What do you consider poverty to be? Do you have a definitive
explanation of it or do you consider it an abstract circumstance? In the
article "What is Poverty?", Jo Goodwin Parker gives her ideas on what poverty is.
First given as a speech, this article is written as an attack on human emotion.
Her use of connotative language creates many harsh images of her experiences in
a life of poverty. By using these images, Parker is capable of causing the
reader to feel many emotions and forces the reader to question his or her own
stereotypes of the poor. With the use of connotative language and the ability
to arouse emotion, Parker successfully compels the reader to examine his or her
thoughts and beliefs on who the poor are.
Parker's use of connotative language causes the reader to feel many
emotions. Of these emotions, a prominent one is guilt. Parker is capable of
making the reader feel guilty for the possessions that he or she has. For
example, she uses the phrase "You say in your clean clothes coming from your
clean house, ..."(Parker 237). This causes the reader to feel guilty for having
the opportunity to be clean when we all know that she doesn't have the same.
She calls hot water a "luxury"(Parker 237). To those living in poverty hot
water is a luxury. The unimpoverished take it for granted and never before
considered it anything other than a basic possession. When the reader hears
that someone else calls it a luxury that they cannot afford, he or she can't
help but feel guilty for having it as a basic possession. Parker also attacks
the guilt of the reader through stories of her children. She knows that some
readers may not feel guilty for things that happen to her, but when children are
introduced to the situation they will feel more guilt. She says, "My children
have no extra books, no magazines, no extra pencils, or crayons, or
paper..."(Parker 238). The reader cannot help but feel guilty for having these
basic things when her children, who need them, do not. Another thing that
Parker makes the audience feel guilty for having is health. She says, talking
about her children, "...most important of all, they do not have health."(Parker
238). She goes on further to describe what is wrong with them. Parker says,
"They have worms, they have infections, they have pink-eye all summer"(238).
These descriptions of her chi...
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...rse, as a "chisel that chips on honor until
honor is worn away (Parker 239)." Parker starts almost every paragraph with a
new definition of what poverty is. Some examples are:"poverty is being tired"
(Parker 236), "poverty is dirt" (237), "poverty is asking for help" (237), and
"poverty is looking into a black future" (238). All of these phrases create a
different image of poverty and each one is a success in evoking sympathy from
the reader. They all force the reader to imagine poverty in a new way. We all
knew it was bad but Parker makes us realize how bleak poverty is. She shows us
that there is no hope for the poor without understanding.
Parker is successful in getting her point across with her use of
connotative language and her ability to create images. She has done a good job
of attacking the reader and getting him or her to listen to what she has to say.
Even though she attacks the audience she does it in an appropriate way whereas
she does not come across as offensive. All in all, Parker has done a successful
job at creating images and using the readers' emotion to get an audience to
listen to her plight and the struggles of other's in her situation.
Hooks pointed out that many of his professors insinuated that there were negative stereotypes of being poor. Moreover, that self-esteem is linked to financial wealth; women he met with were on government assistance, but chose to get further in debt to appear to have money, never wanting to be labeled poor. Hooks was raised to believe that morals and values made one rich; that one could have all the money in the world but still be poor because of their attitude. Who’s accountable for why people in our society are poor? It’s seems a vicious circle that is hard for poor kids to escape. Many people with low incomes are “intelligent, critical thinkers struggling to transform their circumstances” (Hooks, p. 488) There are many resources, such as theaters that are empty all day, to pay it forward and help the less fortunate gain skills from college students and professors sharing their knowledge. Barbara Ehrenreich’s “How I Discovered the Truth About Poverty” questions why negative stereotypes of untrustworthiness in poor people. Because of this mistrust, the introduction of drug testing for government aid was passed. Why are those negative connotations associated with poverty? “Poverty is not, after all, a cultural aberration or a character flaw. Poverty is a shortage of money.”
hooks recalls from personal experience the lessons she learned when she was growing up in a poor family. She says that in her household, no one was ashamed of living in poverty; instead, it was a “breeding ground of moral integrity” (hooks 433). hooks remembers her parents and grandparents teaching her about the value and the worth of a person. She grew up knowing that a person’s value was worth more than their material possessions (433). In addition, her grandparents informed her that no matter how many degrees a person may have, it did not prove their intelligence nor integrity (433).
Gerald May’s book Addiction & Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions is a wonderful book that addresses grace, freewill, and forgiveness around addictions. The reader should keep in mind that the book is written from May’s personal views and experience. May (1988) states that he is “neither a trained theologian nor a scriptural scholar [and] this book is full of my own theological assumptions” (p. vi). The book is written to help the reader understand how addiction keeps one’s focus on things other than God. The reader learns about the struggle with sin and how the conflict creates awareness to addictive behavior. While the book offers some great understanding regarding addictions and spirituality, it is also based on a reflection of May’s own personal view and experience with addictions.
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There are many factors of poverty but before getting into that I would like to state that being rich is not just about having money. You can be rich in health, you can be rich in character, and you can even be rich in the love you receive or provide. Many, take for granted of the small things that can’t be purchased. When all of the materialistic things are gone, all you’ll have left is the person you have become and the soul you keep. Poverty has been around for quite some time, back when agriculture was as rich as technology is now. Let’s face it technology has consumed America. I say America because if you go to a third world country many don't have the luxury of ever coming close to owning an iPhone, you’ll mention iPhone and they’ll stare at you in awe. IPhone is a great example of how profound poverty in America continues to be. The sales for the iPhone 4 devices sold were 1.5 Million! There were people purchasing this new device when they knew they could not afford it. What drove them to buying? The needs to have the newest technology, there’s a difference from the wants you buy and the things you need. 9 out of 10 of the things you want are to feed your satisfaction, who am I to judge who buys what, but when you can’t pay rent or buy diapers for your child and use your welfare money or child support money then who is morally wrong? In the following pages I will be covering the causes of poverty, along with various topics from childhood poverty to spouse divorcing poverty that David Cheal has outlined for us in his notable book New Poverty: Families in Postmodern society and the changes from old poverty into new poverty.
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