Discussion 2-HSCO 500 Reply1

Discussion 2-HSCO 500 Reply1

The below assignment has been written by another student. Please read it very carefully and reply to it by providing 150 meaningful words, apa format, at least 1 citation from course textbook: Martin, M. E. (2014). Introduction to human services: Through the eyes of practice settings (3rd ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson. ISBN: 9780205848058. Your work should be original work. Thanks(joseph) I have worked in kitchens across the United States; from New York to Maryland, from Tennessee to Arizona. I have worked in restaurants in Canada, and have seen the inside of kitchens in China. I’ve worked in small mom-and-pop shops, casual dining restaurants, and even several casino resorts. I’ve been a dishwasher, line cook, Sous Chef and Banquet Chef. I have been in, or around food most of my life. So it surprises, and saddens me when I see that hunger exists in every community in our country[1]. Roddy Scheer writes; “With less than 5 percent of world population, the U.S. uses one-third of the world’s paper, a quarter of the world’s oil, 23 percent of the coal, 27 percent of the aluminum, and 19 percent of the copper,” he reports. “Our per capita use of energy, metals, minerals, forest products, fish, grains, meat, and even fresh water dwarfs that of people living in the developing world.”[2] So why are so many people faced with hunger in this nation when the average American consumes nearly one-ton of food per year?[3] First, as I believe Scheer points out, is America’s waste of natural resources. There is no reason for America to have any sort of hunger issue if we are truly the richest nation in the world. Second is the unemployment rates across the United States. In my state of Arizona we tie Tennessee at 7.8 percent, which is only ten from the highest; Rhode Island and Nevada topping the charts at 9.3 and 9.5 percent respectively. Third, unemployment leads to poverty. In 2013, 45.3 million people (14.5 percent) were in poverty[4]. The Bible tells us an interesting story in the book of Ruth of how people handled the poor and those who were unable to care for themselves in ancient times. In chapter 2 we read that Ruth is gleaning the fields of Boaz, a kinsman of Naomi’s late husband. Tradition shows that a farmer would plant a crop on a square (for the most part) piece of land. At the time of harvest the farmer did not cut the corners of his field. This was to insure that strangers in the land could have something to eat if need be. When the farmer harvested the inner circles, the servants were not allowed to pick up anything that they may have dropped on the ground. This was to insure that those who were unemployed, or couldn’t care for themselves, could have something to eat if need be. This process of picking up the leftovers from the ground is called gleaning. Ancient Israel already had in place a system to help take care of the poor so that those in need, at the very least, could eat. Wouldn’t our nation fair so much better in God’s eyes if we learned to care for each other. James tells us that ‘to care for the widows and the orphans’ is a perfect religion. I wonder where he learned that. ?

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