As part of National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week on November 14-22‚ 2015‚ I’m writing as a constituent dedicated to improving the lives of older Americans to urge you to reauthorize and invest in the Older Americans Act (OAA)‚ so that it can continue to provide critical services for older adults to keep them healthy‚ independent‚ and housed. According to the following facts taken from creditable organizations such as Meals on Wheels‚ Feeding America‚ and the National Coalition for the Homeless
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The Hunger Games Movie Analysis Project Title To analyse the movie‚ “The Hunger Games”‚ by focussing on HR related issues. Director: Gary Ross Stars: Jennifer Lawrence‚ Josh Hutcherson‚ Liam Introduction It is the story of young girl name Katniss Everdeen. Her life changes when she volunteers for Hunger Games to save her younger sister. The movie is all about surviving against the odds. There are 12 districts‚ where a young boy and a girl get chosen or volunteer to fight against each other
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Franz Kafka’s modernist short story “The Hunger Artist” follows the plight of a man who is simply referred to as the “Hunger Artist”; a man who is know for practicing the art of fasting for long periods of time. Throughout the story the hunger artist remains alone within his cage‚ completely cut off from the world that surrounds him. Although the hunger artist’s isolation and starvation appear to be self-imposed‚ it is ultimately revealed that the hunger artist was unable to find public‚ material
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http://articles.sfgate.com/2004-03-05/opinion/17416623_1_three-strikes-law-violent-crime-third-strike The purpose of the “three strike” law against offenders was originally to help reduce the number of criminals who were running around free but what it had come down to was costing tax payers more than what they had bargained for. More than 57% of offenders in California who are placed in prison for the “three strike” law were typically arrested for nonviolent offenses such as drug violations
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own town. Simply put‚ Pullman’s workers‚ would essentially be depositing their own wages back into Pullmans pocket. The panic of 1983‚ an economic recession that inadvertently begins a domino effect in the town would soon lead to the Pullman Strike. As a result of this‚ Pullman wasn’t making the money he wanted‚ and henceforth decided to cut his workers’ wages in order to continue his increase in profits the way he
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The media and the government have lately been working in cohorts to portray the dissatisfaction of those with obese or overweight bodies. They have released figures‚ but none strikes the eye as much as the fact that obesity costs Americans over $75 billion annually (“Study: Social‚ Cultural Factors Contribute to Obesity‚” 2006). In addition‚ the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) has released information regarding the percentages of obese people in the United States in 1985 as compared
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percent of Americans were classified as food insecure-you don’t know when youre next meal is coming from-. Fifty million americans Missisipi has the highest rate of food insecurity in the us. It also has the highest rate of obesity. Obesity and hunger are neighbors Fuit and vegetables price has gone up by forty percent since nineteen eighty; processed food price has gone down by also forty percent. Tha has to do with our farming policies of what we subsidized and what we don’t. In the past‚ family
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At the time of the Pullman Strike‚ the environment of the United States was pro-business therefore necessitating a strike by the company workers. Due to the depression facing the nation in 1893‚ the Pullman Car Company had to have finance cuts. This led to a work or be fired situation that put in the thought that workers were expendable. The ARU soon refused to pull Pullman Cars and the Pullman Strike was developed. Due to poor living conditions‚ workers demanded to make less into more. In Pullman’s
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other kids for the sole purpose of you killing all the others? The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is about a girl‚ Katniss‚ takes her sisters place in the games. She goes in and fights for her life and ultimately succeeds and returns home. In the novel‚ The Hunger Games‚ themes of government control and love are discussed‚ and these themes are also present in our modern day world. One theme that really stands out throughout The Hunger Games is government control. In the novel‚ the Capitol controls
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Homestead Strike of 1892 The Carnegie Steel Company‚ owned by Andrew Carnegie‚ was highly profitable. In 1892‚ the company’s profits reached four and a half million‚ a new record. Carnegie’s company was the world’s largest manufacturing firm at the time. The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers‚ founded in 1876‚ worked to gain better wages and work rules. Previously‚ the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers had been defeated at J. Edgar Thomson works in Braddock‚ in 1889
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