Malnutrition

Did you know that 717 million people are suffering from poverty right now and living on less than $1.90 a day? (World Bank). That means that everywhere in the world, people of all ages are starving and have no money to provide for their families. Similarly, "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt and "The Street" by Ann Petry both show themes of poverty but, more importantly, themes of persistence and how they continued to persevere when things get tough through characters, events, and setting. Frank…

Darwin’s Nightmare, a documentary film written and directed by Hubert Sauper, takes place in Tanzania, an underdeveloped country in Africa. It depicts the economic conditions of the people of Mwanza, Tanzania. The people in the town suffer from poverty, they gave up their jobs as farmers to go into the fishing industry. The movie is about fish, specifically the Nile perch fish in Lake Victoria but the main theme of the movie revolves around the exploitation of natural resources by one country…

(Intro) Peter Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” and Garrett Hardin’s “Lifeboat ethics” are contradictory philosophical works that examine whether scarce resources should be shared with the poor. Singer’s argument is that “suffering and death from lack of food, shelter and medical care are bad" (Singer, 1972); therefore all people become morally obligated to help the poor. While Hardin argues that ethics of a Lifeboat should be followed because there is a finite amount of resources…

When a person thinks of hunger typically their mind goes to a third world country, where a sad, hungry child sit alone in the rain begging for food. Most people’s minds leave our country and travel halfway around the world to see the face of hunger. Our minds never stay close to home when we think of someone who is hungry. This is probably because we live in America one of the richest and fattest countries in the world. How could anyone go hungry in a land where there is over 14,000 McDonalds?…

Kimberly Ma Section 13 – Hunger and Environmental Nutrition Ted Talk Critique #1 1. In Esther Duflo’s speech, she explains how the advantages of using the increasing studies of the research field to observe what works and what does not. Poverty is a difficult conflict because we do not have accurate or good data. Duflo suggests that we break down the huge problem of poverty and break it down into smaller problems that we can pinpoint. She proposes questions and affordable solutions as to how…

Billions Cursed by Poverty In this world, there are more than a billion people who are currently living below the poverty line; millions of stories are recorded which manifest ethos, pathos and logos. Poverty is the main cause in this world which is snatching the lives of billions of people. Thus why is poverty extremely atrocious and monstrous? The answer lies in our tiny little brains. Our brain create a sense that poverty cannot be fixed and the poor lives do not matter. There are two…

Slums In my own words I would define a slum as a place where someone lives who does not have immediate access to running water or sanitation. A point I seen trending in all the slum presented in the videos were that the people represented were minorities. Minorities seem to have the underhand globally in the world, and I also seen that diseases were high. In the Kibera documentary, it stated that that 20 percent of kids pass away before age 5; HIV was a major issue here as well. Running water…

During the pioneer ages, while traveling the needs of food, companionship, and clothing, secured them in having a successful journey. For, a person can only last about three weeks without food, causing them to scavenge for anything that they could feast on. Additionally, companionship was an ideal essential, because it had numerous pros that would make a positive impact on the trek. Also, due to the cold temperatures the mountains brought, the pioneers had to ensure that they brought the proper…

Freedom Balloon: The Ultimate Flight “A Wall of Fire Rising” by Edwidge Danticat is the story of a proud Haitian man named Guy, on his own personal journey to attain the freedom which he so desires from control, oppression, and personal failures. This passage is one of great trial and carried with it much mental strain and anguish on the main character. He struggles within to overcome his inner demons and reach a place of peace, that being death. This story contains many examples of symbolism,…

One of the most pressing problems faced by low income households in the United States is hunger with one in seven Americans struggled with hunger in 2013. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more than 49 million Americans lived in households struggling against hunger in 2012. Of them, 15.7 million were children (21.4 percent of all children). Previously, in 2012, 48.9 million Americans lived in food insecure households. The number of people living in households with very low food…