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The Denver community is working to help alleviate this cycle of poverty from their community. It was great to see that even though this is a huge problem in Denver they are taking steps, however small in light of the current situation, to improve their community. On our trip, we worked with DenUM Urban Ministries which is one such place trying to educate the public and help give aid to those who are homeless. Through this program, our group had the opportunity to learn about homelessness through hands-on activities. Showing the logistics of what poverty looks like on a personal level in a families finances and the tough choices

“The agriculture Department estimated in 1999 that twelve million children were hungry or at risk of going hungry.” She proclaimed. The cause of that could be because parents who can’t afford or find service programs to park their vacationing children in front of the television, lock the door, and go to work hoping for

(Love & Das, 2016, para. 7). However, Love and Das (2016) expound on the inefficiency of this solution by stating that it “does not bridge the gaps to healthy food” because of their inability to invest in the community and understand their needs (para 12). Using vivid language throughout the article, the authors make their point emotionally impactful by emphasizing that big-chain grocery stores “lur[ed…] to the hood” leave when they no longer profit from maintaining a store in these neighborhoods (Love & Das, 2016, para. 9). Rightfully criticizing the existing solution, the authors expose the superficiality and inefficient manner of only bringing in more stores into neighborhoods. Moreover, by criticizing the superficiality of the existing solution, the authors suggest that eliminating food deserts involves a more personal investment into the betterment of the community. Overall, Love and Das permit the readers to gain an emotional insight on the impact food deserts have on low-income populations and understand the limiting nutrition conditions by appealing to

The city of Merced has several issues such as having a high unemployment rate of 12.6%, compared to California’s unemployment rate of 5.7%. Merced’s children living in food insecure households is 33.3% while California has a 26.3% and Merced’s child poverty rate is 38.1% while California’s rate is 22.7%. Clearly, Merced has issues but there are more. Furthermore, these issues could lead to one another. For instance, if a student goes to school hungry because they don’t have enough food to eat, the student’s main focus will be food and when will they have the opportunity to eat again, if they will. The

“People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well.”(pg.1) As this is the opening line of the book, “Girl, Interrupted” it pulls the audience in because they can most likely relate. People wonder how likely it is that they would end up in a mental hospital along with the other to say, “crazy” people. The author, Susanna Kaysen, uses many modes to effectively communicate a message to the audience.

In addition, there are many cities within the United States that are labeled as food deserts, such as Baltimore, Chicago, South Dallas, and other areas identified on the map (appendix A). Living in food deserts causes a negative impact on the city locals’ lives, as they are more likely to die earlier or develop health conditions due to the lack of healthy food. This new solution is for those people, who live unhealthy lives because they are living in a food desert. The audience for this capstone is both city officials as well as non-profit organizations, as both could pick up the project and implement this solution in food

Hunger in America happens every year to homeless people,kids, and adults,as sad as it is even new born babies. This could happen to anyone why? There is several reasons maybe some people don’t have the money. What if you were that person how would you live knowing that your child isn’t getting proper nutrition? Many people don’t seem to realize how much this really happens. one in 7 people in the United States face trying and struggling to get food to eat, and more than 12 million American family’s face hunger. Food insecurity is harmful to all people, but it is especially devastating to children. Proper nutrition is what a child’s needs to help with their development or you can say growing. Did you know that while hunger is nonstop - African

I was born the fourth of December 1991 in Cranbrook British Columbia. I lived there for 18 years. Before joining the military I worked as a fry cook at a Burger King for three years and held part time jobs working for the College of the Rockies summer camp programs during the summer. My parents are currently living together in Cranbrook BC. My father works outside the province testing railway tracks for two months at a time, then returns home for two to three weeks. My mother acts as the main contact point of the family, she works as a financial clerk. I have a 22 year old sister who will be attending university in Calgary this September. I attended Mount Baker Secondary School in Cranbrook and graduated in 2009

The streets roared with loud car horns as my parents and I walked down the polluted sidewalks. It did not matter how far I walked or what part of the city I was in, I’d always see homeless men, women, and children were all around. Those who were not already passed out from starvation held their hands out to us, to me, in desperation. The looks in their eyes told stories of pain and loss. Yet they lived on, clinging to life, waiting patiently for the next rupee. “Don’t stare at them,” my mother commanded. “But why? We have change, let's give them some!” I demanded. “If we give to one person, all the others will come, and we don’t have enough for everyone,” she responded. Her brutally honest words lingered as I helplessly walked past the crowds. This experience not only taught me how fortunate I was, but it also made me want to fight harder. To fight for all the people who could not fight and to one day give them a voice-a chance in our unfair hierarchical society so that they too could be self-sufficient and pursue their own endeavors. I was determined to make a sustainable

Fixing food deserts is about more than just building grocery stores in low-income areas. There is much more that can be done in communities to build a strong food system. It is challenging, nearly impossible, to state the be intervention practices for food deserts. It is difficult to implement the same intervention in all communities, because no two communities are exactly the same. Nevertheless, interventions and policies of the past give other policy makers ideas for intervention in their own neighborhoods; an intervention built on the community’s

Since the recession started in 2007, the national statistics of unemployment, low-income households, and hunger have increased yearly. Even after the recession had ended in 2009 the economic issues are still very prominent. Everything economically related to the health and welfare of the vast majority of our American citizens, has sky rocketed in a very negative way. Students, parents, children and families alike have, and continue to struggle with hunger on a day to day basis. Our communities have become impoverished with food, expanding state to state with hunger and even starvation. New York City, has become a haven of families struggling with the realities that hunger can bring. How long can we live like this before somebody does anything about this?

With the many financial challenges and intimidating odds, Will Allen, author of The Good Food Revolution, built the country's most renowned urban farm that was once a big gamble to becoming an education center for every level that currently produces enough produce and fish to feed thousands in cities year-round. His mission at his company, Growing Power, is employing young people from cities housing projects to prove that a local food system can help troubled youths. Not only are local farms a place for troubled youths to learn responsibility but to also dismantle racism, create more jobs, improve health, and bring urban and rural areas closer together. Today, Allen is country wide with Growing Power creating community food systems. The title of the book, The Good Food Revolution, puts forward that growing healthy food will lead to healthier

There are few certainties of what one will encounter during life. A common joke names two: death and

Pursing a career as a medical doctor is an opportunity for me to mentor youth in underserved populations. As a child, I was raised in the low income, urban community of Roxbury, MA. Although not as notorious today, the neighborhood had garnered negative attention for its high crime rates. My mother emigrated from Haiti and raised me as a single parent. Due to our financial circumstance, Roxbury became our permanent residence. I have always felt there was something lacking in Roxbury in comparison to other towns I visited. My teenage years were largely spent in the suburban town of Stoneham where I attended high school. There was a literal difference in air quality and a psychology contrast in future prospects. While native students of

On my facebook friends list, I have realized that I am allowing people to see my personal life although I might not know them. When I saw this at first I asked myself why I had allowed my page to look like it did and not care about who I was allowing to be placed onto it. As I went through my friends list I began to realize that some of the people I dont even know and thats a scary thing when you think about the fact that you are putting pictures on there of you and your friends and tagging the location. So I then challenged myself to go through my list and clean it out and ill be the first to say that this was a long list and that I didnt know a lot of the people. Although I have all allowed them on there some of them are only people that I recognize, some I know from a place I met them, and some I wonder why I allowed them on there with the things they say online.