Article Responses

Personally, the first article was my favorite out of the three. I thought that the employer in Haiti was very smart in her solution for helping people in a food crisis, by teaching them how to acquire their food. As the article stated, the solution does not solely depend upon each particular country. When countries collaborate, they create  more powerful and effective solutions. It is obviously awful that parents have to choose between their own children's lives, but I do have to say that it is partially their fault. It is not always their fault that they don't have food, but choosing to bring a child into the world knowing that they do not have the means for feeding is too careless. I don't wish to get political about it, but it does bother me that women, especially single mothers have a child and yet decide to have another child without means for feeding him or her. 

The second article is more specific to U.S. food shortages. These food shortages all connect to many other issues including poverty, unemployment, etc. In order to resolve the food shortage, it is necessary to try to reduce poverty. Simply feeding people is a temporary fix, and will by no means end the food shortage. The United States government needs to find a solution for all of the people in poverty instead of focusing on temporary fixes that aren't even working. 

The third article confused me a little. I don't exactly know what type of art work they were putting up but I think that the artwork is being blown out of proportion. The desire for a mural on a ceiling does not mean that the people working in the Council are not doing their job. Of course it would be better if they used that money in order to help the people that need it the most but I think it falls into a completely different category. The city of Indianapolis designates a certain amount of money for different purposes. The money that is in a welfare program is not in the same area as the money for landscape designing. Could Indianapolis function without landscaping? probably, but it does not have anything to do with the people in Indianapolis who are in poverty. That is the way things work, and unless there is a complete change in the entire world on these principles, there will be no difference. There must  be a complete paradigm shift.