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Paola Sabel
Yeyna
Brit Lit p.0
1 December 2016
Annotated Bibliography
Brown, Kimberly. "Shocking Need: American Kids Go Hungry." ABC News. ABC News
Network, 24

Aug. 2011. Web. 30 Nov. 2016.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/hunger_at_home/hunger-home-american-children-malnourish
ed/story?id=14367230
In this article, Brown expresses that one in four children in the United States suffer from
a lack of reliable food which greatly impacts their performance in school. Brown utilizes an
interview she had with a high school student who did not eat all day because her family did not
have access to an abundant amount of food. Brown also pulls statistics from the US Department
of Agriculture and the WIC that depict how people and society are impacted by malnutrition.
Through the use of first hand anecdotes and statistics, Brown is able to communicate to the
reader that there are so many people suffering from malnutrition and a lack of food that one in
every four children is malnourished. This can impact their mental and social abilities in a way
that could become irreversible as the child transitions into adulthood. A shocking forty nine
percent of children born in the United States are born into families that are or were receiving
food supplements form the government. This article provides excellent insight into the lives of
high school students that are impacted by a lack of food. It also provides statistics about the
amount of children and families in the United States that receive food supplements from the

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government because they would have no other way of purchasing their food. It also describes
the impact that readily available food has on the mind of young children and adults and how the
quality of performance increases. This will be useful in explaining why we need to help those
who do not have the same access to food and supplies as those who are more privileged.
DiBlasio, Natalie. "Hunger in America: 1 in 7 Rely on Food Banks." USA Today. Gannett
Satellite Information Network, 17 Aug. 2014. Web. 30 Nov. 2016.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/17/hunger-study-food/14195585/
In this article, DiBlasio expresses that food banks are what is keeping millions of
Americans from serious hunger and malnutrition. DiBlasio interviews two people to express
that those who live off of food stamps and food banks had a normal life until something went
amiss and landed them in a situation where they did not know if they would be able to provide
for their children. DiBlasio also brings in statistics to describe that the ethnicity of people that
use food banks is primarily white. Through the use of interviews, DiBlasio is able to convey that
people with ordinary jobs, such as pharmacists and receptionists, along with janitors and military
families, are among the millions of people that rely on nearby food banks to feed their families.
Many states also make it difficult for people to apply for food stamps, so with the presence of
food banks, families do not have to worry as much about making all ends meet. DiBlasio then
breaks down the percentage of whites, African Americans, and Hispanics that use food banks
and the majority of people a white, then African American, then Hispanic, something that many
people would not have thought. This article provides excellent insight into the different kinds of
people that use food banks and how those people were living normally until one twist of fate
cornered them into poverty and relying on food banks and stamps. This article will be useful in

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portraying the different kinds of jobs that people have and yet still many need assistance from
food banks. Not only that, but it shows that a quarter of military families are not able to make
ends meet by themselves, which to me seems wrong since they are serving our country. I want
people to be more aware of others situations and be more open to helping those in need.
Rector, Robert, and Kirk A. Johnson. "Understanding Poverty in America." The Heritage
Foundation. N.p., 5 Jan. 2004. Web. 30 Nov. 2016.
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2004/01/understanding-poverty-in-america
In this article, Rector and Johnson express that even though a family may be in poverty,
that does not necessarily mean that that are without essential commodities. Rector and Johnson
mainly rely on the use of facts and statistics to express the percentages of people that could be
considered poor and the types of living conditions that these people have. The lay a foundation
though studies taken that many people considered to be poor are not as poor as one would think.
Rector and Johnsons, through this article, explain that people living in poverty are usually put in
that situation by either a lack of money, or a father figure/ husband not being present at home.
However, this does not imply that those living in poverty have none of the daily appliances we
use of commodities that we could not fathom living without. Most families have air
conditioning, at least on car, and many other appliances that one would not necessarily think
someone considered as being in poverty would have. This does not mean that many families do
not rely on food banks and stamps, since they do not know what their monthly income will
necessarily be. This article will be useful in portraying that even people that one may not suspect
as being poor, may live off of food banks and stamps. It also goes to show that one cannot
pinpoint and catagorize others into a certain catagory because they live in a house with modern

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essentials. They may be struggling just as much as someone without as much money. The
article helps to also portray the percentages of people in the United States that live in poverty
which will be helpful with my questions regarding who lives in poverty and how they got there.
Song, Jason. "Rise in College Food Banks Linked to the Economy and Campus Demographics."
Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2015. Web. 30 Nov. 2016.
http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-higher-learning-food-20150803-story.htm
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In this article, Song expresses that too many college students are going without the
necessary amounts of food for there not to be food banks stationed near the campuses. Song uses
part of an interview that was conducted with a college students who decided to go back to
college even while she was living out of her car with next to no money. Statistics were brought
in to portray the amount of college students that relied on food banks and how those students
were usually either graduate students or foreign students. In this article, Song depicts that
thousands of college students across the country are suffering from a lack of reliable food
income which is why many colleges have founded food banks to help relieve some tension from
their students. Until just recently, there was only one college in the nation that offered food
assistance to its students, but after other colleges started noting benefits of nutrition in their
students, almost 200 more colleges have done the same thing and opened food banks on their
campuses. This article provides an excellent insight into a different percentage of people that
rely on food banks which will be useful for my background research. Food banks are not just
used by families, but by college students who a paying all of their money to universities to try
and never be put in a situation again where they have to rely on food banks. This also shows

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how many people that come to the United States to get an education are limited on the jobs they
can have and so most times do not have a sufficient amount of money. Therefore, will help to
answer the types of people prone to malnutrition and how they were put in that situation.
Williams, Gurney. Children and Hunger: America's Hidden Problem. Dec. 2000
http://web.a.ebscohost.com/src_ic/detail/detail?vid=6&sid=e90121a7-dfda-4ce0-9ca8-c4
15fc1c8432%40sessionmgr4009&hid=4212&bdata=#AN=3980998&db=hxh
In this article, Williams explains that the two reasons for an increase in malnutrition as a
result of poverty are an ununiform system for declaring what a person earns at their job and a
change in government policies. Williams furthers his explanation by describing how
malnutrition in children and infants can lead to psychological and social concerns as the child
continues to grow. Williams depicts various habits that children tend to pick up when the are
malnourished, such as inattentiveness and a lack of understanding. Williams uses first hand
accounts of people that were forced to live under the poverty line through no fault of their own
and portrays how drastically their lives changed. Many of the people that live in poverty also
have children receive less than the necessary nutrients each day to sustain a healthy living
pattern. Many people who live in poverty lost sums of their money through hospital bills, losing
their job, or having too many mouths to feed. This lead to tension in families and children living
in conditions that are not up to par. This article provides an excellent view into the lives of those
living in poverty. It not only explains how those people got to be where they are, but also the
affects it had taken on themselves and their families. This will help to support my background
research through first person stories about how people landed in the realm of poverty and how
living in a malnourished home affects their outlook on life and society. It seems that many

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people get their food using food stamps and from food banks, thus leading into my idea of
having grocery stores provided wasted food to food banks to increase the supplies for the
impoverished.