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Diana George Changing The Face Of Poverty Analysis

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Tami Hensler
Mike Winter
1301 Composition I
10 April 2016
Poverty
In reading Changing the Face of Poverty by Diana George, I get the feeling that she doesn’t know the feelings of hopelessness, despair, and going hungry. Poverty isn’t just about having a good enough home; or enough food on the table. It is also the way some people choose to live. She talks about how Habitat for Humanity is trying to eliminate poverty housing, and that is an admirable goal for an origination as big as they are, but are they doing the best possible job they can, and I think that is the question she is asking. She goes on to talk about how the problem and its solution is represented (pg 670. Par. 2). Especially in the material it makes to get those of us …show more content…

She talks about how the problems are that too many people do not have adequate housing, and that the community needs to get involved and help those less fortunate. George tells us “poverty condemns millions of people throughout the world” and she is correct. She stays within the ability that we as society need to reach out a helping hand to others to get the poor out of their ruts so to speak. George goes on to say that there is nothing wrong with that kind of representation, and that Habitat is a great organization, and it really is. George does an amazing job in identifying her stance, and that is that Habitat does work. On page 674 in the second paragraph she states “it is an organization so popular that it receives support from diametrically opposed camps.” I will agree that Habitat will gain support from those who may not always see eye to eye on everything, but can come together to make a difference in someone else’s life. George goes on to write “more than 35 million Americans or one out of every seven are officially poor” pg. 676. That’s at least two in every city block depending on the

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