World Hunger Essay

passionate about. Whether it's a sport, a career or a hobby, everyone has that something that they do and love that is deeply woven into our lives. This "thing" is so important that taking this one "thing" away would tear any person apart. My passion, my hunger, my "thing" is running cross country. There has never been a moment wasted on my sport due to its inherent ability to build a person's character and teach the athletes the importance of goal setting. During my freshman year, I ambitiously…

There once was a girl, fettered to a wall ever since she was young. There was no one guarding her, taking control of her, or feeding her, yet she felt no hunger. She would not holler for help or even call out for a savior as she felt as though everything was pointless in the world she was in. Her only friends were the the little sanity she had left and the darkness that kept her hidden from society. The rusted chains simply pierce the thin skin of her wrists ever so slightly as the chains held…

Imagine a world where one cannot fail nor excel, create nor break boundaries, and love nor hate any one person more than another. Evil and good intentions are tightly woven in Ayn Rand 's Anthem, the story of Equality 7-2521, a man cursed to constantly question the world around him. His city is built on the foundation that all people "exist through, by and for our brothers who are the State" (21). The novella is set in a totalitarian future, but lacks the futuristic ideas that similar stories…

But me I’m used to living broke so I would not take the money because it would change my train of thought my mind would be in a whole other world. My thoughts on money is money is the devil on earth people kill for little amounts of dollar bills that’s bad thinking and their mind is in the gutter. I would buy my family a big house on a beach somewhere to look over the horizon or to see the sunset…

An explosion of flavor bursts out of his mouth! He closes his eyes and feels lines of every color bursting from his mouth with the brilliance of a thousand stars. He cannot help himself, a feeling this good must be shared with the world! His lips part, ever so slightly, and outs spills a smile so genuine, so heartfelt, that the sun shines just ever so brighter for him. His smile emanates around him, a rosy glow reflecting pure jubilance. Conscious of the brown color staining his teeth…

We live in a world where the threat of an apocalypse bites at our heels every day. Nuclear war or technological takeover lurk in the shadows of everyday life, but predicting how an apocalypse will actually happen is near impossible. There are infinite stories about apocalypses; everything from comic books to movies portray the vast possibilities of the end of the world as we know it. Cormac McCarthy has created what I believe is one of the most real portrayals of post-apocalyptic life in his…

of this novel because they create The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games are government created “games” that was made to punish the people in the districts for district thirteens rebellion. "whatever words they use, the real message is clear.” ““Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there's nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just like we did in District Thirteen"" (Collins 13). The capitol made The Hunger Games to show their power and…

Heroes are sometimes the most ordinary people. They are often shown as mighty leaders saving the world, yet sometimes, they come from the most unexpected people in the most unexpected places. In Linda Holeman’s novel Search for the Moon King’s Daughter, the protagonist comes in the form of a responsible fifteen year old Victorian girl, Emmaline. Emmaline lives with her mother and brother Tommy in a poor section of Tibbing where she works as a seamstress for her aunt to provide for her family.…

Lines “Just tell me this Doctor, suppose you really are a slave of the drug habit, is there any cure?” I lay alone on a bench on the fringe of some park, wearing the same clothes as yesterday; a grey hoodie, shapeless, faded jeans and trainers with frayed laces. Around me the park was seemingly void of any life, I liked being here, the way the trees rustled to the the ominous tune of the wind, the way the glistening grass rolled down to the lake side, but most of all, I liked how here I could…

the second hunger strike in the Maze prison because the prisoners wanted to be recognized as prisoners of war. In Northern Ireland, the British government planned to isolate, criminalize, and demoralize the IRA. Some Mother’s Son appeals to the personal side of the argument by showing how one person can affect their whole family and then some. Hunger depicts the personal side as well, but it shows by making the audience think deeply through silences. In Some Mother’s Son, the hunger strike is…