...February 24, 2013 The homeless population in America, as well as the metro Atlanta region is not what it used to be 20 years ago. The Giving to Live organization is working hard and often to see that the rate continues to decrease as well as offer up as much help as they can to take care of those who are still in need. The Giving to Live organization feeds about 50,000 homeless people per year. 40%-60% of those homeless people are employed but cannot afford meals. This organization not only provides food assistance to the homeless but also to others with varying circumstances on a daily basis. This is not an easy task. Several steps and precautions go into making sure this happens. Sometimes, circumstances that are beyond man's control causes changes to take place without notice and some may suffer still. But Giving to Live works diligently with many community workers and volunteers to see that meals are prepared and food is available for homeless families/children, low-income families with children, the elderly, transitional facilities, and orphanages. The number one benefit of Giving to Live is to decrease the number of hungry people in city of Atlanta and in the southern region of America. This factor, though not the only one, is what keeps our director, Ms. Miriam Wilson and her team working around the clock to take care of so many. As a member of this organization, I have been doing some research on Child Hunger in America. * Did you know that Atlanta, Georgia is...
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...My mother always said that being overweight is a blessing because only the rich can afford to be fat. Having lived most of her life in a rural countryside in China, my mother never thought there could be other reasons why people are overweight. America is the richest country in the world, and obesity has become a major health concern. A person is considered obese if their body weight is 20% over the normal weight (1). With obesity on the rise, the health problems that come along with being overweight are major concern in most American households. Being obese carries with it the predisposition to get diabetes, heart disease, and many other serious illnesses (2). Our bodies have biological mechanisms that tell us when we are hungry and when we are full. Do obese people have a defect in their biological mechanisms that control their weight or are other issues, such as lifestyle and psychology, affecting their weight? From a biological prospective, our body must have a way of telling us when we need to eat to ensure survival. People are usually aware of their hunger when their stomach starts making noises. These noises are stomach contractions, but this sign is not the most important indication of hunger (2). The feeling of hunger comes from the hypothalamus, which is responsible for maintaining our body weight by telling us to consume more or less calories in order to have a properly functioning body (4). The mechanism starts when blood glucose levels are low. Then the liver, which...
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...Back in the 19th and 20th centuries, America wasn’t as big as it is today because most of the land it claimed was either sold to them or unclaimed. Then, Imperialism started, and would inevitably influence the role of how America would treat foreign nations, or foreign policy. Everyone that was on the side of Imperialism convinced others that it was a good thing; who else would save these poor defenceless people? This created a response from the people, and an unhappy one that didn’t want to be seized, or “saved”. However while moral disputes were going on, trading routes and the grip on land was being secured. There’s no telling how the world would be without imperialism, or if it’s even a good thing, but the effects are undeniable. When imperialism started, specifically during and after the Spanish-American War, most US politicians/officials said that they needed to “help” the other nations. William McKinley said after extensive thinking, that the only option...
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...water. The same results were also reached with sucrose. Ahmed et al. explored the idea of how sugar can “induce reward and craving” that is comparable to cocaine. Sugar can change brain activity just as cocaine does, only in a more natural way. “Hungry for Change” confirms this theory by stating, “sugar increases beta endorphins in the brain.” People have reported they eat “sweet foods to experience highly rewarding sensations, to cope with stress” (Ahmed et al.). The difference between “sweet reward” and “drug reward” is that effects from cocaine lead to extreme behavioural changes that are socially unacceptable. I believe this is why it is easy to dismiss the fact that sugar is just as addictive as cocaine is. Sugar is accepted socially and is a substance that is introduced to us at an early age. Sugar and treats are associated with every holiday from Halloween and Christmas to Valentine’s day. It is all around us and advertised immensely. Research by Lenoir et al. and Ahmed et al. were both independent...
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...discusses the symbolism as portrayed by the coyote as similar to that of the American attitude toward illegal immigrants in the United States. In this novel, Boyle tells an effective story of the illegal immigration in Southern California. While he tells the story of several characters throughout the novel, he best depicts the feelings of the characters symbolically by paralleling the story of the immigrants as comparable to the coyotes which continuously intrude into the yards of the residents in the community. Candido is one of the protagonists in the novel that is an illegal Mexican and is paralleled to the coyote. In addition, Boyle shows the meaning of the literal coyote to the real animal itself. This shows that coyote plays an important role in this novel as a symbol. In the beginning of the novel, Boyle uses the literal coyote to portray the real animal. Mossbachers' owns two dogs, Osbert and Sacheverell. One night a coyote jumps over and eats Sacheverell. Therefore Delaney's family build an even higher fence to keep out any unwanted animals like coyotes. However, a coyote jumps over again and eats the other one, Osbert. The homeowners association is trying to put up a gate to keep out "The Salvadorans, the Mexicans, the blacks, the gangbangers, and taggers and carjackers." (p.39) Boyle uses the coyote as a symbol of breaking in and taking whatever they wants. It can also be read to describe the situation with Mexican immigrants; like the coyotes, with whom they are associated...
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...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 their ancestry and celebrate their spirituality and culture. His poems spoke against racism and acts...
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...The Harlem Renaissance Poets XXX XXXX Strayer University HUM 112 August 17, 2014 XXX XXXX The Harlem Renaissance Poets The Harlem Renaissance, notably deemed as the “New Negro Movement” by Alain Locke, aggrandized the creativity in literature and music from the African American culture. Much of the art from this era mostly portrayed their experiences of inequality and their search for better quality of life in the North and Midwest, henceforth the Great Migration. Some of the most prominent names during this time was African American poets Langston Hughes and Claude McKay, both playing an essential role to the literary movement. As stated by McKay, “their poems are full of hushes, whispers, sighs, songs, tongues, throats, wails, moans, voices, speech, music, hymns, blues, sobs, cries, lashes, yowls, jazz, scatting, drums, thunder, drones, shouts, trumpets, trains, whistles, choirs, horns, and all sorts of other raucous sound” (1926). Langston Hughes was notably known as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance and also deemed as the “Father of Harlem Renaissance poetry”. Hughes solidified his legacy in the Harlem Renaissance subsequently after the publishing of his first poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, which is one of his most notable poems. The Negro Speaks of Rivers, which was influenced from his time passing the Mississippi River to visit his family, was later published in 1926 in his first book of poetry, The Weary Blues. In regards to the poem, Phillipson...
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...Gerson who worked in Cincinnati’s incinerator. He saw that there was too many household items that were being wasted when there were so many in his community that needed help. So this man quit his job, and started the non-profit business out of his apartment. By 1979 it had grown too big for his little apartment to handle, so he decided to get a warehouse to handle the sorting, and distribution of the food items for his community. Also at this time the Freestore became a founding member of Feeding America, which helped the organization evolve into the Freestore Foodbank. Today the Freestore is one of over 200 foodbanks within the Feeding America networks, which helps serve communities across the whole nation, not just in the Cincinnati area. They distribute over 19 million meals through a network of 275 community agencies. www.fsfb.org. This is an astonishing number of meals that are handed out to those that are going hungry, which is the organizations main mission. No one should go hungry; this is also my personal view on this as well. The Freestore Foodbank not only helps with assisting with families who need to put food on the table for their children, and dependants but also helps point them in the correct direction for other services such as help with clothing, job placement, assistance with utilities, and health services. The Freestore takes...
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...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 • 3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day. • In 1994 the Urban Institute in Washington DC estimated that one out of 6 elderly people in the U.S. has an inadequate diet. • In the U.S. hunger and race are related. In 1991 46% of African-American children were chronically hungry, and...
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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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...University Government 200 Professor D. Good 12 - 14 - 2015 INTRODUCTION: There are many government workplaces, agencies, law makers including the Federal Reserve that overstep biblical principals. Federal Reserve was put in place in 1913 by President Woodrow Wilson. The Federal Reserve is the main banking system for America. Their duties include: 1) conducting the nation's monetary policy in pursuit of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long term interest rates 2) supervising and regulating banking institution 3) maintain the stability of the financial system by containing systematic risk in markets 4) providing finical services to depository institutions, the United States government and the foreign official institutions. (www.usnews.com) Federal Reserve System was to help the people of America but instead it failed. "… government intervention might be necessary it is not always required."(Presentation: Regulation - Do we need it? When?) This paper will show how the Federal Reserve failed to reach its intended purposes and how it has overstepped its biblical purposes. TROUBLE: Due to selfishness, greed, and being power hungry has led to an economic downward spiral of the Federal Reserve System. "For the love of money is the root of all evil..." (1Timothy 6:10) Some of those reasons are: 1) the system is a debt based financial system 2) the system has way to much power 3) the system is an anti free market 4) the system favors big banks (www.theeconomiccollaspeblog...
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...Do you know what hunger is? Are you knowledgeablle about what it feels like to be hungry, but not have the means to make your hunger go away? Hunger is a feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat. 1 out of 5 = sixteen million numbers of kids in America are living in a household without consistent access to adequate food. Twenty-two million numbers of low-income children rely on free or reduced lunches for their nutritional needs on an average school day. That is one meal, out of three meals a day that provides the nutrients a persons body needs to survive. Food supplies the body with macronutrients - protein, carbohydrates, and fat that offer calories as well as play a crucial role in maintaining...
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...to better medical care. Some may argue climate change is also a key player in feeding the world. It’s difficult to see why so many people are going hungry and suffering from malnutrition when America, the UK, and now China have a big problem of obesity within their population. In attempts to increase food production, genetic modification (GM) is offering hope. But in this report as well as discussing the points above it will discuss the positives and negatives of GM, people’s views on GM, and how technology will play its role in increasing food production. Positives of GM GM is a form of biotechnology which involves the modification of a plant or animals genetic make-up in order to introduce new, desirable characteristics a such as enhanced pest resistances. GM can produce large scale intensive farming with increasing yield and selling seasonal crops all year round. This means increased farmer incomes and higher wages, this could be very beneficial to those working in LEDC's. With the larger varieties of seeds and crops, and the development of the agriculture sector, further money is able to be invested and crops and jobs continue to grow. This could really help the poorest counties around the world. Uganda in Africa, is actually one of the wealthiest countries in Africa, however still 80% of their population is going hungry. Nearly every meal a day for these people is a banana porridge they bake themselves from the bananas they grow. However many of the crops get disease...
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...Hungering for America Rendering on a large collection of bases, Hasia Diner's Hungering for America "explores how the memories of hunger and the realities of American plenty merged together to shape the ethnic identities of millions of American women and men from Italy, Ireland, and Jewish Eastern Europe" (p. xvii). Sensitive to the physical and the existing predicament of hungry people, Diner strengthens our understanding of the influence of American abundance on immigrants by arguing that culturally specific memories of the European past determined Italian, Irish and Jewish food ways in the U.S. In this essay I will discuss how the European Jewish immigrants and the Italian immigrants dealt with the issue of identity formation. For the Italians food was a significant factor in strengthening ethnic identity and community in the United States because to them food was very significant. Family and food play a large role in Italian life. Diner says, “The matrix of food family-sanctity served as an Italian peasant ideal, in part because it is so often lay beyond the grasp of the poor.” (p. 35). In other words, even the poor people of Italy found the appreciation of food to be a very important part of Italian culture. When the Italian immigrants entered America they impacted communities in the United States by the way of food. The most prominent Italian food is macaroni. Many macaroni factories were opened in America and represented the Italian culture. America changed Italian...
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...ways to prevent my children from suffering the same fate. Childhood obesity can cause a wide range of health problem in children. These can be immediate effects such as high cholesterol or high blood pressure, or long-term effects such as heart disease, stroke, or type 2 diabetes (CDC, n.d.). School systems have been said that they are able to combat childhood obesity. However, many children only eat one meal at school. Although many people have opinions on what can be done about this issue, one thing is constant. The combat against childhood obesity must start at home, which is the foundation of the formation of all children. This can be done by teaching children how to increase physical activity and healthy eating. Obesity in America rose 11 percent between 1991 and 2003, especially among African-Americans and young Mexican-Americans (James). Another study was conducted comparing the time period of 1988-1994 and 1999-2000. Between these two periods, the percentage of overweight children had gone up an average of 4.1 percentage points for groups of kids between the ages of two and 19. The most extreme cases were found among Mexican-Americans and African-Americans (Ogden). This can be...
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