English Composition II

Author: Ivan (Page 4 of 8)

WEEK 7 – DAY TWO

I would also like to interview someone known to do something different besides just getting information from pages. Honestly, that page does not have many ads, videos, or photos, and it is mostly information regarding the subject and many statistics. The writing is mixed, casual, formal, and academic for all types of audiences.

WEEK 7 – DAY ONE

NUT GRAF

Obesity is not an issue that we should ignore or see as something common today. Lately, the government has focused a lot on feeding children and more on schools so that they provide something healthy, which is fine, but they forget about adults. Because people are older does not mean that they make correct decisions regarding food and even less with respect to the type of marketing that is so great with junk food that it is inevitable for someone older to eat unhealthily. 7 out of 10 adults in the United States suffer from obesity, of which a high percentage of them in their childhood were not obese and all this because they allow this to be normal, this being one of the significant causes of death, obesity.

The Problem With Focusing on Childhood Obesity

By Thomas A. Farley

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/18/opinion/the-problem-with-focusing-on-childhood-obesity.html

QUOTE SANDWICH

Another problem that we find today regarding obesity is that the government only focuses on helping youth, and companies do good marketing to attract attention to the population. but also that junk food is much cheaper than healthy food. “The World Bank says nearly a billion people around the world live on a dollar a day, or even less; in the United States, the daily food-stamp allowance is typically just a few dollars per person, while the average American eats $7 worth of food per day.

Even middle-class people struggle to put healthful food on the table. Studies show that junk foods tend to cost less than fruits, vegetables and other healthy foods, whose prices continue to rise”. This indicates that our system is created primarily for consumption. Even if most people have some money to buy healthy food, they also get too tired from their jobs to cook and even more so when they don’t know-how. Obesity has many factors than the simple fact of eating more, that’s why the government, the system should intervene in terms of the prices of healthy food, reduce it, but high taxes on junk food, also reduce the marketing of that food. Put limitations so that this disease does not continue to grow.

Money Is Tight, and Junk Food Beckons

By Tara Parker-Pope

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/health/nutrition/04well.html

WEEK SIX – DAY TWO

Colombia the second country with the most inequality in Latin America

In this text, I will make a small analysis of inequality in my country. A problem that Colombia has been presenting which inhibits a social problem that fosters poverty, violence, and corruption, being seen as an inefficiency of the state with the public resources, affecting the civilian population evidenced in an irrelevant inequity economically, politically, and socially.

The World Bank says that “the income of the richest which is 10% of the population of Colombians is eleven times greater than that of the poorest 10%, and compares it with the most equitable OECD country, the Slovak Republic, where 10% of the richest population earn just three times as much as the poorest 10%.”

Over time, the problems we have been facing in Latin America are reflected by economic inequality. It is a great generator of small conflicts in each state, which gives way to internal violence due to the unequal treatment caused by society itself, involving social classes, gender, ethnicity, religion, and services. Moreover, positioning ourselves in second place in Latin America as the country with tremendous inequality.

It affects several essential services such as health since it intervenes in an infant’s life’s healthy growth and gestation. When the state refers to the fact that we are all born equal, with the same rights, they do not realize that in some rural areas of the country and less favored sectors where many children lack services, it is due to the fact that resources are not equitably distributed.

Concluding that this problem dramatically affects the population, segregating them from injustices and blocking their dreams and the congestion of getting ahead, we come to the analysis that inequality is a great inhibitor of inconveniences that Colombians experience daily.

Text: Inequality in Colombia is the highest of all OECD countries, says the World Bank.

Brayan Xavier Becerra, La Republica, https://www.larepublica.co/globoeconomia/desigualdad-de-colombia-es-la-mas-alta-de-todos-los-paises-de-la-ocde-dice-el-banco-mundial-3253469

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