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    World Hunger

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    World Hunger Richard Zhu Every day after the bells ring‚ the sound of the pupils’ footsteps filing out of their classrooms is heard. This is the favorite time of the day: Lunch time. The children bring their lunch trays and boxes onto the tables and begin to eat. However‚ after they are finished‚ the serving bowls and plastic are not the only things found in the trash cans. Burgers that have one bite taken from them and food that has not even been touched at all littler the bottom of the contraption

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    World Hunger

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    century people are still dying of hunger. What can be done to solve this problem? Perhaps everybody agrees with the opinion that hunger is one of the greatest and most important problems of the contemporary world. A lot of people think that it must be solved. Otherwise‚ we cannot say that our world is just and gives all the people the fundamental right to live in dignity. In this essay‚ I would like to treat this problem wider because when people are dying of hunger it is too late to help them. These

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    At this moment‚ many people around the world are starving to death. Should we help them? Do we have a moral obligation to provide aid? People have very different views on this topic. An examination of essays by Peter Singer and by John Arthur gives insight into two of the many different opinions concerning the responsibility the affluent people have to the much less fortunate people. Also‚ these philosophers give explanations of the moral responsibility of society. In "Famine‚ Affluence

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    Exegetical Peter Singer states that citizens of affluent nations are behaving immorally with the way they react to moral issues like helping those in need and our moral conceptual scheme needs to change. To do so‚ we need to be morally obligated to prevent bad things from happening if it does not require sacrificing something of comparable moral significance. His argument includes this principle where proximity or distance should not be taken into account when deciding whether to prevent something

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    During the Progressive era‚ immigrants from all around the world had suffered tremendously because of their living condition are poor and living in poverty. Sometimes they asked help from the citizens in the U.S. According to “I am my brother’s keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him‚” Eugene V. Debs‚ socialist who commented on unfairness of this maintains that moral obligation is a kind of human nature that everyone in the society should have. While this claim may be true in some situations

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    Analysis of Ethical Theories Deontology Deontologist’s approach focuses on our sense of moral duty and obligation. It also argues that one must obey the rule of right conduct that has been put in place in our society (Ross & Malloy‚ 1999). Deontologists argue one has the duty to protect the rights and autonomy of individuals (Rensburg et al‚ 2013). In Canada‚ there are laws and policies that promote autonomy and freedom of choice therefore a deontologist argues that the mandated choice of organ

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    MORAL OBLIGATIONS Legal obligations are clear cut line between what is right and what is wrong in the world‚ however there are many grey areas. Since no one judicial system can define all the grey areas in the world were are left to decide what is right and what is wrong using our moral compass. Some moral compasses are sounder than others but moral obligations are our unwritten duties to do or not to do something based on inner beliefs. The moral obligations to Peggy are to protect her privacy

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    World Hunger In Africa

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    Hunger is a real epidemic that is happening around the world right now; 11.3% of the world is currently hungry. The desire for food causes a severe pain that not only affects adults but children as well. This is a crucial issue in Africa because people are suffering greatly due to the lack of food and money; they have a hard time providing for their families and communities (World Hunger). Poverty and poor agriculture are some of the main reasons why Africa is currently suffering. Even though Africa

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    End World Hunger: Create World Progress In 2015‚ researchers asked a group of children that belonged to low income families to describe in words a certain sensation that that particular group of children knew well. Children overall mentioned fatigue‚ loss of motivation‚ and painful stomach aches. One girl described the sensation as sad‚ and that she felt like crying as the sensation took its course. Another boy said that he would drink heaps of water to alleviate its adverse effects. No child had

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    World Hunger & Poverty

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    World Hunger and Poverty Sara White I. Introduction: Statement of the issue to be discussed. World hunger and poverty concerns certainly are no new issues in our society. We often hear about people’s desire to solve world hunger‚ or to be able to feed the world and help alleviate the suffering associated with it. There are many organizations that collect money to help feed children and their families in poor‚ undeveloped countries. We are subjected to commercials on television

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