Poverty

explained by “Is feeling empty” means when we are indeed of someone to talk to or to be around us and it creates a feeling of emptiness , a feeling that something or someone is missing. “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” Said Mother Teresa, and we think that she was right by saying that. Is there a feeling worst than the feeling of being unwanted? This kind of loneliness is usually for the people who suffer a sickness or a huge disease. There is no person around

are becoming increasingly popular to protect ecosystems: purchasers of environmental services are willing to pay them from those who can provide or maintain them. PES are often defended as a way to subsidize the poor. But PES can also increase the poverty issue either because payments are too low or because they primarily target business interests. Differentiate PES according to who buys, or to the environmental objectives, allows us to identify several situation with different potential beneficiaries

They work 17 hours a day, 7 days a week for only 40€ per month. They live in dreadful conditions at the factory, far away from their families, and sleep on the concrete floor. In brief, workers must respect a military discipline and they live in poverty and, also, sickness. It is clear that the health at job is not the priority in « the Middle Kingdom ». However the firm has begun setting up an assistance to the salaried employees who ask for it. Soft music has made its entrance in workshops

hardship (l’épreuve, les difficulties) and achieve (atteindre) success in life. In America, one has got the chance to succeed in life, to improve (améliore) one’s position both financially and socially. the self-made man : someone who rises from poverty through initiative and hard work. to start from scratch : partir de zéro to fulfil one’s dreams : réaliser ses rêves the « rags-to-riches » myth : idée de passer de la pauvreté à la richesse rags : haillons the harsh reality of daily life : la

toothbrush without toothpaste? Without money, all is difficult… It is difficult to find a bed, to wash, it’s hard to eat. Because at the cafeteria, students don’t lend money, they need this money too. Panhandle is humiliating, people see you in poverty, they see you as a tramp! But you are like them! You have just been unlucky! That is what emerges from all the homeless that I met during this experience. To conclude this experience changes my feelings about the homeless. Like everyone I saw them

surgery (subir une operation), he is on a waiting list and it sometimes takes years before he can have his operation. Consequently, more and more people prefer to go to private hospitals. At the beginning of the 21st century, deep social divisions and poverty still divide Britain. Britain today is not becoming more classless even the school-leaving population has really decreased. The median income is less than £390 per week. This amount of money is really insufficient when you live in London, one the

hundred ninety five (1995). She decided to leave because she and her family were very poor. Her living conditions were bad. They lived all in a slum. Her working conditions were also very bad, she had a small salary. That’s why; she lived below the poverty line. She couldn’t buy to herself the bare minimum (clothes, food, and the rent). She chose to go in United States because they have a common border with Mexico. She crawled in a drainpipe, but she had to pay $1.000 to a smuggler. She managed to

suspense : thriller. Film à gros budget : blockbuster. Chef d’œuvre : masterpiece. Sous-titre : subtile. Sifller : whistle. Claquer des doigts : snap the fingers. Routes : roads. Avantages : advantages. Inconvénients : drawbacks. Pauvreté : poverty. Consommation : consumption. Immigrer : immigrated.

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the street or to buy a house because of their skin colour and their accent (“One look at us, and they charge twice” ; “Better get rid of your accent” ; “If your all- white in America”). Moreover, for them, the immigrants who are in America live in poverty: they don’t have enough money to buy a big house or clothes for example.(“What will you have though to keep clean?” ; “Twelve in a room in America!”). To finish, the Porto Ricans boys think that America is a country where the life is dangerous, indeed