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Three Perspectives Essay

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In this paper I am going to explain and describe the three perspectives described in this prompt. Perspective one “ Individuals could not possibly hope to solve problems as large as the ones we face today. Only large governments with sizable resources can help.” This is basically saying that the individuals can not solve any of the problems we have today but that only the government is able to fix these. The person that has this perspective thinks that the people and their communities can not do anything to help poverty along with all of the other issues. They think that only the government can help to fix these issues that we have. Perspective two “Governments are, by nature composed of individuals working as a team. Governments can solve major problems because they harness the power of individuals.” …show more content…

The government is there to help out some but the majority of the help that the community will receive comes from the people within the community itself. Individuals in the community will do fundraisers and drives to collect things certain people will need while the government will sit back and watch the money straight into their pockets. My perspective is not in an agreement with the first perspective. The first perspective is basically saying that only the government can help and fix the problems we have in our world. In my opinion my perspective does not agree with what the first perspective said due to it basically saying that individuals do nothing to try and help the problems we have today The second perspective is the one that I most disagree but at the same time kind of agree with because the government does control and harness what we do. I also disagree because it says that the government fixes the problems but in reality they just sit back and watch the individual 's try their best to help each

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