coming into Dharavi later in life, where they are taken in by other families until they can
The book Maybe Someday, written by Colleen Hoover; is about a college student, her name is Sydney. Sydney lives with her best friend Tori and has a boyfriend whose name is Hunter. Sydney finds out that Hunter had been cheating on her with Tori, as this is all going on Sydney finds herself a friend named Ridge, he lives in the same apartment complex as her. Ridge also has a girlfriend named Maggie. Sydney and ridge instantly have a strong connection that they can’t ignore, they connect through music.
The socio economic status and outcomes are based on, the people are rich, their health would be better than those who are poor. Poverty has many roots- material deprivation (of food, shelter, sanitation and safe drinking water), Social exclusion, Lack of education, unemployment and lower income, that all work together to reduce opportunities, limit choices, undermine hope, result, threaten health (sen, 2003). Poverty has been linked many higher prevalence health conditions, increase risk of chronic disease, injury, deprived infant development, stress, anxiety, depression and premature death (NFHS-3,
Areas where the impoverished live are very unsanitary like in a trash filled alley. These unsanitary conditions make it a lot easier for a human to get sick compared to someone who lives in a clean house. Also once a poor person gets sick, he has to just deal with the illness. During this time, medicine and doctor visits are very expensive even with health insurance. As a result, more permanent damage is caused by illnesses. One statistic says that children living in poverty are more susceptible to mental illness as they grow older (Rehorn). Plus since there is no healthcare, it is more likely for someone to die with a serious
Around the world, people are born into poverty against their own will. The location in which they are born will determine the level of difficulty in escaping their poverty. The caste system is a well-known way of life associated with Hindus, who are predominantly found in India. India is known to have the most extreme poverty conditions in the world, and the caste system makes it hard to escape such poverty. However, North Americans do not have such problems because of the opportunities that are offered, and the less obvious classifying of society. Location is an essential component when it comes to whether a person will be doomed to hardship or will eventually escape.
Nearly 50,000 people, including 30,000 children, die each day due to poverty-related problems and preventable disease in underdeveloped Countries. That doesn’t include the other millions of people who are infected with AIDS and other incurable diseases. Especially those living in Sub-Saharan Africa (70%), or “the Third-World,” and while we fight to finish our homework, children in Africa fight to survive without food, or clean water. During the next few paragraphs I will give proof that poverty and disease are the two greatest challenges facing under developed countries.
Poverty is an ever-growing problem throughout our modern world, with millions living in its extremes. There are many consequences of poverty and the way they affect children and family life is absolutely detrimental. Poverty can be simply defined as “the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions” (Encyclopedia Britannica 2014). There are two distinct variations of poverty – absolute poverty and relative poverty, which will be further discussed throughout this essay. The total number of people worldwide who live on less than $2.50 (the bare minimum of the poverty line) is 3 billion (Global Issues, The Human Development Report, 2012). According to many, there are a varied number of consequences for those who live in poverty, especially children and families. The effects of poverty have proven to have detrimental effects on child development and the nature of family life. Saunders (2005) reiterates these factors of poverty in his book “The Consequences of Poverty”. This essay will state the many aspects of poverty and the detrimental effects its holds within child development, family life and the health of indiviudals.
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Poverty is the root cause of hunger, disease, and lack of shelter. It is concentrated in pockets in areas such as South Africa and South Asia. Children, who must live in these areas, face, on a daily basis, parasitic waters, lack of adequate medical help and malnutrition.... ... middle of paper ... ...
With poor living conditions and over population can cause many forms of disease and unclean living conditions, and with poor living conditions you get the spread of airborne diseases such as tuberculosis and respiratory infections such as pneumonia. (Health poverty action). When people die of disease related deaths economic productivity declines as well as person tragedy. When this happens produ...
The Untouchables of the caste system are seen by many as outcasts, unwanted humans who are simply unworthy of being seen on earth. Members of this class are considered impure from birth, because they perform unsanitary jobs, with little pay. For example, citizens who handle items polluted by blood or human waste, a leatherworker who works with animal skins, a weaver who creates cloth, a person who cremates or buries the dead, and a manual scavenger, are all considered Untouchable. A Dalit woman describes her day-to-day job as a “sweeper,” (collecting feces on the street), “I feel very sick. I can’t breathe. I can’t bend and lift the vessel” (Dalit Freedom Network). There is no way to escape these horrific jobs, she explains, “I have been asking the supervisor to give me another job, but he wont shift me from here” (Dalit Freedom Network). The illegal job of a manual scavenger is still present in many parts of India, and is still relied upon by societies in the country. Woman, however, are usually targeted for this grueling job. Safai Karmachari Andolan, a manual scavenger describes, “ I slipped and fell into the gutter. No one would come to pick me up because the basket was so dirty and I was covered with filth.” (). These horrific jobs, which untouchables are forced to participate in, severely damage their emotional and physical health.
Impoverished countries are suffering because of overpopulation. Overpopulation remains the leading driver of hunger, desertification, species depletion and a range of social maladies across the planet (Tal, 2013). If you look at the world most of the countries that are dealing with these problems it is due to overpopulation. Impoverished countries do not have the money or resources to help them overcome this issue (Tal, 2013). Impoverished countries also do not have the medicine or technology to even prevent the most common of illnesses (Tal, 2013). Malnutrition is also affecting...
Efficient waste managing approaches help with reducing and avoiding unpleasant impact on the environment and human health, while allowing financial development and progress in the quality of people’s life. People do not even imagine what is the size and capacity of their activities and the impact they produce on the environment. Garbage is an important ecological problem. It is seems amazing that approximately all of the citizens of the world identify rubbish as a major environmental problem and yet these people still litter. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (2008), an American produces 250 million tons of garbage per year (para.2). There are different circumstances that are based on the society, environmental conditions, occupation and size of each of the different family. As Richmond (2010) stated, if no administration organizations has the responsibility or resources to concentrate their efforts on the waste disposal, then the responsibility to do that is on ...
Mehta, Aasha K., and Amita Shah. 2002. Chronic poverty in India: overview study – defining the nature of chronic poverty in India. Manchester: Chronic Poverty Research Center.