We have watched the documentary on Poverty No More. There was a lot of information on the causes and effects of poverty. One example was the woman named Vickie who after working for 12 years for the same company with the goal of being a full-time employee, was still part time with no benefits, job security or set hours. Think about these questions for tomorrow's response. Do you think she fits the stereotype of someone in poverty? What is her issue? What are the benefits of working full and part time? She had to work throughout the time that she was having cancer treatments. Why is this happening? Whose responsibility is it to make sure she is getting paid fairly? Thank you to Mrs. D for coming in to tell her story about her job ending. She talked about having a rally (peaceful protest) POST: Above is a picture of Mahatma Gandhi and a quote he is famous for saying. Gandhi led India to independence from Britain through non-violent disobedience (peaceful protests). He inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Leave a comment: What do you think Gandhi meant when he said, "Poverty is the worst form of violence"? Do you think a hunger strike is an effective way to protest? Homework:
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justice
3/2/2017 04:02:28 pm
I think that he meant when there's violence, sometimes people die, or get murdered. Well, that happens to them right away. But when you're in poverty, for example absolute poverty, you suffer from starvation, and sometimes people suffer and die slowly and painfully.
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Mr.BushWhack
3/2/2017 05:16:53 pm
I think he said that it was violent because many things in poverty can make someone die. Like starvation, or a disease, or even if there is not clean water. Also is people can even face these things plus we probably have all this food that we can give to them but for some reason we don't. Every night I think of these things and I always get sad.
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Blueswan
3/3/2017 07:09:29 am
I agree because poverty could make people go in to starvation or lose a job by not telling them and I think there should be no more poverty because I you have child and you want your child to have the right edudection and a place to live and clean water and most of all a safe place to live
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Oshie/pippie
3/2/2017 05:22:26 pm
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Xee Dawg
3/2/2017 05:42:25 pm
Good luck @Oshie/pippie!
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Xee Dawg
3/2/2017 05:47:37 pm
What he meant by "poverty is the worst form of violence" is that many people die from poverty, like starvation or dehydration, and they die very slowly. When you don't have enough food in your body, you don't die right away. It takes a while for all the nutrions in your body to go away, so in that case you die slowly, and that is even worse and more painful.
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Xee Dawg
3/2/2017 08:12:09 pm
I don't think a hunger strike is an effective way to protest, because if you don't like the way something is going, or you don't like the rules of something, then you should talk it out, or try to make some changes of your own. If you just starve yourself, you are only hurting yourself, and that is not a good way to solve anything.
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~Luna~
3/2/2017 05:53:27 pm
Hey everyone!
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Happy everyday
3/2/2017 05:54:14 pm
Of course not ,these people are crazy. They thinks that hunger strike is a way to solve the poverty problem? If they really live in poverty, they might be have no food and they can not hunger strike because they are hunger.
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Zoella
3/2/2017 06:12:27 pm
I think he means that violence is a horrible thing itself, but poverty is a terrible form of violence. Different people live in poverty for different reasons, but poverty can be so horrible, that it is overall one of the worst forms of violence that there is.
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SpiritTiger
3/2/2017 06:14:43 pm
I think he means that it is probably one of the worst punishment because you need money for a home, food, clothes, entertainment and taxes.
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Tigger
3/2/2017 06:38:16 pm
I think he's trying to say that poverty is a different kind of violence but the worst kind, because people who live in poverty die slowly and didn't really get to live their life the way we got to.
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Spifffy Waffle Man
3/2/2017 06:47:14 pm
He meant that in poverty people can die because they have no home or no food to live and violent you die but poverty because you die with no foods or the other important stuff that's why poverty is more dangerous than violent.
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grandma annie
3/2/2017 06:59:01 pm
I think he meant by saying "poverty is the worst violence" because in war form example, some people die because of it and in some cases of poverty people die.
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hopa
3/2/2017 07:40:43 pm
hello. I think she meant to say poverty is worst violence
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Smacked
3/2/2017 08:15:47 pm
No I don't agree with the hunger strike. I think he means that poverty needs to be stopped because it is affecting a lot of people so that's why it's so bad (violence)
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Zapados35
3/2/2017 09:09:25 pm
I believe she ment that hunger or dehydration or even disease can be like taking a bullet to the chest. Can't say anything on the hunger strike because I do not know what it is.
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Eeyore
3/2/2017 09:13:28 pm
I think that poverty is the worst form of violence because it physically and emotionally effects you. It takes away the things you have. It gives you nothing. It's truly horrible and it needs to be stopped.
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Meme lord
3/2/2017 10:48:00 pm
I believe what Gandhi was trying to say is that puberty and especially absolute poverty can bring out the worst in people in can make their inner robber or even murderer
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Codebreaker
3/2/2017 11:02:23 pm
I think he meant that people mistreat and abuse the people that live in poverty.
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Flamingbolt
3/3/2017 07:08:26 am
I think he meant that in general violence is terrible, as well as poverty (in this case is why he's referring to it) also, I agree with the people who said that poverty can cause death and that's why it's violent. There are many causes for poverty that can be recognized as 'violent'.
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Thearchunter
3/3/2017 07:13:35 am
I what he ment by poverty is the worst kind off poverty is that people who die from poverty usally die from starvation dehidration. With makes for a slow and painful death unfortionally for the people in poverty.
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Roadrunner
3/3/2017 07:43:35 am
Poverty is dangerous because viloent can happen no basic needs its a bad situation to get in. It's just sad because some people get hurt and there's no first aid or bandages or something to protect them in a situation. -roadrunner
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dabbingdino
3/3/2017 08:27:02 am
The video Showed me About all the voilent and sad things about poverty the video was verry inspireing but sad at the same.time.
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