The Hunger

Journal Nine 1. Title: Hunger in Children in the United States: Potential Behavioral and Emotional Correlates 2. Authors: Ronald E. Kleinman, J. Michael Murphy, Michelle Little, Maria Pagano, Cheryl A. Wehler, Kenneth Regal, Michael S. Jellinek 3. Source: Kleinman, R. E., Murphy, J. M., Little, M., Pagano, M., Wehler, C. A., Regal, K., & Jellinek, M. S. (1998). Hunger in children in the United States: potential behavioral and emotional correlates. Pediatrics, 101(1), e3-e3. 4. Summary: A study…

the hunger problem. One group has a creative take on this problem. "US Hunger" enables people to host drives, where the hungry come to eat and people donate at the same time. A group of volunteers serve food and collect money. People who are in poverty are provided with healthy food. People can help by hosting a hunger project or donating food or cash to a local hunger project or online. This organization states "If we everyone were to put 25¢ per meal towards hunger, we could end hunger in…

have hunger in America! Wait let's stop right there everyone knows that hunger is a problem, so it doesn't need an introduction. Many people in America are suffering from hunger which is an issue that needs to be addressed so that this epidemic can be combated for the sake of our future and generations to come. Hunger affect almost everyone in America with nearly 48.1 million people in our economy suffering. Statistics show that in 2015 alone, there were 795 million people suffering from hunger…

American Freedom and The Hunger Games The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, is a popular young adult book series filled with symbolism and meaning. There are many lessons one can take from the book as well as correlations that can be made between the book series and the story of American freedom. Furthermore, parallels can be made between The Hunger Games book trilogy and the American Reconstruction era, the fight for a living wage in the Progressive Era, the institution of slavery in the…

patented GMO seeds, like world hunger issues that could be solved without restrictions and the complications that come with GMO's, my initial answer was no, companies shouldn't have a right. However, just because certain companies have dominated the game of seed manufacturing, and farming in general, does not mean that this is "illegal". Ethically I don't know where I stand because technically they aren't doing anything wrong. They are indirectly causing world hunger and hurting people and…

Domestic Hunger Every November families across the U.S. sit down together and eat one of the most important meals of the year. In some homes though, families will only be able to eat because of the generosity of others or holiday food drives. Although Americans are well aware of the matter of world hunger, they rarely acknowledge the issue at home. Food insecurity (the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food) and domestic hunger are some…

Causes of World Hunger There are about 7.3 billion people in our world and there is enough food produced on this planet to feed those many people. With all that food, there is still “one person in eight” starving to the point of death and malnutrition. The reasons people are still starving on planet earth is due to the waste of food, poverty, war, climate, and lack of investment to agriculture. The biggest cause to world hunger is “one third of all the food produced” in the world is wasted.…

places where people suffer so much. At fourteen years, I was leaving in Togo, a country in West Africa. It is a country where there is poverty and people suffer of hunger. I remember an older guy who came up to me and ask if I could give fifty cent so he could buy food for his children. Every day about 24,000 people die from hunger or hunger related causes according to the World Food Program. Most of these deaths are children under five years old. According to the World Food Program, 795…

Hunger and malnutrition has always been a problem in the world but a lot of people are very silent about it. Hungry for people in undeveloped countries are different from the hungry that you feel when you are missing a lunch or snack. Hunger and malnutrition in these countries are brutal and means that you don’t have the strength or energy to do the simplest tasks that normal people are able to do. Being hungry makes you weak, tired and unable to concentrate on work or study of any kind. The…

Creation of Emotion in The Hunger Games While we watch movies, we are made to feel different emotions. This is because all directors have a goals to entertain and connect with the audience. To do this, directors use different aspects of film to connect the audience to the characters on-screen. In The Hunger Games, director Gary Ross evokes variations of sadness and discomfort to connect viewers to the characters through music, sound, and character emotion. In the next few paragraphs, I will…