Bruce’s [sample] Book Club Selection: World Poverty and Human Rights

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1) Thomas Pogge's World Poverty and Human Rights is a non-fiction book that talks about poverty around the world and the economic disparities between the developed and undeveloped countries. Pogge aim to persuade the more developed countries to help the undeveloped countries.

2) Not helping the others who are suffering while we have the power is definitely challenging human rights.

3) The book is 284 page of which I have sample 7 pages on the internet. The last 20 pages are notes. 

4) I haven’t read this book.

5) The context in the book seem challenging but yet I think I can handle it because I have briefly studied about poverty around the world at geography class when I was in high school. Also, the sample pages seem easy to read as the writer includes a lot of lists that I can easily read from. 

6) The book is available from both Amazon and Barnes and Noble. There are used copies from Amazon.

7) The book is in English. 

Nomination:

As poverty is serious today and the disparity between the rich and the poor is widening, it is essential for us to care about it. The wealthy in the more developed countries(like us) can in fact help the poor in the less developed countries with just sharing a extremely small amount our income, but yet most of us are not willing to do so because we do not think we have the responsibility. The writer is going to explain how we have developed to disconnect from the poor and give us reasons why we should help and how we can help. I too think we have to read the book because it is going to tell us how we are violating human rights by not helping the poor and convince us to do so. Reading this book will not only improve our humanity, but also the lives of the poor.