After three solid days of
intense poverty in Africa, we took a small plane (which was an intense experience of itself) to a spot about 250 miles away from Kampala,...
Although there are people in Los Angeles who are struggling tremendously, we don't
know intense poverty and pain like the untouchables do in India or the children orphaned and living on the streets of Zambia or Brazil.
I have personally never
experienced intense poverty or pain, and I know that for those of us who have been given much, much is expected (Luke 12:48).
Students in traditional urban public schools tend to live in
more intense poverty than those in charters (as measured by the % of students receiving free lunch - the commonly cited, and somewhat misleading, indicator of poverty is the undifferentiated free / reduced %).
Spring said the impediments presented by the «
intense poverty» suffered by a disproportionate number of his students was exacerbated by the lack of resources at their schools.
We need to focus on schools where there is
intense poverty.
The period was one of experimentation and innovation across the visual arts, during which both artists were concerned with representing the extremes of society, from the flourishing cabaret culture to
intense poverty and civilian rebellions.