Giving alms to the poor is often considered an altruistic action in many cultures and religions.

Religion was stripped of ornament and ceremony, and made as plain and simple as possible ; sermons and songs often used repetition to get across to a rural population of poor and mostly uneducated people the necessity of turning away from sin.

* Students often use the poor English translation of J. C. Rolfe in the Loeb Classical Library, 1935 – 1940 with many reprintings.

The slaves and poor of the south often ate a similar diet, which consisted of many of the indigenous New World crops.

Rural poor often ate squirrel, possum, rabbit and other woodland animals.

Those on the “ rice coast ” often ate ample amounts of rice, while the grain for the rest of the southern poor and slaves was cornmeal used in breads and porridges.

In light of the economic gap between rich and poor countries, movement adherents claim “ free trade ” without measures in place to protect the environment and the health and well being of workers will contribute only to the strengthening the power of industrialized nations ( often termed the " North " in opposition to the developing world's " South ").

However it has often been argued that in the dominated countries ( most of the world ) the WSF is little more than an ' NGO fair ' driven by Northern NGOs and donors most of which are hostile to popular movements of the poor.

One argument often made by the opponents of the anti-globalization movement ( especially by The Economist ), is that one of the major causes of poverty amongst third-world farmers are the trade barriers put up by rich nations and poor nations alike.

* Amblyopia, decrease in acuity of one or both eyes due to poor transmission to the brain, often due to other conditions such as strabismus.

A player may be hampered by a few poor rolls of the dice in Risk or Monopoly, but over many games a good player will win more often.

In coin collecting, the condition of a coin is paramount to its value ; a high-quality example is often worth many times more than a poor example.

In reality the housing was inferior with poor heat and plumbing, the medical care often lacking even in availability of antibiotics, schools were propaganda machines and travel was a necessity to provide the country with hard currency.

Betting on don't pass is often called " playing the dark side ," and it is considered by some players to be in poor taste, or even taboo, because it goes directly against conventional play.

Smith was poor for most of his life and often did hard manual jobs such as fruitpicking and woodcutting in order to support himself and his parents.

The flexibility of mail meant that a blow would often injure the wearer, potentially causing serious bruising or fractures, and it was a poor defence against head trauma.

In Roman political culture, insanity and sexual perversity were often presented hand-in-hand with poor government.

Tom and Ray are known for their self-deprecating humor, often joking about the supposedly poor quality of their advice.

It has a very poor prognosis and is often fatal unless promptly recognized and aggressively treated.

At the bottom of the white social hiearchy came the so-called " poor whites ," often given such pejorative names as red legs in Barbados, or walking buckras in Jamaica.

Rosa had discovered too often that his stories were printed with incorrect pages of art, improper colors, poor lettering, or pixelated computer conversions of the illustrations.

The national team has often been criticized for playing an old fashioned long ball style game and having poor technical skills which has prevented them achieving success.

In popular culture, the mass production of food, specifically meats such as chicken and beef, has come under fire from various documentaries, most recently Food, Inc, documenting the mass slaughter and poor treatment of animals, often for easier revenues from large corporations.

Many labels expected New York freestyle and Miami freestyle to have the same audience and thought that the same promotional strategy would work for both genres, which often led to poor results for the New York – based freestyle.

The Church was exempt from paying taxes to the government, while it levied a tithe — a 10 % tax on income, often collected in the form of crops — on the general population, which it then redistributed to the poor.

From six to nine million additional Germans would be evicted, though most would have fled, and Poland would receive far more from Germany than the poor territories, including the great Pripet Marshes, which she lost to Russia.

Bicycle infrastructure and the standards underpinning bicycle infrastructure planning are poor and bicycles receive relatively very low levels of funding by both central and local government.

The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 provided various schemes in which young people from poor homes could receive job training and higher education.

" Holler " was the first single from the Spice Girls that did not receive a commercial CD single release within the U. S. With poor promotion ( due to the girls promoting as a duo ; ex: Mel B and Mel C covered Europe, while Victoria and Emma covered the Americas ) and radio airplay.

This was the standard formation to receive a mounted attack, but a poor one to defend against infantry.

* Clip joint: A clip joint or fleshpot is an establishment, usually a strip club or entertainment bar, typically one claiming to offer adult entertainment or bottle service, in which customers are tricked into paying money and receive poor goods or services, or none, in return.

Unusual for the period, Joanna took a modern approach to public health care, ordering that the poor were to receive medical treatment free of charge.

Hopkins ' instruction letter explicitly stated his vision for the hospital ; first, to provide assistance to the poor of " all races ", no matter the indigent patient's " age, sex or color "; second, that wealthier patients would pay for services and thereby subsidize the care provided to the indigent ; third, that the hospital would be the administrative unit for the orphan asylum for African American children which was to receive $ 25, 000 in annual support out of the hospital's half of the endowment ; and fourth, that the hospital and orphan asylum should serve 400 patients and 400 children respectively, fifth, that the hospital should be part of the university, and, sixth, that religion but not sectarianism should be an influence in the hospital.

Soon they were selected only from the secular and eccesiastical nobility: the entry for 802 in the so-called Lorsch Annals ( 794-803 ) states that instead of relying on " poorer vassals ", Charlemagne " chose from the kingdom archbishops and bishops and abbots, with dukes and counts, who now had no need to receive gifts from the innocent, and sent them throughout his kingdom, so that they might administer justice to the churches, to widows, orphans and the poor, and to all the people.

The 1699 act of parliament had stipulated that the Conservators could receive dividends of six per cent on the money they had invested into the undertaking, until the capital was repaid, and that after that the tolls were to be reduced, while profits were to be used for " the benefit and advantage of the poor of Taunton ", particularly by the building of hospitals.

He is rescued by a group of poor fishermen who inform him that Simonedes, King of Pentapolis, is holding a tournament the next day and that the winner will receive the hand of his daughter Thaisa in marriage.

While it was designed to develop housing for poor residents of urban areas, that act also required cities to target specific areas and neighborhoods for different racial groups, and certain areas of cities were not eligible to receive loans at all.

Among other relief the poor of the parish would receive bread at Easter and Coal at Christmas.

It can be difficult for a candidate to receive a TOP SECRET clearance if they have extensive foreign travel, dual citizenship, non-United States citizen family members, foreign spouses, drug use, financial problems or a poor record of financial practices, frequent gambling, and allegiance or de facto allegiance to a foreign state.

Mitchel's early popularity was soon dented, however, when Tammany Hall attacked a series of planned educational reforms, suggesting that they would make it impossible for poor Catholic children to receive a free education.

Up until her death, she continued to receive students at her home, helping illiterate adults and poor children.

Poverty claims that those barriers cost poor countries $ 100 billion a year-twice as much as they receive in aid.

In another departure from the small engine policy, several 2-6-0 + 0-6-2 Beyer-Garratts were acquired for the Toton-Brent coal trains but interference from Derby saw these receive standard small axle-boxes and short-travel valves with the result that they were poor performers.

The son of a poor priest, Trediakovsky became the first Russian not of the nobility to receive a humanistic education abroad, at the Sorbonne in Paris ( 1727 – 30 ) where he studied philosophy, linguistics and mathematics.

Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, also defended the report saying " Everybody wants the same thing, not only sustainable funding for universities, but also a system where the teaching you receive at university, the upfront costs of it are free at the point of use, that we encourage more students from poor backgrounds into university than is presently the case and, crucially, that when people pay back for their university tuition, they only do it when they can afford to do it and that people who earn more pay a bit more back than others.

Daniel P. Carter described in January 2012 how unfairly poor the reception that Refused used to receive was, and how they never had the chance to make an impact whilst together.

Although only boys were admitted to Bury Grammar when the school was founded, on the re-founding by Roger Kay in 1726 he bequeathed money specifically for girls, the bequest stating: " I charge my Estate called Warth in Ratcliff with the payment of £ 5 yearly in order that ten poor girls born or to be born in the parish and town of Bury might receive an education .... to make them perfect in reading The Bible, to teach them to write well and to be good accountants to fit them for Trades or to be good servants.

Thus, this discrimination goes beyond being poor because white housing projects receive more attention and public investment, making housing discrimination overall a racial problem.

Many of the 3. 5 billion people having access to piped water receive a poor or very poor quality of service, especially in developing countries where about 80 % of the world population lives.