...you ever felt alone? Just looking for something or somebody to be there for you when you need it most? What happens when nobody is there, forcing you to hold all of your feelings in? In “The Secret Society of Starving” by Mim Udovitch, young girls with severe eating disorders talk about the secret world of the online pro-anorexia (“pro-ana”) community, where they truly express themselves and sometimes even encourage each other’s problems. Likewise, in the essay “Can You Tell the Truth in a Small Town?”, writers struggle to put their true words down on paper, knowing the secrets they share could result in their excommunication from the only community they know, causing an even greater sense of being alone. Both “The Secret Society of Starving” and “Can You Tell the Truth in a Small Town?” shine a light on the different lifestyles of two separate societies and how they both hide who they really are from the rest of the world, causing a sense of growing isolation within the members of each group. The members of the communities from both essays hide their true feelings from the people closest to them, including their family and friends. From “The Secret Society of Starving”, members of the pro-ana community hide behind the internet and submerge themselves into a virtual world of chat rooms and blogs where they can (anonymously) state their true most personal feelings. On page 111 one pro-ana girl states, “they know exactly what I’m going through and how I feel. And I don’t have to...
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...Hunger in America Why are so many people starving? Why are so many Americans starving? Children Starving on Side of Road 1 Every day people throw perfectly good food away without a second thought. Many people do not realize that many Americans spend most of their days starving or without food. In 2012, 49 million people did not have enough food in their homes; 15.9 million of them were children (“Hunger”). Hunger is not just in the third world countries, it is also here in America and people need to realize this. Can we end hunger in America? Where is there the most hunger? Mississippi 20.9% Arkansas 19.7% Texas 18.4% Alabama 17.9% North Carolina 17.0% Georgia 16.9% Missouri 16.7% Nevada 16.6% Ohio 16.1% California 15.6% (“Hunger”) Americans have all the power to end hunger in America. There are so many things that people and the government can do to help. The 2014 Hunger Report has a plan to end hunger by the year 2030. This plan consists of a jobs agenda, a stronger safety net, human capital development, and public-private partnerships to help innovative community led initiatives against hunger (“Ending”). If people just help out in any way possible hunger could be stopped...
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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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...Caldwell First three day’s I was starving by the food choices I made on my nutrient list, I even made some changes on my list on a second day, but I was still starving. After third day it become simple for me to follow my list. I realized that if I kept myself busy I won’t be starving, and I kept myself busy by playing soccer on my free times and that makes me drink a lot of water which also keeps me away from starving. ‘’ we are what we eat’’ is an old expression people used back in time, but I think that it is more accurate to say “we are what we absorb”. In my opinion it does not matter what we eat, it matters how we eat it. For example, if I eat fast food from McDonalds every day, I don’t think that I will get fat because I won’t eat a lot to get my stomach full, but I will eat enough so that my stomach won’t starve. I like to eat my food slowly and mindfully because I want to enjoy my food and I think that it is the way to eat healthy. Some factors affect the way I eat for example, skipping breakfast. When I skip breakfast my stomach starves and when my stomach starves I eat more than I suppose to on my lunch time. I don’t really care about the nutrients when I am starving. My opinion about organic food that it is the real food than nonorganic. When I eat organic food, it taste better than GMO’s because I think that when they grow foods with some chemicals it ruins the taste. Organic foods are the healthiest food in this world comparing to any other food however...
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...Eugene V. Debs was an American union leader along with one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World. He along with his team of people fought the atrocity’s the world threw at them, and every time he threw it right back. He fought for his position during his lifetime and truly deserves everything said about him. In Eugene V. Debs statement “My Brother’s Keeper” he maintains that he has a moral obligation to keep his brother in safe hands. He makes an accurate point because any brother is family, and family should never be left in the cold. Keeping your brother by your side, leading him to the path of success, is what encourages him to become a better person, which then builds a better community not just for yourself, but for the world. As a Brother’s Keeper your liability is to make sure your loved one grow up stronger than ever, not starving, or poor. Eugene V. Debs expresses his views on this by saying, “What would you think of me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?” (Debs 1) Here Debs shows what kind of person he is by giving an example of what many people have become and how he acts. So if he see’s fellow...
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...World Hunger: The Ethical Issues Involved With Minimizing It Between now and tomorrow morning, 40,000 children will die from starvation. The day after tomorrow, 40,000 more children will die. Nearly 870 million people of the 7.1 billion people, or one in 8 people, in the world suffer from undernourishment. Almost all of the hungry people, 852 million, live in under developing countries while the other 15 million live in developed countries. World hunger has been and will continue to be an ongoing issue until ethical action will be taken. The world produces enough food for everyone, however, not many people have sufficient land to grow, or income to purchase enough food. But what is being done to minimize world hunger? There is a societal responsibility as well as a governmental responsibility that should be utilized in order to reduce this issue. However, neither category of people will take the time to realize how bad world hunger has really become. There are several ethical issues involved with the minimization of world hunger including those of the three theories of ethical thought: consequential, deontological, and humanist theories. I, also have my personal opinion about the actions or lack thereof, involved with this minimization. It's simple to ignore something you can't necessarily see. Understanding that there is world hunger is one thing, but taking action to minimize it is another. It is a population's responsibility as a whole to work together in order to make...
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...to mind. My first wish is my personal wish. I wish that I would win the lottery. Not only win for myself but also for my parents so I could pay them back for everything they’ve done for me. Also I could give some of the money I would win to charities. Also I could use the money for starving kids in other countries. That brings me to my second wish. I would wish that I could stop world hunger. As I say that, the genie looks straight at me and says that she is going to grant both of my wishes. As she says that I’m wondering in my mind why this genie chose me. Why is she giving me the two wishes? I’m not sure if I’ve done anything good in my life so if she actually does grant my wishes then I would become a better person. The genie starts to close her eyes and lifting her arms up in the air. I feel as if the world stopped moving. Then all of a sudden the room is shaking and then the genie was gone. I look on the table and I see a lottery ticket laying there. Is this my chance I’m wondering. I turn on the news just as they are saying the winning ticket numbers. I won! I couldn’t believe that the genie actually made this happen. When I get the money I try to do as much as I can to help the starving kids. I actually feel better when I know...
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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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...This fable is representing the Irish potato famine. The Irishmen were starving and had no food but the English did little to help but set up poorhouses that basically made the Irish into slaves for food. The coyote represents the starving Irishmen and the dog represents the Englishmen. The coyote stumbled blindly through the forest, snout upturned and parched maw opened, desperately tasting the air for any sign of food. It had been days, no, weeks since he had eaten and he did not know how much longer he could continue. Suddenly, he smelled something different in the air, something sweet; something to fill his shriveled stomach. Coyote staggered toward that wonderful smell as fast as his feeble legs could carry him. He broke through the last row of trees and beheld a welcome sight. He had found a manor that must belong to an extremely wealthy man. There was gray brick house with terraced windows and crow stepped gables. The lawn was manicured to perfection with a large flower garden on each side of the house. Three or four small metal poles, positioned about ten feet apart, stood up from the ground. These puzzled Coyote, but he did not dwell on it for long. Shortly after he stumbled onto the yard, Coyote noticed a dog trot up to meet him. This dog was clearly a well fed house dog, with a fine coat and bright eyes. “Hello Cousin.” The dog called, “Your irregular life appears to have been your ruin. Why don’t you work like I do, and have your food regularly given to you?” “I...
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...permanent settlement in the New World for the English. The settlement, Jamestown, was located at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay and up the James River in what we now call Virginia. Eventually, most of the settlers died out before the colony could flourish. They had a scarce amount of clean water, lack of labors, and deaths caused by diseases. This resulted in competition with native americans and harsh living conditions. The first reason why so many colonists died was because the had a scare amount of clean water. Tides affected the health in Jamestown because they could get diseases from the lack of water flow in the rivers. Tides also caused water levels to rise and caused wells and freshwater streams to become brackish. Brackish water is a mixture of salt and freshwater, which is unsanitary to drink. Water was also not sanitary because human waste that got dumped into the rivers would fester and not get flushed away. The longest drought Jamestown faced was between about 1605-1613. As the colonist settled, they face a severe drought which also resulted in a scarce amount of water. In the winter of 1609-1610,...
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...Linda Sue Park wrote a very interesting novel about the life of a boy named Salva called A Long Walk To Water. He was from a village in Sudan, but was chased out from war and lost his family in his journeys. Therefore, Salva had to go through shootings, tiredness, hunger, pain, crocodiles, and monstrous tides in his journey to find his family. Like Salva, individuals survived challenging environments in A Long Walk to Water with perseverance, hope, and luck. Salva had perseverance during his walk to a refugee camp and that helped him keep going even when he was at the bridge of death. He was starving, had not eaten or drank for a long time, but he kept on going, with every ounce of of his will Salva pushed himself. “He stumbled...
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...Everyone can agree that suffering and death from lack of food, shelter, and medical care is bad. If we have the power to prevent these bad things, are we not obligated to sacrifice everything we can to do so? This seems clear that morally we are obligated to prevent things we have the power to prevent. Yet there are so many situations that people make exceptions on and where morality and reason is challenged. Singer gives a scenario, a child drowning in a pond; you sacrifice the $70 worth of clothes that you are wearing to save the child. Then he says child in Bengal is in need of food, shelter, medical care, and $70 would go a long way for this child to also save its life. Yet people are less likely to send money through charities to save the starving Bengal child due to proximity. Singer believes the moral answer would be the same for both scenarios. The difference between these two scenarios is the child in the pond depends on you for help. With the child in Bengal, there are other people, richer people that can assist. But when you add other people into the scenario with the...
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...Kamalpreet Singh Dr. Michael Fleming Phil-100 1 March 2018 Peter Singer and Jan Narveson’s perspective towards starving people This essay focusses on differences in the thoughts of Singer and Narveson about morality of our behavior towards hungry people. The views are based on the fact that whether we should contribute for improve the sufferings of poor Singer opens Family, Affluence, and Morality by presenting that in numerous spots all through the world, countless individuals experience the ill effects of starvation. He expresses that these conditions are so well-known, "That neither people nor governments can claim to be uninformed of what is going on there" (Singer, p. 230). Following this, Singer contends we have an ethical commitment...
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...Rich Summative Task HUNGER IN AFRICA Christine Mande HEOR-02 Mr.Dragan January 18th 2013 Hunger is one of the most common problems in the world. It is such a dangerous thing. It kills more people in a year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Many countries struggle with famine and they don’t have much help either. Countries like Somalia, Ethiopia, Mozambique and Sudan are some of the countries that suffer from hunger more than others do. In Africa there are 60% of people who go to bed hungry and mainly half of those 60% barely ever eat. Still out of those 60%, only 37% get to drink clean water and the rest doesn’t. Almost more than a million of people die of hunger in Africa. It has already become a serious problem. You might ask yourself “Why are the people in Africa starving?” Well the reason why they starve is because the continent’s population is grows by 3.5% every year and therefore the food dies down by 2.5% also every year that goes by and on top of that, the people have difficulties growing crops because 47% of the whole entire continent of Africa is way to dry for rain fed crops. The Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Eritrea, Sierra Leone, Chad and Ethiopia are some of the top countries that are severely stricken by hunger. Those countries all have the same problems. Not enough water and food. Not enough money for irrigation, too much heat and not enough rain for crops to grow and too many people are unemployed. There is also...
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...apo 2 or 3 Intro: Am F C G As long as you love me Am F C G As long as you love me Verse: Am As long as you love me F We're under pressure C G Am Seven billion people in the world trying to fit in F Keep it together C G Smile on your face even though your heart is frowning Am F But hey now, You know girl C G We both know its a cold world Am But I will F C G Take my chances Chorus 1: Am As long as you love me F We could be starving C We could be homeless G We could be broke Am As long as you love me F I'll be your platinum C I'll be your silver G I'll be your gold Am As long as you Loh, Loh, Loh, Loh, Loh, Loh, F C G Loh,Loh,Loh,Loh,Loh,Love,Love,Loh,Loh,Loh,Loh, Love me Am As long as you Loh, Loh, Loh, Loh, Loh, Loh, F C G Loh,Loh,Loh,Loh,Loh,Love,Love,Loh,Loh,Loh,Loh, Love me Verse 2: Am F I'll be your soldier C G Fighting every second...
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