Annotation 4

The writer’s main point of this article is to show that there are people that can help the poor more than the government. The articles key points are that if you are in poverty and go to a doctor they will try and help you with the organizations they have. Another key point is the fact that people in poverty usually have poorer health and most do not live as long as the average person. Also, those children in poverty usually do not graduate high school and continue their life in poverty.

A few quotes that I found in this article from Wood “Kids who live in neighborhoods that poor are less likely to participate in sports or after school activities. Economic, social, health, and other factors converge in theses setting to produce more severe, persistent poverty and deprivation that has detrimental impact on the intellectual, emotional, and physical development of children". This is saying that children that grow up in poverty have a harder time socially, do not participate in sports as much and the parents are not there to support them. Wood came to say that “Poverty during a child's early years has a more powerful influence on grade completed than during school years". Children that live in poverty usually do not make it too far into high school. They usually drop out before their senior year but this has to do with the parent relationship they had when they were little.  The last quote from the article I will use from wood is “Children who are poor have higher rates of hospital admissions, disability days, and death rates. They have inadequate access to preventive, curative, and emergency care and are affected more frequently by poor nutrition, single-parent families, dysfunctional families, and poor housing”. This quote right here is saying that children raised in poverty have a hard time to survive due to the lack of nutrition they get and do not live a healthy life style.

This source I see is building off the reading I did already just by adding detail about poverty in life and how they live in poverty. I see this building by showing that poverty is found in every place you look and that is what the course text is starting to show. This source will help extend research of the theme by showing that there is help for these families but they have to go look for it.  Along with showing how people live and how not getting proper nutrition affects your health. Also how hard poverty affects a Childs education.   According to Lameck “...Africans should take control of their own destinies and develop uniquely Africa ways to generate and distribute the wealth” (352). This is saying that people have to take responsibility for their actions and think about what they do before they ruin their lives. Hardin in this quote tells us what happens if the land is not kept clean:

“...the air and water [will] become polluted because they are treated as commons. Further growth in the population or per-capita conversation of natural resources into pollutants will only make the problem worse. The same holds true for the fish in the oceans. Fishing fleets have nearly disappeared in many parts of the world, technological improvements in the art of fishing area hastening the day of complete ruin. Only the replacement of the system of the commons with a responsible system of control will save the land, air, water and oceanic fisheries” (360).

If the area is not taken care of people cannot live properly and this will lead to poor health and nutrition.

I plan on using this source by showing people how education is effected by poverty along with how health is affected by where you live. Children in poverty need help and are not getting due to not having the parents there for support.   This will be inspired by the course text by being able to answer the questions of how they survive. Cause you look at Yunus's writing about how the .22 cents a day does not allow the people to live and you look at today and you see the people still struggling in life.

        I came across this article on Google scholars.  The author is David Wood and he has his MD.   He is an expert in his field. This is an article out of the Official Journal of The American Academy of Pediatrics.

The source will connect to others by talking about education and health. When looking at the other sources they are connecting to each other by all agreeing that being in poverty does affect how long you live and the fact that it will affect the Childs education.   These sources will have good conversations about how long a child will live in poverty and how they do in school and how they will usually drop out before senior year of high school.

Works Cited:

Hardin, Garrett. “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor.” Reading the World: Ideas    

That Matter. ^2nd. Ed. Michael Austin. New York: Norton, 2003. Page 360-362. Print.

Lameck, Lucy. “Africans Are Not Poor.” Reading the World: Ideas That Matter. 2^nd. Ed.

Michael Austin. New York: Norton, 2003. Page 352-354. Print.

Wood, David. “Effect of Child and Family poverty on Child Health in the United States.”   

Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics Vol. 112. Supplement 3 (2003). Print.