Poverty is a transmittable disease; it begins with parents and spreads to children and the people around them. It could obliterate a flawless society and affect everyone and everything around it. It is akin to a genetic code that is pre-written and out of human control. Everywhere people look, children can be seen with bones protruding out of their flesh, yet these children are the most hard-working beings alive. Poverty is a global issue that every member of humanity has dealt with at some point in time, and it is more likely that someone will help another in need after being helped themselves. “Flavio’s Home,” is intended for the general public and primarily fixates on a poverty-stricken family who resides on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This piece is from Voices in Mirror, an autobiography written in 1990 by an African American photographer working for Life magazine named Gordon Parks. It provides insight into a world filled with underprivileged individuals and families who welcome the idea of death, but not the lack of security …show more content…
He adequately clarifies the message behind poverty by prosperously using pathos. The techniques that he uses to describe Flavio allows the readers to radiate sympathy and compassion, as well as his profound use of imagery which compels the reader to indulge and sink into their creative and imaginative side. For instance, as Parks and his team enter Flavio’s home, a shack with a rusted tin roof, the only furniture spotted was “a sagging bed and a broken baby’s crib” (Parks 2). By incorporating imagery, Parks draws a painting of Flavio’s home in the reader’s mind, allowing the readers to appreciate the small things in life. Moreover, due to the fact that Parks was once living in poverty, he is able to convince the readers, by using ethos, that poverty is a very complex
Gordon Parks’ distinguished way of capturing poverty in Rio de Janeiro, as mentioned in the Essay “Flavio's Home,” demonstartingdemonstrating the struggles of families in poverty . Photos taken by Parks made it on Life magazine which were originally based on his autobiography Voices in the Mirror in the 1990s, to inform the inconsiderate rich about the cruel living standards of innocent men, women, and children. Parks’ graphics are meant to show the reader how many people in Rio de Janiero are dying because of illnesses, diseases, and harsh conditions in the environment. These facts make the reader sympathize for families like Flavio's, forcing them to take matters into their own hands.
In the documentary “Poor Kids”, Frontline explores childhood poverty from the eyes of the children that are enduring the epidemic. Through interviews and observations, the children from these poor families tell their stories uncandid, honest and in their own words. The outcome is remarkably discerning, by taking viewers into their livelihoods and day to day experiences, and displaying their unfortunate lack of resources and hope. Every single day, huge numbers of American families get pulled out of the middle class and dumped into poverty. The amount of reliable, secure jobs continues to shrink, and families don’t have any way to pay their bills, causing them to lose electricity, water, and even their homes.
Throughout the Pro Archia Poeta Oratio, Cicero employs many elements in his speech to convince the jurors in the trial of Archias’ innocence in regard to his citizenship and his contributions to Roman society. He achieves this not through brash accusations or bragging of his own character, but by through epideixis, or praising speech, as he praises the ability of the jurors, Archias’ tale of glory, his character, and his contributions to the Roman empire. Throughout his speech, Cicero uses epideictic rhetoric to interweave elements of pathos, ethos, and logos to convince the jurors of Archias’ legal, and expected, status of citizenship.
Poverty is like an empty room; they both lack something in it. Brazil's favelas are ridden with poverty, disease, and murder. Gordon Parks was the first black male photographer for both Life Magazine and Vogue who knew what it was like growing up poor. As Parks grew older he wrote an autobiography titled Voices in the Mirror, first published in 1990, in it, he reminisces about when he first met Flavio. Parks writes “Flavio’s Home” by capturing the struggles of an impoverished family in the favelas of Brazil. In this article, Parks goes to Brazil to witness the da Silvas family struggles in Rio De Janeiro; he also shines a light on the topic of poverty and why it’s a subject that should be more known in the world. When “Flavio’s Home” was published it was meant to inform the inconsiderate rich, knowing this is happening in the world. Although “Flavio’s Home” is outstanding the reader is left to wonder what he can do to help the cause.
Everyone knows that poverty can lead to feelings of shame and humiliation, but what many people don’t realize is that sometimes overwhelming feelings of shame and humiliation lead to poverty. In her article “In the Search of Identity in Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street,” Maria de Valdes goes as far as to refer to shame and poverty as a “syndrome” because she believes they’re so closely associated. “It is a closed circle,” Valdes asserts. “You are poor because you are an outsider without education; you try to get an education, but you can’t take the contrastive evidence of poverty and ‘it keeps you down.’” In other words, poverty and shame are an endless cycle because a person will be ashamed to be impoverished, but won’t be able to move up because shame will always hold them back. This can be seen in Esperanza’s mother, who didn’t finish school because she was too ashamed that she didn’t have nice clothes like the other girls. “Shame is a bad thing, you know,” she warns Esperanza. “It keeps you down” (91). Shame kept her down by preventing her from finishing school, and in turn her lack of education kept her from pursuing her dreams. Instead, she settled into the housewife life, which she still regrets: “I could’ve been somebody, you know” (91). She says it sadly, like she’s mourning the loss of what
Imagine coming home to a house that has no warmth or food. Constantly feeling like you are in a place you can’t get out of. This is how poverty may feel to others. The expeirences from the author Jo Goodwin Parker in the story “What Is Poverty” and the McBride family from the novel “The Color Of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute To His White Mother” show that there are various effects of living in poverty that include emotional problems, adolescent rebellion, and
Nelson Mandela once said, “Poverty is not natural it 's man-made.” This quote states that a person can overcome poverty if one has the desire to live a better life. In a novel called Poor People written by William T. Vollmann, the author travels around different countries and places to learn about poor people and to get a global perspective view. While interviewing different kinds of people, Vollmann would ask them one question: why are you poor? Looking at people 's answers Vollmann noticed that some of the people gave quite interesting answers. Vollmann went through a lot of situations where he just couldn 't imagine what life would be if he was ever to live like that. Another novel that has a similar poverty situation is called Let The Water Hold Me Down, written by Michael Spurgeon. Hank, the main character of the novel, experiences a tragic moment in his life. Losing his wife and daughter while drowning, this tragedy left him feeling like it’s all due to his miscarrying about them. His life becomes full of sorrow, and the only way out it was to go to Mexico to his friend’s place and restart his life over. In a new country of Mexico, this story takes place. Even though he had money, a house, and friends’ support, he still experienced lots of pressure trying to survive in Mexico. Poverty has different meanings in everyone 's lives but by reading these two novels, there are three similarities that can be made about people living in poverty.
According to Goldberg (2013), there is such agony and pity in his pictures of the American poor, not simply of the individuals who have been physically scarred by life, yet of those exhausted by the everyday battle to get by. At first, Goldberg 's methodology moves between the formal representation and the witnessed preview, however turns out to be by and large more formal – and the torment less apparent – when he enters the other nation that is rich America. Here, the concerns of the sitters tend towards the individualistic.
Go to Chicago, New York, Paris or Madrid, on every street corner you see a person less advantaged, poor, and desperate. Then go in a store, see others carrying expensive bags, swiping their credit card left and right. We live in a world of extreme poverty, balance seems nonexistent. Poverty can result in broken homes and in turn, broken lives. In the book Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, Walter Mcmillian’s adult life, Trina Garnett’s childhood and Antonio Nuñez’s domestic life show that poverty was the cause of their incarceration and determined the success of their lives.
Everyone knows what the word poverty means. It means poor, unable to buy the necessities to survive in today's world. We do not realize how easy it is for a person to fall into poverty: A lost job, a sudden illness, a death in the family or the endless cycle of being born into poverty and not knowing how to overcome it. There are so many children in poverty and a family's structure can effect the outcome. Most of the people who are at the poverty level need some type of help to overcome the obstacles. There are mane issues that deal with poverty and many things that can be done to stop it.
In the world today, people are only showing one side of the issue which may be less severe. After being exposed to all of these similar, devastating pictures of children with dirty clothes and faces of severe sadness, this causes society to only understand a limited perspective on poverty. For example, the ad in the text for a organization called Children, Inc., displays a little girl who looks very depressed and sad (677).
Poverty is the discrepancy between the powers of reproduction and the ability to expand food production. People are poor because there are too many of them, and they keep having children in spite of their poverty. Poverty exists because of overpopulation. Providing relief to the poor will simply encourage them to have more children. Poverty is an economic issue, and eliminating poverty will not only benefit the individual, but will benefit the entire country.
The circumstance surrounding her addresses concerning poverty is where the author makes an appeal to pathos. She states,“the poor
Thousands of individuals are living in poverty. Why is it that this worldwide dilemma is still rising in rapid numbers till this day? Is it because of a lack of authoritative power, or a lack of one’s self control to do good? Despite the unknown cause, it has managed to drastically affect the lives of many. Poverty is like a curse, one that is wrongfully placed, difficult to get out of, and resistant to many forms of help.
Poverty is the most important problem around world, poverty in anywhere. It makes some of people live terribly fatigued, they usual have to work harder than others and just get little pay. In addition, people who live in poverty they have no education. They have no opportunity to get educate, and it makes them get into deep water and have no ideas to change the situation. That why we have to solve it make the world better. We can give them financial aid and free education.