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Anger management issues

Low education

Poor healthcare

Not able to pursue your dreams

Not as many privileges as other people

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The Pain of Poverty

"Poverty doesn't give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor" (13). In Sherman Alexie's novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, like many other Native Americans, Junior lives in poverty. Poverty has contributed to Junior not pursuing his dreams, him not having many chances or choices, and him having a poor education. However, Junior lives in poverty, he still manages to overcome the odds.
In the beginning of the book, Junior describes his life on the Spokane reservation. He tells the readers that, due to poverty, many of the Native Americans have poor land, health care, and education. Also, they've lived in these conditions all of their entire...show more content...
Because of poverty, Junior has been given poor education at Wellpinit High School. Junior found his mother name in his geometry book, which indicates that many of the books at Wellpinit are outdated and wouldn't give Junior the best education. After that, he accidentally hits his Mr P in the nose with that same book. Mr P later explains to Junior that "'You're going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad, reservation"' (43). Mr P knows that if Junior stays on the reservation he will not have the chance to pursue his dreams. Junior leaves Wellpinit to go to Reardan. Attending Reardan gives Junior gives a better education than he would've received at Wellpinit. Junior also has a better chance of going to college and pursuing his dreams. Junior knows that Reardan seniors have are mostly to go to college after high school. Junior also realizes that all the senior on the Wellpinit Redskins don't have the same privileges as the Reardan students.'I realized that my team, the Reardan Indians, was Goliath. I mean, jeez, all of the seniors on our team were going to college" (195). This shows that a lot of the kids on the reservation are at a disadvantage. And that Junior would've had the same disadvantage if he has stayed at

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Theme Of Poverty In The Absolutely True Diary Of Part Time Indian

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The Pain of Poverty "Poverty doesn't give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor" (13). In Sherman Alexie's novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, like many other Native Americans, Junior lives in poverty.

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How child development can be harmed by poverty

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How child development can be harmed by poverty

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Depression

Hunger

Illness

Low academic achievements

Insecurity

Emotional development issues

Mental development issues

Anger problems

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Crippling accidents are a result of unsafe work environments

Poor housing space

Not good medical care, so easier to get a deadly disease

No safe water or food

Poor security

Poor employment rates

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Issues like hunger, illness, and poor sanitation are all causes and effects of poverty. That is to say, that not having food means being poor, but being poor also means being unable to afford food or clean water. The effects of poverty are often interrelated so that one problem rarely occurs alone. Bad sanitation makes one susceptible to diseases, and hunger and lack of clean water makes one even more vulnerable to diseases. Impoverished countries and communities often suffer from discrimination and end up caught in a cycle of poverty.

Effects of Poverty on Society

The vicious cycle of poverty means that lifelong barriers and troubles are passed on from one generation to the next. Unemployment and low incomes create an environment where children are unable to attend school. Children must often work to provide an income for their family. As for children who are able to go to school, many fail to see how hard work can improve their lives as they see their parents struggle at every day tasks. Other plagues accompanying poverty include:

Crippling accidents as a result of unsafe work environments-consider the recent building collapse in Bangladesh.

Poor housing-a long-lasting cause of diseases.

Water and food related diseases that occur simply because the poor cannot afford "safe" foods.

Ultimately, poverty is a major cause of social tensions and threatens to divide a nation because of income inequality. This occurs when the wealth of a country is poorly distributed among its citizens-when a tiny minority has a majority of the money. Wealthy or developed countries maintain stability because of the presence of a middle class. However, even Western countries are gradually losing their middle class. As a result there has been an increased number of riots and clashes. For society, poverty is a very dangerous factor that can destabilize an entire country. The Arab Spring is a great example of how revolts can start because of few job opportunities and high poverty levels.

Child Poverty

The number of children affected by poverty has been increasing since the 1960s. Children are those with the least amount choice and ability to change their circumstances. There is very little they can do to help their families, nor should they have to. Usually by the age of six they can be enrolled in child labor. Nearly all the potential effects of poverty impact the lives of children-poor infrastructure, unemployment, malnutrition, domestic violence, child labor, and disease. Simply analyzing the effects of child poverty on education in developed countries alone reveal some disturbing statistics:

Children from poor backgrounds lag behind at all stages of education.

By the age of three, poorer children are estimated to be nine months behind children from wealthier backgrounds.

By the end of primary school, students receiving free school meals are estimated to be about three terms behind their peers.

By 14, this gap increases to over five terms.

By 16, children receiving free school meals are about 1.7 grade points below their more affluent peers' average GPA.

Effects of Poverty and Violence

The effect of poverty on terrorism is not as straightforward as the media often perceives it to be. Poverty fuels terrorism by creating a state of misery and frustration that pushes people to join terrorist organizations. But more research shows, it is more complicated.

Of course, some terrorists come from poor countries with high unemployment, and terrorist organizations often provide higher salaries than other jobs. But terrorism may not be a direct effect of poverty. So what is the source of frustration and anger?

Studies show that countries with weak governments, fragile institutions, and limited civil rights are a great environment to nurture the production of terrorist activity. Countries undergoing difficult transitions-i.e. from authoritarian to democratic regime-often encounter political instability with the blurring of certain rules and laws.

These periods of profound change come with a transformation of social order, values, and methods of governing that many people may find distressing and unsettling. Therefore, stabilizing and empowering political institutions is a crucial part of fighting against the dangerous consequences of poverty.
- Scarlet Shelton

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Impact of Poverty on the Society | The Borgen Project

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Issues like hunger, illness, and poor sanitation are all causes and effects of poverty. That is to say, that not having food means being poor, but being poor also means being unable to afford food or clean water. The effects of poverty are often interrelated so that one problem rarely occurs alone.

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How can poverty affect a child’s learning 

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How can poverty affect a child’s learning 

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Poverty reduces a child's readiness for school because it leads to poor physical health which diminishes a child's ability to concentrate and remember information, also reduces attentiveness, curiosity and motivation.

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Child poverty in America is a complex problem that causes challenges for underprivileged children and their families. Learn more about how poverty affects children in the U.S.

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“Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor” (13).

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Many households are overcrowded and earn only social security, disability or veteran's income.

4 to 8 out of 10 adults on reservations are unemployed.

The disparity for American Indians living below poverty on the reservations reach 38% to 63% in our service area.

Often, heads of household are forced to leave the reservation to seek work, and grandparents take on the role of raising their grandchildren.

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About 40% of on-reservation housing is considered inadequate.

It is not uncommon for 3 or more generations to live in a two-bedroom home with inadequate plumbing, kitchen facilities, cooling, and heating.

While most Americans take running water, telephones, and electricity for granted, many reservation families live without these amenities.

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Due to underfunding, Indian Health Service facilities are crisis-driven and leave a wide gap in adequate and preventative health care for many Native Americans on the reservations.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for American Indians.

Due to the link between heart disease, diabetes, poverty, and quality of nutrition and health care, 36% of Natives with heart disease will die before age 65 compared to 15% of Caucasians.

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How adulthood can be affected by poverty

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How adulthood can be affected by poverty

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Increased stress levels

Affects relationships

Affects the family dynamics

Decreased physical activity with children

Decrease in mental and physical well-being

People living in poverty have die 10% faster than richer people

In more deprived areas boys expect to live 19 years fewer and girls 20 years fewer

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My niece didn't go on hers [school trip] and she was one of only two children in the whole class of 32 that didn't go and she cried when I picked her up from school because all her friends had been but she hadn't been.
Parent of primary school child

The place where she was happy and thrived was in dance classes and I now can't pay for them and that was the thing she looked forward to every week, she made friends there; she doesn't have friends at school as such but at dance she had friends, yeah, and we've had, we've had to stop all that.
Jessica - single parent, York

I skip meals to share with my mum...for example, I skip my meal to wait for her to come back and at least we can have the same amount of food...[We] starve together through the whole day, so at least we will have had something to eat.
Amara - aged 15, London

Agree that this isn't right?

We asked children in low-income families what they missed

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Poverty can mean children going without basics, and it can also mean missing out on everyday fun and activities that other kids take for granted. Poverty harms children’s health, social and emotional wellbeing, and education. It harms their childhoods and their futures.

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“It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. You start believing that you’re poor because you’re stupid and ugly. And then you start believing that you’re stupid and ugly because you’re Indian. And because you’re Indian you start believing you’re destined to be poor. It’s an ugly circle and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

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“Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.”

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Junior is embarrassed

Stops from pursuing hope and opportunity

Little to no privilege

Emotional struggle

Junior misses many meals cause of poverty

Junior also misses school days

His parents cannot afford food and water most of the time

Problems of privilege and problems of poverty are more similar than people think

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Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work.

Individual Ambitions and Communal Obligations

Junior has great personal ambition. He wants to become a famous cartoonist and to make money. Becoming rich and famous, Junior reasons, will help him to escape the Spokane Indian Reservation. The problem is that, from Junior's perspective, what seems like better opportunity and freedom might, to the eyes of people in his larger community, look more like abandonment and betrayal. Once Junior decides to attend high school off the reservation at Reardan, he finds himself struggling both to discover his own personal identity and to relate back to the Spokane community. Junior has struggled, and often failed, to find acceptance there his entire life. He feels a responsibility to prove himself to Rowdy and the other Indians that see him as a traitor. At the same time, Junior tries to make a new name for himself at the all-white Reardan High School. At Reardan, Junior gains fresh perspective on the things that are bad about life on the reservation-alcoholism, hopelessness, and a lack of tolerance. But, with the help of friends and family, Junior is also able to relate his personal ambitions back to his Indian heritage.

By wandering farther from home, Junior better understands his roots. Thanks to his dad and his dad's friend, Eugene, Junior is able to see leaving the reservation and going to an all-white school as courageous. He isn't a coward, but a warrior. Likewise, Rowdy helps Junior to see how his going to school off the reservation can be linked back to the nomadism-the wandering from place to place-that was a part of his tribe's culture for centuries. It is the people wasting their lives getting drunk on the reservation, Rowdy suggests, that have forgotten their community. As time goes on, Junior also finds belonging in other groups, like the Reardan basketball team, and he realizes that he is part of many less apparent communities, other "tribes," like the tribe of poor people and the tribe of tortilla chip and salsa lovers. Junior takes comfort in the fact that he belongs to these groups. They strengthen his identity. At the same time, he hopes that, by asserting himself in the right ways, he can bring good things back to the communities that support him.

Poverty and Privilege

One of the main differences between life on the reservation and life in Reardan is that most of the families on the reservation, including Junior's, are poor. This means that Junior often misses meals and school because his parents have no money for food or gas. Embarrassed by his poverty, Junior does everything he can to keep his Reardan classmates from understanding the true state of affairs. He often invents excuses or lies to his friends by saying he accidentally left his wallet at home. The white students at Reardan are financially better off, but Junior is surprised to learn that the privilege that accompanies wealth and white skin doesn't insulate his friends from pain and problems. Penelope, despite her popularity and beauty, is bulimic, and Gordy, despite his shining intellect, is emotionally isolated and has difficulty relating to others. These problems of privilege are no less real than the problems of poverty, but the main difference-the thing that makes poverty so challenging-is that poverty prohibits people from pursuing hope and opportunity. And, what's more, poor people often find themselves without the privilege to sort through or find help for their own equally real emotional struggles.

Racism

Junior always uses the term "Indian" to describe himself and the others on the Spokane Reservation. He never explains why he favors this term over the arguably more politically correct "Native American." One can argue that "Indian" is more direct, less sugarcoated. Reardan's white football star, Roger, certainly does not celebrate Junior's heritage when he tells Junior that, "Indians are living proof that niggers fuck buffalo." Using the term Indian, then, is also a concession to the racism in Junior's social environment. The net effect of the racism and bigotry levied against Junior and his tribe on personal, institutional, and national levels is a collective disempowerment that stands in stark contrast to the unconscious privilege and opportunity in the neighboring white communities. But, Junior comes to realize, he participates in these same structures of prejudice. Junior sometimes uses homophobic language, for example, as a way to relate to and communicate with people like Rowdy for whom such language is the norm. Junior's friends, likewise, show him that he pays so much attention to Penelope in part because she is white. Junior's realization that he, too, has some racial biases is a key part of his moral education.

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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So I draw because I want to talk to the world. And I want the world to pay attention to me. I feel important with a pen in my hand. I feel like I might grow up to be somebody important. An artist. Maybe a famous artist. Maybe a rich artist.