Rhetorical Analysis On Poverty
Poverty is a state of being extremely poor. In the “What is poverty” essay it talks about the struggles of a woman that has three children and is trying to survive with little to no income. Jo Goodwin Parker describes her life living in poverty and her daily struggles to raise a family. In the essay she goes in depth and describes what goes on in her daily life. It is sad to say that Jo describes herself as dirty, smelly, and with no proper underwear on and with the stench of my rotting teeth. She talks about how she has no luxuries while being poor due to the high cost of simple things such as hot water, soap, medicine and clothing. She continues by writing that while there are government programs to help the poor, none exist in her area and if there were she has no means by which
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Overall, she did not want sympathy, but understanding of her struggles. The “Social Darwinism and American Laissez-faire Capitalism” article by Charles Darwin, and Herbert Spencer talks about how Herbert Spencer believes that people could genetically pass on their learned characteristics to their children which leads to his idea of the “fittest” and the “unfit”. Social Darwinism ties in with this article because social Darwinism is survival of the fittest. The “unfit” will eventually dwindle off because the people of the upper class control the economy, media, rules of society, and even the government so that either way the upper class will be in control. Overall, both the article and the essay ties together because the essay explains the aspect of the lower class and every obstacle that lower class people may go through. According to the article the lower class eventually die off but as for Parker, she was somewhat trapped in the low class and could not find a way to supply her or her families basic needs. If both the essay and the article were combined Parker would be considered
Overall, she did not want sympathy, but understanding of her struggles. The “Social Darwinism and American Laissez-faire Capitalism” article by Charles Darwin, and Herbert Spencer talks about how Herbert Spencer believes that people could genetically pass on their learned characteristics to their children which leads to his idea of the “fittest” and the “unfit”. Social Darwinism ties in with this article because social Darwinism is survival of the fittest. The “unfit” will eventually dwindle off because the people of the upper class control the economy, media, rules of society, and even the government so that either way the upper class will be in control. Overall, both the article and the essay ties together because the essay explains the aspect of the lower class and every obstacle that lower class people may go through. According to the article the lower class eventually die off but as for Parker, she was somewhat trapped in the low class and could not find a way to supply her or her families basic needs. If both the essay and the article were combined Parker would be considered