Pantry

important thing to know because so many people, families in fact, in the United States do go without significant quantities of food because they are too poor to provide. Learning about these problems makes me think that more people should donate to food pantries and do more food drives to help the less fortunate because no one deserves to go hungry. Food deserts and food insecurities can go together in many ways because not only can people not afford to buy enough food for their families, but…

Buchenwald The Holocaust is the period of time between 1933 and 1945 when the Nazis persecuted and executed millions of Jews and other people seen as enemies of the state. The Holocaust was one of the most horrific slaughters of human life in the Second World War. Most of loss of life during the Holocaust took place in concentration camps. Concentration camps served different purposes; some camps were slave labor camps, some were transit camps, and others served as death camps. Even though there…

“Homeless families are often hidden from our view- they are living in shelters, cars, campgrounds, or doubled up in crowded apartments” (Family Promise facts). People that we are aware of and live our lives around are not to our knowledge beneath the poverty level or homeless. The type of people we are or claim to be is the type of people we hang around for the most part when it comes down to it. Either similar personality or similar economically. The people who go to our schools and walk the…

My birthday is one of my favorite days of the year, no lie there. It may be hard to believe, but it isn’t just about the attention either. It makes me realize how truly blessed I am to be fulfilling another year of my life. I will be forever grateful for my birthdays, even when I am getting old. It was my birthday! I was finally a teenager, the big 13, I guess it could be said as my quota for the year. I jumped out of bed and I was so excited for what the day had to hold for me. I was supposed…

Honeybees. The little insects have been flying around and keeping our ecosystem alive for millions of years. Many products that modern society takes for granted would not be possible without the help of honeybees, yet they receive little credit for their work. When people think of bees they do not think about the produce they help to pollinate and keep alive; rather, people chose to focus on the buzzing and the painful stinging. Within the past eleven years, beekeepers have been trying to bring…

this hole, eating his food and living his life. When all the sudden, many many people arrive unexpectedly after an unexpected visitor earlier in the day. 2 Refusal Shortly after the huge group of dwarves beat the pulp out of Bilbo's pantry, he realizes that they are in his hobbit hole after a huge defeat. Shortly after all the food is done the dwarf leader arrives, the call is proposed to Baggins. This call being to aid them in a journey to retake their homeland. Bilbo clearly…

HNH - Helping Newark’s Homeless Proposal Why are people homeless? There are many reasons why people became homeless. Some due to their actions, some out of their control. Some have fallen victim to unaffordable health issues, poverty, domestic violence, addiction disorders, and mental illness. Some have had their homes foreclosed due to declining work opportunities and declining public assistance. Though the shamefulness should not be levied on the homeless themselves, it should be on us,…

Why Quit Sugar? In this chapter, there are a couple of questions that we would like to address as fol- lows: Is Sugar Really Bad for the Health? What is sugar detox? These questions will help up realize how far we have been torturing our bodies and that it is time for changes to take place through sugar detox and other healthy diets. Is Sugar Really Bad for your Health? Recent headlines read “Sugar Can Kill You!” It has been up on many news maga- zines, blogs and online news since the…

If there is one thing that I have always been good at, it is cooking. I don't remember when I started to cook but I noticed my abilities as a young chef around the age of seven. I would sit with my mom and watch cooking shows and help her in the kitchen. These interactions with the culinary world greatly influenced me to want to pursue a career in the culinary arts. I remember being home one night. I was 11 or 12 years old and my parents had left to go see a movie. My brother was upstairs…

Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the 266th elected pope of the Roman Catholic Church in March 2013, becoming Pope Francis. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 17, 1936. Prior to becoming elected Bergoglio served as archbishop of Buenos Aires from 1998 to 2013, as a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church of Argentina from 2001-2013 and as president of the Bishops’ Conference of Argentina from 2005 to 2011. When elected the 266th pope, the first pope from the Americas, Bergoglio took his…