Title: Hunger is still world’s largest tragedy
Source: The Straits Time, World section, A2
Date: 16 September 2010
Gist: The number of undernourished people remains high and there is a need to tackle this problem.
Issue: The number of undernourished people has declined but remains shockingly high with 925 million people affected this year, according to United Nations.
Question: To what extent do you agree that it is the government’s responsibility to tackle the hunger problem?
|Agree to a large extent |Agree to a small extent |
|P: Government is known as the leader and is given the authority|P: The world’s organisations such as the United Nations which is |
|and responsibility to govern the country, community or state. |responsible for the well-being of everyone. |
| | |
|E: The government is responsible to take good care of its |E: United Nations is a world organizations which involves leaders |
|people or society, be it their daily basic necessities or even |from many countries who come together to discuss and come up with |
|ensuring that there is equal treatment provided towards its |solutions so as to solve a problem. UN is able to surpass the |
|people. The government has to ensure that the life of the |local government because of massive funding and advance |
|people is not threatened by the shortage of food and by |technology. The government on the other hand have their limits. |
|creating jobs for the people to work and earn their money. | |
| |Eg: The United Nations is aiming to double food aid for Kenya to |
|Eg: According to New York’s...