Hello! pleasure to help.
perceive is to see something in a particular way.
Perceiving is like looking at an abstract painting, someone may see what you saw, but another ma have saw something totally different.
To live in a state of poverty, is to live in a state of need.
Poverty comes in many shapes and forms, for example, people who may be in a home crisis are in poverty, while someone who just got hit by a hurricane is also in poverty.
A symbol is a representation of something else.
Symbol goes with the word symbolize, meaning to be a symbol of. if I were to replace the word 'symbol' with representation, that still is grammatically correct.
To value something, it means to appreciate it.
Value alone means the regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something, only to make sense that if you valued something, then you highly appreciate it.
Martin Luther King is a symbol of peace, his speech: I have a dream remains in history, and which other public speakers still use today.
