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Jacob Schronce

Ms. Jizi

UWRT 1103-012

20 March 2018

Research Proposal

1. The inquiry question that I will be researching is What are the effects of hunger on

children in southeastern United States?

2. The primary purpose of this research topic is to explore how many, and to what extent,

children in the rural, Southeastern America are affected by hunger. By researching this

topic, I plan on discovering how badly the children of the environment that I live in are

suffering from child hunger and how many children are having to go through this. My

plans are to learn about the physical and emotional tolls that are being put on the children

who are faced with this hunger and what circumstances in their life they are not able to

achieve do to their hunger. By searching this topic, I will be able to find the problems that

children in my surrounding area face and can potentially help to find a solution or at least

put my efforts toward helping stop the problem. I will also be able to demonstrate some

of my character strengths through this research assignment such as hope. This is because

I have hope that I can potentially help these children in my area that are suffering from

hunger. The main reason that I picked this topic is because when we as Americans think

of child hunger, we always think of places like third world countries; however, many

Americans do not realize that child hunger in America is actually a big problem. I want to

bring to light this problem so that others can learn about how people in their own country

are suffering through things we never imagined possible in the United States. Although I
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never have been personally affected by hunger, I have seen the effects of it in my own

county and how badly it actually is. When volunteering with one of my school clubs, we

packed book bags for elementary kids for the weekends so they would have food. Upon

packing all the bags, we ended up packing over 150 bags full of food. In a small county

like mine, that is a lot of bags of food for children and it made me realize that the

problem of child hunger is a big problem in Southeastern America and I want to find out

the consequences of this on these children.

3. When it comes to the prior beliefs, assumptions, preconceptions, ideas, or prejudices I

have concerning my topic, I do not honestly have anything other than the fact that it is a

problem. To what extent is it a problem? I am not sure and I aim to find out with this

research paper. The only prior belief I could say I have is that the fact I do not want this

to be a problem, but, in all honesty, who does want this to be a problem? So, in that since,

that is not even a belief that could be considered biased.