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  What's Poverty? : Jo Godwin Parker Jo Goodwin Parker gives her ideas on what poverty is. This essay is written as an attack on human emotion . Her use of connotative language creates many harsh images of her experiences in a life of rural poverty. By using these images, Parker is capable of causing the reader to feel emotional. Parker creates a feeling of guilt in the readers. They feel guilty for their wealth which she lacks. For example, she uses the phrase 'you say in your clean clothes coming from your clean house ,’ This causes the reader to feel guilty for having the opportunity to be clean when she tells us she doesn't have the same. Parker is also successful in evoking sympathy from the reader. She uses connotative language to create disturbing images of what poverty is. For example, she calls poverty an 'acid that drips on pride until pride is worn away'. Essay in brief She says poverty is being dirty, smelly, and with no “proper” underwear...

  About the Author   Vladimir Keilis-Borok (1921-2913) born in Russia was, a UCLA seismologist and mathematical geophysicist who, along with his research team, developed a method intended to predict earthquakes months in advance.   He worked with other experts in pattern recognition, geodynamics, seismology, chaos theory, statistical physics and public safety to develop algorithms to detect precursory earthquake patterns.   In June 2003, the team predicted that an earthquake of magnitude 7 or higher would hit Japan in a region that included the island of Hokkaido by Dec. 28. On Sept. 25, approximately three months after it was predicted, a magnitude 8.1 quake struck Hokkaido.     He also used his mathematical theories to accurately predict the winner of the popular vote in each U.S. presidential election from 1984 to 2008 and even applied his techniques to predict murder-rate trends in Los Angeles, recessions, and the unemployment rat...