TMD Introduction

Jamaica is struck with poverty because of different reasons, including the government, drugs, and little or no work for the locals.  When I went to visit Jamaica, we drove from the airport down a gravel path for hours until we reached our destination, the Beaches Resort.  While driving, my eyes peered out the window only to find many living a life of poverty.  Children with barely any clothes on working outside and parents walking around with beat off clothing and dirt all over their hands.  It was a sight that I was used to reading about but really had not experienced myself until this moment.  It hit me with such shock that "it was one the coldest times in my life, but also one which made me feel a little more brotherly toward this strange, for me at least, human species. (22)