Similarities Between Africa And America

What may be hard to see is that hunger is everywhere. Yes, hunger is in Africa and third-world countries, but also in the United States. Childhood hunger is nearly a bigger issue than overall hunger in the United States. Studies show that hunger among children has a higher percentage than hunger as a whole (Feeding America 28). It is found that children suffer from food insecurity in every county in the United States (Feeding America 30). It is easy to sit back and think that everyone has the financial and physical means to find food, but they do not. Over thirty percent of all children (under the age of eighteen) in New Mexico live in food insecure households; this state has the highest percent in the entire United States (Feeding America

Throughout history, many can see differences in the empires of America and the empires of Africa, but some fundamental similarities exist among these empires that make them successful. While each of these empires is deeply rooted in promoting economic growth and spiritual connectivity, they go about these tasks in different ways due to their individual and unique circumstances.

The civilizations of America, Africa, and Europe each had their own political, economic, and religious systems that changed drastically when people from each continent encountered one another. In the Americas, the Native Americans had developed large and massive empires that would come to marvel the world. In Africa, there were are also large empires, home to millions of people. Western Europe on the other hand did not have any large empires or well organized societies. However, this would all change when the Europeans came in contact with the people in the Americas and Africa. It would be the Europeans that rose up while the other races fell.

The two components that were obvious to me for the Indigenous religions of North America and Africa were mythic and ritual. After reading chapters 2 and 3. I learned that the indigenous religion of North America is very spiritual. They respect nature and preform many rituals, like the sun dance that is honoring the spirit beings or the jump dance which restores balance of the earth. The Indigenous religions of Africa have ceremonies, one of them are having the boys become men. Both, Indigenous Religions of North America and Africa, believe in some type of higher god or spirit that controls the nature and the events. The similarities for the North American and African was that they both prepare or have life practices that

Many factors contribute to the food insecurity faced by many American’s today. Poverty seems to attribute to the hunger crisis more drastically than anything else. More specifically, unequal distribution of wealth is the principle cause of hunger. The world does in fact produce enough food to feed everyone, the issues is that income is not distributed is in such a way that everyone can afford or have access to food.

….Overweight and obesity are advancing rapidly in the developing world as well… [While] 80 percent of world’s hungry children live in countries with food surpluses. (World Watch Institute)

America is the wealthiest country in the world, but it is also home to some of the hungriest people. According to the IMF’s advanced economy countries on Food Insecurity, America rank’s the worst (a place at the table). Similar to the rest of the world, the majority of the hungry in America are those with a low socioeconomic status; however, the hunger in America is not due to lack of food but lack of nutrition. The people who are poverty stricken in America are also commonly affected by obesity due to lack of income and education. Though it may seem to be a paradox, hunger and obesity run hand-in-hand. Often times

In Mexico, around forty five percent of its one hundred and eighteen million people face food shortages or hunger. In south America, nearly ten million Peruvians suffer from hunger; that is nearly one-third of the population. In many countries around the world, it is the rural poor who suffer most. Hunger and disease, is usually in close combination and often precipitated by natural disasters or war, have plagued humankind throughout history. People need nutrition to be strong and to be able to go to school or work, but without any healthy food that cannot happen. Their bodies cannot process the activities or material they are shown due to lack of nutrients that you get from healthy sustenance. therefore, they are not able to get a good paying job or education for later in their future. World hunger is a problem that must be addressed as seen through illness,

While 34 percent people in the United States are obese, almost one out of every six households will find themselves fearful sometime in a year of not having sufficient amount of food to eat. Truly, these problem are not related to any specific one race or gender, and they are not simply due to faults of willpower or personnel discipline. As author mentioned they are symptoms of a broken food system.

While most reports highlights the severity of hunger in many developing nations, many suffering from hunger can happen in our backyard too. In the US, prolific families suffering from malnourishment and food insecurity makes up 12.7%

The Europeans gave people a wrong and estranged image of the African people. They told people what they observed from the Africans way of life. The Europeans compared the Africans culture to their culture, and it being different they declared them as savages of people that had no consideration for human life. In all reality they had a strong culture that had social order with their own form of government. Europeans didn't understand why the African people didn't what they did, from paying a woman’s father to marry her to having multiple wives. This is a prime of why you cannot judge a book by it’s cover. The Europeans only saw wild people that had no sense of humanity, when the Africans looked at each other they saw a: mother, brother, sister,

The gap between Africa and Afro-America and the gap between the living and the dead and the gap between the past and the present does not exist. It 's bridged for us by our assuming responsibility for people no one 's ever assumed responsibility for. Slavery may be buried within the history books in our libraries, but America itself is not free because it is still afraid of reading about slavery and shies away from the topic. Contemporary readers have a responsibility to take the leading role in remembering history of American slavery. The internationalization of contemporary English means that reading is the best tool for doing this and bridging the gap (Bennett and Royle, 238).

Food is a necessary part of ever individual’s daily life. Without food, the body cannot function properly, resulting in poor health, exhaustion, and even death by starvation. Therefore, food insecurity continues to be an international global epidemic. The journal article by Harrigan suggests that the citizens of the Sub-Saharan African country of Malawia are in further poverty due to their lack of food and agricultural resources. The newspaper article from the Guardian tells the real life story of African citizens struggling to farm and find food due to the crop shortages that have spanned Africa for the past two years. This is a current global issue, and the journal and news article prove that there is much to be done in order to help restore

In the past ten years the world population exceeded six billion people with most of the growth occurring in the poorest, least developed countries in the world. The rapidly increasing population and the quickly declining amount of land are relative and the rate at which hunger is increasing rises with each passing year. We cannot afford to continue to expand our world population at such an alarming rate, for already we are suffering the consequences. Hunger has been a problem for our world for thousands of years. But now that we have the technology and knowledge to stamp it out, time is running short.

A dietician is a scientist who provides individuals and also the nation with practical information to encourage people to eat healthy; they also turn their scientific knowledge into practical skills. Some practical skills that dieticians have are measuring peoples BMI and making sure that their BMI isn’t too high or isn’t too low, they also measure people blood pressure, inform the public about nutrition and many more. Dieticians apply there scientific skills to advise people about their diet and if there are any changes that need to be made, and to make sure that individuals are on the right track. In addition they set targets for individuals to assure that they stay on the right track and on the healthy path.