In reaction to the discussion taken place in class about poverty, it was an eye opening experience. Poverty is an area that needs attention drawn to it, I found it shocking to learn about the different theories associated with poverty. As learned in class, the three theories associated with defining poverty are culture of poverty, eugenics, and radical school; these theory explain different perspectives of poverty. Specifically, eugenics definition of poverty doesn’t accurately describe poverty because it states that poverty is genetically based and cannot be solve because it is passed down. Unfortunately, I disagree, because I don’t feel that you can pass poverty down; from experience my mother grew up in the “projects” as a child and watched