Riley Dunham Blog

     The Tudor poor laws were based on the Elizabethan poor laws of 1601. These two new laws were called the beggars act of 1598 and the poor relief act of 1598. These two laws were effective because they were different. These laws were new and set the basis for moving forward and continued using this concept for longer than they expected because it was so effective in cutting down the expensiveness of poor relief. they were different because they were strict about who could receive poor relief and focused on the concept of “deserving and undeserving poor”. Poor people that were considered deserving were shipwrecked sailors, elderly and children that weren't able to be helped by other family, and the disabled bodied. Undeserving poor were considered people who were able-bodied but just didn’t want to work. These two laws focused on stricter requirements to receive poor relief because of how expensive it was to provide poor relief and how many people that were just milking...

  I’m going to finish my hours sometime in November by going to the Oshkosh community pantry but haven’t worked hours there yet. Instead, I volunteered with a friend from class at the Oshkosh community pantries annual golf tournament for seven hours. From the golf tournament I learned the value of devoting time to a good cause. Since it was around seven hours of the day, I got to spend a lot of time with that friend from class and the people stopping in at our station. Although we weren’t directly at the center of the donations, I still learned a lot about how charity can be fun and not always so serious. There were multiple people from the Oshkosh community that I got to connect with and even my classmate. It helped to get to experience the aspect of time and community and how both of those are key components to charity. There wasn’t any one specific moment, but getting to talk to multiple people and have random conversations about the mini golf and getting to laugh and know them ...