Famine

The Capitol’s Invisible Hand The novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins addresses themes of imperialism and control by depicting a sixteen year old girl named Katniss who must analyze her every move in order to stay alive. In a scene during the games, Katniss experiences a change in perspective when she becomes allies with another tribute. After groggily waking up from a two-day sleep disorientated from the three tracker jacker stings, Katniss finds the young, female tribute Rue from…

Cornucopians and Neo-Malthusians have contradicting points of view on the issue of population growth and world hunger. Cornucopians believe that technologies can progress and improve to increase the world’s food production and keep up with the rate at which the world’s population is growing. Neo-Malthusians, instead, believe that we should first address the problem of world population growth in order to decrease the world’s hunger problems. These two contradicting opinions are based on the same…

The drought in California has effected many people over the past year. The whole state is hurting and yearning for water but there is one specific group of living things, animals and people, who are suffering the most. The farmers growing California food and the farm animals providing our food are suffering the most during this horrific drought. California’s farmers are in desperate need to keep crops alive and supply their livestock with adequate amounts of water. California farmland has not…

Up next we have hunger in America! Wait let's stop right there everyone knows that hunger is a problem, so it doesn't need an introduction. Many people in America are suffering from hunger which is an issue that needs to be addressed so that this epidemic can be combated for the sake of our future and generations to come. Hunger affect almost everyone in America with nearly 48.1 million people in our economy suffering. Statistics show that in 2015 alone, there were 795 million people suffering…

In the United States, an average of 14.6 percent of Americans live in a household who has food insecurities (“Hunger and Poverty Fact Sheet”, Feeding America). Organizations are created in order to eliminate hunger in the United States such as Second Harvest Food Bank. Second Harvest Food Bank is one of the organizations in the United States that collects canned food in order to eliminate hunger within the United States. However, there are some individuals who are ignorant or have a lack of…

In the book mockingjay Katniss is chosen as mockingjay, also known as the leader of the rebellion, she is staying at district 13, which is the base of the rebels against the capital. While at district 13. Katniss visits her past district of 12. she is horrified by what the capital did. She also goes to a hospital in 12 to give the people their hope, but some incoming bombers destroyed it killing everyone inside, Katniss helped them by shooting down some of the bombers with her bow but couldn't…

Food for Thought: The Problem with Domestic Hunger Every November families across the U.S. sit down together and eat one of the most important meals of the year. In some homes though, families will only be able to eat because of the generosity of others or holiday food drives. Although Americans are well aware of the matter of world hunger, they rarely acknowledge the issue at home. Food insecurity (the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious…

The ceremony of twelve and the reaping are very different. They both hold some similar things and also some very different things. The ceremony from the giver is a very happy time for the families and the kids who turn 12. The reaping is a very bad time, seeing these random people take your children away and thinking that they might never come back. In “The Giver”, they take away almost all choices. There is no starving, and no one ever suffers. During the ceremony of twelve they celebrate the…

“You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.”-Anton Chekhov. In the novel The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins, Katniss Everdeen, a young woman who lives in District 12 of Panem, which is post-apocalyptic North America, struggles to put food on the table for her family. A country where the Capitol oppresses its citizens by keeping them fenced off from the outer world. The Capitol also forces one teenage boy and girl from each district to fight in a blood sport the…

As an international student, I had the opportunity to travel around a lot of place. There is beautiful place in the world however there are places where people suffer so much. At fourteen years, I was leaving in Togo, a country in West Africa. It is a country where there is poverty and people suffer of hunger. I remember an older guy who came up to me and ask if I could give fifty cent so he could buy food for his children. Every day about 24,000 people die from hunger or hunger related causes…