Presentation

During my exploration of Project 2 and the issues involved I read a lot about suffering and death. I saw images in my head of starving children, people suffering and living on the ground. The research reminded me of my trip to Ecuador where kids were beaten if they didn’t get enough money from begging. Over what I am trying to say from this image can be put into an equation “poverty=hunger+ starvation+ death”. I feel that this presentation is ment for people between the ages of 17 to 60 because ei feel that these people ewill be able to grasp the issues at stake and do something. The emotions brought out by this picture are sadness, pity, and disgust. The picture makes you look at your life and how you live and make you think “is it ethically/morally right to let this happen to someone?” In this picture I see the problem of poverty in Ecuador. In the back you see a vulture sitting just waiting. This bird represents the Ecuadorian government, and the upper class that is profiting off the rest of the country. The child represents the constantly growing lower class and their struggle to live descent human lives.


d. Song



Where is the love?

This song is about poverty and doing something to help. The song brings up the issues of the government not helping other people “turning the other cheek.” The song has images that go with it that bring the message home. The song talks about doing the right/morally right things “wheres the truth”. With the images and song you are drawn in, and soon emotions start flowing. Listening to the words and images you feel sad, but a sense of hope, as if there is something you can do to help. Logically the songs words are asking you a question “Can you let this happen?” The logical answers is no and makes you want to help. The words of the song are the important part. In the song the question of “where is the love” asked. The verse that hit me was “people killing people dying, children hurting you hear them crying, can you practice what you preach don’t you turn the other cheek” This sums up the effect of poverty – the hurting, death, and “turning of the other cheek”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBhJvuAMHMM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJuOrb2hFt8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmMhqpmZOJE&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtERmD5llpo&NR=1


Movie

City of God

The movie is about poverty and effect it has on kids lives. In this movie the kids grow up in gangs, robbing and shooting people, basically live a life of chaos and violence. When children have to live in poverty they are usually shown violence at a very early age. This movie is more for the older generation having subtitles. You wonder how these kids can live this way. Is it right for kids to lose their childhood? Watching the hardships and death that the kids have to go through, you feel sad for them. This movie shows you the problems, which shouldn’t be happening. The movie will help readers to connect to the idea of poverty on a whole new level, where they can see the horrible things happening in front of them and also see that bad things do actually happen to kids. This presentation combined with all these ideas will help show the different dimensions of poverty and how it affects people on so many levels


Book and poem

This book is about poverty in America and how people are struggling to make means end and live off of minim wage. This is similar to the idea of workers not making enough money to buy food and survive in Ecuador. The poem reflects how no body is really helping them. The over all theme of the book is that money is to low to survive off of, I think these writings are for older aged people. I had read the book for high school and from many of my peirs thoughts and reflections, I felt they hadn’t truly understood the message. This book brings up the thought of “how can you let this happen to some people” and makes you feel like you can not just stand around. You feel for the writer and all the problems she goes through, and how so many other people have had to live their lives this way makes you sad. With low income how can you survive a healthy life, logically you cant. If the reader was to read the book I think they would create a strong connection to the topic and be able to relate more to poverty and its effects. The book is about malnutrition and poor living conditions due to poverty in America. This is a good connection to the more extreme poverty in Ecuador. The poem talks about how people are not helping the poor and how they are not doing anything because it is not their problem yet.