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    The world is surrounded by several major problems which make it impossible for the world to exist in a peaceful manner. The world is corrupted by wealth/greed, surrounded by poverty, and riddled with disease. The world has turned people’s poverty into their wealth, many industries focus primarily on the poor due to the ability to take advantage of them. The poor can't defend themselves without a leader or representative body, and most lack the funds to create one, creating a never ending cycle of

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    In his essay “The Singer Solution to World Poverty,” Peter Singer presents his argument concerning moral issues with American consumerism (564). Singer says, “So much of our income is spent on things not essential to the preservation of our lives and health. Donated to one of a number of charitable agencies, that money could mean the difference between life and death for children in need” (564). After reading the essay, it is hard to argue against the points that Singer makes about our justifications

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    Why can’t it just be ended? There's no debating world poverty exists, some say that we can and others don’t think we can. World poverty can be ended because the U.S. is wealthy enough, there are enough food resources, and we are educationally wealthy. First, the U.S., with the help of other countries, is wealthy enough to end world poverty. We have enough money to end world poverty. According to worldaltas, “We have many countries that owe U.S money. For instants, Brazil owes $247.3 billion, Ireland

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    Singer Evaluation Essay In the article “The Singer Solution to World Poverty” by Peter Singer offers his thoughts and opinions on how people aren’t doing enough to try and solve world poverty. World poverty is an obvious problem, but Singer wrongfully uses pathos to captivate the reader into feeling guilty for not meeting his unrealistic moral and donation standards. To start off his article, Singer proposes a hypothetical situation of a women named Dora who gained $1000 by taking a boy to a

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    On the book it defines absolute poverty as lack of basic necessities, such as food, shelter, and income. I believe absolute poverty is the most common world wide because if we look into Africa, India, and other poor countries don't have the income necessary or resources. 21,000 die every hour of hunger or thirst or sickness, there is little cities or counties where poverty is very high even within the United States. We see everyday homeless people that

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    fortunate people, a major change can be made in our world. If wealthy people around the world are simply just spending money for the fun of it, they should reconsider who they give their extra money to. After reading “The Singer Solution to World Poverty,” it is clear that those who are privileged should be more charitable, because otherwise their money is going to waste, the underprivileged need it to survive, and it can help to decrease poverty. Think about where your money goes when you spend

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    The Real World Every single person you meet is different. Everyone has his or her story and was raised differently than yourself and the person next to you. Someone on your right may have a lot of money and not have a single worry in life. Yet, the person on your left can struggle each and every day to have just one meal. What some people forget to realize is that poverty is real in our world today, and some people are out in there that suffer. Most have different views on what poverty is and how

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    the role World Bank in Poverty Reduction, as the primary role of the World Bank is to enable development and progress in the backward countries and regions of this world. This paper explains the brief history of the World Bank, and World Bank’s five institutions. It also investigates how the World Bank is continually trying to reduce poverty by lending billions of dollars to poor countries .This paper gives some of the facts of the under-developed countries and the strategies which World Bank has

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    usages of ethos, logos, and pathos. These articles discuss the issue of world hunger in logical and emotional ways. Article Larson, K. (2016, December 18). “African children still going hungry” talks abouts world hunger in an emotional way. Article “World Hunger, Poverty Facts, Statistics” 2016. (n.d.) talks about world hunger in a logical and authorized way. If there was no food and resources in this world how would people survive? They wouldn't they would suffer from hunger and

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    Singer's solution to the world poverty is one of the best suggestion ever made, and if implemented to the letter, poverty will be a thing of the past in the next five years. There is too much wealth amongst the few, and if those owning much can agree to share their wealth with the less fortunate in the world without discrimination, then the world will be a better place to live in (Rahman). In as much as I agree that there is a moral duty to help the less fortunate in the society, there are millions

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