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How Can Hunger kill more people worldwide than AidsMalaria but only 1 out of 345 Africans suffer from Famine How is famine connected to AIDS amp Drought HOWEVER ONLY 1 in 345 Africans are affected by famine in any given year. An Górta Mór. T. he Great Famine. : Some key dates . 1845. 9 September:. Potato blight first reported in Ireland . 9-10 November:. British Prime Minister Peel authorises importation of Indian corn. By . Caoimhe. Leonard.. . The Great Famine Of 1845.  .  . Blight . i. n . t. he . p. otatoes was the cause of the famine. . Background to the Great Famine. The potato was the principal source of nutrition for . and the . Famine Formula. The Horn of Africa, 2011. Compassion Fatigue:. Analysts of journalism argue that the media has caused widespread compassion fatigue in society by saturating newspapers and news shows with often . Genocide- the deliberate systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious or national group. Examples of Genocide throughout history. Rwanda. Kosovo. Irish Famine. Armenian . North and South Take Different Paths. Words. Industrial Revolution. Factory system. Capitalist. Mass Production. Interchangeable parts. Urbanization. Famine. Discrimination. 1. .. Industrial Revolution. 1.4. Vocabulary Words. rummaged. undetected. generosity. pathetic. ricocheting. famine. scrounging. chameleon. Bouncing from one surface to another surface.. rummaged. undetected. generosity. pathetic. By Tom , John , Shauna , and Laura. The main facts. The famine in Ireland started in 1845-1850. The worst year of the famine was 1847. The winter of 1847 is the coldest winter in living memory. The blight first came in Waterford and Wexford. Famine. A famine is a wide-spread and severe shortage of food affecting large numbers of people. . Natural causes include droughts, floods, earthquakes, insect plagues, and plant disease.. Famine, continued. Bridget . O’Donnel. and her children . (. from Illustrated . London . News . 1847). Cormac . O’Gráda. , . Famine: A Short History. (2009). The Russian famine. of 1921. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/explorefurther/digital/sara/oddments/russianfamine. List three diseases you know something about. What are the effects of these diseases?. Essential Question. How do disease-causing fungi effect plants?. ?. Fungi:. One of the five kingdoms of organisms.. The Fields Of Athenry.. Causes. The Great Irish Famine began in 1845 when a disease called “blight” caused the potato crop to fail.. Most Irish people were extremely poor and depended on potatoes for all of their food .. .. Charlie Walsh. Aisling O'Reilly. Sophia Hickey. Mia Flood. Hannah-Jane Downey.. What is a Famine?. A Famine is a widespread scarcity of food caused by several factors including war, population imbalances and crop failure which caused Ireland's Famine in 1845. The potato blight was caused by a fungus called . 1845-1851. Could the British Government have stopped this famine?. Taken from the article ‘The . Great Irish Potato . Famine’.  by James Donnelly. Exhausted and hungry Irish lad scratching the earth looking for potatoes or anything edible. in Ukraine 1932-1933. Prepared by Maria . Kiciuk. , PhD.. and . Oksana. . Kulynych. , Chair. U.S. . Holodomor. Education Committee. Objectives:. To examine Stalin’s reasons for the . Holodomor. and his policies leading to it..