write an article in 500 words on the topic-poverty is a curse
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Explanation:
The dictionary meaning of the word Poverty is general scarcity or dearth, or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. It is a multifaceted concept, which includes social, economic, and political elements. Poverty seems to be chronic or temporary, and most of the time it is closely related to inequality.
I am writing this because I am opposed to a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars or rupees, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence. I believe that every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.
When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard after you have eaten belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who is dying in the cold ; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes to wear ; the money which you hoard and die for belongs to the poor.
We often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.
In modern society we talk of inequality in hushed tones, we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor worked harder, they wouldn't be poor. The sad truth is that most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor are unfortunately by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed. There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher classes. What we forget are words of wisdom from the U.S. President John F Kennedy, “If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime," said the Greek philosopher Aristotle in 380 BC.
Yet we have done little after so many centuries to treat the basic cause.
The great Mahatma Gandhi once said, "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
It is too difficult to think nobly when all one can think of is earning a living. It is a common condition of being poor...You are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary; that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them. Therefore resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. Which made Franklin Roosevelt say ”The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
Yet the United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitation services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists still attack us.
My take on obscenity is a bit different from the moral police we have today who believe wearing lesser clothes is obscene. I believe it is only poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this country are the places of the rich, the new hotels made at the expense of the people, the hospitals where the poor die when they get sick because they don't have the money either for medicines or services. It is only in this light that the real definition of obscenity should be made.
"When I feed the hungry, they call me a saint. When I asked why people are hungry, they called me a communist.”
The rich have a simple answer to helping the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences.
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Explanation:
Poverty is a curse as it stops the growth of the country as a whole. Poverty is not only where there is lack of basic resources but also where people are not ready to fight against it and also where they don’t stand against its eradication. Poverty is more than lack of resources as it is the state of insecurity where poor remains poor because they are unsecured and depressed with worries all around. Various studies, researches have proven that majority of sick people in hospitals are below the poverty line. And the basic reason to this is that they don’t work to earn bread and butter because they are so de-motivated that they don’t have inner urge to work, which thus leads to hunger, starvation, deaths. Thus, the downward spiral keep on working in their life as they keep on becoming poorer and thus poverty remains.