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1) Poor Folk
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Financial difficulties resulting from an extravagant lifestyle and excessive gambling led Fyodor Dostoevsky to pen his first novel "Poor Folk". First published in 1846, "Poor Folk" is the story of impoverished cousins Varvara Dobroselova and Makar Devushkin. The two live in run-down apartments across the street from each other in St. Petersburg. Through a series of letters to each other we learn of the suffering, humiliation, and isolation that results...
2) Victoria
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After losing her parents, 14-year-old Victoria and her young twin brothers move in with their aunt. But soon after, Victoria is assaulted by her aunt's boyfriend. She runs away and has to survive life on the dangerous streets of Paraná, Argentina. Victoria crosses paths with murderous gangs and drug dealers, and even a dreaded drug lord called only The Captain. But with the help of newly found friends and her determination to survive, Victoria overcomes...
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For fifteen years, Jerome Gold worked as a rehabilitation counselor in a prison for juveniles in Washington state. Throughout his time there, he kept a journal of his experiences with youths who had been incarcerated for murder, kidnap, assault, rape and other sex offenses, auto theft, burglary, and selling drugs. What started as a journal designed to relieve stress turned into the evocation of one man's nuanced perspective on a unique group of young...
4) Color hollín
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No sabemos exactamente a qué tono corresponde el "color de la miseria" como se llama en las primeras páginas de esta novela al color hollín. Solemos asociar el hollín a la suciedad, a la pobreza, a algo gastado, a una tonalidad que se aleja de aquello digno de contemplación, como el paisaje natural de un campo, una playa, o un jardín con flores. Este colorido, el del hollín, será uno que guíe la descripción del entorno de esta novela, en...
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Summary of Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance | Includes Analysis Preview: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by JD Vance is an account of the struggles of white working-class Americans in the post-industrial United States. The author offers a message of hope by telling the story of how he went from growing up poor in Ohio's Rust Belt to graduating from Yale Law School. James David (JD) Vance's family is of Scots-Irish descent....
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A gripping and powerful story about survival on the streets. This is a true account, in descriptive and sometimes graphic detail, of what it was like to survive homelessness. It is the story of one person's struggle to come to terms with what can only be described as a real-life disaster. More than just a good read, A Homeless Panic provides a profound and moving account of what it's like to be homeless in America. Our society doesn't look favorably...
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L'itinérance est une question fort complexe. Sa compréhension, en tant que problème social, repose sur une exploration des différentes facettes qui la composent : le quotidien de la vie à la rue, les mécanismes d'exclusion, les formes de violence rencontrées, la dégradation de l'état de santé, la réduction des capacités d'agir, les différentes ruptures vécues, le développement des réponses sociales, etc. L'itinérance en questions...
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In this mix of history, journalism, political analysis, and first-person accounts, former chief coroner and Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell, renowned criminologist Neil Boyd, and investigative journalist Lori Culbert, offer a portrait of one of North America's poorest, most drug-challenged neighbourhoods: Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. A Thousand Dreams raises provocative questions about the challenges confronting not only Vancouver's Downtown Eastside...
10) Ser Pobre
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Cada párrafo de Ser pobre es una perla obtenida en un lugar inaccesible.
Con un pie en las universidades de élite del Reino Unido y otro en el restaurante de techo de chapa de Cândida, en el altiplano angoleño. Solo así puede uno aproximarse a un fenómeno complejo y multidimensional como es la pobreza.
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Are our strategies working to ensure all New Zealand children have the chance to thrive? Or are we wasting time, effort, and children's lives on solutions that make us feel good, yet fail to achieve lasting benefits for our most disadvantaged families? In Pennies from Heaven we seek to uncover the most potent ways to give all children in Aotearoa a "fair go". Why in New Zealand, a country in which concepts of fairness and equality are deeply embedded...
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There are one hundred and ten interviews with the homeless people who live in and around Auburn, California. Who is really out there, on the streets? How did they get there? How many of them are on drugs, or abuse alcohol? How many are just victims of a bad economy? Have their lives changed, during these difficult economic times? Where do they look for help? Where do they look for hope? Do they still have dreams for a better life? If you read this...
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Homelessness is not new to Vancouver. There have been homeless people in Vancouver since it was founded in 1886. As in other major North American cities, until the late '70s and early '80s homelessness in Vancouver followed the economic logic of boom and bust capitalism. However, since the run-up to the World Exposition of 1986, that logic has no longer been the determining factor influencing the growing number of homeless in the city. The "new poverty"...
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This is a first-time study of formerly homeless people showing how people become and then leave the state of homelessness. Using a sample of people from across the nation and of different sexes, races, and ethnicities, Wagner suggests the key variables in ending homelessness for individuals as well as
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The newest book by Joel Berg-an internationally recognized leader and media spokesman in the fields of hunger, poverty, food systems, and U.S. politics, and the director of Hunger Free America-America We Need to Talk: A Self-Help Book for the Nation is both a parody of relationship and self-help books and a serious analysis of the nation's political and economic dysfunction. Explaining that the most serious-and most broken-relationship is the one...
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Summary of Evicted by Matthew Desmond | Includes Analysis Preview: Matthew Desmond's Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a sociological study of evictions, housing, and homelessness in Milwaukee. The book follows the lives of a number of tenants and landlords in order to examine how access to housing affects the poor. Desmond also includes historical background, statistics, and research findings to provide context for his narratives....
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Considering that the total costs of poverty are [1] unsustainable and steadily increasing and [2] are costs to all Americans, the target populations are many: the Congress, Federal and State educational entities, i.e., the planners, strategists, administrators et al, university and college educational and social policy programs, social policy makers, corporate and educational partnerships, social services providers, health care providers, legal and...
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Plongée dans le quotidien disloqué de huit foyers des quartiers pauvres de Milwaukee, au Wisconsin, o chaque jour, des dizaines de ménages sont expulsés de leurs maisons. Arleen élève ses garçons avec les 20 dollars qui lui restent pour tout le mois, après avoir payé le loyer. Lamar, amputé des jambes, s'occupe des gamins du quartier en plus d'éduquer ses deux fils. Scott, infirmier devenu toxicomane après une hernie discale, vit dans...
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It's a very short trip from the limousine seat to the curb. Jim Mann never missed a payroll for the dozen men who worked for his flourishing landscaping business he built from the ground up. Now he lives hand-to-mouth. His pockets are empty long before his next social assistance cheque arrives. In early 2010 over two hundred civic and faith leaders fanned out into thirty Ontario communities. Their goal? To explore how the least fortunate people in...
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