The 30 Hour Famine

643 Words2 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Essays about poverty solutions

I believe in humanity; simply, I believe that the good outweighs the bad. That belief and my faith steer me to show people who I am. As people, we should strive to be the best we can be, to help others, and to live morally. So why does hunger exist when some people have the ability to spend a hundred dollars on a single dinner? I am a firm believer that even though the world is often in a time of crisis with different humanitarian situations such as trafficking or hunger, we do try to help each other and live ethically. The world has complicated problems and the simplicity of a single solution is nonexistent. We as people spend too much time agonizing, enduring, and complaining over a problem instead of finding an answer to fix a situation. The sad fact is lots of problems are out of control, immediate control that is. Poverty is out of our immediate control, but that doesn’t mean it is …show more content…

However, the true fact is one small group of people or even a single person can make a difference.
I participated in an event my church held called the 30 Hour Famine. The purpose behind this event is to raise money for hunger in individual families or even whole countries around the world. People that participate in it fast for 30 hours straight with nothing but water and occasional juice to drink. From experience, it is not easy. You experience this faint feeling that you aren’t accustomed to. Your body tells you that you need food, and that your energy is running on empty. The emptiness and the feeling of surrender you experience fasting is like when your car is almost out of gas and it needs that teeny little extra push on the pedal to make it move. The 30 Hour Famine is not about being able to say “I can go 30 hours without eating.” It is about gaining perspective on what hunger feels like for so many people in all parts of the world, and empathy with all of those who experience it daily.

Show More
Related

  • On The Rez

    1146 Words  | 3 Pages

    In conclusion, it takes only one person at the right time, place, and moment to change the future

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Famine, Affluence And Morality By Pete Singer

    762 Words  | 2 Pages

    In the article, Famine, Affluence, and Morality, Pete Singer begins his argument with the notion that everyone believes that suffering and dying from lack of food and medical care are bad things. Furthermore, if we as humans know this to be bad then we have a responsibility to prevent bad things from occurring, according to singer. Throughout the article Singer will explain the distance in which one should reach out to, the amount of aid an individual should provide should provide.

    Read More

  • Famine Summary

    953 Words  | 2 Pages

    The narrator in “Famine” by Xu XI was raised by her parents A-Ba and A-Ma in Hong Kong. Her Father made her quit school after her primary school was over which was the through the sixth grade. She was then forced to take care of her aging parents till they died in their mid-nineties. Her father was abusive and very controlling over everything in her life while her mom chose to do nothing about it. She was rarely aloud out with friends or to have much fun at all she never experienced much in life. She wanted to do something she really wanted to learn, but her father said no in order to continue her education to become an English teacher she went on several hunger strikes to rebel her father wants. Food seemed herd to come by in her house particularly, they were forced vegetarians by A-Ba’s decision, they ate very little and the food was also bland. A-Ba and A-ma were not very loving parents, they expected a lot out of their

    Read More

  • An Introduction to The Great Famine

    548 Words  | 2 Pages

    An Introduction to The Great Famine After a warm, uninterrupted summer, the late summer beckoned, and at the beginning of September, when the potatoes were to be harvested, it became clear that entire crops were diseased and unfit for consumption by either man or animal. Within months the disease had spread and the Irish were in the grip of a dire potato blight, which within months had wiped out three quarters of the entire potato crop in Ireland. It should not be thought that the potato blight was the only reason for the famine, granted it was a primary factor, however when coupled with a huge inflation within the Irish population, and that meant due to this, people had significantly less land to grow and harvest crops, this when coupled with the potato blight made it neigh on impossible to prevent the starvation of an entire country. "Our accounts from the northern parts of this country are most deplorable. What the poor people earn on the public works is barely sufficient to support them.

    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

  • Hunger: An Unnatural History by Sharman Apt Russell

    916 Words  | 2 Pages

    Even though fasting is a controversial topic that has the whole world at odds with one another, Hunger: An Unnatural History by Sharman Apt Russell is informative and inspiring in that of the significance it has on the human race as well as the professional book reviews that help give insight into the problem of hunger. Everyday people in third world countries starve to death based on the fact that their countries simply don’t have enough resources or that their leaders only take office for their own personal gain instead of trying to actually help their country. So people rebel everyday by going on hunger strikes to fulfill a life’s goal whether it be to take a stand against the leader of their country like Mahatma Gandhi or to help raise awareness to a situation, both of which do not involve war. Hunger strikes are an effective way of not having to use violence.

    Read More

  • Hunger Crisis: A Call for Global Intervention

    1259 Words  | 3 Pages

    Do you know what it is like to suffer from hunger? Do you know how it feels to know that the meal you are eating today might be your last meal for about a week? Hunger is defined in the dictionary as "the painful sensation or state of weakness caused by the need of food" Hunger is not easy and it is certainly not right to watch another starve when you know you can help. Peter singer dig deep to how the world can help people suffering and dying because of hunger, shelter, and medical need. Watching hunger develop is absurd especially when others have so much that they are throwing it away and not being considerate to the ones that are suffering. Many others from outside countries can do something about it with just little from everybody. Singer

    Read More

  • Analysis of The Hunger Artist by Kafka

    1699 Words  | 4 Pages

    The food was never the issue. The Hunger Artist was never interested. Instead, what the artist hungered for was his fans that appreciated his talent of being able to fast for such long periods of time. Kafka writes, ? Back then the whole town was engaged with the hunger artist; during his fast, the audience?s involvement grew from day to day.? (Kafka, 255) In fact, the Hunger Artist was at first a spectacle. Some fans would come more than once a day to see the Artist perform, some even reserving special viewing seats to enhance the artistic experience. The Artist made eve...

    Read More

  • Propositions for Mitigating the Effects of Global Hunger

    1542 Words  | 4 Pages

    ...s hungry and you gave me something to eat.” (Mathew 25:34, New International Version). However, I could be wrong along with many others who believe the same about this topic but what I do know is that this world is temporary. One day, in heaven there will be enough food, no one will go hungry, and no one will be in poverty but until that day comes, we must do our very best to take care of God’s people, or brothers and sisters in Christ. When I say this world is temporary, I do not mean that we should not try to solve the issue; in fact we should keep trying until we cannot try any more. I love the positive outlook Pierre Ferrari from CNN news has on this topic. In her article, How to End World Hunger, she said, “Ending world hunger can be done.” (Ferrari, 2013, P.1) The end to world hunger can be restituted, if we work together using the resources God has given us.

    Read More

  • Food Bank: The Challenges Of Poverty In The World

    1427 Words  | 3 Pages

    In this world there are many different types of challenges faced but individuals in different countries, as people work together to find a way to stop or solve these challenges there are also some challenges or situations that individuals, even as a group, cannot eliminate. The race to reach conclusions of situations is very desirable and is being worked on very efficiently, but one issue that people have mistaken into accomplishing is hunger. Hungry is present everywhere and not a lot of people can satisfy or fulfil that need. Lack of sanitation, unemployment, and unhealthy diet choices these are involved in an imaginary line called the poverty line. The idea of food banks is a good start into eliminating hungry but the process still has a

    Read More

  • One Person Can Change The World

    399 Words  | 1 Pages

    person may not be able to do a whole lot physically to change the world, but one

    Read More

  • Fasting Informative Speech Outline

    1717 Words  | 4 Pages

    “Fasting is an effective and safe method of helping the body detoxify itself.” Quote by: James F. Balch, and Phyllis A. Balch. When you begin fasting, toxins are created in your body, mostly because of food and water. During your fast your body is provided resting time, most importantly, it gives your organs a rest which could potentially prolong your life. To prepare yourself for a fast you should try to eat mostly fruits, and vegetables. Intermittent fasting means fasting for certain hours of a day. While periodic fasting is when you fast for three days or longer for two or more weeks. The description of hunger is when your bodies respond to lack of food, then your body begins searching for food. If you get hungry during your fast it’s advised that you eat watermelon (if you absolutely need it), drink lemon juice or coffee. While giving organs rest and creating longevity, fasting is a controlled medical regimen.

    Read More

  • One Person Can Make a Difference

    775 Words  | 2 Pages

    I believe one person can make a difference. One person can speak out, one person can stand up for what they believe in, one person can take action and one person can change the lives of others. I believe with all my heart in the power of individual people to make the world a better place.

    Read More

  • World Hunger

    700 Words  | 2 Pages

    In the United States today, hunger affects over 850 million people, and that number keeps increasing. Hunger can cause health defects and can slow or shut your body down. It can result in malnutrition and weakened immune systems. It is mainly caused by food distribution among countries. World hunger is a worldwide problem and it difficult to end it. People who don’t have enough food should be helped because they could die from malnutrition.

    Read More

  • Food Shortages

    742 Words  | 2 Pages

    Danielle Knight stated that “The true source of world hunger is not scarcity but policy; not inevitability but politics, the real culprits are economies that fail to offer everyone opportunities, and societies that place economic efficiency over compassion.” The author is trying to say that, basically, world hunger is mainly caused by us humans. The world is providing more than enough food for each and every one of us on earth according to the report - 'World Hunger: Twelve Myths'. The problem is that there are so many people living in the third world countries who do not have the money to pay for readily available food. Even if their country has excess food, they still go hungry because of poverty. Since people are mistaken by “scarcity is the real cause of this problem”, governments and institutions are starting to solve food shortage problems by increasing food production, while there really is an excess of food in some countries. Although the green revolution was a big success globally, hunger still exists in some countries. The author stated, “Large farms, free-markets, free trade, and more aid from industrialized countries, have all been falsely touted as the ‘cure’ to end hunger”. All of those are used to promote exports and food production, it doesn’t increase the poor’s ability to buy food he says. What the government really should do is to balance out the economy, and let more people earn more money to buy more foods.

    Read More

More about The 30 Hour Famine

Open Document