ENG100 Assignment Answer Sheet Student’s Name: Student’s ID: Prepared for: Academic Semester: A. The Paragraph (5 marks) 1. Running is an easy way to get needed exercise: it is inexpensive, can be done almost anywhere, and requires few special skills. Running is an easy way to get the needed exercise. It is inexpensive, can be done almost anywhere, and requires few special skills. It can be seen as a full-body workout, and it is something which is done by everyone since childhood. According to Blackburn et al. (2020), running can be done at varying paces, as per one convenience, and can still reap the same benefits. However, it is always better to practice running in open spaces close to trees such as parks, gardens to get fresh air. When we run, our lungs pump out carbon dioxide and require more oxygen, and the oxygenated blood actively runs throughout the body (Barnfield, 2016). That is why it is encouraged to exercise in the morning or evening when there are less noise and pollution and enjoy some peaceful time. B. The Essay (5 marks) iv) Parents should be more responsible for their kids’ healthy diet. Discuss. Health is essential for one's wellness and happiness. Health refers to maintaining good mental and physical well being. The healthier a person, the more active and productive they are. They also have an excellent immune system and can deal effectively with stress. Children are in a critical stage of growth and development. They have not matured fully and therefore need essential nourishment to grow further. According to the 2019 edition of the "State of the World's Children (SOWC) report, every 1 in 3 children is malnourished, undernourished, or underweight. It also reported that around 40 million children are obese or overweight. This goes to show that not much priority has been given to children's eating behavior. Research has found that there can be long term implications for them. Malnourished and Obese children have a higher rate of developing cardiovascular and other health issues into adulthood (Quirke, 2016). They also have a shorter life span than those children who grew up with a healthy lifestyle. Their eating behaviors will continue into adulthood. Children who are obese will remain obese into adulthood unless it is not stopped earlier. Research has been trying to find some of the causes behind these unhealthy patterns. Some of them include lack of information, poor economic conditions, poverty, neglectful parents, lack of resources and facilities available, etc. Hendaus et al. (2020) research focused on parents' attitudes towards health and eating behaviors and, in turn, the effects on children. They found that parents who are not health conscious create unhealthy environments for their children versus those who care about their health and well being. This research points to evidence that parents play an essential role in their child's behavior. Therefore, it is vital that parents need to make changes to their own beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors and adopt a healthier lifestyle. They should educate their child about the adverse effects of eating unhealthy food and encourage them to eat healthily. Since parents are the one's spending the money, they can control what food enters the house. Nowadays, many parents are adopting a healthy mode of living. As a result, one can find various healthy alternatives to unhealthy food in the supermarket. If not then ensure, you cut down on the intake of unhealthy food and limit it to a few times a week. It might be challenging, but with love and patience, a child will learn to understand. Freiman (2018) found that positive parental role models are the most effective in improving their child’s health and well being. Parents have a responsibility to protect their children and ensure that their basic needs are met. In the long run, their child's health is at risk. Healthy children are more active, optimistic, and carefree. They perform better in academics and are more productive in life. What you eat reflects on the outside. Therefore if you eat healthily, it will show in your attitudes and behaviors in your life. C. Summary of 'A Hanging,' by George Orwell (5 marks) II. Write a summary of A Hanging by George Orwell. A Hanging is a short essay written by George Orwell published in 1931 in the British literary journal. This is about execution in Burma; no information is given to the condemned man, or the crime committed is described. Malreddy (2019) affirmed that the inmate is marched and bound to the gallows in the novel, he steps down to prevent treading in a puddle of rainwater, and the author reflects that he had never known how a good thinking man could be killed. He recalls that it is cutting a life short when it is in full tide. A Hanging' at a first glance appears as the description of a minor event in the author's life in Burma. At a deeper level, the essay uncovers the brutalities of British Raj in the small Asian country. Orwell portrays a convict's hanging and the events associated with it. He disentangles the complex web of British imperialism in Burma. A convict accepts death with calm demeanour leaving Orwell perplexed and excited. The hindu convict walked to the hanging spot like a king surrounded by his pages and others shiver when he chants his lord's name 'Ram, Ram, Ram' before being hanged. You will come across a lot of action captured in very few words. Orwell has treated the event with balanced precision and lets readers investigate the events of the day from various angles. The author thought that the man was not dying; he was alive, just like we are all alive. Alam (2020) reflected that he and we are a party of men walking together, seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding the same world, and suddenly one of us would be gone, one mindless one world less. George Orwell felt the wrongness of capital punishment and how dehumanizing it was. The soldiers were relieved after the execution, and they were beginning to have a conversation about the problematic executions with the sense of laughing. The abolitionist message is conveyed through characters like prisoners, dogs, functionaries, and their actions, words, and body language (Clarke, 2020). Thus, George Orwell argues that capital punishment is wrong with some narrative evidence he experienced and described in the essay. References Alam, M. (2020). Continuous Relevance to ‘Unspeakable Wrongness' in Orwell's A Hanging: A Transitivity Analysis. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 7(1), 492-518. https://doi.org/10.14738/assrj.71.7708 Barnfield, A. (2016). Physical exercise, health, and post-socialist landscapes—recreational running in Sofia, Bulgaria. Landscape Research, 41(6), 628640.https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2016.1197193 Blackburn et al. (2020). Running on Empty: A Metabolomics Approach to Investigating Changing Energy Metabolism during Fasted Exercise and Rest. Metabolites, 10(10), 399. Clarke, B. (2020). “A Humanitarian is Always a Hypocrite”: George Orwell, Englishness, and Empires. A Companion to World Literature, 1 11. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118635193.ctwl0278 Freiman, C. (2018). Why Parents Should Enhance Their Children. In The Ethics of Ability and Enhancement (pp. 155-171). Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95303-5_9 Hendaus et al. (2020). Parental perceptions of a child's healthy diet: Evidence from a rapidly developing country. Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 9(9), 4949. 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1252_19 Malreddy, P. K. (2019). Imperialist shame and indigenous guilt: George Orwell’s writings on Burma. European Journal of English Studies, 23(3), 311-325. Quirke, L. (2016). Fat-proof your child”: Parenting advice and “child obesity. Fat Studies, 5(2), 137-155.
