...Have you ever sat in class starving, and wishing you had a snack? Then you know our lunch is too early. Since the school is probably not going to change our lunch schedule, snack machines would be a solution. A major problem at OJ DeJonge Middle School is that seventh grade lunch is too early. Right now seventh grade lunch is from 10:10 to 10:40. Most students students are not hungry at 10:10 because they just ate breakfast. Then later on in the day, around fifth hour they are starving because they didn't eat much at lunch time because they weren't hungry. Students who are hungry don't pay attention which means they don't get their work done or they fall behind. A solution to this problem is that the school should install snack...
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...reality many artists have faced in the modern world. Picasso adeptly captures the tragic figure of the starving artist clutching his instrument, bowed by the pressures of life. The man is dressed in rags and looks as though he is blind, and yet the guitar is still the center of his being. With his deft use of color, space, shape and line, Picasso is able to elicit a surge of emotion from the viewer and make a statement about the nature of pain, suffering, and poverty in the life of an artist. Color is one obvious element Picasso uses to influence the viewer’s emotions. “The Old Guitarist” was painted during his “blue period” and has a monochromatic color scheme. The entire painting, except for the guitar, is in different shades of blue and gray. This does two things. First, the monochromatic color scheme flattens out the forms and makes them look more two-dimensional and less lifelike. The man in the painting looks close to death, almost frozen. The exception to this, the place that shows the most contrast and dimension, is the area of the neck, which is also closest to the bright spot of the head. Your eye is drawn to this light area and then travels down the neck. There the muscles are straining against a burden. The viewer understands that the man is under some sort of stress, perhaps simply the stress of trying to survive. There is a reason for the saying, “starving artist”. Many artists are not successful and yet they continue to paint, play, or sculpt because they cannot...
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...from the horrible hunger. Starvation threatens 365,000 people in Sudan, with the numbers just increasing, with no sign that they will stop increasing either (Nelan, 20). The whole country of Sudan is going through these troubles, but the famine is having its biggest impact in the Southwest and the Northern areas of Sudan (Nelan, 22). Throughout the whole country, 2.5 million square miles of land are empty, without crops that could hold valuable food for the starving people in Sudan. Those numbers are almost nothing compared to the country of Ethiopia though. It is estimated that in Ethiopia there are 4.6 million people starving or currently dead (www.news). Part of this is due to the fact that their crops became stunted drastically with the elongated dry season and an exceptionally short rainy season (www.news). All of these things make people miserable so they are forced to focus on other things to try and block out the famine troubles in both countries. Wars and other hardships have, and still are dominating the attention of the government to try to focus on something besides their own famine troubles. Ethiopia is constantly fighting “border wars” with their neighboring country Eritrea (Keller, 46). Some people in Ethiopia go as far as to fast to protest the fighting that is going on...
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...The major goal of writing a work of satire is to subversively expose social ills through the use of outlandish exaggerations that reveal moral truths. The satire does the work by utilizing the dominant mode of communication during a given historical moment. The satirist holds a social responsibility and that responsibility is to draw attention to the moral failings of the government as well as the people using various means of communication. In A Modest Proposal, Swift adopts the pamphlet genre to deliver his social criticism on the problem of poverty in Ireland as well as the expose the indifferent attitudes of the more disadvantaged toward those experiencing economic disparity. Swifts use of economic language as well as his creation of images...
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...A Modest Proposal is a satirical pamphlet that explores the attitude that the rich have towards the poor and starving children that dwell in their society. The author Johnathan Swift effectively uses rhetorical devices such as ethos, pathos, and logos, as well as humor and sarcasm to shed light and highlight these attitudes. Johnathan starts off by blaming the mothers of these starving and poor children that they should find themselves work so that they can earn an honest living instead of begging and groveling on the streets in hopes to be able to feed their young ones and themselves. He also says that the children will then become thieves just to make ends meet when they are older and this is simply because their parents did not teach their children how to live a modest and honest life. Swift uses logical fallacies to make his argument in "A Modest Proposal". This is evident when he explains how a well nursed child at...
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...making him lay on the stove, with it still turned on, it makes me wonder what human being could do that to their child. The extremity of the mother not letting her child eat is so harsh and unbelievable. The struggle he faces from day to day to get food is very sad. When the child has to leave school, go to the store, and steal the food to eat, it is obvious he is starving. I can not believe school facility or school officials did not even recognize how hungry this child was and someone should notice this. I mean, he was someone who had to go to total extremes just to get food, something most of us get each day. But maybe the school officials thought he was acting out to look for attention. With him being caught several times stealing other kid’s lunches, they should have thought there was a reason behind it but no one seemed to see it that way. If I was a school official and saw a child that seemed to be acting out for attention, they make counselors for a reason. I am questioning why they didn’t pull David in for some questions to ask him about what was going on in his life. Then it would have been brought to their attention that he was not getting the amount of food that he...
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...Soc 355: Minority Group Relations Somalia Presentation Paper When I walked into the presentation tonight I had no idea what to expect. I thought for a second it might be another presentation that just simply bores the audience with listing statistics of bullies in schools or dealing with discrimination that I would never come across or face. It was not though; the presentation was a real experience. In a sense, it could have been too real. Somalia is a country that is located on the far east of Africa. This country is in a region known as the “Horn of Africa”. Somalia is in the center of what is said to be the worst drought in Africa in over 60 years. With most of the country side being couple empty and home to absolutely nothing, the region has been officially declared as one of the few famines areas in world history. There are currently over 10 million men, women and children that are desperate need of food and water. Over 600,000 children are in despair as their country fights poverty, drought, and civil war. There is no more grass in the fields. Farms are no longer filled with animals. There is no longer food for parents to provide to their children. There is no more water in wells. The countryside people are forced to abandon their homes, their cities, and their farms to make the treacherous voyage towards a refugee camp. They leave because they have absolutely nothing left. They leave on a path on foot that is faced with dangerous obstacles of facing wild dangerous...
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...Vera Obi Prof Sarah Hanks ENG 1213 09/26/2015 A rhetorical analysis of “A modest Proposal”. In 1729 Jonathan Swift, author of “A Modest Proposal,” devised this proposal to show how backwards the social and general state Ireland was in. His proposal was to prevent the less fortunate children of Ireland from becoming a burden to their parents or country. As well as making them beneficial to the public. Jonathan Swift's reasoning behind this proposal is that many women were having children that they were unable to care for. He then suggested that the impoverished people of Ireland should consider selling their offspring to wealthy families as sustenance. He says that this proposal would make the infants, “beneficial to the public” (Swift). In “A Modest Proposal”, Swift uses rhetorical exaggeration, sarcasm, and insincerity to express his aggravation with papists, politicians, and the poverty-stricken citizens of Ireland at the time. In order to make his argument more effective, and to get his message across, Swift uses the rhetorical devices of logos, ethos and pathos. Swift employs the use of logos to help him throughout his proposal. Logos is defined as a clear and logical explanation, or an argument. Swift makes a very logical and persuasive argument that the people of Ireland should eat their children. Swift makes a case that by feeding on the children of the poor, the country would be solving several major issues the country is facing. By eating the...
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...help someone in need. Some people help because that’s just the type of person they are also known as altruism. There are some that believe that if you help someone, you will be rewarded for that deed; which is also known as the social exchange theory. In some cases, the person who is trying to help another person feels empathy for the person they are trying to help; which is different from sympathy. Empathy is the feeling of oneness with the emotional state of another. Sympathy is a sense of feeling sorry for another person. There are different motives for wanting to help another person in need; but when are we suppose to help? Are we supposed to help a stranger on the street who is trying to feed themselves? What about helping to feed a starving child? Are we supposed to help our family and friends more than strangers? When do we help? These are some questions that everyone should ask themselves. In most cases, some find it easier to walk away from a person in need then to take out time to help. One famous term for not helping a person is the bystander effect. The bystander effect refers to the phenomenon in which the greater the numbers of people present, the less likely people are going to help a person in distress. When an emergency situation occurs, observers are more likely to take action if there are few or no other witnesses (Wagner). In the past forty-six years, there have been many incidents in which a violent crime took place with people standing by and...
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...English 103 10 July 2014 An Improper Proposal “A Modest Proposal”, written by Johnathon Swift, is perhaps one of the greatest literary works in English history. It is an intelligently written satire that is set in 1729. In it Swift presents the idea of devouring one year old infants in an attempt to feed the hungry and ever growing population. The satire is set in Ireland and was aimed at Catholics, who were known for having a lot of kids and being too poor to care for them. Throughout his persuasive/argumentative satire he utilizes logic and reason, emotion, and character to argue why his proposal is a good solution to the excess population and to persuade others to follow his idea. One of the types of arguments Swift employs throughout his essay is logos. Logos are arguments that are based on fact and reason. In the beginning of his literary work Swift begins discussing how many children are born every year to poverty stricken parents. He uses specific numbers such as “. . . . One-hundred and twenty thousand children of the poor are born annually” to bring to light how much the population and hunger problems will continue to grow. Swift is using logos (logic and reason) when he uses statistics of children born to parents who cannot afford to care for them. He also uses logos to dehumanize the infants by comparing them to food already eaten. When Swift compares the children to roasting pigs he is using an analogy. Another logical analogy Swift uses is comparing...
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...impactful story using pathos/emotional appeal. Then state a fact/statistic immediately following the story to persuade the audience using logos/logic.) - We’re getting to those last few weeks of the term; tests piling up and it seems we just have no time for anything but school. Picture this: All weekend long you’re studying for that very important final you have to take on Monday which could easily be your chance to pass the class. You get your good night’s sleep, and you’re feeling great in the morning but you realize you woke up a little bit later than usual. You skip that apple and orange juice on the way out and just head straight to class. You jump straight into the test and halfway through, your stomach starts roaring. You’re starving, you can’t concentrate on the test, you can’t recall any of the things you studied about that whole weekend. You try to finish your test as best you can and you walk out of class knowing you ended up with the grade you know you don’t deserve. II. Thesis statement (Parts 1 & 2) - A recent survey done by the NPD group, the leading market researcher in North America, found that 31 million people choose to not eat breakfast at all. Many people skip that apple and I’m here to tell you about why breakfast can be the most important choice you make in the morning. III. Connect with Audience IV. Preview: I’ll be talking about A. The myths and excuses on why people skip breakfast B. How eating breakfast has a correlation with...
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...Mher Torjyan The film, Half the Sky, written by Michelle Ferrari was a documentary about the oppression of women throughout the world. The man reporting named Nicholas Kristof visited a wide array of countries and regions ranging from Africa to the Pacific Islands. In addition, the film had a serious tone which was enhanced with the camera work and sound production that lead to the setting of the film. The emotions of these women were captured through close up shots. As their faces overflow with emotions without any sound you can visualize the suffering these women. To solidify the feelings, the questions asked during the interviews were forthright and to the point. Kristof does not beat around the bush when inquiring about their griefs...
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...Morgan James Biology 1020 March 3, 2015 Video Title: “Nova: Dying to Be Thin” Plot Summary The video I viewed was “Nova: Dying to Be Thin”. The video tells the story of some young girls who face anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders that are on the rise. I chose to view this video because I use to always want to be thin and at one point in my life I found myself struggling with bulimia. Not many people would believe that I struggled with bulimia because of how I appear to look, but you would be surprised what a person has gone through. That is why you should never judge a book by its cover. The main focus of this video is telling different stories, views, and situations dealing with eating disorders. According to the narrator a ballerina...
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...Professor In this assignment we were asked to pick from three stories with surprise endings and give our opinion on the story. I chose “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift. With hunger, poverty, and other problems plaguing the country, Swift, suggests that they start cannibalizing those in the lower classes. He very sarcastically states that beggars should offer themselves as food for the rich, so two problems may be resolved; beggary and hunger. People are not going to begin eating one another, it’s just preposterous. It’s unthinkable for someone to offer themselves as food. Swift in his own way lashes out at the government for allowing people to starve. His story does grab the attention at the end with his “bright idea” to end hunger. In his own way, he’s attracting attention to a government that is not offering the basic needs to its citizens who cannot provide for themselves, most of no fault of their own. Economic downturns have and always will plague this planet and all civilizations on it. Eating one another is not going to solve the problem, as horrific and stomach-turning as it seems. The point where the story took the hard curve to the satire was when he suggests a child at the age of one be sold to the English as one would a steer, sheep, or swine. Then going over the top of that by saying his wife “is past child bearing age” and all he has to offer is “my youngest being nine years old.” Funny if you ask me, his wit and sarcasm just explodes when you...
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...Commemorative Speech Sample: Tribute to Audrey Hepburn Introduction Attention-Getting Device “For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.”– Audrey Hepburn. I quote Audrey Hepburn; Audrey Hepburn’s words are words to live by. Her words are a reminder that true beauty comes from within. Thesis Statement Audrey Hepburn was an elegant spirit whose life has inspired millions of people and many generations to come. Preview Audrey Hepburn is one of the most recognized Hollywood actresses’ in the world. Audrey Hepburn was an iconic actress, a humanitarian, and a humble human being. Body I. Audrey Hepburn is considered to be one of the best actresses of all time. Audrey Hepburn’s acting abilities made her an iconic starlet. Her first starring role was in the 1953 romance film “Roman Holiday” this film made her an instant star. She played a princess who runs away and falls in love with a journalist. Many audiences were enchanted with her elegance, grace and sincerity. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for that role. Her most famous role of course was in Breakfast at Tiffany’s when she played a sophisticated hurt soul, Holly Golightly. Audrey’s charming acting skills made Breakfast at Tiffany’s...
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