Essay On End Of Poverty
In today`s world the term “Poverty” is being mostly used in the media and news. Although, the humanity has created and developed tons of things, the rate of poverty is still increasing. People around the world have different understanding what the poverty is and they have different ways to solve the problem. In the following, I will explain how I understand the term of poverty and will take a look on its history, and try to give some solutions for it from my point of view.
First of all, let me explain what the poverty is. Personally, I consider that poverty is a situation when a person loses to hope and cannot value things given to him. However, in the “The End of Poverty” movie that watched, it is said that, poverty is a status identified according to some available life style. To be more precise, today we have lots of opportunities: health care, good …show more content…
ERIC TOUSSAINT says that the key point of the beginning such mass poverty is the date, 1492. When Europeans started to go out to explore some new lands to satisfy their needs, they not only explored new lands but also made those inventions and everything, including natural resources and people, in it as their property. And it is called colonialism. As the result, national economy of the land had a fin. The population just became the property of the great empires and people worked for only feeding themselves, their families, in other words from the empire`s view, they contributed a lot to the development of the empires. But the colonialism, we can see today had brought very negative consequences.
Next step was capitalism which can be considered a new appearance of colonialism. Some developed countries like America, started to “help” poor countries by giving them money or some aid and putting some obligations, especially, after World War II. In other words, countries and the population were still being colonized by the new system called
First of all, let me explain what the poverty is. Personally, I consider that poverty is a situation when a person loses to hope and cannot value things given to him. However, in the “The End of Poverty” movie that watched, it is said that, poverty is a status identified according to some available life style. To be more precise, today we have lots of opportunities: health care, good …show more content…
ERIC TOUSSAINT says that the key point of the beginning such mass poverty is the date, 1492. When Europeans started to go out to explore some new lands to satisfy their needs, they not only explored new lands but also made those inventions and everything, including natural resources and people, in it as their property. And it is called colonialism. As the result, national economy of the land had a fin. The population just became the property of the great empires and people worked for only feeding themselves, their families, in other words from the empire`s view, they contributed a lot to the development of the empires. But the colonialism, we can see today had brought very negative consequences.
Next step was capitalism which can be considered a new appearance of colonialism. Some developed countries like America, started to “help” poor countries by giving them money or some aid and putting some obligations, especially, after World War II. In other words, countries and the population were still being colonized by the new system called