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Reflection About Poverty

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The End of Poverty
As an engineering student, I had a better understanding on how large the impact of colonialism had all over the world from the ancient time up to our generation. I have now realized how poverty could largely cause a down-fall in a country’s economy because poverty leads to less opportunity for the people to afford their living, shelter, healthcare and education. Sorrow flows inside me as I learned that there are at least 24,000 people dying everyday despite of having plenty of resources. My mind was once again refreshed from knowing when and how the increasing and unstoppable growth of poverty started.

I have always been thinking why the conquerors, or conquistadors for the Spanish term, have to manipulate …show more content…

Because of too much corruption happening in our world, people suffer from slavery by leaving them no better choice and making them satisfied of their current situation. By this, they will lose hope; think less until they will be far from being more productive that they could be. As time pass by, leaders or bosses nowadays became more selfish having less or even no more concerns of their workers condition. They do not receive the right amount of wage thus; there will be no enough money to make for a living especially for families with large number of members.

In my opinion, to increase a country’s prosperity emphasis should be made on how both the government and every individual should be responsible of themselves. Since poverty is based on allocation of resources, I believe that education should be properly allocated to produce individuals with an educated mind because this will change everyone’s individual perspective on their own capabilities of obtaining money. Everyone should aim for a healthy psychological environment that instills the belief of not putting yourself above

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