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   Website address:   http://www.bread.org/learn/global-hunger-issues/malnutrition.html  

    Title of Article: Malnutrition / Hunger

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     Malnutrition or hunger is one of the serious problems has widespread over the world, especially the underdeveloped and developing countries. Malnutrition is the condition in which people do not consume a sufficient amount of calories and nutrients from food.      

      Malnutriton or hunger can cause many problems as well as disease to people who have it. According to the World Health Organization, poor nutrition and calorie deficiencies cause nearly one in three people to die or have disabilities. In 2005, about 10.1 million children died before they reached their fifth birthday. Almost all of these deaths occur in developing countries, 3/4 of them in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the two regions that also suffer from the highest rates of hunger and malnutrition. This disease has serious effects on children when they don’t receive enough nutrition to grow up. For example: In the developing world, 27% of children under 5 underweight, 10% are severely underweight, 10% of children under age 5 are seriously below weight for one’s height, and an overwhelming 31% are stunted, or seriously below normal height for one’s age. Hunger or malnutrition can also weakens the immune system, impairs physical and mental health, slows thinking, saps energy, stunts growth, hinders fetal development, and leads to infectious disease. Every day, almost 16,000 children die – approximate one child every five seconds- because of hunger and the diseases that related to hunger.

           The hunger over the world has intensified day by day and if we don’t have any solution for this problem, the number of people who die due to hunger or all disease related to hunger will continue increasing.         

          Should or should not students have to wear uniform to school? This is a controversial question because many students like uniform but some don’t. In my opinion, students should wear uniform to school for many reasons.

The first, most important reason is uniform makes every students look equal. We have many kind of students in each school and the first way they look different is their outfits. It is thing that could impress strongly to people when they first meet, then they often judge the one who wear those clothes. For this reason, some poor students are usually feel inferior to their friends when they don’t have nice clothes and it somehow makes them not want to go to school or students to making friend with each others.

Another reasons is students spend a lot of time and money on their clothes when they don’t have to wear uniform. IN my case, I always need 10-15 minutes to choose what I’ll wear to school and concern about how I look. It wastes a lot of time. To students, outfit have a big influence on their relationship with people around then they have to pay attention to it. Understanding this point, many companies with famous trade names open stores just to sell outfit for teenager and they got a huge amount of money each year. According to research, teenager spend their money in clothes more than they spend on anything else. Therefore, uniform could help them saving that money for  other things.

However, students complain that uniform have many restriction like not fit well for everybody, preventing them from showing their individualities or doing activities….. and I sympathized with them. Those are the restrictive sides of wearing uniform but we can fix it. The students can work privately with the tailors to adjust the uniform fit with their body. If students complain that the uniform is so ugly, they could comment to the school’s office how the uniform should look and create a new style of uniform they like with the permission of the principal.

Actually, we all know that everything always have two sides: positive side and negative side. But if we compare these two sides of wearing uniforms, we can see that the positive side is stronger than the negative side. For this reason, students should wear uniform to school.

     People can live everywhere but I think they should live in the countryside. This is a good place for health and relaxation.

     First reason is the beautiful sights of the countryside. Living in this place you will have chance to enjoy nature, the thing you rarely can feel in a big, busy city.Just  by walking around, we can see many beautiful scene as generous lands with a lot of green trees and animals; dawn and sunset on the beaches; the blue sky with big cumulus are floating; the vast,inexhaustible mountain run to horizon… Feeling the cool of the air touch your skin and hearing the sounds of leaves rustle; the waves tap in the seashore; the bird sing and the wind blows softly are so wonderful. They would bring your worries far away and replace it by happpiness and peacefulness. The time seems to stop drifting when you admire those scenery and you could wish to be here forever.

      For second reason, this palce is really good for your health. Have you ever thought about the amount of dust and smoke you breathe in a big city every single day? I think it’s unmeasurable. Consequently, if you want to have a good, strong lungs, you should live rural place because of its pure air. Additional, the food here is fresher than the city’s food, it could give you a healthy nutrition but doesn’t make you be fat. In countryside, you have to move by walking or running with a long distances. It helps you exercise a lot then give you a perfect body.

       Finally, the life in countryside isn’t as fast and busy as city’s life. It is easy enough to live but don’t make you be fed up with. By some reason, people in the countryside are more friendly and always ready to share or help the people around. They can have good influence on your behaviors.

       Living in a friendly, peacefully soceity , we don’t be stressful. When we live healthy and happily, our lives will be last longer and everybody will have a beautiful life.

Name of the book: The Child Called “It”

Author: Dave Pelzer

Type of the book : Nonfiction

Numbers of pages: 184

Setting: March 5 ,1973 – Daly City,California

Main characters:

David Pelzer was a boy who was abused brutally by his mother. That’s no reason for why she acted like that but David was beaten, starved and stabbed. He had to learnt how to survive and courage himself to get along with the torturous game of his mother.

Problems of the story:

- Child abuse

-How to get along and overcome the hardship

- What the government should do to help children who was abused

- Courage people to survive

Explained what you like most about this book: “I can’t believed what is happening in this book. When I read it, I can’t predict what will happen continue and it makes me so curious. That’s the reason I can’t put this book down.”

In your opinion, how could this book be better: ” It is best already.”

Who would you recommend this book: ” Every people, espeacial mothers”

          Music has significant meaning with my life. I’ve listened to many songs but the song that represents my life is very special. It was written in my own language with the title ” We are always by your side”. It’s special for me because the song was made by my friends and they gave it to me as a gift before I wnet aboard.

          The song’s melody is mix of fast and slow parts. Some parts are fast, spirited and happy. Some parts are slow, soft and quiet. But finally, the song has a happy melody.

          The only instrument accompanying this song is guitar. The soft natural sound of the guitar makes the listener feel peaceful and happy. The guitarist and singer are my friends. Their voice make me feel so happy and I can’ stop laughing . That’s why they told me ” it is the gift makes you laugh whenever you’re sad”.

          The lyrics the song are sincere and sweet. I can feel their love through the song. The lyrics give me courage, it say: “…the way you are is covered by the roses but you will be hurt by its thorn. They’re the trials we’re sure you have to face with…but don’t stop, facing the trials will make you grow up…”. The song lets me know no way is easy to get the success so don’t be afraid when confornted with difficulty. Its also give me encourgament: ” …when you’re tired and depressed, just turn around and look at us. We’re always by your side to give you energy to keep going on the way you choose…”. Whenever I feel tired or want to give up, I listen to this song to know that having many friends are looking at me and they want me to keep going. The song ends with the lines: ” Remember love is the only thing never smaller when shared. You live to be loved and give your love fir everybody”. These lines always keep me upbeat and I think it could affect everyone, too. When we know we live to be loved, life is so easy and beautiful.

         The song represents my life at all times whether I’m happy, depressed, or brave… It helps me enjoying my life and learning how to get in with everything around me and love them.

             I want to be a doctor and to know more about this career, I worked as a volunteer in a hospital. Everything there made me feel so eager and excited, especially the mergency room.

             Emergency room often is the biggest room in hospital.It also is the crowdest , busiest and noisiest room with a lot of people. The first time I went there, it seemed like I had a headache because of the sound there, like the cry, shout, scream, howl, moan from the wounded; the whisper, whimper from their families; the fastly talking from the doctors and nurses; the hurrily paces reverberate from the hall; the telephone’s ring; the click from the tools;…… All of them made a disordered sound. I feel it was trying to break my head. However, I was be fine on the next day, I had to fit in with these sounds if I want to work at hospital.

             The works for volunteers were simple so I just had to tide up and clean the tools. Sometimes I helped to put bandages or antiseptic for the patients. So, I used to use the chemicals. To antiseptic the minor wounds, I used ahcohol and cotton. Soft, feather cotton absorbed ahcohol fastly. I could felt how cool and wet ahcohol was when it overflowed into my hand. But its smell was so strong. You could feel uncomfortable if you sniffed it too much. Besides, the smell of antiseptic wafted all over the hospital mixed with a lot of smell from many people and blood kept bothering me, but then, I found the help from the masks.

              When working, I always had to touch the blood. It was warm, wet and sticky. The blood dyed the cotton like the red, downy pheres was used to decorate the christmas trees. When I touched the woundeds, it had a lot of feeling. Someone were cold, their skins looked pale and were cool because of fear or loosing a lot of blood. Someone were hot, they breathed fastly and theie faces blushed. Although the air in emergency room was be cold but the temperature of human bodies made it warmer constantly.

              The taste I had usually went from the water I drunk while I was working. Just is natural water but when I was exhausted, it gave me a lot energy. The sweet cool water flowed through mu tongue into my throat made me feel at ease. Sometimes the taste went from the sweat. It fell down to my lips and its taste was brackish. It told me that I needed to stop my work a little bit and wipe my face.

               When I go to school or doing something, I feel the time is a lazy turtle. It passed slowly and slowly. But since I worked at hospita, the time is flash of lightning. I can’t see it or hold it. I couldn’t worked slowly. I always had to move hurrily, act flexible and carefully. Everything I do could influenced on the others. I could felt myself was important. I worked as a adult, not a kid and I had to responsible for everything I did. These feeling is the reason made me like the hospital and emergency room.

                “Our Good Day ”

        Question 1: What lines in this chapter create the sense of happiness that the narrator feels?  What the metaphor is used to reinforce this idea?

        Answer:

_” We ride fast and faster. Past my house, sad and red and crumbly in places, past Mr.Benny’s grocery on the cornner, and down the avenue which is dangerous. ” and ” Down, down Mango Street we go. Rachel, Lucy, me. Our new bicycle. Laughing the crooked ride back.”

_ The metaphor is ” Past my house, sad and red and crumbly in places”.  I think it was used to describe the feeling of Esperanza.  She fetl that she past the house_ symbol for everything she doesn’t like before.  Because she has new friends and new bicycle and play with them happily.

        Explain the significance of the following quote: ” I knew then I had to have a house.  A real house.  One I could point to. But this isn’t it. The house on Mango Street isn’t it. For the time being, Mama says. Temporary, says Papa. But I know how those things go.”

        Its mean: She dreams about a new beautiful house but her real house is not like the house in her dream. She’s really disappoint. She doesn’t like this house. Although her father said it’s just temporary but she knew they would be live in this house a long time. And she doesn’t like this thing.  

         I’ve never had a dream that came partially true. But I think I would be not satisfied with the half-dream. The partial dream is worse than not having the dream at all. I think the narrator will respondto this partial dream by accept it like she had to.  I think that because she just be a little girl and she had to  obey her parents.

     In the future, our vehicle will be fashional and more convenient. The car will look different than they do now. It won’t have wheels, because it won’t move on the road. It will fly. To be precise, it will move with a maganetic field. So, it won’t need gasoline. Maybe it will use the energy from the sun. We will save a huge a mount of money for more comfortable. Example, yuo won’t have to drive it, it’ll have the ability to automatically locate where its owner wants to go. We will watch the movies or listen to music or relax instead of concentrating on driving. But you may wonder about safety. Don’t worry. It’ll be very safe, really safe. You know, the car will able to go through anything. Evne if, two cars will be able to pass through each other. As for parking, you won’t have to worry about parking. When you go where you want,  you just need push a button and the car will be disappear. When you want to go home, push a button and the car will reappear immediately. This button will be set on you cell-phone or electronic watch. Furthermore, our cars will be like a mobile comfortable house. If you like taking a trips, the car will be helpful for you. The car will have many things like a bed, television, bathtub, housewares… The space inside will be very big but if you look from outside, the car will just look like a normal car from nowadays. Imagine you will be living in polyhedron space. Overall, the cars in future will have many fuctions that will help us. When they become popular, I think their prices won’t be a problem. Everybody will be able to buy them and learn how to use them easily.

In my opinion, teens have to learn to manage finances themselves. First of all, they don’t earn money and still rely on their parents. When they go to school and make friend, they need the money. At the same time, they don’t control themselves when spending money and sometimes they spend lavshly. Also they don’t respect the money their parents work hard to earn. Another issue is their parents don’t care about what their children and buy with their money. It’s the way make the children corrupt quickly. Overall, I think teens should plan their financial carefully and think carefully before spending money. And the parents should teach the children how to earn money instead give them money.