chris - poverty - film/music

This time i want to look at a movie called 8 mile. It's a really famous movie known to many teenagers, especially rappers. It's about a white rapper named Eminem. He's really known for being one of the original "white" rapper. What's special about him is he got out of the poverty cycle by rapping, which this movie is about.

To be honest, I haven't watched the whole movie, but I did read the review from http://www.starpulse.com/Movies/8_Mile/Summary/

Eminem grew up in a town where there were mostly blacks, since it is the 8mile, growing up in a trailer house. He was considered a "white trash" being a white person in the neighborhood. At first, he didn't like to rap or shall i say, he was considered horrible since he couldn't rap on the stage. However, later he was beaten up by a group of black people. Because of this, he felt to anger to revenge those guys, and the ideas that he thought up, he made rap songs with them. Then he saw that his friends had sex with eminem's girl friend, and eminem beats them up. His friends got mad and went to a crew asking for them to beat eminem up. In front of eminem's daughter, eminem was beat up with a gun on the guys hand. Although he didn't want her to see it, she did. After this, eminem got really mad and went to a rap battle, and in the rap battle, he destroys the three men in the crew with his words. Then he was recruited by dr.dre and eventually gets out of poverty, the ghetto, and starts a new life.

This is a perfect example of a mass media that's about poverty. The reason why it's perfect is because first of all, Eminem, one of the most famous rapper, is the main character of this movie, attracting many teenagers and rappers. It's just like other movies such as pirates of the carabean, where johnny depp comes out. Many people are interested in how he will act and what the movie will be about feature depp as a main character. Also, a non fictional story that's about a person growing in the ghetto who turned out famous, is very rare. This makes the people even more excited to see the movie. Also, the best reason is it sends out a perfect real life example of a person in poverty, and what it can happen or will happen to people living in poverty

Poverty: Internet, by Lucky

http://www.poverty.com/index.html

This website is a organization that informs people the seriousness of poverty and diseases all around the world. it mainly informs people about poverty, aids, pneumonia, diarrhea, tuberculosis, mlaria and measles. For every disease and problem, there is about 3 paragraphs explaining the problem and the solution. There is also a link to solution, more information and what you can do. The organization seems to be a well organized community that shares good and reliable information.

My favorite part of the website is a world map, displaying the death of children and adults due to poverty. there is also a map for every disease and it is updated every second. the pictures and the names are only representational and does not show the names and faces of real people. The photographs are computer composites of multiple individuals. However even if it is not real it has a major impact on the audience. When i first entered the website and saw increasing numbers of death due to poverty every second, i was shocked and came to realize the reality of poverty. Many people just think of poverty as not being able to eat much or living in a small home. But this website breaks that assumption and shows that people are dying every second due to poverty and that we should do something about it. In overall, the site seems really valuable and effective in introducing poverty.

chris - poverty - music

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=zmVFnhO3A98

This music by elvis preslin is a great example of a mass media that deals with poverty. The title is called in the ghetto, which tells me that it's going to be about some poor person. It starts off by talking about how the baby is born in a bad environment, parent's who live in a "ghetto" place. Then, it talks about if the child is not supported enough, he/she will turn out spoiled and be angry someday. There is one section where he says the kid buys a gun, steals a car, but get caught, and his mom is sad. I think this is a typical thing where if one's in a poverty cycle, these are the typical things that they do to make money. Then, the other "ghetto" people kills the man, with his gun on his hand. However, when he dies, another born in the ghetto. This means that there are people born in the ghetto while at the same time, there are people getting killed. This send out what the life of people living in the ghetto is like.

Also, this song was written by THE elvis preslin, who is one of the most famous rock star in the history. There is no way that this song is from the underground, thousands of people have heard it, and it was sang infront of thousands of people, live. This is a great way to deliver message to many people because if one is a true fan, they read the lyrics, think about it, and reflect it. I think many people shoul've gotten the message.

JESSICA (unfinished)

This shocking picture of North Korean woman show the crucial reality in the country. Her boney arms are about to break, her chests are shrinked and her face and hair are all massy. It shows how she would probably hasn't been eating for a long time. There are a lot of people like her in Noth Korea due to the severe poverty and I often have been seen this harsh reality from TV and pictures from newspapers. However the picture I found for the posting gave me the most shocking impression, since the woman have nothing to hide and nothing to taken away.

Through the picture, I realized how i was carefree with the people who live not far away from me. Eventhough North Korea is considered as a different nation, we are all standing on the same land and we all belong to same family. We need to understand their struggle and pain eventhough we have never gotten through what they have.

JESSICA

This is the picture of Indonasian women carrying the plastic jerrycans after collecting water from a dried lake. According to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in Switzerland, less than 3 percent of the world's water is fresh and the world is finally running out of water. However it is the third world countires who face with the problem at the first hand. The people in the countries with high poverty rate, such as Indonasia, die every year from diseases associated with the lack of safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation. They have no access to safe water today which used to be abandant in the past. Since purchasing fresh water vendors or installing adequate water pipe requires significantly high price compare to their income, it is almost impossible to escape from the water problem. It is ridiculous that they are using tremendously less amount of water then us in developed country, they are still struggling from severe water shortage.

People like us don't acknowledge the seriousness of water shortage since we are easily access to the water. As soon as we trun a tab water starts to pour out from it and we don't face any difficulties unless the tab is broken. We even can adjust the temperature! But what about the women in the picture? They could not even imagene life with drinking fresh water or taking shower in nice hot water. Poverty incooperates with water shotage, and eventually choking innocent people.

Poverty: Internet, by Lucky

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=7UVa8M0QLts&feature=related

This video clip from youtube is very similar to the one that i have posted before. The clip is about Phil Joanou in Arusha, who took a visit to africa in order to fight against poverty. In the video he proclaims that he has seen miracles and changes happening in africa that things were getting better. He also supports to make poverty history and he gives statical review. he states that over 1million kids more now attend school and over 5million people have been saved from the world's no.1 killing disease, malaria. He gives direct examples that proves the fight against poverty is becoming victorious.

He incourages everyone seeing the video to stand up, to fight against poverty and the goverment. Evaluating the value of the video, it is very influential since it is a primary source. The man speaks for himself and gives direct influence taht he has seen and felt. While watching the video i believed him that mircles are happening, however i began to wonder how can he prove that? maybe there are paper works and goverment documents, but he does not include it in his video. This is a limitation, which stops the source from being more emotionally powerful. However in the other hand, it may not be about the stats every sentence he pushes us to stand up against poverty by being the great generation. He clearly states his message "campaigns are creating real change for good." the source is easy to grasp and it is effective to some extent.

chris poverty film

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145487/

The movie poverty is not really about poverty, however, the character lives in a poverty environment, and is in poverty. At first, he tries to get some money by doing restling, since he has super powers. Also, right after the event, spider man doesn't get enough money even though he won. Spider man lets a criminal set free to revenge on the man who didn't give him enough money, but the criminal shoots spider man's uncle. Would all of this happened if he was in poverty? This happened because they didn't have money. Therefore, because his uncle died due o crime, spider man decided to take action and save the day. For this movie, I don't think many people was "touched" or moved, because that's not what the main part of the movie was about. However, I do believe that the reason why peter became a spiderman is because of his poverty. It also shows the difficulty of escaping. Peter was mad because he didn't recieve enough money, and he had to do restling to recive money and make some profit.

chris - film - poverty

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pursuit_of_happyness/

A film is an extremely important part of the mass communication section because many people watches film. I know that not everyone may watch it, but many people will. Also, the number of people watching the film all depends on how good the movie was and its raings. If the movie was rated high, many more people will watch it. This movie, pursuit of happiness is a touching movie that spread the words about how hard being in a poverty is. For example, the government takes his money because he didn't pay taxes, his wife leaves him, and it's hard for him to get a job. I, personally was motivated and influeced by this movie because i was never in poverty, and recieved a quality education. If it touched me, I think that it has touched other people too.

Because of these examples, and ideas, people who are watching gets very emotional (since they're human beings), and feel bad for them. They might or might not do anything for the people in poverty, however, the movie did get he message acrossed. This movie was rated differently in many websites, however, the best rating i saw was 8. Which is not bad. It's also a hollywood movie which means that at least thousands of people saw this movie and got the message acrossed.

stereotype - chris

First of all, i want to define what a stereotype is. stereotype is a standard which people have for other people, or things. For example, a stereotype of an asian maybe small eyes, and yellow. Another way to think of stereotype is the thing that immediately pops up when you think of someone or something.

So what is my stereotype that everybody thinks of. To be honest, I don't really know, but i have some ideas about what they might think of me. First, of all, since i'm sort of a loud, annoying standing out person, I think that's what they think of me. Also, most of the times i'm happy, energetic, friendly in a way. I think this stereotype of me is accurate because that's who I am, I act like myself. However, for other people, even if they act this way, it doesn't mean that they are who they show to be. For example, Young Kyu maybe a short, buff, quiet, unactive person however, yes, he is short but he's not quiet when he's with his close friends. Also, he loves baskeball and X-country, which makes him an active person.

I think stereotype is bad, because there are always chances that the person who you think he/she is, might not be that person. Also, it's not a bad thing to get to know the person and really know who he/she is. You can make assumptions, however, I do not think you should change those actions based on those assumptions, which is why I think stereotype can't be beneficial, but always not harmful.

Poverty: Internet, by Lucky

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=qQzY0ZoclRI&feature=related

This video clip from youtube is very influential to all people around the world who have access to use internet. It is composed of music, pitures and a speech by Nelson Mandela. The video shares the theme "the great generation" proclaiming that we are the great geneartion to change the world. In the speech Nelson Mandela urges the leaders of the world to stand up against poverty to make poverty a history. He also states that Poverty is not natural but man-made. In order to make poverty a history, he states that we must take three steps: justice on trading, end to debt crisis, more and better health aid.

As a very influential video, it has many factors that make it a powerful video. Firstly, the theme and the steps to be taken are very clear. This helps the audience to focus on the theme and will have a clear understanding of how to help. Secondly, the use of words and sentences like "the great generation" and "make poverty a histoy" puts a great pressure into the audeince. finally, the speech is stated by Nelson Mandela, one of the most influential individual in the world. He has fought against racism in South Africa and won against it. He was the former president of South Africa and his struggle and success against racism gives hope of another victory to the audience.

Stereoype: Lucky

I am often looked down as a thoughtless, unmannered young teenager. This is because I happen to have a tattoo on my chest and wear many accessories. This is a common stereotype I Korea, only the ones who break the law and live off with their fist have a tattoo. From a statistical point of view, that can be very true, but if one judge another by a statistical fact that is a generalization. People often critically judge others based on themselves not giving any space to the ones who are different. As all man sin, it seems inevitable to judge people in our every day life. As a Christian, I believe that generalizations and stereotypes are harmful both for the harmer and the victim. Jesus said we should judge ourselves before judging others. This is very true every human individual is made in their own unique way and therefore each individual carry their very own habits, thoughts and life. Many of the times these unique individuals’ identity is destroyed due to generalizations and stereotypical ideas. Let say one has a great talent in writing a poem in South Korea. His talent and dream will face arguments from his parents, friends and society every step he moves towards his dream. In South Korea, being a doctor or a lawyer is a stereotypical idea. Many parents urge their children to pursue studying until they become either a doctor or a lawyer. This seems to be generalizing a human being, brainwashing the future generation. In all seriousness stereotypical idea is a sin, since one is judging others by the wrong point of view and sources. Also the person who has been influenced by a stereotype will be affected to stop pursuing their uniqueness and become a “uniform” of the world. I personally believe that as imperfect human beings it would be impossible for us to judge others. As I write this reflection paper, there are probably many stereotypical ideas included such as “people like to judge others.” As it is inevitable to even judge a random person’s fashion you meet in the traffic light, we all should take more consideration of what we think.

POVERTY. Jessica Park

This is a picture of an Indonesian young boy sorting oyster at a slum area in North Jakara. Most of the children in the country have to drop out of their school and engage in harsh labor to afford money. Due to this severe poverty, poor and little children such as a boy in the picture never could not have even basic education.
This also led to decline of nation's intellectual level and eventually the nation without intellectual people will not able to develop. It is like a bad circumstance that they are having for a long time, however it is almost impossible to make dramatic change in economic condition to them due to the unescapable cycle they are struggling.

Children are suppose to have full of dream and desire toward their future. Their eyes are bright with hopes and always look for new things. However the boy in the picture, who is hiding his eyes seem to symbolize the absence of hope and desire. He would just sit there all they long sorting bunch of oysters continuously without even knowing what he wants to really achieve in the future. He would just labor because his parents told him to do. It is his only duty. How miserable the reality is to the poor boy. Poverty have stolen everything from him and the picture represents it.

Jessica :STEREOTYPE

People assume me as a person who is cold and they tend to face difficulty coming up to me.
I believe the stereotype accompanies with me due to my appaerance.
Since I have big eyes that always glare at something, they can think I am angry all the time.

I also have stereotypes to certain people, such as Korean "AJUMMA" (women)
Somehow they seem tough and scary to me and I always walk away from them
whenever they are near by.

I think stereotypes are harmful since they create certain prejudice against someone and
false judgement may be formed even before you know the person better.
Therefore stereotype resists in forming a good relationship among people and someone might
experiecne.