Annotation 1

                Amanda Paul

English 104

Section #9

Instructor: Ogburn

Assignment #10

In Understanding poverty, race, and infant mortality I want to show how many infants are dying due to improper care because the parents do not have the money for health insurances.  Also the authors point is that families that were in poverty were mainly African Americans and Hispanics and they did not have the financial support to have a family.  These kids were living in areas they should not have been and it lead to the children having poor health due to the living conditions.   This also affected the children’s education due to the fact that if their parents did not have a GED, so most likely the children would not graduate from high school.   Lastly in the same book Immigrant Status, Poverty, and Child health the author was showing that poverty lead to poor health of children and even adults but put the children at a better chance of having poor health.
The author also was showing that the immigrants that were coming into the United States already had poor health and that would put the immigrants at a better chance of staying in poverty. Charles show that poverty “It is influenced by the ability of families with children to meet basic needs and secure a basic level of shelter, nutrition, and health” (2). This is what a family in poverty has just the basic to lives.  Though poverty  acoording to Charles “is also influenced by the increased risk of detrimental influences faced by families living in poverty such as marital conflict, psychological distress, depression, and loss of self-esteem” (2). People in poverty tend to live like this and make life more difficult than it has to be due to this. The last quote from this book has to deal with health. According to Magdalena  and Jun “ …childhood health problems: asthma, allergies, a learning disability, and ADAHD/ADD”  (110)affect the health of the child later down the road due to the fact that these children are not getting the medications they need due to the fact that the parents cannot afford t.

            The source of “Child Poverty in America” Volume 2 is going to help build my paper by giving me insight of the health of the children in poverty. Along with if they do not get the help that there is more mortality rate which will help answer the question about if children in poverty affects their survival rate?  This  will help be inspired by trying to articulate the key idea of the chance of children living due to poor health and giving us a insight on how these children live. This relates to the thematic essay I did   by talking about poverty and how people live in life.  and according to Lameck”…. In poor countries people walk [live] on the streets, they go without food and die of hunger, they have no farms, no houses; they have nothing” (353). From Africans are not poor will help relate to poverty because this is showing us how poor people live and from the reading it somewhat matches of what the different authors are saying.  Gandhi says “Every human being has a right to live and therefore to find the wherewithal to feed himself and where necessary to clothe and house himself” (334).   This is showing that in the world today everyone should have the right to live. These are going to be at least two quotes that I may use from the thematic essay.

            I plan on using this book to get more information out about the health and mortality of an area that is in poverty. I will use it to expand more on it.   I will use the course text by taking quotes out of it and relate it to the research question about poverty. I will be able to explain what other authors think about poverty by using the text.

            I found this source in our library at Concordia University of Wisconsin I came across the book in the library by looking on the database.   The authors are Charles N. Obrerg and Maria C. Rinaldi and Magdalena Szaflarski and Jun Ying these are experts they did research and did a survey about their subject.  The chapters are in a Child Poverty in America Today with multiple volumes. 

            I feel like this source will make a good connection with the other annotating I have to do. This is because when I have looked at the other sources they all talk about poverty in America, how poverty affects their health and their education which is what this source did. I also feel like it will connect to the other sources that relate just in general in  poverty by showing that no matter were in the world you are there is always poverty and the health is bad and the education of the children this is how they will connect.

Work Cited:

Gandhi, Mohandas. “Economic and Moral Progress.” Reading the World: Ideas That Matter. 2^nd. Ed. Michael Austin. New York: Norton, 2003. Page 334-338. Print.

Lameck, Lucy. “Africans Are Not Poor.” Reading the World: Ideas That Matter. 2^nd. Ed. Michael Austin. New York: Norton, 2003. Page 353-354. Print.

Oberg, Charles. Rinaldi Maria. “Understanding Poverty, Race, And Infant Mortality”.  Child Poverty In America Volume 2. 2007. Page 2-5 Print.

Szaflarski, Magdalena. Ying, Jun. “Immigrant Status, Poverty, and Child Health” Child Poverty In America Volume 2. 2007. 105-110 Print.