Dedan Kimathi “I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”

Barack Obama “I think when you spread the wealth around it is good for everybody.”

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How Income Inequality affects Health in Society.

The main problem with trying to ascertain whether it is low income or income distribution that results in poor health is that there are a number of confounding factors that should be investigated to determine the nature of the relationship. In fact many studies have shown that the relationship between income and health is not [...]

Of Parental Divorce and Children

Parental divorce generally harms children significantly in the long term financially, psychologically, socially, physically and mentally. This due to these children lacking social capital, a term used to decribe social and emotional support systems that exist due to the existence of families within society (James Coleman). This is fundamentally because divorce involves the separation of [...]

Why do people Cooperate?

Many theories have attempted to address the question why people cooperate by examining the roles individuals play in groups, circumstances and even controlled or programmed experiments that test for responses to action or inaction within the group. What is clear even in my own experience is that it is important for cooperation to exist simply [...]

The change of the age of marriage in industrial societies.

Introduction
The age of marriage has changed drastically of the 20 century among women. An example given by Oppenheimer (1997) indicates that the single rates for women under 25 years rose from 14% in the 1960’s to 42% in the 1960’s. This suggest that either women have found a viable alternative to marriage before that age [...]

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