“Hunger and Starvation: Is there a need to be worried?”

Every year 15 million children die of hunger related issues. That is 15 million chances we have missed for somebody that may have grown older and changed the world. I know it has been an issue for quite some time now, but I guess I just started realizing how much this problem could be avoided. At the age of 16 I started applying for many different jobs. I came to find that the jobs that were most eager to call back were food places such as pizza parlors and restaurants. In the past I have worked for Pizza Man, Chanticlear pizza, and a little town restaurant called “The Skillet”. At each one of these places at the end of the night we had to throw all loose food scrapings and unsold items away. It really made me think of how many other places are using this procedure and then again made me think of how much food is wasted. It seems that if we could find a way to preserve that food and maybe send it to a place in need, then we can possibly help resolve starvation over seas. I also did a little research on my own lately and came to find out that for the price of 1 missile, yes only 1, a school full of children could eat lunch everyday for 5 years. Now think about that and then think about the war. Still want to send our troops overseas? I must say I now have second guesses myself.
Source:
http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/stats.htm

"Sprinter"

“Nothing like a white April”
Wow, here we are April 10th middle of Minnesota and yet we are still expecting snow. I can understand maybe a late March down fall of an inch or two, but when you cut into my spring with expected snow forecasts it is going to cause some minor depression. I have lived in Minnesota my whole life, so I am use to snow; I have clothes that prepare me for the conditions and proper footwear to protect my feet. Every year in Minnesota there is a time I like to call “Sprinter,” it is the time of year that everyone sprints around and expects it to be nice out so they pack up their winter clothing, then once all the winter clothing is packed away, there is like a little alarm that tells the weather gods they are unprepared for winter conditions. Then it comes, the sloppy one to two inches here and there just to wreck all your new spring clothing. If you hate it as much as me you are probably in a minor depressed state right now, but no worries, spring has arrived and soon enough the snow shall be permanently gone. Until that moment try to keep thoughts of beaches and snow cones running through your head, well, maybe not snow cones but you know what I mean.