Jordan Kendall ENC 1101 Professor Fallows 12-04-11 Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity has slowly become a very wide spread epidemic. In the last few years, we have seen that every 1 in 3 kids is either overweight or obese (kidshealth.com),this means because of the numerous fast food opportunities, certain ethnicities, and peoples every day sedentary life-style, in almost half a century we have tripled the rate of obesity in children. What exactly does the term obesity truthfully mean? In the chapter “Children” from the book Biographies of Disease: Obesity, It explains children measured to a certain specification, with BMI’s, Body Mass Index’s, in the 85th to 95th percentile, were labeled “At risk of becoming overweight”, and
She uses these tools in order to inflict a deep emotional feeling and an understanding of how awful the situation actually was. One of the rhetorical strategies of this piece is her compassion, even when seemingly futile, for the wounded soldier. The way Alcott describes John's situation as being completely helpless and doomed. The doctor's words, not having "the slightest hope" for recovery, illustrate his condition. Given this information prior to her attempt to ease his pain, Alcott shows her sheer pity for the "poor lad".
The Haymarket Regional Food Pantry: English 115. The Haymarket Regional Food Pantry Zakaria A. Hashim Strayer University / English 115 Instructor: Amy Williams November 27, 2012 The Haymarket Regional Food Pantry. “The Haymarket Regional Food Pantry is a community based ministry comprised of volunteers dedicated to feeding the hunger by providing food to those in need of assistance
3. The simile the narrator uses is, “I sank, little by little, into a half swoon; and, in this condition, without pain, without ability to stir, or, strictly speaking, to think, but with a dull lethargic consciousness of life and of the presence of those who surrounded my bed, I remained, until the crisis of the disease restored me, suddenly, to perfect sensation.” The narrator suggests that one is nearly conscious of the world around him or completely unaware of his surroundings. 4. Fear is an extremely strong emotion; the narrator uses those thoughts and feelings on how he found himself in the tenant of the grave. 5.
Beginning in 1845 and lasting for six years, the potato famine killed over a million men, women and children in Ireland and caused another million to flee the country. Ireland in the mid-1800s was an agricultural nation, populated by eight million persons who were among the poorest people in the western world. Only about quarter
2. Which of the statistics listed in #1 affects you personally and how? Obesity-related medical conditions cost our nation nearly $150 billion every year and account for 16 to 18 percent of our total healthcare costs. This effects me because if people would just eat healthier than the money can go into schools and pay for cops, firefighters, and teachers. 3.Suggest ways that our society as a whole could reverse or improve the statistic in a positive way for each of the statistics listed in #1.
These diseases are seen not only in the adult population but in our children as well. With the obese and overweight child population the disease processes lead to early adult mortality as well as childhood hypertension, diabetes, and psychological health problems (World health Organization, 2011). These diseases are non-communicable yet have mortality rates that parallel those of communicable status. Research from the U.N Global Health Decade states that these same diseases were responsible for 36 million death across the globe, with hypertension being responsible for 13% of early mortality, physical inactivity being six percent, and overweight and obesity five percent. According to the numbers reported in the 2011 Global Health profiles 73.5% of all males, and 68.2% of all females in the United States were overweight, whereas 31.1 and 34.8% prospectively were
In the Chrysalids people’s lives revolve around the words “only the image of God is man. Keep pure the stock of the lord” (Wyndham) and “watch thou for the mutant, for blessed is the norm” (Wyndham). Anything different is cast out into the realms of society even children are abandoned. People “pray to God to send charity into [their] hideous world, sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate” (Wyndham). Some can’t help but wonder if it is indeed god’s “will that a child should suffer and its soul be dammed for a little blemish of the body” (Wyndham).
Dear Nation, Did you know that one third of tax payers money was used for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program also known as SNAP formally known as food stamps. In 2009 they gave $4.6 billion in food stamps to over 43 million people. More that 14% of these people are not even eligible to participate in this program but find ways to any way. I believe that families that do not deserve this service should not get and the families that do deserve it are getting to much. A family of four on average gets $668 a month to spend on food.
The satire is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. Jonathan Swift's master satire "A Modest Proposal”, proposes to solve the devastating poverty in Ireland by selling poor children as food for wealthy families. Swift goes on to explain how this would solve all of Ireland's problems from domestic abuse to poverty. Swift's Projector explains his proposal in depth, in many ways treating these children as nothing more than a new type of livestock. Towards the end, however, Swift lists numerous reforms that could help the country.