Hunger Hits Home The documentary I recently watched on the food network called “hunger hits home” is about the crisis of childhood hunger in America through the eyes of three families, anti-hunger activists, educators, and politicians trying desperately to put an end to this ever growing battle. At first hunger hits home shows the lives of hardworking families struggling to make ends meet. They show how hunger is affecting their everyday lives. They also show hunger activists who are hard at work trying to help those hungry families, like a food pantry founder who opened her own food pantry to help people who didn’t have food, a principle who is determined to not let his students go hungry, as well as politicians and non-funded anti-hunger activists. In the one hour long special that really touched my heart it shows how this overgrowing crisis is getting out of hand and how us as Americans need to lend a helping hand to stop this.
This story has two distinct parts. The first part the author claims to have left a lot out of. She then writes a second part where she explains what she left out and it ends up being just as false as the original. The narrator is a clear example of how people leave things out and how people stretch the truth. This story shows how a few minor details being left out or added in can change a story completely.
The family having lived in America during the American Great Depression, it is clear that the family was ravaging in poverty and poor education. In fact, Nicole had to be assisted on how to write the letter to his father by the wife because he had no knowledge of how to write one (Mazer, 1993). In abundance desire to share his memories, Nicole found it valuable to invite some of his friends who could dine and share memories together with is his family (Mazer, 1993). Nicole valued his friends as his family, which helps the story buttress the importance of family (Mazer, 1993). According to the story, it is unfortunate that the dog found the goatskin and ate it up making it hard to build the ciramella (Mazer, 1993).
She states in the first paragraph “… I haven’t noticed any women like me on television…” yet her next paragraph is centered on a television show about a woman with MS. Mairs tries to redeem herself by describing how this woman’s emotional weakness, for running back to her doctor/love interest, is inaccurate, but that is mostly a sexist representation of women and less a misrepresentation of the disabled. Mairs continues the rest of the essay in her mostly hostile fashion. She tosses in many rhetorical devices to the reader which, admittedly, makes her feel somewhat relatable and real. Her informal style of writing makes it seem like she knows her reader on an intimate level, therefor you are more inclined to accept her statements without evidence, succumbing to her requests for disability to be viewed as normal. She wraps up her essay
Counselor: Elmer, why do you think that Mary wants you to attend counseling with her? Elmer: I think she does not understand the changes that I have been going through and it is scaring her. Counselor: Elmer what changes do you feel that Mary is concerned about? Elmer: For the first time in my life, I feel free, and I want to try everything! Mary, you know that I had a boring life before we got together and you have opened my eyes to so many things that I never knew existed.
As people, we rely on others to make us happy. We need to feel loved and accepted by others in order to feel fulfilled and satisfied. However, certain relationships that are forced upon us can also lead to a negative outcome and can leave one feeling discontent and unsatisfied. In the novel “A thousand splendid suns”, Khaled Hossieni illustrates this idea through the impact other character have on the protagonist; Mariam. At the beginning of the novel it is revealed to the reader that Mariam does not feel loved and accepted by her mother, her conflict with Rasheed leaves her feeling worthless and insignificant.
Fitting In In many families, growing up means making mistakes, learning from them, and moving on. Olivia Castellano in, “Canto, Locura Y Poesia,” makes it clear that being able to make mistakes and learn from them can be very difficult especially for Chicanos to be able to succeed in life when they are already looked down at for their culture. Sometimes you wonder if a degree would change anything. If having and education would make every stereotype of chicanos go away. Catellanos argues that her culture has been looked down on for a long time even by her own family and how she “needed to sabotage society in a major way, intellectually radical way” (342).
She states that if we continue to participate we will be a “repressive society” which to me seems very one sided, she speaks to everyone in this essay, because she wants everyone to know that if you participate in the pc, we are not only being ridiculous but we are being a “repressive society.” This essay, or what seems to be an essay, is not an effective argument because of the way she argues, she does not see things from both sides, but she chooses to voice her side and why she thinks it is ridiculous! By just reading the essay once, made me believe that this is not a great essay or argumentative essay why? Because she just argues her point and not seeing it through how other people think of it, just her point of view. As I have stated in my introduction,
At one point I said I was gonna forget about informing you of this situation BUT…THERE IS NO WAY THIS COULD GO UNADDRESSED!!!!! I am at a low point of my life, haven’t ALWAYS been where I am. I worked 23years on my job and have found myself in need of help practically homeless with my HONOR ROLL STUDENT (4.0 GPA)…ALL I WAS TRYING TO DO WAS FEED HER….AND I SWEAR AS LONG AS I AM A CHILD OF GOD AND I HAVE BREATH IN MY BODY…IF I ENDED UP IN A SHELTER….I WOULD NEVER EVER COME OR SEND ANYONE TO SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH IN MAYWOOD FOR ABSOLUTELY NOTHING…..IF YOU HAVE PEOPLE AT YOUR CHURCH TREATING HUMANS LIKE THIS…… IT MAKES YOU WONDER WHAT KIND OF SHERPARD IS LEADING THEM…..UNFORTUNATELY FOR YOU THIS MAKES YOU AND YOUR CHURCH LOOK BAD….I DO UNDERSTAND THAT IT WQASN’T YOU ..HOWEVER THIS WOMAN IS OBVIOUSLY A MEMBER OF YOUR CHURCH AND IS THE OPEN FACED REPRESENTATION OF YOUR
Since it’s hard to trust anybody this day and age why not help out by volunteering at a local soap kitchen and help feed, homeless people, who have nothing to eat? Singer writes “we ought to do things that, predictably, most of us won’t do” (375) For example, every other year my family and I vacation to Guadalajara, Jalisco to visit family for the holidays. One year my dad went to a palenque (which is like a brothel for roosters), and there was a group of kids asking for spare change for food. My dad took them aside and he said ,“I am not going to give you a dime because I won’t really know if you are going to use it for food like you say you are.” The kids start to talk amongst them selves as they walk away, and before they know it my dad had them all sit down, and he bought them all food. Every kid in that group got the opportunity to have a hot