THE IRISH POTATO FAMINE Pre-Famine History The potato was introduced to Europe sometime in the 16th century. There are many theories on how it arrived‚ but the one with the most credibility is from a case study done by Theresa Purcell. She explains how the white potato‚ also known as the Irish potato‚ originated in the Andean Mountains and was brought to Europe by the Spaniards. The potato was originally classified in the same family as the poisonous nightshade so people refrained from eating
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World Problems Famine World Problems are problems that affect not just one particular group of people in the world but a large number of several groups in the world. Famine is the biggest World Problems facing us today. Even though we as Americans have not yet seen or experienced the horrors of famine‚ other parts of the world have. We need to take action and solve this problem before it gets out of hand‚ and there are several ways to do it. Some ways are controlling the birth rate in LDC’s
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Explain Mill’s Utilitarianism [30] John Stuart Mill‚ (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873) was a British philosopher who was principally famous for revising and expanding on Jeremy Bentham’s theory of Utilitarianism. Jeremy Bentham said that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. He then devised the hedonic calculus or the principle of utility as a measure of working out the usefulness of an action according to how much pleasure it creates for how many people
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In Peter Singer’s “The Singer Solution to World Poverty”‚ Singer claims that the rich taste of people with money is starving children around the world. He also believes that if human beings have it to give‚ why don’t we give more to the people who have less. So‚ according to Singer‚ a possible solution to world poverty is for Americans to donate all extra income‚ which is not necessary for everyday living‚ to organizations that provide aid to other poor areas of the world. If more people donated
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affected the crops year after year in the 1840’s. This disease caused the loss of great part of the crops until the end of the decade‚ but especially in the year 1847‚ called the black forty-seven because it affected more than 90% of the crops. The potato blight came from America in a shipment of seed potatoes for European farmers. Irish farmers‚ who landed almost only one type of vegetable‚ a potato called the Irish Lumper‚ were the most affected ones by this disease as they did not have anything else
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On September 5th‚ 1999‚ Peter Singer wrote an article for the New York Times newspaper titled The Singer Solution to World Poverty. He states that residents in developed countries should donate to charitable causes aimed at reducing poverty. In the past‚ some of his works have been controversial‚ and this extends to his works on the relationship between charity and the public. He points out that it is wrong for people to enjoy their wealth and live in luxury while majority of people are suffering
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theories as to the best way to impede such atrocities from taking hold in our world. In his article‚ “Talk is Cheap: Getting Serious about Preventing Child Soldiers”‚ P.W. Singer suggests that the best way to prevent child soldiers would be to prosecute recruiters in an international court of law‚ and impose harsher legislation on non-state groups that forcibly enlist and voluntarily employ
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n the differences between absolute and relative morality Relativism and absolutism are two ethical theories that strongly differ in beliefs and opinions. A relativist person would believe that there are no absolute universal truths‚ truth is relative to the subject and can differ from person to person and society to society. Relativism considers the outcome of choices; a relativist will generally make decisions based on the likely outcome. On the other hand‚ an absolutist thinker believes that
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Starvation “The famine began…The dead were all around; on the roads‚ near the river‚ by the fences…Altogether 792 souls have died in our village during the famine‚ in the war years – 135 souls” (Kuryliw‚ p. 2). This is how Antonina Meleshchenko remembers the Holodomor‚ or the Ukrainian genocide famine. This famine took place between 1932 and 1933 in a country in Europe called Ukraine. Although many survivors wish not to remember‚ this event needs to be recognized. The Ukrainian genocide famine killed
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feed these starving children.” Immediately you pictured a small African child with a skinny frame and protruding belly. A person does not need to be born in the 1980’s to imagine the picture I have described‚ nor do they need to know that it was not until the 1980’s that the United States intervened in Ethiopia’s famine. As the word famine travels across any medium we picture Africa. However‚ many take it a step further by relating these issues to Ethiopia. African culture‚ specifically Ethiopia‚ is
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