Poverty is a huge issue that affects many different countries, including the United States of America. There are many people who are poor. According to Povery USA, 1 in 6 people in the USA are poor or live in poverty. That is more than 42 million people who are poor. And that is just in the United States. There are nearly 1.6 billion people in the world who are poor. I believe that it is very sad that our world is full of people who suffer because of their lack of food and money. They should not have to go through all of this pain. 1 out of 7 American households wer food insecure. That means that one in seven households lacked enough food. That is not okay. Every single person in the world should have enough food to live right. Children all around the world suffer. 1.6 million children had to stay in emergency homes or shelter. The website, Poverty USA shows multiple ways we can stop poverty, and I think that it is very important that we know how to stop poverty and actually strive to completely end it. I believe that Poverty USA is doing a very great thing.because I know this will help people realize that they should help the poor and donate to them. Donating money, food and supplies is another great way to help the poor. Not only do they get food and the supplies that they need most, but they also get clothing and other nessacary things for survival. I believe that it is very sad that our world is full of people who suffer because of their lack of food and money. Although, the poor can suffer, the whole country, the continent, and even the world suffers because of the lack of food, money, and supplies. We need to stop this from happening. We need to end poverty.
http://www.povertyusa.org
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This week, the eighth grade class read the short story, "Lamb to the Slaughter". I thought it was pretty funny for multiple reasons. For one thing, the main character murders her husband with a lamb chop. She then proceeds to feed the murder weapon to the police. Also it was written by the same guy who wrote "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "James and the Giant Peach". The short story, “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl, takes place in a humble house during the mid-1900s. It tells the story of Mary Maloney, a petite, pregnant woman, who wants to murder her husband with lamb meat and get away with it. She must fight against Patrick Maloney, Mary’s husband, who want to divorce Mary and not get murdered with lamb chops. She must also fight the police, who arrive at the scene of the crime and desperately want to find and arrest the murderer. First, Mary Maloney waits for her husband, Patrick, in her home. When he arrives, she tries to give him some food after a long day’s work. Then, Patrick tells her that he wants to divorce Mary, which causes her great sadness. After that, Mary goes to the fridge, pulls out a lamb chop, and whacks Patrick in the head, instantly killing him. Next, Mary goes to the store to buy some vegetables. When she gets home she cries over Patrick’s dead body, even though she just killed him. Finally, Mary calls the police. When they arrive, the police investigate the scene. As the story ends, Mary cooks the lamb chops and feeds it to the police, ultimately getting rid of the murder weapon.
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.html Pewdiepie, who is a YouTuber with over 45 million subscribers, was beaten down with many allegations of him coming from huge news sites. These news sites included the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Sun. The allegations consisted of lies and poor opinions stating that Pewdiepie was a Jew-hating Nazi. These were of course were not true. The allegations were made because of a couple of jokes that Pewdiepie made in some of his videos, making fun of Nazis. The news, who has no humor, took this seriously and immediately labeled Pewdiepie as a Nazi. Many major followers of some news sites criticized him, even if they had not seen the videos. Fake news like this can be critical on anyone, especially people with many followers like Pewdiepie. After the allegations, Pewdiepie made a response video talking about all the lies that the news said about him. In the video he is clearly upset and even cries in the video. Why did he cry? Because the allegations caused Disney to drop their million dollar sponsorship. The allegations also caused millions of hate comments in Pewdiepie's next videos. Fortunately many fellow YouTubers defended Pewdiepie including, Pyrocinical, H3H3 Productions, and GradeAUnderA. They defended Pewdiepie in their videos saying that Pewdiepie did not mean for the jokes to be taken seriously. In one of Pewdiepie's videos he actually plays a game where he is a sniper in WWII and kills Hitler.
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