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Adolescent Poverty

Have you ever stopped to think about how much people take advantage of their lifestyle? I can I honestly say it wasn't really something I had thought about, except on Thanksgiving and watching those t.v. commercials about starving children in third world countries. It was when I read “Shame” by Dick Gregory and “On the Meaning of Plumbing and Poverty” by Melanie Sheller. These two selections are stories about what life is like growing up in poverty in a country that was mostly wealthy. Despite the fact that both these writers shared the same pain of living their lives in shame and embarrassment, there were three distinctive problems that they didn’t share and they are housing, plumbing, and food.

In the story “On the Meaning of Plumbing and Poverty”. By Melanie Scheller, the most talked about problem was the fact that it was extremely difficult for her and her family to keep a house. Scheller describes to us...

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