"Because I was bad in my last life." "Because Allah has willed it." "Because the rich do nothing for the poor." "Because the poor do nothing for themselves." "Because it is my destiny." These are just some of the answers to the simple...
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Author:Vollmann, William T.Summary: -
Author:Summary:There is, in all of Canada, a severe shortage of decent quality housing that is affordable to those with low incomes, and a great deal of inadequate, and often appalling, housing. This has been the case for many decades. The poor...
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Author:Freeland, ChrystiaSummary:A journalist and industry specialist for Reuters examines the growing disparity between the rich and the poor, taking a non-partisan look into the businesspeople who are amassing colossal fortunes and preferring the company of similar...
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Author:Balmer, Brice, Dineen, Mira, Swift, JamieSummary: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...
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Haunted by the horrors ofWorldWar I, Dr. James Delaney's personal life is a nightmare. But everything changes when he returns home one day to find his three-year-old grandson on his doorstep.
- Author:Ladoo, Harold SonnySummary:
Set in the Eastern Caribbean at the beginning of the 20th century, No Pain Like This Body describes the perilous existence of a poor rice-growing family during the August rainy season. Their struggles to cope with illness, a drunken and...
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Author:Ladoo, Harold SonnySummary:Set in a turn-of-the-century Hindu community in the Eastern Caribbean, No Pain Like this Body describes the perilous existence of a poor rice-growing family during the August rainy season. Their struggles to cope with illness, a drunken...
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Author:Watson, CristySummary:In most ways, Poe is like the other kids in his school. He thinks about girls and tries to avoid teachers. He hangs out at the coffee shop with his best friend after school. He has a loving father who helps him with his homework. But...
- Author:Priestley, ChrisSummary:
L’hiver resserre son étreinte glaciale sur Londres. Sam est gelé et il est affamé. Lorsqu’il demande de l’argent à un homme riche, Ebenezer Scrooge, il reçoit un refus brutal. Sam est rempli d’une rage violente et il jure de tuer cet...
- Author:Brown, LarrySummary:
Presents a story about growing up in rural Mississippi's working class.
- Author:Ondaatje, MichaelSummary:
In the Skin of a Lion is a love story and an irresistible mystery set in the turbulent, muscular new world of Toronto in the 20s and 30s. Michael Ondaatje entwines adventure, romance and history, real and invented, enmeshing us in the...
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Author:Bryant, John Hope, Young, AndrewSummary:John Hope Bryant, successful self-made businessman and founder of the nonprofit Operation HOPE, says business and political leaders are ignoring the one force that could truly re-energize the stalled American economy: the poor. If we...
- Author:Kadarusman, MichelleSummary:
A 14-year-old girl living in the Jakarta slums who longs to be a writer sees an opportunity to raise money for school fees when she survives a minibus accident and the locals begin saying she has magical good luck. But when the crowd...
- Author:Orwell, GeorgeSummary:
The first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. The first part is an account of living on the breadline in Paris and the...
- Author:Hedges, ChrisSummary:
A review of five locations in the United States where economic choices beyond their control have resulted in catastrophic social conditions.
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Author:Badoe, AdwoaSummary:When sixteen-year-old Gloria fails thirteen out of fifteen subjects on her final exams, her future looks bleak indeed. Her family's resources are meager so the entire family is thrilled when a distant relative, Christine, offers to move...
- Author:Silver, JimSummary:
For a country as wealthy as Canada, poverty is utterly unnecessary. In About Canada: Poverty, Jim Silver illustrates that poverty is about more than a shortage of money: it is complex and multifaceted and can profoundly damage the human...
- Author:Ziefert, HarrietSummary:
Even though there is no money, Anna's mother finds a way to make Anna a badly needed winter coat. UEB Braille Grade 2 8 Braille .dxb and .brf files Simbraille PDF file.
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