1903 Jack London goes down into the underworld of London's East End to see with his own eyes the poverty, degredation and suffering; a compassionate document to rival the work of Jacob Riis.
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1903 Jack London goes down into the underworld of London's East End to see with his own eyes the poverty, degredation and suffering; a compassionate document to rival the work of Jacob Riis.
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This podcast focuses upon the importance of civil rights within the academic arena; it highlights the importance of establishing an atmosphere free of discrimination, regardless of an individualÂs race, color, national origin, age, sex and disability. In addition to providing active and applicable definitions to many of terms associated with civil rights, the podcast also confronts various scenarios that might hinder future civil rights compliance.
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This was the Weekly Poem for 20 May 2006. We stretched our poetry-reading muscles with five versions of this much longer selection than usual (some 96 lines), in which D.H. Lawrence evokes a gritty yet sensitive picture of urban poverty before the First World War. (Summary by LauraFox)
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A podcast series from Senator John Edwards and the One America Committee
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IssueLab is an online publishing forum for nonprofit research. Our bi-monthly podcasts brings together nonprofit researchers and practitioners to discuss research on a given social topic. Podcasts generally tackle issues that are covered in IssueLab's regular editorial CloseUp. IssueLab's podcasts are a great way to get a snapshot of the research that nonprofits are doing around important social issues such as homelessness, voting rights, poverty, and disability.
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In this work, Kropotkin points out what he considers to be the fallacies of the economic systems of feudalism and capitalism, and how he believes they create poverty and scarcity while promoting privilege. He goes on to propose a more decentralised economic system based on mutual aid and voluntary cooperation, asserting that the tendencies for this kind of organisation already exist, both in evolution and in human society. (Summary by Wikipedia)
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The Last Man is an early post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The plague gradually kills off all people. Lionel Verney, central character, son of a nobleman who gambled himself into poverty, finds himself immune after being attacked by an infected "negro," and copes with a civilization that is gradually dying out around him. (Summary from wikipedia)
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Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (December 22, 1823 - October 11, 1915) was a French entomologist and author. He was born in St. Léons in Aveyron, France. Fabre was largely an autodidact, owing to the poverty of his family. Nevertheless, he acquired a primary teaching certificate at the young age of 19 and began teaching at the college of Ajaccio, Corsica, called Carpentras. In 1852, he taught at the lycée in Avignon. (Summary from Wikipedia)
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Jonathan Swift almost defines satire in this biting and brutal pamphlet in which he suggests that poor (Catholic) Irish families should fatten up their children and sell them to the rich (Protestant) land owners, thus solving the twin problems of starving children and poverty in one blow. When the ÂProposal was published in 1729, Swift was quickly attacked, and even accused of barbarity  the exact state the ÂProposal was written to expose. (Summary by Hugh)
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