The Hunger

it is also a small town issue that is being addressed not only by small town governments but by Federal and State level governments. Because hunger is such a huge issue it is important that we, as social workers, begin to look into the problem on a deeper level. There are many problems that will show themselves as the children, affected by childhood hunger, begin to grow up. In Erath county there is a population within our communities that are living a life that is filled with food insecurity.…

Kavanagh shows how there was no hope for sexual or self-fulfilment in The Great Hunger. Maguire never marries or loves. A true sense of loneliness can be seen in the way Maguire regularly tries to tell himself that any decision he made to stay on the farm was the right decision. He is somewhat delusional in this. He tells himself he was ‘wiser than any man in the townland.’ Maguire is not only trying to convince himself that he was lucky to have exceeded settling down with a wife and family but…

Not without my daughter, written by Betty Mahmoody with William Hoffer is a book based on real events about a woman who fights with bravery for her and her daughter’s freedom. It’s about the true struggle she faced in the patriarchal society of Iran, with courage and determination. The story revolves around a Michigan housewife who accompanied her Muslim husband with their daughter to Iran for two week trip. But to her horror and shock it becomes a permanent stay. She found herself and her…

The Soccer Players Tale In a far off land named the soccer kings crown. A famous soccer player named May De Da was pondering how to defeat the Longhorns soccer team. “Those pesky cows always win , they need a defeat.” would say. This year I will hold a tryouts she thought. May’s tryouts were held at the university and her teammates from last year tried out. The first thing was to play a scrimmage game to decide who would be on the team. Lily was a year younger than everybody,Lily had short…

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” This question always caused me to stutter, averting my gaze. My brother declared his major in astrophysics when he was five, my best friend snuck her epigenetics textbooks into history class. But the capricious child inside me couldn’t decide: A marine biologist? A Broadway star? A crazy cat lady? As I matured, some gear in my head locked into place: I want to be a magical warrior princess. It’s as simple as that. Armed with knowledge as my power, I…

Once, on a freezing autumn morning, as the wind blew quite harshly, a seventeen-year-old girl named Ruby Wilson rode her bright-yellow bike to Dell Town Public Library for the reason that she truly enjoyed reading. Inside, she sat down on her favourite red leather chair and opened up a new book on her lap. The title of the book was The Ancient Goldgusher Island. It was said to be the place where all your dreams come true, but it was guarded by giant beasts called “giblesnobers.” It was very…

The exegesis is a discussion of female agency in three novels: The Hunger Games, The Circle and Bumped. The strongest parts of the exegesis are the sections on the actual novels. These sections give an outline of the novels and the roles of the female protagonists. However, the aims of the exegesis are unclear. In the first paragraph Tania writes: ‘this exegesis specifically engages with the interplay between media and female agency in recent dystopian novels.’ And then later, she writes that…

All over the world each day people go hungry because they are not able to provide food for themselves or their family. It is said that every ten seconds someone dies from hunger. Because of the lack of food and hunger many people around the world are becoming weak and sick. This makes it harder for them to work and make money which causes them to fall deeper and deeper into poverty. For some places their are programs called “food for work” which lets adults work jobs that often consist of manual…

Hunger of Memory Assessment 1. The author of the novel is Richard Rodriguez. Richard was born to Mexican immigrant parents and grew up in Sacramento, California. He primarily spoke Spanish until the start of his formal education. Once Rodriguez was forced to speak English, his life was irrevocably changed. Unlike most Mexican-Americans during the 1950’s, Rodriguez did not live in a barrio – a Mexican neighborhood – but instead lived in a primarily white area of the city. Rodriguez’s…

My hunger pains me, yet I don’t have enough energy to hunt. What’s the point anyway the mice and birds around here are about as malnourished as I am; you’d have to catch around ten for a filling meal and I dont have the energy for that. I have to keep going because he may return someday. I must live on. I get so preoccupied with my thoughts that I stop paying attention to my surroundings. Today starts to remind me a lot of the day it happened, the same somber mood fills the air. What if…. “OW,”…