Hunger
Essays

¶ … unchecked and unmatched power within the confines of any social system is that it knows no bounds. In other words, for those holding power there are no limitations to what they can inflict upon their subjects.

Hunger, war, poverty, human rights abuses, incurable diseases, climate change, drug abuse (most particularly amongst the youth) just to name but a few are some of the real problems we face as global citizens today.

The American Snack Chip Manufacturing Corporation ("American Snack") has the mission of delivering the world from hunger, one chip at a time. The company will produce flavored snacks from its home in Queens.

National security is an important concept which has often been mistakenly used to refer to protection against external threats. With people gaining better knowledge of the term security, national security has become a…

The subject of heroism is biased according to the cultural lens through which it is viewed. Greek heroes, such as Gilgamesh, Achilles, Hector, and Odysseus were considered heroes in their time.

As the person responsible for the allocation of the food supplies, I must determine the most efficient use of the fixed supply of food. The production possibilities frontier can shed light on the best possible allocation.

¶ … Welfare Reform" by Robert Rector and Patrick Fagan (2003) hypothesizes that the reduced poverty and welfare dependence results seen at the beginning of the 21st century were primarily connected to the welfare reform…

In his own way, Moliere's Tartuffe represents one aspect of the Enlightenment, if only a negative one, since he is a purely self-interested individual who cares only about advancing his own wealth and status. He is a fraud, a con artist and a hypocrite who puts on a show of religion but is really only interested in stealing Orgon's estate—and his wife. Orgon is too foolish to understand this until the end, although his wise and cunning servant Dorine understands Tartuffe's intentions almost immediately. In this case, the uneducated servant is far more intelligent and clever than her master, who even seems callously indifferent to the illness of his wife.

This is a three page essay about the effects of European colonization on Africa and Kenya in particular. In her memoir, Wangari Maathai reveals some of the effects of colonialism on Kenya. This is an argumentative/persuasive/analytical essay discussing the legacy of colonization on Kenya's traditional cultural, religious, economic, and educational system. The essay uses Maathai's examples and quotes from the book.

The increasing rate of global obesity has led many to suggest that the availability of refined and highly palatable foods has lead to the development of "food addiction". The purpose of this report is to analyze whether obesity, and more specifically, overeating can be understood within the same framework as substance use disorders.