Great Famine

Russia was known for size, strength and brutality but just beyond its borders was great suffering. As an undeveloped nation, Russia struggled to keep up to the rest of Europe. This sparked an intense desire for change at any cost. While Russia was falling apart, the leader of the Bolshevik party rose to popularity - Vladimir Lenin. Lenin’s communist views, that were based off the ideals of Marxism, promised a new way in Russia with plentiful land, bread and peace. The rise of the Bolsheviks and…

dangerous to people then that. The lack of food or nutrients affect not only the energy of a person, but the mind and body too. Hunger is common in every country and can affects every single person. If Hunger affects the mind, then hunger must have a great effect on the education of children too. Why, in this advanced world is there still hunger, that causes so much damage to the human mind and body. Hunger that affects not just one person, but in many ways has an indirect effect on the whole…

In Tom Standage’s An Edible History of Humanity, he describes in great detail the role potatoes played in French social life. Food has played an important role in social statuses throughout history, but also a big political influence, and the deciding factor in many wars. There are many similarities between the impact of food socially and politically, but also many differences. Ever since its existence, food has been a great indicator of social status and a person’s prominence in society.…

Chikatilo was born on October 16, 1936, in a Ukraine village called Yablochnoye. He was born with nearsightedness and lasions and water in his brain. During his childhood the USSR was at war with Germany, which caused a great famine. He grew up in a one room hut with his parents and younger sister. Due to their financial struggles, Chikatilo slept in the same bed as his parents. This led to humiliation and violence because Chikatilo was a chronic bed wetter, which is believed to be because of…

In 925 A.D, all Maori people like my ancestor, Kupe, came from Hawaiki. As a talented fisherman, Kupe found out that the great octopus had been stealing all his fish and bait whenever he was fishing. Annoyed, Kupe tried to kill it, but all the chasing had come to a named island, by his wife, called Aotearoa (the long white cloud). After destroying the octopus, Kupe and his whanau explored Aotearoa, came back to his homeland to tell all his mates, and then returned to Aotearoa to emigrate there…

On one hand, I agree with the author, that especially in Europe, fear is a great motiv on GM bans. On the other hand, this fear is not without scientific bases. Genetically modified organisms are created artificially by different methods, such as splicing gene sequences that code desired qualities, and introduce them into the genetic…

Today in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or North Korea, many citizens face a difficult challenge of staying alive due to their living conditions. They are constantly in a fight against starvation and some are unable to continue. The Korean government, however, neglects its duties by making nuclear weapons instead of feeding its people. The country is currently in a downward spiral, with a collapsed economy and economic isolation from the rest of the world but just manages to stay…

book foreshadowed a wretched and grim future with the notion that the population would increase geometrically (e.g 2,4,6,8…) doubling in twenty-five years. But food production would only increase arithmetically (e.g 1,2,3,4…) which would result in famine and starvation spreading among the lower class population unless births were controlled. However, the text overlooked potential improvements in agriculture such as steam-powered machines, chemical fertilizers, and genetically modified organisms…

Q2a) The three indicators used to create the Global Hunger Index are the proportion of people who are food-energy deficient, the relevance of underweight children under the age of five, and the under-five mortality rate. It ranks on 100-point scale, with 0 best score, and 100 being worst. Q2b) The countries with the greatest hunger problems are the ones that are in the alarming stage and the extreme alarming stage, and they tend to be third world countries, that are developing still. Also, the…

Fuehrer has decided to have [Leningrad] wiped off the face of the earth . . . . the survival of the population and of supplying it with food is [a problem] which . . . should not be solved by us . . . .We have no interest in keeping even part of this great city's population” (Shirer 264). Some conditions that the beleaguered Russians suffered…