P

796 Words2 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Arab Spring (Syria Civil War)

A civil war between Syrian government and rebel forces, where hundreds of people mostly elderly and children have been starving to death. With the final release, many people perishing from malnutrition-related diseases since January 1,2014. The deaths having been confirmed by death certificates gives evidence that children under the age of one and the elderly over sixty-five account for sixty percent of the deaths. The known camp is Yarmouk Camp mostly Palestinians who fled to Syria in 1950s have been caught in the crossfire in the raging civil war. Even with the release, an estimated 20,000 people remain and are starving to death. The source of information confirmed with Hammad a credible resource within Yarmouk that shows evidence through photographs of the starving in need. Relief workers are concerned and in dire need of help. The weaken state of many who are women miscarriage or dying in childbirth due to extreme malnourishment. Many fear of using there last name and request not to be identified out of fear for their personal safety.
The starving are resorting to eating grass, cats, dogs, and cactus, the greatest fear not yet confirmed is cannibalism. In recent days, a small amount of food has come through from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. This has been the first actual food Ahmand and many have seen in days. Not eaten has lead too many people having digestion problems were the stomach regrets the food resulting in the first portion of food being vomited. Those who were unable to get relief food are sharing with other families within the camp. Most people are down to consuming water only. NBC contacted the two photographers who confirmed they are seeing children and elderly people terribly weakened by hunger. ...

... middle of paper ...

...ncern need more clearer understand of the civil war in Syrian to show why neither rebels or Syrian government will cease fire to have food supplies taken into the refugee camp of Yarmouk only allowing small intervals of food relief to the people that is insufficient to remove the hunger from all the refugees.
This article is well writing and provides a vast amount of information on the Yarmouk Camp and the starving people located inside. However, this article fails to satisfy all the demands of a strong argument, the premise is complete along with evidence supporting the premise of starving people inside the Yarmouk Camp however, the article conclusion is lacking. The writer bring in to much circumstantial evidence that allows the reader to question the verity of the article conclusion thus producing a weak conclusion that leaves many questions that are unanswered.

Show More
Related

  • Agricultural Adjustment Act

    605 Words  | 2 Pages

    203,000 farm families in dire distress” (1). As a result, people were starving and had nothing to

    Read More

  • A and P

    534 Words  | 2 Pages

    In "A & P", John Updike develops his characters through the eyes of the main character, Sammy. Sammy works in a grocery store, and one day he observes three young girls as they come into the store. The whole time they are in the A & P, Sammy describes their appearance, behavior, and his impression of them in great detail. Sammy watches each of the girls as they look around the store, but there is one that catches his attention right as they walk in. He is so busy staring at her that he makes the customer he is "ringing up" very mad at him. Sammy describes the young girl as a "chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad soft - looking can with those two crescents of white just under it..."(Updike, 105). He notices everything about the girl, even down to the fact that she does not have a tan line, so she must have just bought the bright green, two piece, bathing suit. He also notices that she is very conscience of being a little over weight, because she "..fumbled with the cookies, but on second thought she put the packages back". Sammy describes the next girl as a pretty girl, but not pretty enough to be called beautiful. He puts great detail in describing her appearance, and describes everything about her, from her long, frizzy hair, to her long neck, and the sunburns underneath her eyes. This girl is the tallest of the three, but he says that while she is " the kind of girl other girls think is very ‘striking' and ‘attractive' but never quite makes it....is why they like her so much". The last girl he describes is the one he thinks is the leader of the three girls, and even calls her the "queen" (Updike, 105). Sammy describes her as being a very self-assured girl, who is trying to teach the other girls how to be just like her. He states that "she had talked the other two into coming in here with her, and now she was showing them how to do it, walk slow and hold yourself straight". Sammy goes into the greatest detail describing the character. He talks about the color of her bathing suit, how her straps are pulled down, the style of her hair, and the manner in which she walks across the store.

    Read More

  • p

    844 Words  | 2 Pages

    After studying the critical excerpts following Antigone, I found two to be beneficial to the understanding Antigone. When first reading this play I found I could relate to Antigone and the way she stood up for what she believes in. Going against any King during this time, and facing death, to act upon what she believed to be right was pure admiration in my eyes. There was one part of the play, however, that I had a little trouble relating to Antigone. Before she is led to the tomb of her death, Creon and Antigone have one final conversation where Antigone is explaining her reasoning for the defiance of her king’s laws. She speaks as if speaking to her dead brother Polyneices saying, “Had I been a mother of children, and my husband been dead and rotten, I would not have taken this weary task upon me against the will of the city” (Sophocles 1587). I believed Antigone to have stood up for the rights of what was right by burying her brother with the sacred ash and water, as any blood relative would in my opinion do for another; however, if this were the case then why would she have not done for her children or her beloved husband what she fought so hard to do for her brother?

    Read More

  • Agricultural Diversification Argumentative Essay

    1707 Words  | 4 Pages

    Imagine your skin tightening around your body to the point that you see your veins, no fats or muscles, the foul odor that comes from your mouth, your eye sockets sunken in, your eyes bulging out, the visibility of your collar and chest bones, your stomach bloated, and your body eating itself. These are the symptoms of someone who is starving. The dictionary definition of someone who is starving or hungry is someone who displays the need for food, the need for calories in their body. This is a feeling that millions of people feel every day because there is not enough food being farmed for them to eat, food is too expensive for them to buy, and because they do not have the knowledge nor ability to grow and maintain their own food. This all can be fixed with one simple solution and that solution would be agricultural

    Read More

  • Famine Relief

    1822 Words  | 4 Pages

    In response to the recent failure of the international community to prevent the famine crisis in the Horn of Africa since July 2011, Suzanne Dvorak the chief executive of Save the Children wrote that, “We need to provide help now. But we cannot forget that these children are wasting away in a disaster that we could - and should - have prevented” she added, “The UN estimates that every $1 spent in prevention saves $7 in emergency spending.” (Dvorak, 2011).

    Read More

  • Hunger Holds All

    678 Words  | 2 Pages

    The literal definition of the word hunger plays a rather large role in the book as well as the figurative definition. The prisoners were not being cared for properly by the prison guards. In addition, the prisoners were separated by physical appearance and age. The ones too old to work were sent to be killed in the gas chambers. The people who were fit to work were sent to be enslaved and work under Natzi rule.

    Read More

  • Persuasive Essay On Syrian War Refugees

    1301 Words  | 3 Pages

    We need to take what we have learned from World War II and apply it to our current situation. There are 4.3 million Syrian refugees and 6.6 million Syrians that are displaced within Syria. This is the greatest amount of refugees the world has seen since World War II. Alexander Betts, Director of Oxford’s refugee center, said “nations have locked down their borders, crammed refugees into transit camps, and said they won't take in Muslims, creating alarming echoes of the past for WWII historians and Holocaust

    Read More

  • Hunger in America

    728 Words  | 2 Pages

    It is important to remember that all this is happening in one of the most endowed nations ever and where tons of food are wasted and thrown away daily. Forty percent of food is thrown out in the US every year. This amount of food worth about $165 billion and is prove that it could feed approximately 25 million Americans. Clearly, United States hunger problems are not caused by a lack of food, they are rooted in poverty and like many aspect in life we cannot address one without also trying to solve the other.

    Read More

  • The Refugee Crisis: The Syrian Refugee Crisis

    1519 Words  | 4 Pages

    Economic issues are becoming larger and more damaging to many countries sheltering Syrian Refugees and in some countries are leaving nothing but wreckage behind of what used to be the countries’ economies. Countries such as Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and others are witnessing the demolition of their own economies as the flow of refugees increases. In Jordan, the cost of sheltering Syrian refugees has reached $2.1 billion since the onset of the Syrian crisis; and while the country has received some money from donor countries, the amount donated was not more than $800 million, making an almost unnoticeable difference to the country’s failing economy (9). King Abdullah II, of Jordan, wrote a letter in which he pleaded for succor, saying that the refugee crisis is a burden that “drains our limited resources and places immense pressure on our infrastructure and national economy and which has increased the state budget deficit and indebtedness over the past months.” In the letter he also stated: “These effects and difficult economic conditions have had a clear impact on citizens’ standards of living, as ...

    Read More

  • The Syrian Refugee Crisis

    1420 Words  | 3 Pages

    "Syrian refugees in Lebanon still suffering." The Economist. N.p., 30 Oct 2014. Web. 20 Jan "The Refugees." New York Times 5 September 2013, n. pag. Print.

    Read More

  • The Causes Of Hunger In Sub-Saharan Africa

    1905 Words  | 4 Pages

    In 1798, the political economist Thomas Malthus referred to extensive hunger as a natural system that ensured a properly sized population that was balanced with the food supply, and the global population adapted this idea as their view on world hunger (Dando 197). It was not until the 1970s when this idea began to be truly challenged. Today, commercials displaying starving African children are no rare sight. In Sub-Saharan Africa, more than 33 million children under 5 are malnourished (Stanford 46). Everyone is aware of the hunger crisis, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, but what causes this extreme hunger is not quite as well known. Hunger has stemmed from several political, economic, and environmental issues: poverty traps, climate change,

    Read More

  • Analyzing the Refugee Crisis: A Third Party Perspective

    1410 Words  | 3 Pages

    The war caused nearly 11 Million Syrians, half of Syria’s population, to flee the country. 94% of the displaced Syrians are living in refugee camps located in the nearby nations of Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq, whereas 6% are fleeing to Europe. When this occurs the policies of the United nations and the European Union take effect in order to deal with the refugees

    Read More

  • Famine in Africa

    837 Words  | 2 Pages

    During the 1967-1970 Nigerian civil war, the federal government of Nigeria blocked all food shipments to Biafra, leading to widespread starvation. In 1993, a siege brought famine to parts of war-torn Angola. And in Sudan's long-running civil war, the northern-based government has used its control over food shipments to weaken insurgency groups in the south. Despite their seemingly apolitical humanitarian appeal, international food aid agencies invariably complicate the political picture. Sometimes food relief lets negligent governments off the hook; sometimes it even sustains repressive regimes.

    Read More

  • Persuasive Speech On End World Hunger

    1494 Words  | 3 Pages

    Along with the research I have completed with this topic, I recently visited an organization in Schaumburg, IL called FMSC (Feed My Starving Children) a local organization with seven locations, in the U.S. that provide food to children and families in need of a me...

    Read More

  • Public Opinion Meets the Internet

    1030 Words  | 3 Pages

    Jarba, Ahmad (PresedentJarba). “Children of Syria are orphaned by Assad’s brutality. 5m children affected by crisis. This number has tripled in a year.” 17 January 2014, 10:05 a.m. Tweet.

    Read More

More about P

Open Document