...happening and what is being done about it. The global issue that was chosen is Poverty. Poverty is known as the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. The method used in this report is a secondary research. The most used method in this research was the Internet. There are many factors that cause people to live in poverty; some of them are low paid work, the fact of having no job, and inadequate benefits. The consequences of poverty can be social or political; a very distinguished one is death. A lot of people die every day because of hunger, and there are some organizations helping the poverty problem disappear as soon as possible. The most affected generations related to this problem are children. Putting more job opportunities could be very helpful to help this problem, getting volunteers to do social service in the most needed communities and sending some medicines with them so they can help as much as possible. 1.0 Introduction The purpose of this research is to explain more about the subject that was chosen and to get informed about what is happening and what is being done about it. The chosen aspect is poverty, specifically hunger. Poverty is known as “the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions.” (Merriam Webster, 2015) Hunger is having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger; ravenous. (The Free Dictionary, 2015) The reasons why this aspect was chosen...
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...Eradication of Poverty and Extreme Hunger Not everyone is born into a rich family. Those lucky enough to have been born into one have a responsibility to help those not so blessed. The United Nations' job is just that. They are an international agency whose aim is to eliminate poverty, illiteracy, and disease, stop environmental destruction, and encourage democratic rights and freedoms. Poverty and extreme hunger are something that are affecting most country in the world; no matter how big or small, rich or poor. This issue causes the most pain today, and is also the biggest threat to a person's future. Eradicating poverty and extreme hunger are the top priority of the United Nations in the 21st century because it will reduce the amount of malnutrition in people and improve their education. One of the reasons why poverty and extreme hunger must be eradicated is because without it there would be a dramatic drop in the number of malnourished people around the world. Poverty and hunger can affect young and old and is the biggest contributor to malnutrition. This can be seen in the Central American country of Guatemala. The Guatemala Poverty Assessment states that, "There is a strong correlation between poverty and malnutrition, as four fifths of malnourished children are poor" (Guatemala Poverty). In politics, a 66% super majority is rarely required when deciding on an issue because of the difficulty in achieving it. Therefore, when a supermajority is achieved, it can always...
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...Extreme Poverty and Hunger- “The Silent Killers”: How the World Bank plans to eradicate them by 2015 Extreme poverty and food insecurity are some of the major global issues many countries worldwide have to face. Poverty leads to heavily indebted governments, hunger, poor education and lack of adequate medical care for the people. Although poverty “is a state for the majority of the world’s people and nations (Shah, “Causes of Poverty”)”, there is hope that “the increasing interconnectedness promised by globalization (Shah, “Causes of Poverty”)” will enforce successfully global policies and practices fighting the cruel reality which over 3 billion people have to try to survive in on less than $2.50 a day (Shah, “Causes of Poverty”). Depending on how a culture views the issue with poverty, the mechanisms against it are enforced accordingly. In the middle Ages, it was considered a virtue and a way for “the chosen ones” to display their good Christian values by feeding the hungry and giving clothes to the ones who do not have any. In addition, the misery which poverty brought to the people was not considered a problem but a widely accepted path towards one’s soul salvation. In Latin America poverty used to be accepted as destiny, a family’s inheritance passed on from generation to generation. Nobody can run away from it even if one improves their financial situation because there will always be somebody to make a comment such as:” I remember whenever you were poor and had nothing”...
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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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...content for the people they are assisting. There are many types of organizations around the world attempting to make the world a better place and like these organizations mentioned, Bread for the World aspires to be the very definition of a humanitarian administration which is the very reason why it was chosen. Hunger is a worldwide epidemic. Through several US organizations and assistance from the government there are still locations in Africa and Asia, and even in the US, that struggle with starvation. Starvation is a universal issue that will never fully be eliminated. However, citizens can take part in its process of termination. There can never be enough organizations alleviating hunger. However, there are very beneficial organizations out there that have not had their fair share of exposure. That’s why Bread for the World was chosen. Even though it not a famous group, like American Red Cross, its purpose and goals are worth fighting for. Because Bread for the World is such an unfamiliar organization, there was little known about the group before research and investigation. The only prior information known about this group is that it assisted in eliminating hunger for children around the world, especially underdeveloped locations. However, the vision in helping the growth of the organization is vast and unlimited....
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... Not all human-beings are as fortunate as others. People all over Africa are suffering from famine and dying from it. One country in particular stands above all the rest looking back in history. Ethiopia, formerly known as Abyssinia in 3000 BC, when it became the first African nation, has hit its bottom and cannot get any worse. Famine, hunger, fear, and hopelessness are all emotions running through the average Ethiopian. The latest string of famine to strike was not to long ago. From 1983 to 1986, nearly 1.5 million Ethiopians died of starvation. That was the culmination of nearly two decades of famine that claimed more than seven million lives. Ethiopia was not the only African country to suffer from famine during these two decades. From around 1970 to 1987, all of northeastern Africa had gone through periods of drought. In the neighboring countries of Ethiopia, many other millions of lives were claimed, including the countries of Sudan, Chad, Yemen, and Somalia. Fortunately during this period of time, in these countries, farmers were able to produce enough crops to relieve some of the hunger and starvation. Everything in their power was done to help save the lives of others, and they even stored grain in case of future droughts. In Ethiopia, many other factors prevented the people from preparing for the unavoidable droughts. Many factors worked together with the drought conditions to make the situation even worse. As a result, Ethiopia...
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...Harassment: The effects of “eve teasing” on development in Bangladesh The Hunger Project • 5 Union Square West • New York, NY 10003 • www.thp.org Imagine for a moment that you are an eleven year old girl in Bangladesh. After helping your mother cook and serve breakfast, you are preparing for school. You should be excited. You like learning and school provides a reprieve from the drudgery of household chores. But you are not excited. Instead, you are filled with dread. That is because every day, on the long walk from your house to school, you are surrounded and teased by a group of boys. The boys yell indecent things at you. They laugh. They push, pinch, and grab at you. Sometimes they pull at your clothes so violently that you are afraid they will be ripped right off of your body. By the time you get to school, your face is hot with humiliation and your eyes sting with the fear that you will have to go through the whole thing again on the walk home. *** The Insidious Everyday Reality Sexual harassment, often known as “eve teasing”, is a regular occurrence for the women and girls of Bangladesh. A recent study by the Bangladesh National Women Lawyers’ Association (BNWLA) showed that almost 90 percent of girls aged 10-18 have undergone the experience. The harassment can take a variety of forms and the perpetrators come from multiple walks of life; they are rich and poor, educated and uneducated; according to the BNWLA study, teenage boys, rickshaw pullers, bus drivers...
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...Kristina Teodoro March 7, 2013 Diverse Voices Essay Hunger In the world we live in today, many people growing up in modern America are sheltered behind the wealth that hides the uncomfortable expectancies and dulls the long term effects of hardship. The conclusion of “hunger” is evident even in our pampered lives; however, it holds a much more significant meaning in the lives touched by the grim fingers of poverty, defeat, and in these next few cases, racial discrimination. Whether it is hunger for food, knowledge, acceptance, or for love, hunger is everywhere, and harshly attacks everyone, young or old, black or white. In Black Boy, Do the Right Thing, and Color of Fear, we encounter people that suffer from hunger for love, knowledge, acceptance, and for what they believe is the right thing through the different circumstances they face. In the autobiography Black Boy by Richard Wright, Richard faces not only physical hunger, but also the hunger for love, acceptance, equality, and knowledge. He yearns for attention from people. Since Richard received little at home, he did not learn how to associate with others. In the end, this provoked a problem when he leaves home because he was unable to understand the friendliness of the new people he came across. “Nevertheless, I was so starved for association with people that I allowed myself to be seduced by it all, and for a few months I lived the life of an optimist.” (178) Since Richard’s home was a hostile environment, we often find...
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...to thousand maybe even millions of people are starving to death because the lack of food. Food and hunger issues is one of the biggest problems in the world today that many people are trying to figure out how to solve it. For example, in the book Food: The New Gold by Kathlyn Gay explains how people are trying out new things like international food aid system; giant "factory farms,"which grow and slaughter animals using assembly-line techniques; and the genetic engineering of seeds, plants, and animals. These systems and practices promise to get more food to the people who need it.This idea hasn’t really worked out like they thought it would. The world has reduced the number of people who live in extreme poverty by over half, but that still leaves 767 million people living on the edge of survival with less than $1.90 a day....
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...World Hunger and Society There have been countless occasions in which an ad showing a starving child appears on a television screen or in the middle of a magazine. These images are real and showcase he affect that world hunger is having on people worldwide. World hunger is a large problem that the world faces today. However, there are many examples of organizations and people that are making an effort to putting an end to this problem that plagues many parts of the world. Some of these organizations include UNICEF, Bread for the World, and World Food Programme. All of these organizations are making different methods to help relieve world hunger. One organization striving to end world hunger is UNICEF. UNICEF is a company that particularly tends to the problems affecting children of the world. In particular regards to world hunger, the UNICEF program suggests that the main influence on world hunger is poverty. More specifically, a lack of goods and services can hurt a child’s environment. With a deprivation of resources, a child can suffer from malnutrition and starvation, which can potentially lead to death. UNICEF encompasses different methods to tackle the problem of world hunger among children. For one, it directly provides funding and supplies for many countries. Food is directly delivered to people through smaller organizations and governments with UNICEF as the overseer. Also, UNICEF contacts local caregivers in countries to place children...
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...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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...World Hunger down but Still 'unacceptable'" CNN. Cable News Network, 14 Sept. 2010. Web. 28 Oct. 2014. Summary This article I’ve choose is mainly about world hunger. It’s saying even though world hunger has went down its still at an unacceptable rate. 1 billion people will still face starvation this year. The food and Agriculture Organization and The world food Program estimated that 925 million people that are almost 3 times the population of the U.S are likely to go hungry. That is 1.023 billion people less than in 2009. That is the first decrease in 15 years. World hunger is big problem not just in the United States of America but in many others foreign countries. World hunger affects us all. Evaluating From what I’ve read throughout this article the author is disagreeing with what is going on. The author is basically saying more needs to be done when it comes to world hunger because even though its reduced over the last 15 years. We should still help out and try to reduce this number because millions of people are still starving. The author seemed very calm, but still concerned. The article always states very good points and facts about world hunger too. Reflection I think we should all try and help end world hunger. I know that we won’t end it all at once but we can start off by helping our community. I see how world hunger affects people’s everyday lives and even ends their lives. We can at least get the numbers down. From what I’ve read world hunger affects...
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...The gray cub went out by himself. There were two reasons for him to go out. One is the hunger of food, and another one is to seek for fun and open his eyes. He was attracted by the beauty of the world, and started looking and walking abound. He fall down to a ptarmigan nest, and found some baby ptarmigans. He realized these creatures are some things that he could eat, so he attracted one of the ptarmigans. However, mom-ptarmigan came back immediately, and started using her wings to beat the gray cub. Unfortunately, the gray cub had to give up for the food, and he left. He was walking beside a river, and then he decided to go to another side of the river. However, during his middle way of crossing the river, he was washed away by the strong flow. He could not do anything in river, but finally the water sent him to a shore side. After feeling better, he started walking again. He went through a jungle, and then found a small weasel. He beat the small weasel by using his claws, but when he wanted to try second time, the mom weasel jumped over and sticks her laws into the gray cub’s neck. In the first place, the gray cub wanted to fight back, but he could not. His roar turned out to become crying. He was in the edge of death, but finally his mother, the she wolf, showed up. The she-wolf had a big fight with the mom-weasel, but finally the mom-weasel...
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...Hunger can be defined as a feeling of discomforting weakness due to the lack of food. The exact causes of hunger correlate to two different hormones, leptin and ghrelin. The sensation of hunger typically occurs after only a few hours of not eating and most people describe it as simply unpleasant. Stomach contractions, also known as hunger pangs, start to occur between twelve and twenty-four hours after the last consumption of food. A person’s emotional state can affect the pattern of these contractions. Stomach contractions occur more frequently in young, healthy people. Leptin, also called the “satiety hormone” regulates energy balances by preventing the body from feeling hungry. The ghrelin hormone, also called the “hunger hormone” controls...
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...The Hunger Artist is a story that describes an artist that chooses to fast as his art form. The artist sits in a cage and does not eat food for up to forty days, although the artist could fast longer than that. Audiences come from all around to see the starving artist, but audience members do not believe in the artist and would huddle in the corner hoping to give him refreshments (Kafka 353). The artist is left unsatisfied with the non-believers and eventually becomes despondent when no one wants to see the artist perform anymore. The title of the text suggests that the artist is hungry; Kafka uses a story to hint at a deeper meaning about society. Not only is the artist physically hungry, but mentally as well. The artist has spent numerous...
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