World Poverty
Essays

The development of increasingly sophisticated communication technology has created an interesting global platform for business and trade. Unfortunately, such trade does not occur on equal grounds, with some countries…

John Stuart Mill was one of the leading liberal thinkers of the 20th century. His philosophy of utilitarianism attempted to improve upon Jeremy Bentham's concept that achieving the moral outcome of the 'greatest good…

Ethics and Morality in Matters of the Planet and its Peoples

In researching global poverty one can come across startling statistics, i.e. almost half the people in the world live on less than $2.50 a day (Shah, 2011), 1 out of every 2 children live in poverty (Shah, 2010);…

My ethical philosophy could be said to be defined by what is known as 'virtue ethics' -- or the idea that a good person is more likely to make good ethical decisions, based upon his or her character.

Peter Singer and Chitra Divakaruni each offer a powerful commentary on world poverty. Both of their respective essays, "The Singer Solution to World Poverty" and "Live Free and Starve" demonstrate good writing skills…

Abstract The poorest people in the world have limited access to crucial services like health and education. For this reason, those regarded poor continue to suffer from a variety of problems ranging from hunger to malnutrition to preventable diseases. This text addresses global poverty and whether it should be regarded a global responsibility.

¶ … nature of inequality between the north and south, he has to understand the role of technology in the international system. Someone who would say such a thing overlooks the fact that it's not the amount of technology…

In this chapter, I examine similarities and differences between The City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre (1985) and Song of Kali by Dan Simmons (1985) with regard to the themes of the Western journalistic observer of the Oriental Other, and the fascination-repulsion that inspires the Occidental spatial imaginary of Calcutta. By comparing and contrasting these two popular novels, both describing white men's journey into the space of the Other, the chapter seeks to achieve a two-fold objective: (a) to provide insight into the authors with respect to alterity (otherness), and (b) to examine the discursive practices of these novels in terms of contrasting spatial metaphors of Calcutta as "The City of Dreadful Night" or "The City of Joy." The chapter further argues that these spatial metaphors are redolent of what Peter Stallybrass and Allon White (1986) refer to as the "phobic enchantment" (p. 124) of the Occidental social imaginary for the poverty, squalor and the horror of the Third World.

The American Dream and God's Dream: Are they Compatible?