God's Children

Today we watched a movie about the poverty. There are a lot of poor people out there. They don't have enough money to buy food and go to school, even though they know education may be the only way to leave the poverty. Most of them live in the dirty dump, along with the garbage. One time, the garbage mountains collaped and it took many lives away. The government, however, shot down the dump. Instead of giving the poor people a place to stay and solve the problem, they decided to ignore and did nothing about it. In the end, the poor still did not have a place to stay, not to mention the healthy food and better living environment.

Aftering watching the movie, I feel that we are so lucky to have a good life here. Look around, we all have a decent place to live, all kinds of food that we can choose, and the more important thing is that we can choose which school to study. Compared to the poor people in the movie, I think we should appreciate more what we have right now, instead of complaining what we do not have.

Causes of Poverty by Anup Shah

Author Shah on March 22, 2009 wrote an article about the causes of poverty. At the beginning of the article, there is a list of the facts of the poverty. For example, nearly a billion people in 21st century are illiterate. Shah stated that the brief causes of poverty were mentioned more often than the deeper and more global causes of poverty. In fact, the global causes played an important role in the causes of poverty.

The writer believed that the globalization was needed to put into account. Since the globalization made the world connected closely, it also marketed the captalism all over world. So it made the wealthy and powerful even more wealthy and powerful. The poor countries still stayed poor and poor. In the end, the poor countries will not have any chance to improve their life, health system, lowering the rate of the illiterate, GDP, and etc.

I think the author made a good point about the causes of poverty. The poor countries had little chance to improve their own life when the rest of the more wealthy countries are interconnectedness. They had hard time to get involved in the global activities since the poor countries had little money and power. The global point of view was actually an excellent point toward the causes of the poverty, instead of the internal causes.

http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/causes-of-poverty