Famine

The potato, a simple starch to some, mass murderer to others. It is often hard to believe that simple things such as potatoes can be such a devastating thing to engulf a nation. This is of course the Great Hunger, also known as the Great Famine. It was one if not the most devastating events in Irish history. Costing Ireland an estimated 800,000 lives to hunger , and even more emigrating out to other nations. Though this number does not stack up to other tragedies in size, this made up roughly 10…

Peter Singer wrote his work Famine, Affluence and Morality, which covered his thoughts on how we should treat those starving in poverty stricken countries. It argues that affluent individuals and countries are morally obligated to donate far-more resources to humanitarian causes than is considered normal in Western cultures. The essay was inspired by the starvation of Bangladesh’s Liberation War refugees and he uses their situation as an example to make the point that affluent countries are…

Introduction In 1845, Ireland was struck by a massive famine, which many called the Irish Potato Famine or the Great Irish Famine. This incident was considered one of the darkest and hardest period of the Irish history. Unfortunately, this event caused between 500,000 to 1 million deaths and ruined the land and crops of many farmers. The famine reached its peak in 1847 and during that year, about 300,000 people left Ireland and went to install themselves in other countries which included Canada.…

The Donnelly’s were a family who emigrated from Ireland because of the Potato Famine. They immigrated to London, Canada. In Canada, they were not the most favourite family in their township. In their township which was called the Biddulph Township, there was a lot of violence which was shown by sheep killings, arson, fights and by murders. This shows that the township was not very peaceful and there was a lot of problems and violence. This was common for them. In the text it says that the…

The Great Famine The Soviet Union thinks tense? of ways to take over the Ukraine to implement them in their everyday lives. The famine was also called Holodomor, which means a deliberately implemented starvation. The Ukrainian farmers were given chances to join collectivization yet, they instinctively decided to remain independent. People were evacuated and sent to different places such as Cuba, with death in their future. People were sent to concentration camps where ultimately, death was the…

Peter Singer begins his argument on Famine, Affluence, and Morality with heart wrenching facts and statements about disasters happening all over the world but more specifically, East Bengal. He claims people are dying in East Bengal from lack of food, shelter, and medical care. The relentless poverty, a cyclone, and a civil war turned at least nine million people into refugees. Singer further explains that the richer nations have enough money to completely fix this issue and still have a…

In “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” Peter Singer begins his document by stating his first argument, that people in Bengal are dying from lack of food, shelter, and medical care which is not acceptable. Now, the people in Bengal are not the only people dying from these things, however at the time that Singer was writing this, Bengal was the current problem. Now-a-days, we see this problem everywhere. When I was in Belize last January there were kids walking around barefoot and extremely skinny,…

In the attempt to bring light to the widespread death from starvation in Ethiopia in 1985, Stan Grossfield captured this photo of a starving mother and her child and he called this”Famine in Ethiopia”. After visiting the Ethiopians he was feeling extreme sadness over the struggles he saw.While this image may seem visually simple, this image has a powerful emotional effect on others, winning the Pulitzer Prize of 1985. Stan Grossfield photographed the "Ethiopian" which references madonna and…

The Irish famine, which occurred in the late 1840’s, lead to the death of over one million working class Irish citizens. The famine had an immense effect on Ireland’s economy and population. The increased death rates due to starvation and the decreased amount of food available to the lower class (more specifically the western coast tenant farmers) led to massive amounts of people migrating to areas like the United States and Australia. This has had a lasting effect on the economy and population…

The great famine or the great hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. [1] Mainly the Irish were farmers and their major dependent was on farming but what changed the situation is the number of historical reasons. During the famine, approximately 1 million people died and a lot of them emigrated from Ireland, causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%. [2] The famine was caused by a potato disease commonly known as…