Michael L.

Move Beyond the Page, Analysis, p.134: 3, 4

 

p134 Q3. Why does Shiva believe Jeffrey Sachs’s methods of ending poverty will aggravate and increase poverty as opposed to ending it?

In the text, Sachs wanted to decrease and tackle the problem of poverty. However as Shiva mentioned he simply does not know how poverty is created. He perceive poverty is created via the generation, and the wealth is created by the riches taking it from the slaves. Without these knowledge there won’t be a proper agenda to solve poverty since there are different perception on how poverty started. They both have a different viewpoints and perspectives on to the topic on sustainable livelihood. Sachs as a government official will not understand how people in poverty feels as he is brought up in a good environment, while Shiva tends to have more understanding with the people living in poverty

 

p134 Q4. If the poor are “ecologically rich” why do they become poor?

As the poor do not have much knowledge in the business world. They often not have less advantage compare with the big corporates as they have a more strategically distribution to the people and they have a lot of resources to do their market research. Often the natural resources are being privatize even though it was once free long ago, this gives a burden to the poor people as they need to compete their prices with the big corporates since they dump their prices to the farmers which makes them cannot sustain their own life.

 

They Say/I say p 51:2

 

p51 Q2. Look at something you have written for one of your classes. Have you quoted any sources? If so, how have you integrated the quotation into your own text? How have you introduced it? Explained what it means? Indicated how it relates to your text? If you haven't done all these things, revise your text to do so, perhaps using the Templates for Introducing Quotations (p. 46) and Explaining Quotations (pp. 46-47). If you've not written anything with quotations, try revising some academic text you've written to do so.

From my humanities essay, I have quote a sentence from Dussel regarding his perception on how people perceive things. First using a real life example then introduce the issue with my argument by only looking history from one perspective, then quoting from Dussel’s article and support my point to make it stronger, then I used my own words to explain what is Dussel’s quote is about and how does it validate and support my argument.