... child" is replaced with the gendered pronoun "he" in the latter half of the sentence. On a very basic level this is clearly simply inaccurate since roughly half of the children in the world are female. However the consequences of such usages might go well beyond a simple inaccuracy of language. Graham (1973 in Thorne, Kramarae and Henley 1983, 9-10) conducted a computer analysis of one hundred thousand ... link between language and reality but the question of the nature of this relationship remains. Fasold (1984 in Pauwels 1988) claimed that the relationship between language and reality ...

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... that day or not. What exactly is poverty? John Kenneth Galbraith eloquently stated the case for a relative definition of poverty in his book, The Affluent Society: "People are poverty stricken when their income, even if adequate for survival, falls markedly behind that of the community. Then they cannot have what the larger community regards as the minimum necessary for decency; and they cannot wholly escape therefore ... first, what steps need to be taken in order to understand why this unjust social issue occurs? Analysis of the The German Ideology by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, m...

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