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Religion Chapter 7

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Vocabulary
Definition
poverty   denies basic human rights  
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nearness of death   poor people closer to death  
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marginalization   deprivation, denial of full participation  
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living on the edge   because they haveso little, it does not take much to make life worse for them  
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cycle of poverty   the lack of basic resources creates barriers that prevent people from obtaining those resources  
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barriers of full development   poverty prevents people from developing their potenial  
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Dr. Maslow   proposed a theory of human motivation based on a hierarchy of human needs  
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chronic   they never have enough food to give the body the nutrients needed to grow and maintain  
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starvation   when the body does not recieve enough calories to maintain itself  
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malnutrition   gets enough calories to prevent their body from feeding on itself  
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literally homeless   without shelter  
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hidden homeless   people whose poverty prevents them from living in true homes  
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affordable housing shortage   more people work for less money, low costing houses have decreased  
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refugess   people who are displaced from their homes by war or poitical presecution  
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ethnic cleansing   vicitms of intenional attempts by political factions to displace specfic ethnic groups from their homes  
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resource extraction   poor countries attempt to support their weak economies by exporting cash crops  
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government by the elite   tend to favor the interests of wealthy, not poor  
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foreign aid problems   offers small amounts to poorest nations  
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discrimination   people judged for their background  
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conflict fueled by arms sales   military spending by poor countries is encouraged by rich countries that make and sell weapons  
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debt crisis   poor countries owe billions of loan repayments to banks and wealthy nations, and paying interest on these loans takes money from social programs that could eliminate poverty  
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