Hunger Memory
Hunger of Memory: Contradictions from Experience
In Richard Rodriguez's autobiography Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, the authors paints a portrait of himself, his family, his work, and his society as they all developed and converged or diverged over the decades of his life to this point. Through his experiences first as a student and then as an educator, Rodriguez has encountered many problems arising from his ethnicity and his native language and culture as well as from his adoption of English language and American culture in the later periods of his life. This has led to a certain juxtaposition of ideals and observations that at times makes it unclear precisely how Rodriguez truly perceives things, or if there might not be some ambiguity in many of his perspectives. This paper will explore some of the apparent contradictions that Rodriguez makes in this book and in his general…...
It is estimated that 22 million children are stunted in their growth worldwide.
Economic consequences: it is estimated that 67 million children are malnourished which effectively means they will not achieve the expected schooling level like any average child, and if they do, it could be late. The repercussion of that is that they will not be able to earn at equal rate as other age mates who are not malnourished, with a continued cycle, he economy of the society will end up suffering.
In order to bring an end to hunger in the world, there should be systems put in place that protect the weak and vulnerable from organized rogue groups and protected multinationals that construe the food production process to their own evil desires.
There should be very well managed and coordinated trade especially on food items so that the third world can reclaim good use of their land hitherto…...
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GMO Compass (2008). Maize. Retrieved February 24, 2011 from www.gmo-ompass.org/eng/grocery_shopping/crops/18.genetically_modified_maize_eu.html
In 2009, 6.9 million infants and children relied on IC benefits to eliminate hunger ("IC"). However, this program also has limited benefits, with specific items that program participants can receive.
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) offers free and reduced price lunches through the school. More than 19 million children received free or reduced price lunches, through the NSLP, in the 2008-2009 school year. All schools are eligible to participate, and participating schools "also receive agricultural commodities (unprocessed or partially processed foods) as a supplement to the per-meal cash reimbursements, in amounts based on the number of lunches they serve" ("National School Lunch"). Although this program helps ensure school-aged children receive at least one meal each day, it does not provide food for other meals, on weekends, or during school holidays, including summer break.
The School Breakfast Program (SBP) was created to help ensure school children were receiving a nutritious breakfast.…...
This particular programs was created not only to address to issue of hunger but also of health and nutrition.
4. Technology Project-this program encourages the uses of computer hardware and software to assist clients. The technology project supports organizations by instructing them on how to use technology to have benefits outreaches, track clients, network to find jobs for clients and to improve nutrition. All of these things allow the organizations to assist people in a manner that is more effective.
5. Volunteer Matching Center- Designed to match volunteers to organization that need assistance. This ensures that volunteers will be organized and able to assist clients effectively.
6/7. Americorps State and VISTA service programs- These programs are designed to allow those with much experience (VISTA) as well as those with little experience (State) to work directly with the coalition in multiple capacities. This includes everything from preparing food to writing grants.
S. On the one hand, this has been a continuous process. "it is currently estimated that 31 million people live in food insecure households, meaning that at some time during the previous year, they were unable to acquire of were uncertain of having enough food to meet basic needs due to inadequate household resources." (Siefert et al.171) There are additional figures that indicate "poverty on the rise -- the United States experienced the biggest jump in poverty in a decade in 2001, to nearly 12% of the population" (Lieberman 17) Considering these two aspects, food insecurity is strictly related to poverty as a general trend, which in turn is a result of a mismanagement of federal authority.
Hunger tends to affect all the segments of the population. In this way, it weakens the systemic organization of the society. Because the family is considered to be the nucleus in every society, it…...
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Works Cited
25 Million Depend on Emergency Food Assistance." Policy & Practice of Public Human
Services Jun2006, Vol. 64 Issue 2. 2 April 2007. Academic Search Premier EBSCO
Egendorf, Laura K. "How Can Hunger Be Reduced." Food. Roberto Salazar. Detroit, MI:
Increasing drought, flooding, and changing climatic patterns requiring a shift in crops and farming practices that may not be easily accomplished are three key issues ("2012 World Hunger and Poverty Facts and Statisics" 2011).
Hunger and Poverty in Afghanistan
According to a United Nations Security Council report 25 time as many Afghan citizens die every year as a result of hunger and poverty than from violence. One of the world's poorest nations, 7.4 million, or about one third of the population is "food insecure." Another third of the population is on the borderline to that status (Loewenberg, 2009).
Over 40% of the country subsists on less than 45 cents a day. Over half of Afghan preschool children are chronically malnourished. An estimated 1.2 million children younger than 5 and 550,000 pregnant or lactating mothers are at risk of falling into severe malnutrition. The country has the third highest child mortality rate in…...
Hunger has invaded our universe with the tyranny of a thousand Napoleon armies. This agent of destruction exists all around the world and affects millions of people. It is my determination that world hunger is eradicated in every corner of the world. The removal of this dreadful quandary is of the utmost importance if we are to ensure a hunger free environment for generations to come.
orld hunger is one of the most critical problems facing our world today. It is estimated that 24,000 human beings die each day of starvation and hunger related diseases; 74% of these people are children. These statistics are staggering because it means that one person dies of starvation every 3.6 seconds. (Daily Results)
ithin the developing world, 17% of the population was malnourished during 1997-1999, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. This means that 777.2 million people did not have…...
Hunger Free Communities
The following will look into ways of addressing hunger as an important public health issue. It will also consider programs like WIC and SNAP with the aim of ascertaining if these programs are public health interventions.
Hunger: A Public Health Problem?
Hunger is a major public health challenge, perhaps, the most prevalent public health problem plaguing the world today. The 193 United Nations member nations as well as 23 international bodies in 2000 said their major goal was to eradicate hunger and poverty totally by the year 2015 (O' Neal, 2012). During the 2012 summit where the progress of this goal was assessed, there was a reaffirmation of this goal. Despite this stated global commitment, hunger remains one problem most people ignore easily, especially in the United States.
In the U.S. (O' Neal, 2012):
Nearly 49 million people, representing 1 out of every 6 people struggle with the problem of hunger.
Hunger is a global problem with many people in underdeveloped and developed nations experiencing malnutrition. Although some countries like the United States, produce a surplus of food, enough to feed the 300 million people in it and then some, there are still people in America that go hungry each night and suffer from health problems attributed to malnutrition. In underdeveloped countries like Guatemala and Ethiopia, many children experience starvation and die young. What can the world to solve the hunger epidemic?
Food exists in many forms from natural to process to raw to cooked. In Australia, raw fruit is imported from other countries making the cost of fruit there high. The same can be said of fruit in Japan and South Korea. Countries like Indonesia and Thailand however, have low priced fruit. One of the reasons why food, especially nutritious food like fruits and vegetables are so expensive is due to…...
Causes of orld Hunger
Hunger may be one of the most serious and least understood of all world problems. Many people believe that hunger is the result of a lack of available food, which is a myth that is perpetuated by many well-meaning news organizations. Discussions of famine and drought make it seem as if hunger occurs because there is simply not enough food to feed people. The reality is that worldwide food supplies significantly exceed worldwide food demand. Moreover, even in those countries with excess food production and the means to distribute food to starving people, people starve. Instead, there are a multitude of causes of the world hunger problem: poverty, free market economics, large land ownership, food exports, diversion of land to non-food production, foreign aid, and last, but certainly not least, misconceptions about the causes of poverty that perpetuate, rather than alleviate the problem.
ithout discussing the other pros…...
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Works Cited
Knight, Danielle. "It is a Myth that World Hunger is Due to Scarcity of Food." PSRAST. N.p.
16 Oct. 1998. Web. 19 Feb. 2012.
Madakufamba, Munetsi. "Unequal 'Freetrade' Threatens Food Security." The Mail & Guardian.
1. What are the correlates of hunger? Is this the same as the situation 40 years ago?Many of the elements related to hunger are heavily correlated with economic factors. For one, the increase in food pricing for healthy alternatives continues to rise, while individuals incomes for poor countries continues to decline. This issue has only been exacerbated over the last 40 years as countries continue to engage in accommodative monetary and fiscal policy. These policies ultimately devalue national currencies as governments leverage low interest rates to encourage domestic consumption. Ultimately, these policies have driven the price of goods and services higher. As of this writing food prices within the United States alone have risen 7% which is a nearly 3 decades high not seen since 1980. This is combined with stagnating incomes around the world that have often not reflected the higher costs of living. This has ultimately resulted in…...
Extreme Poverty and Hunger Eradication 7
I. Problem Overview
While the world has realized accelerated achievement in reducing extreme poverty over the last decades, poverty and hunger remain a chronic challenge in Africa. The Work Bank reports a decline in the global population living in extreme poverty (less than $1.90 a day) plunged to a low of 10% by 2015 which is equivalent to 736 million living below the poverty line (World Bank, 2018). The significant progress has been disproportionate, with the progress mainly recorded in South Asia, East Asia, and Pacific. South Asia has realized a decline of the poor population by more than a half from 500 million in 1990 to 216 million people in 2015 (FAO, 2018). However, a stark difference has been reported in Sub-Sahara Africa where extreme poverty is concentrated. The Poverty and Shared Prosperity report indicate an increase in the population living in extreme poverty from…...
Global and National Hunger
Hunger can be described as a physical sensation of desiring food. Usually even the highly privileged may experience mild hunger, however brief experience will never be harmful. People suffering from hunger are a larger scale reference to individuals who are unable to eat sufficient food in meeting their basic nutritional needs for a sustained period of time. A large proportion of the world's populations are affected by hunger throughout history. Occasionally it result originates from plagues, war or adverse weather changes.
Several inter-related issues that cause hunger tend to be related to economic as well as other factors that cause poverty. A part from the named above causes of hunger we have drought, famine, diversification of land use to non-productive use, poor eating habit, inefficient agriculture, land right and ownership as other causes of hunger, (Anup Shah, 2010). As we try to solve the problem of hunger through…...
Biological Mechanisms of Hunger
What Causes Hunger: The Biological Mechanisms of Hunger
The biological mechanisms that trigger hunger are rather complex. In that regard, several theories have been proposed in an attempt to explain hunger and the biological mechanisms that control it. It is therefore important to note that the feeling of hunger has no single source. Indeed, as Pastorino and Doyle-Portillo (2012) point out; although the stomach plays a role in the initiation of hunger, it is not the only source of the same.
The liver according to Pastorino and Doyle-Portillo (2012) plays an important part in the regulation of hunger. This it accomplishes by closely monitoring not on the levels of glucose but also the levels of glycogen in the body. In basic terms, glucose (a form of sugar) is burnt by our bodies for energy. On the other hand, glycogen according to Pastorino and Doyle-Portillo (2012) "is the form of…...
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References
McGuire, M. & Beerman, K.A. (2009). Nutritional Sciences: From Fundamentals to Food (2nd ed.). Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning.
Pastorino, E.E. & Doyle-Portillo, S.M. (2012). What is Psychology? Essentials (2nd ed.). Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning.
Wagner, H. (2004). Physiological Psychology. New York, NY: Garland Science.
For example, in countries such as India, Mexico, and the Philippines, grain production and exports have increased, yet hunger persists (Knight Pp). Although nature is easy to blame for the world's hunger, food is always available for those who can afford it (Knight Pp). In places such as south Asia and Africa, many people are deprived of land ownership by a "powerful few," and/or are "trapped in the unremitting grip of debt, or miserably paid" (Knight Pp).
Another common myth concerning world hunger is population growth, however, according to the report, "For every Bangladesh, a densely populated and hungry country, we find a Nigeria, Brazil or Bolivia where abundant food resources coexist with hunger" (Knight Pp). Costa Rica, with only half of Honduras' cropped acres per person, has a life expectancy of eleven years longer than that of Honduras (Knight Pp).
Large farms, the free-market, free trade and more aid from…...
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Works Cited
Knight, Danielle. "Food: New Report Exposes Myths About World Hunger."
Inter-Press Service English News Wire. 10/17/1998; Pp.
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