According to Parker, poverty is getting up every morning from a dirt and ill-stained mattress,being dirt and tired. Moreover, poverty is asking for help, remembering and looking into a black future.

Poverty is the state of being financially weak. Here, due to lack of finance Parker couldn't provide necessary things needed for her children. For example: she even couldn't buy diaper for her child,couldn't manage food for them as well as she wasn't able to send her children to school. Ultimately, this shows that poverty is difficult for Parker's children.

Parker went to different institutions and clubs asking for help but she encounteres many difficulties, everytime people used to make fun of her instead of helping.

Parker declares that she is not able to obtain the aids that are on offer. Accordingly, the government's help package (seventy-eight dollars a month) is too slim. Schools provide free education, but they don't pay for stationery. They have got lunch programs too, but her infants are so fragile that they won't be able to make it to school at all. Likewise, health clinics are far off in the towns; she can't afford to take her children there.

The above given line is extracted from a modern western essay entitled "What is Poverty?", by an American essayist, Jo Goodwin Parker. Using examples drawn from her own personal experience, the author explains the meaning of poverty in this essay. In this extract, she focuses on a particular aspect of poverty.

With the view of her current situation, Parker sees a dark future for her children. Accordingly, they will not find good friends, thanks to their inborn curse of poverty. Instead, they...

According to Parker, the poor people are always silent. They have no voice because it is suppressed by the upper and middle classes. Moreover, others don't like the poor raising a voice. Instead of kindness and sympathy, they come up with anger. The writer is a bit ironical in this statement. She means to say that the voice of the poor has no meaning at all since it won't be beant or addressed by the listeners

Parker begins most of her paragraphs with "Poverty is". To be specific, paragraphs of the present essay commence with the same phrase. Another recurring pattern that you say to me which is used twice consecutively.

Parker develops each paragraph with a clear topic sentence. Later, she presents the details that support the respective topic sentences. Explicit graphic details, emphasized by personal appeal, make each paragraph memorable.

In the final paragraph Parker and a very weighty question so the readers: "Can you be silent too? The writer seems depressed with the torturous words of her privileged audience. She indicates that her addressees are not much concerned about the plight of the poor. She does not entertain actionless words.

The above given line is extracted from a modern western essay entitled "What is Poverty?", by an American essayist, Jo Goodwin Parker. Using examples drawn from her own personal experience, the author explains the meaning of poverty in this essay. In this extract, she focuses on a particular aspect of poverty.

With the view of her current situation, Parker sees a dark future for her children. Accordingly, they will not find good friends, thanks to their inborn curse of poverty. Instead, they...

The above given line is extracted from a modern western essay entitled "What is Poverty?", by an American essayist, Jo Goodwin Parker. Using examples drawn from her own personal experience, the author explains the meaning of poverty in this essay. In this extract, she focuses on a particular aspect of poverty.

With the view of her current situation, Parker sees a dark future for her children. Accordingly, they will not find good friends, thanks to their inborn curse of poverty. Instead, they...

According to Parker, the poor people are always silent. They have no voice because it is suppressed by the upper and middle classes. Moreover, others don't like the poor raising a voice. Instead of kindness and sympathy, they come up with anger. The writer is a bit ironical in this statement. She means to say that the voice of the poor has no meaning at all since it won't be beant or addressed by the listeners

Homelessness

You ask me what is homelessness? Listen to me. Here I am, dirty, smelly, and with no "proper" cloth on and with the stench of my rotting teeth near you. I will tell you. Listen to me. Listen without pity. I cannot use your pity. Listen with understanding. Put yourself in my dirty, worn out, ill-fitting shoes, and hear me.

Homelessness is getting up every morning on the lane of a cold street. It is being chased away from the temples and parking garages. It is a shame. It is...

Growing up in Poverty

Poverty is the world at its worst. One does not entertain being deprived of basic needs on a daily basis. Growing up in poverty is dying many times while still breathing.

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