...Usually when we are hungry, we can just go to the fridge and grab something. But what if we couldn’t? Some children and even adults deteriorate from hunger every day. These people strife to find work to pay for meals every day. We need to recognize that some people cannot reach in their fridge and just grab a snack. Adults and many children suffer from hunger every day and cannot afford to pay for food. So many children are faced with the adversities of hunger in America. According to, Feeding America.org, about 15 million children live without nutritious food. These kids are suffering because the food they need to grow simply cannot be afforded. Almost 12 million are served by Feeding America and of these millions about 4 million of them are under the age of five. These kids need to have nutritious food in order to live a flourishing life. In order to grow kids need to be able to eat enough food to help the body mature (“Feeding America”). Not only are children faced with hunger, but seniors are too. According to Feeding America.org, about 10 million seniors live...
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...Today's younger generation are arguably the most overworked generation America has seen in many generations. Frank Bruni tells describes of this in great detail in his reading “Today’s Exhausted Superkids”. Frank Bruni shares a well written article about today's overworked teens and the amount of sleep that seems to be lacking in the majority of their lives, and he provides evidence and other supporting writers but lacks in statistical evidence and disadvantages of lacking sleep. Bruni provides many statistical evidence and facts that help persuade the reader to see the topic from his perspective. He tells that “55 percent of american teenagers from ages 14 to 17 reported that they were getting less than seven hours of sleep a night”. Also...
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...Erin Masterson Mrs.Brewer Honors English 10 4 Freedoms Essay Decemberm 10, 2012 Freedom From Want On January 6, 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt stated that there were 4 essential human freedoms. The third essential freedom was freedom from want. America, even today, still is not free from want. Thousands of Americans are starving, remain jobless, and even abandoned on the streets because they have no homes. We live in the world's wealthiest nation. Yet 14.5 percent of U.S. households—nearly 49 million Americans, including 16.2 million children—struggle to put food on the table. In the United States alone more than one in five children is at risk of hunger. 20 million students receive free or reduced lunch each day; however, less than half receive breakfast and only 10 percent have access to summer feeding programs. Although 81.3 percent of eligible infants are enrolled in WIC, the program reaches just 47.3 percent of eligible children ages 1 to 4. (Bread for the World) The unemployment rate in the United States decreased to 7.70 percent in November of 2012 from 7.90 percent in October of 2012 (Trading Economics ). In the past, from 1948 until 2012, the United States Unemployment Rate averaged 5.80 Percent reaching an all-time high of 10.80 percent in November of 1982 and a record low of 2.50 percent in May of 1953. In the United States, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labor force. Each year, more...
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...Rachael Burgess ID# 0281953 Eng. 101-F2 Short Essay Obesity in America: Balko vs Zinczenko Obesity is a growing problem in the US. There are many ways to go around trying and fixing it. Whiter they’re right or wrong is the question. How they go about it is another thing entirely. David Zinczenko and Radley Balko are from opposing sides on this issue. Zinczenko takes the sides of those who chose to blame the fast food companies. While Balko states that everyone should have personal responsibility. Which, I agree with. Out of the two of them, Balko is the one I have sided with. In his essay DZ states “Before 1994, only about 5 percent of childhood cases were obesity-related, or Type 2 diabetes. In 2002, "according to the National Institutes of Health, Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all new childhood cases of diabetes in this country"(Zinczenko) This number has grown according to most health studies. Though, Zinczenko states this fact firmly. He does not provide a strong connection to this and obesity in children. Though he is trying to prove a good point there is not enough information to back it up. If he had the proper facts his argument would have been better. DZ had concluded that "Fast-food companies are marketing to children a product with proven health hazards and no warning labels. They would do well to protect themselves, and their customers, by providing the nutrition information people need to make informed choices about their products"...
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...Robert W. Soderstrom wrote an essay titled “A Single Lucid Dream," about his adventures and volunteer work in Papua New Guinea through the Peace Corps. While in a remote village in Papua New Guinea, Soderstrom described the humble living conditions of the people living there. They lived in grass huts and survived off the lands and an average income of two hundred dollars a year. Although the people did not have much they sustained themselves and helped sustain the others around them. Those who needed help in the village received help no matter what, due to the spiritual desire of the native people. One day Soderstrom brought up the idea of homelessness, and showed the people a picture of two homeless men. Their reaction to the picture was pure confusion, and they immediately wanted to help. The solution the people came up with was to bring the two homeless men to the village, where they would take care of them. They would build them grass huts and plant gardens for them to sustain themselves with. The people in this village lack material wealth but can make up for this with their spiritual wealth. Soderstrom believes that America...
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...Picture this scene: a man has been put on trial for a murder that he did not commit. He stands before a jury of 12 women and men, complete strangers to him and his case. These jurors have the man’s life in their hands, and none of them have any experience with the law. The man is charged guilty without any discourse. He will spend the rest of his life in an overcrowded, poorly funded prison with no chance of rehabilitation or parole. This man is just one of thousands that are wrongfully convicted during jury trials every year. Would his fate have differed if the judge, who had been through law school and had plentiful knowledge about how the laws work, had made the decision instead of the strangers? The jury system in America is outdated, causes...
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...Food Bank Essay Experience at the Houston Food Bank My Exciting day all began Saturday afternoon at 1pm, I had just arrived on time at the main entrance of the “Houston Food Bank”. The food banks sliding doors parted as I walked in the direction of a young lady who was smiling and taking everyone’s queue code to enter as a volunteer. As I approached my 1pm group, our team leader was giving everyone insight about the food bank and a guided tour. Our group walked all the way to the doors in the back where we started unwrapping large pallets of food in boxes and started to break them down and sort them. Every single minute I was there, I witnessed everybody performing with positive attitudes. Everyone was willing to listen to one another’s advice and ideas as well as always engaging in the work. Service learning is a method of teaching that combines classroom instruction with meaningful community service. This form of learning emphasizes critical thinking and personal reflection while encouraging a heightened sense of community, civic engagement, and personal responsibility. Volunteerism is the reliance of volunteers working towards helping a specific social, or educational duty in the community. This is similar to community service, because by definition of both terms, both groups of people take time out to help a community. Community service differs from volunteerism by catering to organizations which does not just benefit a community, but also an institution. Having been...
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...major parties: universities, students, and teachers. The Virginian professor takes a stance on the problems that he has both experienced in his own classroom and observed on campuses, and he approaches each problem in turn, making significant claims, which are assigned appropriate blames. It is clear that the purpose of his essay, “Liberal Arts & Lite Entertainment,” originally published in 1997, is to inform those engulfed in the academic world about the major problems in education, convince them to combat the “ethos of consumerism,” and change the established ways of thinking (23). Edmundson gives hope to the idea of the acceptance and praising of what he refers to as genius (as opposed to the alienation of it, which students endorse so...
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...1: Practice Essay Industrial agriculture has shaped American society greatly through intensive farming. To keep up with the supply and demand, farmers must resort to extreme measures to ensure their farms are operating not only to the standards of the FDA, but also to the standard of the companies they are supplying. During the 1970s, there were thousands of slaughter houses that balanced production, while more recently there are only thirteen that controls the majority of the meat processed in the United States. Industrial production of meat and grains have proven to be economically and environmentally unsustainable. Large number of animals raised on limited land, usually inside of confined animal feeding operations or CAFO, are being used...
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...Harlem Renaissance Poets Hum 112 June 4, 2013 Harlem Renaissance Poets The Harlem Renaissance was the time period that immediately followed the First World War. During the great migration a vast number of African Americans left the southern states to relocate to northern states such as Chicago, New York, and Washington DC. They were in search of new employment and artistic opportunities. This was the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance era where African American artist (musicians and poets) called themselves the “New Negro”. The two Poets I chose to discuss throughout this essay are Langston Hughes and Claude McKay. I will be discussing their roles during the Harlem Renaissance, The elements of double consciousness within their poetry, and the primary themes seen in poetry during this time period. Langston Hughes Langston Hughes was one of the most influential writers during the Harlem Renaissance. His unique style of writing incorporated Jazz and Blues music into poetry. Langston Hughes played a significant role during the Harlem Renaissance period, his work became the voice for the average African American struggling to deal with the stress / pressures of being racially discriminated against. His poems encouraged them to love their brown skin and accept who they are and not how they are seen by their white counterparts. Instead of African Americans sacrificing their identity (culture) to blend into the white society he encouraged Negroes to have a sense of pride in...
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...The Amazon rainforest is home to one of the world’s most diverse habitats, covering the majority of Northern South America. Although it is the largest rainforest in the Western hemisphere, it is presently threatened by persistent deforestation and mining by mega corporations. The continuation of these processes not only endangers the population of wildlife inhabiting the Amazon, but it also affects the lives of many indigenous tribes that have occupied its forests for centuries. According to the nonprofit organization Amazon Watch, however, such heinous actions by foreign corporations upon the people and wildlife of the Amazon must stop at once. This essay will discuss the work of the nongovernmental organization Amazon Watch, providing information on its mission to protect and restore the environment of the Amazon rainforest....
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...Compare Contrast Essay Week 9 COM 155 Winston Miller Whole Foods versus Processed Foods Did you know that Cancer can be caused by the food you eat? Studies reveal that eating processed food on a regular or constant basis can be the cause of cancer, heart disease and many other health problems. Processed foods are any foods that are changed from their natural form. Many people buy these foods at the grocery store on a daily basis not realizing the potential health risk. Processed foods are preserved with chemicals, additives, and colors as well as sweeteners, and have very long shelf lives. Aspartame is a substitute sweetener which is used in most sugar substitutes such as “Sweet N Low,” “Equal,” and “Splenda.” Aspartame’s appeal is that it has less calories than real sugar but it has been linked to causing problems like Multiple Sclerosis. Most people are attracted to processed foods because they are fast and easy to prepare. There are other processed foods that have been linked to diseases such as: Trans fats, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, and monosodium glutamate or MSG. Trans fats are found in all processed foods and fast food. They are linked to heart disease, cancer, skin issues, learning disabilities, and stunted growth. High fructose corn syrup is widely used in the US and it has been found that Americans ingest over 67 pounds of it a year. Some of the diseases associated with the use of high fructose corn syrup are cardio vascular disease, hypo...
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...Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Reflective Essay: April 22, 2013 Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Reflective Essay Human Immunodeficiency Virus is a slowly replicating retrovirus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The number of people infected with HIV/AIDS is rising in America, so with that being said what happens to the children who are born at the hands of an HIV infected mother? HIV breaks down our body’s immune system causing people to become ill with opportunistic infections that normally wouldn’t cause them to get ill. HIV is cannot be diagnosed based of only symptoms because the symptoms are muscle aches, swollen glands in the throat, fatigue, headaches and other flu-like symptoms. This is why it is very important to get tested at least yearly because the sooner the treatments can be started than the better the chances of getting the disease maintained before it moves to AIDS or causes other unwanted problems such as altered mental changes. HIV is spread through exposure to exposure to HIV-infected blood or body fluids. The primary transmission modes are contact with an infected persons body fluids during unprotected sex, blood-to-blood exposure (either by direct contact or through needle sharing among injection drug users), and perinatal transmission from infected mother to child(Cibulka, 2006).The transmission of HIV from an HIV-positive mother to her child during pregnancy, labor, delivery or breastfeeding is called mother-to-child...
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...Capital punishment is actively practiced in 58 countries and 35 countries have abolished it de facto. The death penalty has in the past been practiced by most societies as a punishment for murder, political or religious dissidents. Yet, since the 19th century tolerance and respect for life has become of great importance. In this essay I will seek to answer if capital punishment should be reintroduced. Some people say that capital punishment acts as a deterrent. Facing this punishment a murderer may think twice before committing the crime. If one takes somebody’s life he has forfeit his own right to life. However, statistics show that crime rates in countries that practice capital punishment have not gone down. In fact, the United Stated murder rate is 6 times bigger than that of Britain or Australia. Neither country has the death penalty. Texas and Oklahoma have historically executed the most number of inmates who were sentenced to death, though in 2003 their murder rate was higher than the national average. ”I have never heard a murderer say they thought about the death penalty as consequence of their actions prior to committing their crimes” says Gregory Ruff, police lieutenant in Kansas. The life imprisonment, for some anti-death penalty activists, would be the best way to deter crime. On the other hand, assaults in prisons all over the US have more than doubled in the past decade, according to statistics gathered by the Criminal Justice Institute in Middletown, Connecticut...
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...eat today or how it took over america.It also says how it is the cheapest crops but one of the biggest crops that is easy to farm. There also all alike because in the movie, it has Michael Pollan in it but in the stories Michael Pollan information and was the author of one. The difference is that the stories mostly talk about the corn and how it is taking over america, how it is almost every food we eat. But the movie talks more about than the population and diseases that the animals are getting from eating the corn. They also are all different because they were made by different people. It is not just not all Michael Pollan information it has information from different people and their different statements. They also talk about how people use corn different and feed it to their animals instead of grass. The movie claims how they use the corn and put the steroids in and then feed it to the animals instead of growing the grass because it is cheaper. That is my essay on the two different stories and the movie on how they are alike and different. I hope you learned something about our food today and they are feeding our animals steroids instead of the nutrition they need to grow correctly. ...
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