...Child Hunger in America Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation A) Write a rationale for the presentation in which you do the following: Hunger is a discomfort that emerges as a result of lack of food accompanied by the desire to eat. In the United States, hunger does not take the extreme form as it is experienced in some third world countries. Instances of severe food deprivation are rare in the United States. Clinical symptoms of food deprivation are sometimes used to determine if children in a country are faced by hunger. Such symptoms include low weight in relation to body height, low height for age and wasting. Such symptoms characterize children who are starved although in the USA they are rare and when they occur they are limited. The impact of hunger as seen in the United States is usually difficult to be measured. The impacts include; tiredness, irritability, frequent headaches, frequent colds and infections. The clinical objective of measuring hunger is very difficult hence alternative methods have been deployed in both the private and public sector. The alternative measures of measuring hunger are using a person’s self-report of his/her psychological or subjective experience of hunger. Researchers may not agree on any particular definition of hunger. But for the purpose of policy making and measurement hunger is defined as taking in inadequate amount of food resulting from lack of money and resources. It can also be defined as the mental or physical condition...
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...Child Hunger in America Hook Katherine Foronda has taught herself not to feel hungry until the school day has ended. It’s wasn’t that she didn’t like eating in public, or that she couldn't eat food, it was the fact that she didn’t have any food to eat or any money to buy food with. In high school she failed an English class and rather than having to retake this class she opted for an after school skills course that came with a meal and sent them home on the weekends with food. Katherine also obtained knowledge that there was a way that she could go to college, even though she couldn’t pay for it. Now that she was filled with hope and a full stomach she soon went on and founded a program that offered food support to the students in her high...
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...According to the Lisa Bullock’s article from the Missoulian, Fight Childhood Hunger week was successfully wrapped up last April 19, 2015. In 12 communities throughout Montana, 35 service projects raised awareness of childhood hunger. This project was held under one solid principle; No child in Montana or our country should be hungry. Last semester, I took a class of Health Issue of Children and Adolescents. The class helped me to understand current issues of children. We learned about physical and mental health problems of kids and possible solutions of them. Among those issues, the issue of Childhood hunger caught my attention mostly. According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), 15.3 million children lived in food-insecure household in 2014....
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...anyone: Let’s be the Zero Hunger Generation World Food Day Either we build a future for all, or there will be no acceptable future for anyone: Let’s be the Zero Hunger Generation By By:Deavion Dyanta Semple By By:Deavion Dyanta Semple World Food Day World Food Day Theme: “Social Protection and Agriculture: breaking the cycle of rural poverty” Theme: “Social Protection and Agriculture: breaking the cycle of rural poverty” Street Address Address 2 City, ST ZIP Code Phone: 555.555.0125 Fax: 555.555.0145 E-mail address Street Address Address 2 City, ST ZIP Code Phone: 555.555.0125 Fax: 555.555.0145 E-mail address Caption describing picture or graphic. Caption describing picture or graphic. Why care about Hunger? Because the right to food is a basic human right. In a world of plenty, 805 million people, one in nine worldwide, live with chronic hunger. The costs of hunger and malnutrition fall heavily on the most vulnerable. 60% of the hungry in the world are women. Almost 5 million children under the age of 5 die of malnutrition-related causes every year 4 in 10 children in poor countries are malnourished damaging their bodies and brains Every human being has a fundamental right to be free from hunger and the right to adequate food. The right to adequate food is realized when every man, woman and child has the physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or means for its procurement. Because we can end hunger in our lifetime. It’s...
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...Child Hunger: Starving the Future Prove it Exists Jahzaire Sutton, a 12-year-old boy from New York who has experienced the effects of hunger first-hand, recently appeared alongside educational reformists and celebrities on Education Nation to tell his story. Poverty hit the Sutton family so harshly, that often Jahzaire was forced to go to school hungry. “I wasn’t able to focus on my schoolwork and that kind of affected my report card grades…it was very frustrating, because it’s all I could think of, food, when I went to school,” recounted Jahzaire (Strauss). Jahzaire is but one of many children who wind up going to school hungry, and it is negatively impacting their chances of success both in the classroom, and in the real world. In schools,...
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...Food insecurity means to be lacking nutrition and food to support a family, or yourself. “Close to 1 million children experience hunger, referred to as very low food security, annually in the United States, and 24.3% of children in South Carolina were estimated to have experienced food insecurity in 2014” (Draper and Page). Many of these children’s families live off of SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, funds, which provide $4 a day per person or get their only meal from school, and for many children, this is not enough food for them. The South Carolina county with the largest number of food insecure people is Allendale County, with 36% total food insecure and 40% child food insecure (Feeding America). Allendale has a mainly agricultural economy, which doesn’t produce much money to feed families. Mental health issues and behavioral problems are two code.psychological effects of experiencing food insecurity, which can be detrimental to their education, their record, and their entire life. “Children who grow up in such conditions are 76 percent more likely to suffer from ‘developmental blight’, which includes attention deficit hyperactivity...
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...World hunger World hunger is the worst problem in the world today. My goal today, is to bring to yourknowledge the facts surrounding world hunger and what you can do to help. Let’s start bydefining world Hunger. Hunger is a term which has three meanings according Oxford EnglishDictionary (1971) “1.the uneasy or painful sensation caused by want of food; craving appetite.Also the exhausted condition caused by want of food 2.the want or scarcity of food in a country3.a strong desire or craving.” World hunger is defined by the 2nd definition on a world scale. Ithink that world hunger is an unfair problem in the world and needs to be solved. Just becausepeople have fewer opportunities than me does not mean they can suffer hunger. In this paper Iwill list statistics, other information surrounding world hunger and ways you can help so thebiggest problem in the world can be solved. In 2010 United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO) estimated the numberof people hungry in the world. The numbers were:578 million in Asia and the Pacific, 39 millionin Sub-Saharan Africa, 53 million in Latin America and the Caribbean, 37 million in the NearEast and North Africa and 19 million in developed countries. That is a total of 925 millionpeople in the world. World Food Programme put it in a different statistic that puts a light on justhow big the problem is. They said that 1 in 7 people in the world are hungry. That is why I careabout world hunger. 1 in 7 is hungry because they have fewer...
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...One of the biggest problems in America is our denial. Denying the fact that one out of seven people can’t afford to fill up one cup of food, even in the home of the all you can eat buffet. We face the tremendous problem, yet so simple to solve, World Hunger. World Hunger is a astronomic problem with our ever-lasting increasing population rate. There is approximately 925 million hungry in the world out of 7 billion currently, but it is soon to be 9 billion people. Not only is it adults suffering from hunger, it is mostly children too. Every 10 seconds, we lose a vulnerable, helpless child to hunger. Due to a study conducted in 2008, we discovered that if a child is not provided with it’s proper nutrients within its first 1,000 days of life,...
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...In Ripley, Tennessee, one can find Heather Gitchell, a 6th grade science teacher, teaching her students how to grow their own food. According to FeedingAmerica.org, over 30,000 kids are suffering from hunger, and 1 in 7 people in the state are also fighting this same issue. Every spring, Gitchell lets her students grow vegetables. Gitchell said, “This is not only hands on, but it teaches a lesson that can provide for themselves or for a family.” There is a vast amount of students that attend Ripley Middle School who are suffering from hunger. By knowing this, Gitchell makes sure she teaches about plants in hopes the students will try and grow a small garden at their home. Ripley is a small, rural city in the state of Tennessee. DataUSA shared that 39.2% of...
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...Hunger Data The world hunger problem: Facts, figures and statistics • In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty" • Every year 15 million children die of hunger • For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years • Throughout the 1990's more than 100 million children will die from illness and starvation. Those 100 million deaths could be prevented for the price of ten Stealth bombers, or what the world spends on its military in two days! • The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- Since you've entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year. • One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished, including 160 million children under the age of 5. United Nations Food and Agriculture • The Indian subcontinent has nearly half the world's hungry people. Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40%, and the remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of the world. Hunger in Global Economy • Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion - a majority of humanity - live on less than $1 per day, while the world's 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 percent of the world's people. UNICEF ...
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...Richard Wright experienced “hunger” in ways that could not be perceived today. The difference in the hunger Richard faced and the hunger we face today is that Richard didn’t have food to eat while today we simply don’t find the food we have appealing and therefore decide not to eat. Richard was a young black child without a father in the 1900s who would eventually grow to despise the south. He had one goal in mind which was to head north and escape the grasp of the south's cruelty. However, achieving his goal was much harder than Richard had originally planned. Richard Wright’s Black Boy contains many dimensions of “hunger” such as his hunger for food, hunger for knowledge, and hunger for reaching the promised land of the north, all of which describe the struggles of an African American during the early 1900s. One dimension of hunger faced by young Richard was the hunger for food, a feeling Richard would feel for many long years. "Hunger...
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...significantly different from other countries. The concept has origins in the writings of French scholar Alexis de Toqueville who made observations during his visit to America in the nineteenth century (Mansfield, 2011). Also, Puritan John Winthrop's 1630 sermon "A Model of Christian Charity" led to the widespread belief in American folklore that the United States of America is God's country because it would become a "city upon a hill", watched by the world (John Winthrop: "A Modell of Christian Charity", 2007). Although the term does not necessarily imply superiority, many political leaders and writers have coined its use in that sense. Naturally, others hold the position that America is not really exceptional at all. In fact, after taking a cursory glance at some of the issues that our leaders are charged to correct, we can easily peel off the loftier label and replace it with a more humbling phrase. To begin, America’s hunger issue is a strong reason to reduce our loftier standing. It is not impressive that in a country without drought or famine and with enough food and money to feed the world twice over 1-in-8 of our own people struggle to put food on its table (Berg, 2009). Also, in 2010, 4.8 percent of all U.S. households (5.6 million households) accessed emergency food from a food pantry one or more times (Hunger & Poverty Statistics). Reducing these numbers will be an exceptional task. The crime problem in the U.S. also keeps the country from meriting a prouder classification...
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...Growl! Growl! Gurgle! Do you hear the growling in your stomach from missing 1 meal? Well someone has missed 5. My thoughts are that all kids should get free lunch. I know that your parents feel out the paperwork for free lunch, but what if your parents lose their job the next week. How would the school know, unless you tell them? That would be embarrassing. Kids should have free lunch because they could be homeless, have no food at home, and no money and schools is the only place they eat. If kids families have no money how do they afford food? 15.7 million children (21.6%) in America live in poverty ( Malter ). This number was lower 15 years ago in 2000 this number 15% ( Malter ). How could schools give these small portions that look...
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...Wake Up America Anna Quindlen uses article, “School’s Out for Summer”, to address child hunger over the school break in America. Normally when people in America hear child hunger, they think of 3rd World Countries and Feeding Africa etc., but what they’re failing to realize is that the issue goes on in America, it could even be happening in your neighborhood. Quindlen has made this issue evident and gives voice to the issue that is otherwise soft spoken. Quindlen kicks off this article by using a shocking statistic, “During the rest of the year fifteen million students get free or cut-rate lunches at school, and many of them get breakfast too. But only three million children are getting lunches through the federal summer lunch program.”...
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...Seth Brethauer Mr. Strahle English 111 October 6, 2014 Still Hungry in America 1. Edelman used this thesis statement to set up her paper by explaining that her family did not have a lot of food which caused her to lose a lot of weight. So much weight that she dropped five sizes, went from a five to a zero. She even told her mother that she was not hungry and to not worry about it because she knew that there was nothing that could be done. 2. In 1967, Edelman was asked to testify before the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty in Washington about how the anti-poverty program in Mississippi was working because she had become increasingly concerned about the growing hunger in the Mississippi Delta. 3. Robert Kennedy was able to provide help to Edelman by visiting homes in Cleveland, Mississippi, asking respectfully of each dweller what they had had for breakfast, lunch, or dinner the night before. He went immediately to see Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman the next day and urged him to get some food down there and to eliminate any charges for food stamps for people who had no income. Roberts pushing, passion, and visibility helped set in motion a chain of events including a 60 Minutes documentary on “Hunger in America” that led to reforms. 4. The reason that the government did not feel like there was a hunger problem is because Freeman did not believe there were people in Mississippi with no income who could not afford to pay $2...
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