In the essay “Spare Change”, the author, Teresa Zsuaffa, illustrates how the wealthy don’t treat people facing poverty with kindness and generosity, but in turn pass demeaning glares and degrading gestures, when not busy avoiding eye contact. She does so by writing an emotional experience, using imagery and personification whenever possible to get to the reader’s heart. Quite similarly, Nick Saul writes, in the essay “The Hunger Game”, about how the wealthy and people of social and political power such as “[the community’s] elected representatives” (Saul, 2013, p. 357) leave the problem of hunger on the shoulders of the foodbanks because they believe “feeding the hungry is already checked off [the government’s] collective to-do list” (Saul, …show more content…
For example, “Spare Change” uses emotions while “The Hunger Game” uses statistics. “Spare Change”, by Teresa Zsuaffa, is written in accordance with an experience in only one city in Canada (Toronto), and is immensely emotional whereas “The Hunger Game”, by Nick Saul, is written with work experience and consists of statistics and analysis and refers to whole of Canada. Saul, also, doesn’t use emotion filled words or personifications like Zsuaffa does. Targeting a more involved audience that gets riled up in the story being told, Zsuaffa writes about the insensitivity shown by the wealthy to a poor girl wearing worn and faded orange track pants and a large t-shirt, that’s far too big for her. Zsuaffa uses imagery and personification to get to the reader’s heart, writing “She must be about twenty-nine” (Zsuaffa, p. 151) though later in the essay revealing the girl’s actual age as eight years younger, giving the reader an idea of just how beaten-down the poor girl looked. On the other hand, Saul writes about, what he believes is the truth, about foodbanks in Canada. The essay opens describing a food warehouse in a positive way, which soon changes once the reader reaches paragraph three, where the negativity and truth of foodbanks start. Unlike Zsuaffa who wrote mainly based on her experience at one of the smallest cities in Canada, Saul considers all of Canada by adding in statistics such as “nearly 900,000 Canadians (38% of them children) turned to food banks each month last year” (Saul, 2013, p.356) to put more emphasis and stress on the need of more donations, charity and support from the wealthy and powerful of the
Anna Quindlen’s take on child hunger in her essay School’s out for Summer could be seen as very interesting. Most times, people writing about this topic choose to look at the issue in foreign, low-development countries, but Quindlen decided to bring this topic right to America’s back door. By using pathos and logos, this author effectively makes an argument about how child hunger in America could be solved.
Today's world is filled with both great tragedy and abundant joy. In a densely populated metropolis like New York City, on a quick walk down a street you encounter homeless people walking among the most prosperous. Unfortunately, nine times out of ten the prosperous person will trudge straight past the one in need without a second thought. A serious problem arises when this happens continually. The problem worsens when you enter a different neighborhood and the well-to-do are far from sight. Many neighborhoods are inhabited only by the most hopeless of poverty - ridden people while others downtown or across the park do not care, or are glad to be separated from them. Such is the problem in New York City today and in Mott Haven in Jonathan Kozol's Amazing Grace. I have lived in New York City all my life and I had no idea that these problems were going on so close to home. If I live about three miles away from Mott Haven and I am not aware of the situation there, then who is?
Statistically, over 670,000 Americans are homeless with a growing number. 48 million people go to bed hungry every night. Although we do provide shelters and opportunities in America, millions of people are homeless worldwide. Even on a more minor level there are still hundreds homeless within hometowns. Everyday we encounter the homeless whether by seeing them holding their personal signs at stoplights, confronts with beggars, or viewing them from afar under bridges. In her essay titled “On Compassion”, writer Barbara Ascher uses rhetorical techniques detailing some of her personal homeless experiences within the city life, Asher does effectively use logos, pathos,
Fahrenheit 451 and the Hunger Games are both intertwined with a futuristic version of human entertainment and a society absent of religion. Both societies are subjected to gruesome and brutal activities as a form of enjoyment. The desire for a thrill and an adrenaline rush dominates the minds of most people. In Fahrenheit 451, it’s very likely that many people succumb to their deaths from accidents but can easily replaced by members of the parlor family who they accept as their own. In the same way, The Hunger Games consists of exactly what the title suggests. They are annual games, which include starving and murder and serve as society’s primary source of entertainment. Most people don’t enjoy watching the games but, the Capitol forces the districts to watch for it believes they are a good source of entertainment. Seeing how the Hunger Games are basically murdering each other until the last child is standing, it relates closely with the kind of entertainment that the society of Fahrenheit 451 provides with the adrenaline and thrill of the same kind. The people in Fahrenheit 451 like their source of entertainment in the way they approach it but the instances of conformity remains the same. This is unlike that of the people of the districts in The Hunger Games. There is indeed a difference between the two societies yet, in the Hunger Games there is less time for many because so many people are working toward survival, while in Fahrenheit 451, entertainment is something that people do daily. The existence of adrenaline entertainment is similar in both societies. Yet they differ in whether or not the people actually like the entertainment.
The Writing Situation: consist of four elements. Purpose: research for ways to reduce the amount of people who are homeless, Audience: everyday citizens and government officials, Subject: the homeless in America, and Writer: I have spent 30 years traveling the US and have seen people living in cars, tents, or even in a cardboard box. My wife started making Manna bags for the homeless here in Lafayette, LA. She works downtown and talks too many of the homeless in that area. That is what inspired us to make a difference. We both distribute Manna bags when we travel. The writing situation can improve my rhetoric skills to improve my use of language in the writing.
In the article “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” Peter Singer argues that our conceptions on moral belief need to change. Specifically, He argues that giving to famine relief is not optional but a moral duty and failing to contribute money is immoral. As Singer puts it, “The way people in affluent countries react ... cannot be justified; indeed the whole way we look at moral issues-our moral conceptual scheme-needs to be altered and with it, the way of life that has come to be taken for granted in our society”(135). In other words Singer believes that unless you can find something wrong with the following argument you will have to drastically change your lifestyle and how you spend your money. Although some people might believe that his conclusion is too radical, Singer insists that it is the logical result of his argument. In sum, his view is that all affluent people should give much more to famine relief.
Singer, Peter. “Famine, Affluence, and Morality.” Current Issues and Enduring Questions. 8th ed. Eds. Sylvan Barnet and Hugo Bedau. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. 7-15. Print.
Robert Paarlberg is a professor at Wellesley College, who also works as an associate at Harvard's Weatherhead Center. He wrote an article entitled, “Attention Whole Food Shoppers,” which address how the hunger crisis is still around, despite the thoughts of those who believe that it is not since the price of rice and grain has gone down. Paarlberg’s focuses on explaining the effectiveness of having governments finance fertilized plants and infrastructure projects for struggling countries. This claim was further emphasized by her utilization of punctuation, word choice as well as logos and ethos.
When McCandless graduated from Emory University, “more than twenty-four thousand dollars remained at the time of” his “graduation”, he donated “all the money in his college fund to Oxfam America, a charity dedicated to fighting hunger” and injustice of poverty. As a hero he couldn’t bear the thought of himself living lavish, when people in third world countries wasn’t -- McCandless mainly focused on Africa, which is seen in his final report card, he studied, “Apartheid and South African Society,” “History of Anthropological Thought” and “Contemporary African Politics and the Food Crisis in Africa”(Krakauer 21).
“The combined wealth of the richest 1 percent will overtake that of the other 99 percent of people next year” (oxfam.org). Wealth distribution is a huge problem that the world faces today. There is an enormous gap between the rich and the poor. The gap between the rich and the poor will only increase if actions are not taken to stop it. Jo Goodwin Parker in her essay What is Poverty discusses the living conditions and lack of money to buy simple necessities that make it impossible for the poor to help them out of poverty. In On Dumpster Diving Lars Eighner explains how wasteful those with money are and the negative stereotypes that have been placed on the homeless. The image that we viewed in class depicts the struggle to break free from the
In Singer’s “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” (1972), he describes how he believes everyone’s approach to global poverty should be. He starts by describing how people in many places in the world are dying from hunger, having no shelter or access to medical care. Other people have the ability to stop this from happening if they make the right decisions. He
Children who are poor are often at a disadvantage and have limited access to the basic necessities or luxuries that others have. Thus, they become victims to violence on a physical, emotional and political level, especially because the government has the power, wealth, resources and authority to implicate and enforce change. But sometimes the very system that is put in place to protect is the very cause of the destruction of the people it governs. Essentially governments acknowledge that life is a basic right but survival is a privilege. This is shown within Ishmael Beah’s “A Long Way Gone” and Susanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games”, in that both books display the many aspects of violence which children are subjected to, causing the main characters to become children soldiers, combatting everyday struggles of poverty, hunger and brutality. Fiction and Nonfiction
Families and adults who themselves do not go without meals believe hunger is a personal trouble, and not a consequence of society’s structural issues. This is because of the lack of a sociological imagination. According to Mills, a sociological imagination is the “vivid awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society” (71). In laymen’s terms, it is the ability to see how a seemingly personal trouble is often a larger public issue. Imagine a teenager who sits next to a f...
In an ad launched by Cordaid, called “People In Need” the organization addresses an issue that almost everyone living in first world countries can relate to: gluttony. The ad itself, which shows a fashion model holding a luxury bag, was designed to bring awareness to the wastefulness in society. Next to the luxury bag is the cost of the purse, contrasted with the supposed cost to feed someone for a week. In this essay I will analyze and address the rhetorical components Cordaid uses to illuminate the vast wealth inequality throughout our world.
Hunger and Poverty During the course of this particular essay, I will prove to you many points. Maybe not to the extreme that it will change one’s thought processes on the subject of hunger and world poverty, but enough to form a distinction between moral obligation and moral capacity. What I will not mention is the fact that Peter Singer’s outdated material (1971), though thorough in the sense of supporting his view on hunger and world poverty as well as examining this school of thought, is unconvincing to say the least. As our recent past has shown us, using Somalia and Rwanda as models, no amount of money or time on earth can come between a civil war. Terrible things happen, innocent people are slain in the names of either freedom or captivity, and land is destroyed, burned by the flames of either righteousness or wrath. But placing the burden of attempting to heal these wounds on the “well off” is not only immoral in itself, it is crazy. To consider an act a moral obligation, it must have an end that fits within the realm of reason. If someone is obligated to do something, then the purpose of that action holds meaning, therefore making the act a meaningful act. A characteristic of a meaningful act is a justifiably important end, that is, an end that which holds a higher purpose than the action against the obligated act. One can argue, using history as an example, that ending world poverty and hunger is not a reasonable goal. Singer uses the term “mora...