Irish Poverty

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Shelter  

            Shelter is important because it is one of the four main basic human needs, Shelter, Food, Water, and Air. If you did not have shelter then many people in the world would be dying from many natural occurrences. If you lived in a northern part of the world you would get very cold and wet without a shelter because of the harsh climate. But if  you lived in a southern or central part of the world you would need a different type of shelter to cover you from the sun and heat.

Poverty

            Poverty can be defined as many things. In the U.S.A. if you don’t have an automobile then you may not be living decently and would consider your-self poor if you didn’t have one, but if you lived in an non-industrial country you would consider a car as a royal luxury and it would not be common to see someone driving an automobile. (Danzinger, 1) The definitions of poverty from country to country are very different which make it hard to tell how many people are poor around the world (Danzinger, 1). It is estimated that in the mid 1990’s more than 1 billion people, around a fifth of the worlds population, were so poor that their lives were endangered. (Danzinger, 1) The most widespread and severe poverty occurred in those nations with few resources or undeveloped ones, sometimes called the developing nations. (Danzinger, 1)

            Poverty takes place in many countries around the world particularly in places that are in wars or like America have acts of terrorism taking place in them. America had thousands of people fall way under the poverty line in one day. That day was September 11th many people who where related to people in or around the world trade center buildings or the pentagon, mainly children or elderly people were greatly affected upon by those acts of hate. Most of the people couldn’t provide themselves with money, food, or medicine because their relatives who died during the attacks orphaned them.

 

Solutions

    Many thing are being done to prevent poverty and the war going on in Ireland. Many people are being arrested, the government gives back to the community, churches are doing street marches for peace and more police and riot controllers are being distributed through out Ireland and Northern Ireland (Hewitt,52-58). In Belfast, Northern Ireland a large wall was built to keep fighting and rioting under control for the Catholics and Protestants (Hewitt, 54). The wall is similar to the Berlin wall, it was made to divide two enemy’s. It is about 25-30 feet high and about 30 feet wide (Hewitt, 54). At the 15 foot high marker there are rolls of barbed – wire (Hewitt,54).             

              

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