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Hunger (Sult) is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and was published in its final form in 1890. Parts of it had been published anonymously in the Danish magazine Ny Jord in 1888. The novel is hailed as the literary opening of the 20th century and an outstanding example of a modern, psychology-driven literature. It hails the irrationality of the human mind in an intriguing novel and sometimes humorous tone. It has been translated into English three times, in 1899 by Mary Chavelita Dunne (under the alias George Egerton), a second time by Robert Bly in 1967, and a third time by Sverre Lyngstad. This final translation is seen as the definitive one.
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Hydro for Hunger is an initiative by participating independent hydroponic merchants in support of hunger relief organizations including the Institute for Simplified Hydroponics (ISH). ISH is a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing world hunger through the power of hydroponic gardening. Using interactive Internet-based training programs, the Institute for Simplified Hydroponics helps provide people in developing
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*Hunger can have a devastating emotional impact; it may diminish self-confidence and self-esteem. In a culture that encourages self-reliance, individuals who need food assistance may hesitate to seek help. They may experience feelings of shame or embarrassment due to circumstances that are out of their control.
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Hunger ... weakens the immune system. Deprived of the right nutrition, hungry children are especially vulnerable and become too weak to fight off disease and may die from common infections like measles and diarrhoea. Each year, almost 11 million children die before reaching the age of five; malnutrition is associated with 53 percent of these deaths (source: Caulfield et al., The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2004 July), claiming one child's life every five seconds.
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Hunger is usually non-specific: the desire is to satisfy the need for energy, and most foods will do. However, under some circumstances of vitamin or mineral deficiency (especially salt deficiency) hunger may be very specific and result in a search for a particular food (this may explain some of the peculiar feeding behaviours of pregnant women).
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Written after Hamsun's return from an ill-fated tour of America, Hunger is loosely based on the author's own impoverished life before his breakthrough in 1990 and set in fin-de-siecle Kristiania. The novel recounts the adventures of a starving young man, whose sense of reality is giving way to a delusionary existence on the darker side of a modern metropolis. While he vainly tries to maintain an outer shell of respectability, his mental and physical decay are recounted in detail. His ordeal, enhanced by his inability or unwillingness to pursue a professional career, which he deems unfit for someone of his abilities, is pictured in a series of encounters, which Hamsun himself has described as 'a series of analyses'. In many ways, the protagonist of the novel has traits reminiscent of Raskolnikov, whose author Fyodor Dostoevsky was one of Hamsun's main influences. The influence of naturalist authors like Emile Zola is apparent in the novel, as is his rejection of the realist tradition.
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