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Unit 1 Assignment 2 Video Analysis

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The person I choose to share to two videos with and talk to was my mom. Some of the statistics flashed across the screen astonished us. The fact that 43 percent live with basic sanitation was shocking to me. To Americans basic sanitation is something that is expected. If we go into a public restroom and see remnants of another person’s fecal matter we are up hauled and disgusted. To think the almost half the world does not even have a clean toilet. To me, it was a real eye opener. As a college student, and as an American, everything revolves around the internet, computers, and smart phones. It’s crazy to think only 12% have a computer, and only 8% have an internet connection. It made me think about what’s really important in life, the bigger picture. Yes, there are certain things that we need to learn and use in order to fit into our society, but so many people in the …show more content…

My mom was telling me when she was a little girl her father used to make her sit at the dinner table and eat until her plate was completely clear. She said she hated it and would often times sit there for an hour or more, crying and carrying on. She said her father’s reason for doing this was because there were starving kids over in China. She used to think to herself “if they’re so hungry over there, why don’t you send them my dinner?” I suppose it’s not until you really go without, that you have any idea how much we take food for granted. I’ve thrown out food at breakfast and lunch today. My mom brought up a good point of how much food that she buys from the grocery store that comes home, goes into the refrigerator, and a week or two later goes into the garbage. We are incredibly wasteful. We both though it was very cool that, in the second video, at least that person had a chance to come in and pick through the scraps and bring them to people who were in need. So often in America we don’t want our table scraps, but we don’t want anyone else to have them

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