Hungry

the more power-hungry we get. Having power is euphoric; once a person has a taste, they can never get enough. Once they get all the power they can, all becomes corrupt. Throughout history, we have seen examples of corrupt, power-hungry people like Macbeth. Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin are all examples of men who when given all the power they wanted, and used it to a corrupt extent. Macbeth is a character that could be compared to one of the many power-hungry dictators. When…

cheese with no carbs, or drink only lemon juice and maple syrup for 10 days. I prefer a diet that consists of all the food groups and incorporates sweets. Let's be real people, a girl has got to eat. So here are my top five diet books of all time. 1. Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World by Lisa Lillien. I can't say enough about this book. It shows you how to take some of your favorite foods and make them healthier by cutting out tons of fat and…

Today as students, reading in our expensive textbooks and attending very costly schools, we seldom get a look into just how hard it must have been to live in a time when every penny counted. The problems experienced then were different to those today. And the problem was not what outfit to wear, but one of ‘Are my only clothes too worn out to wear?’ The 1930s during the Great Depression were very trying years in the United States, a period depicted John Steinbeck’s famous novel, The Grapes of…

last couple of centuries. The Betty White “Snickers” advertisement, created by Craig Gillespie, demonstrates the way society views the elderly through a game of football. The director places a young character in the body of an old woman while he is hungry, but once he becomes full, the character transforms into the body of an young adult male. This ad argues that snickers makes people feel stronger and replenished, by making the man in the commercial victorious after he eats the Snickers.…

Thomas Buergenthal was a young boy when Hitler started getting followers, but Thomas was old enough to remember how it changed his life. Thomas was separated from his parents; Thomas was also forced in a death march. Thomas was scared or dying, hungry, and felt loss and insecure. Even with all these emotions Thomas was brave, and most of all he was loyal. Would you be loyal or would you be a traitor to say yourself? In the beginning Thomas’s parent moved from Germany to Czechoslovakia. In the…

character, the caterpillar, that goes on a journey to discover its own beauty. In the very beginning, Carle writes, “One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and-pop!-out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar”(Eric Carle 2). Carle indicates to the reader that the caterpillar is tiny and very hungry which infers that it is only a baby and needs food in order to survive such as when small, human babies are born who are precious and have their own desires such as food for comfort. Later…

What can cause a significant change in someone's life? “An American Childhood”, it shows a significance in when her parents give her a lack of interest. Also in “An American Childhood” says “ In the basement at my microscope table I spread a Summy drop of Frick Park puddle water on a slide, peeked in, and lo, there was the famous amoeba. He was as bobby and grainy as his picture; I would have known him anywhere.” (page 326 paragraph 7) This shows that when her parents didn’t pay attention to her…

For Afghanistan, money can be scarce depending on the social class of a family or the tyranny of government. In The Kite Runner Amir and Baba strive in wealth while Ali and Hassan live in their impoverished dirt home. Money is a defining characteristic of much of the conflict in the novel, whether it be treating Baba’s cancer to Afghan orphanages struggling to keep afloat. In two instances Amir hides money under a mattress, the outcome of each situation proves the powerful effect of money.…

it got shut down. The tables were covered with orange and yellow tablecloth. The room was soon filled quickly. Many of us were hungry and decided this was an option since the cafeteria took a break and closed down as a whole. Some were very excited about the tradition. Being in middle I thought the tradition was more interesting to me then eating away in a fashion of hungry and starving animals. We were all introduced in the diverse community of our school and how each said Thank you. Drinks…

words and transitioning from a flowing long sentence about the abortions to a short, exclamatory sentence to emphasize the occurrences that befall less fortunate women in order to avoid unwanted children who will follow in their footsteps, begging hungry in the streets. The use of outrage and scorn as a type of satire in order to convey a message in this piece is…