how does it feel being caught in a famine? and drought?
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I live in western colorado and we're in a drought right now, last year we almost got out of it but this winter we got about 4 inches of snow, our closest ski resort closed on like March 6th and we grow alot of peaches here so thats realy hard on our economy, it isnt like the patatoe famine in ireland where they all had to move but it does kinda suck.
812319
I caught the FLU for the first time ever last Feb.  It was a nightmare.  I couldn't move much because my body ached so badly headaches ,  in and out of conciousness.  I hope I never have to go through that again.
102223
whiping,starving,no water and alot were killed it was a very savage time.
507362
Campfires...hmm, they make me feel warm and comfy, mesmerized by the flames. I see the world turning by behind it, and I feel reassured that my problems aren't as big as they seem. I feel like singing and laughing with the company around the fire. I feel like telling stories of huge fish I've caught and big moose and bears I've seen. I feel like poking the fire, and adding a log. I feel like there is no better place to be in the world than right here around this campfire.
1047573
I live in San Antonio, TX. While I wasn't directly hit by the hurricane, I definitely felt its aftermath. In addition to the HUGE exodus of people from the Gulf Coast that came in, causing heavier traffic, food shortages in certain areas, and other issues, I lost two very good friends to the floodwaters in New Orleans (They were two brothers from a family who's been friends with my family since time immemorial). One fell into the water trying to put their grandparents onto the roof to escape the flood, and we're not sure what happened to the other, just that he was found floating around in someone's neighborhood. There's also a huge long heartbreaking story involving the third of these brothers and myself that is a result of this flood: in a nutshell, I love him, I thought he loved me, I took him and his family in when they came to SA, he went back to find his other brothers and came home married to a girl he'd known for two weeks.\n\nSo yeah, that's how I was affected.
411137
the feeling of emptiness
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http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/famine/agriculture_pre.html\n\nhttp://www.onderzoekinformatie.nl/en/oi/nod/onderzoek/OND1276918/\n\nhttp://www.sare.org/highlights/2006/farm_systems.htm
900369
Grab a bull by the horns...my grandpa used to say that one. I haven't been on the horns of a dilemma - it does sound painful. My mother seems to have spent most of her life caught between a rock and a hard place. I have always managed to squirm out of that one.\n  I have been in  a pickle but I didn't let it sour me on life, and I was in a jam once but it turned out to be sweet.\n  Have you ever been up a creek without a paddle? If so would you just drift along and see what happened or jump out and swim?
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Actually, you should feel pooped out and potentially hosed down.\n\nDid everything come out well in the end?
676543
you should ask why hunger didn't stop in Africa, since in Western Europe until the 19th century there was hunger in some places, most famously in Ireland when the potato famine stroke and the British didn't lend a hand (being colonisers there too, and killed off maybe a million Irish 1846-1849).  In Russia famine in the Stalinist era killed millions, in China too Mao's cultural revolution lead to a great famine.  My home country Finland nearly suffered a famine during the second world war, which led the country to be an ally of Nazi Germany to escape the hunger and fight the Russian threat.  \n\nAnother way to answer the question is by following the advice of Amartya Sen, the Indian Economist and Nobelist.  He says that a democratic country never goes hungry, as hunger is not about drought but about relations of power in the country.  He demonstrated that when there was a drough in India, the authorities reacted since they were voted by the people.  Now how many governments in Africa are 'really' voted by the people where electors are given a real and not a symbolic choice... only a handful.  Lack of rain is predictable, even in the poorest areas of the Sahel (Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali), you know that the rains will eventually fail, so a democratic government would prepare for that event.  In Mali the situation this year was much less severe than in Burkina-Faso, just for this reason.  Burkina-Faso has a dictator who has ruled since the mid 1980s after he assasinated the previous president... so much for democracy.  Niger denies hunger existing in its country, so it doesn't even let the World Food Programme to come in.  This is a disaster, the government there should be tried for human rights violations in The Hague, but nobody has the courage to say that officially and the citizens of Niger (the lowest in the Human Development Index in the world) die.\n\nHunger is a social phenomenon, humans can survive everywhere in the planet including Greenland and Siberia, so why not on the edges of Sahara, in Malawi or Somalia.  To solve hunger, establish a free press culture and provide education, that will be the end of hunger.
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essentially, understanding anothe culture is all about experiencing another culture. You don't know what hunger is until you have been starved and you do not know what freedom is until you have been opressed. Also people think differently in other countries (the best news in the states comes from the brits) so it's quite an experience going abroad and I would highly reccomend it.
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Oh No, our first argument as Friends!\nI was raised into a hunting family, we hunted for food, not pleasure, we didn't trophy hunt, but if it was a trophy animal it was a plus. I haven't hunted in about three years, because i am not in need of the food they provide, but if the need arises I'll have to do it again. The pleasure I receive is not from the hunt, but rather being out in nature. I actually feel bad about the kill. Now, I also believe in culling the herds, it gets the sick ones out, eradicating Wasting Disease (it's like Mad Cow Disease) is a high priority for me.\n   I would much rather have 5,000 killed by hunting than 15,000 die of starvation when there is way to many for their particular environment and not enough food to go around...starving to death has gotta suck! Now about that church thing..I dunno if they do that or not! The people who kill for food far outweigh those who trophy hunt.
60700
Speaking for myself: I get really wet--alot more so than before I have an O;and I kinda shake (my body). My face feels really hot and the breathing increases. It's more like panting with a couple of unidentifiable words thrown in there. Oh and I clench my fists and "down there" gets really tight!!!!
464756
Rain is part of the reason, also a rock concert screwed up the field. They had to plant new sod witch was affected with all the rain. When it dries up the sod is gonna take better and the feel is gonna look good. You must be terrified watching Barry limp around in that horrible left field.
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I feel for you.\nLet's hope that this will be the case for you.  Unfortunately the quagmire that The Bush has got everyone in will not soon go away.
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Yes a lot of people are helpless and would need to work until they cannot move, and it's pathetic.  The world is unfair, let's face it.  The only thing which might make you feel better is you're already better than millions of people living in Africa and other 3rd world countries where people are starving.  So don't worry too much, there are enough good people in this Country to help those in need.
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HOnest? It hurt like hell- cramps my ass. Childbirth was less painful.  IT took me several days to be able to walk about comfortably- luckily my mom came with and stayed a few days after - and I was already 25 when I had it - sometimes, mom just helps.\n\nDo get help around if you have children, you'll not be feeling up to the normal stuff for days.\n\nThe slough off was , well, like your worst period but ickier.  And you will have cramps at least the first 24 hours.\n\nGood luck, my sympathies, hope it takes care of your problem.