Childhood poverty

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\             We pass them everyday. Holding the signs asking for help whether that be in monetary form or giving them supplies. Children are the most helpless out of all of us. Yet we leave them to face poverty.  Don't worry there is a simple solution to fix this problem.
   
The solution is simply to place all the children with families. In the United States the are 15 million children and 21% improvised with their family's incomes below the below the federal poverty threshold. The children without stable families will just be dropped off with stable families at random. There are plenty of couples and families who have no children and have money, so children living in poverty will have to join new families. This would solve the solution of orphans who are usually impoverished so there would be no need for organizations like the charity Kristin Chenoweth started. 
     
   That is the solution if the children have no family. If the children have a family we can just give them free meals for the rest of their lives. I mean if they can'y pay for the food why should they. The families need not have to pay if they have no money. Just image the skeleton of the children of begging for the food on the side of the street. If we give this meal deal to the children they won't be just skin and bones. 

     According to experts who have been consulted that best way to solve this issue is to do either of these solutions. The solutions I have presented are widely accepted and used. If you don't enact them you are part of the minority and are hurting the children. 

Dear Evan Hansen

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Theatre in the past was used to spread messages, start conversations, and bring up topics that people may have been uncomfortable with. Broadway has turned away from that and turned to light-hearted and fun stories. The theatre is a place to escape reality. Now Broadway is turning back to telling stories that may be uncomfortable to hear but need to be heard. The show Dear Evan Hansen takes extremely delicate and serious topics and forces the audience to think and talk about them.

The show is about teen suicide and alienation in high school. The show is not shy about tiptoeing around topics that may upset the audience. It tells the story of a family of boy who committed suicide and how they all react and cope differently. Then it shows how his classmates, who had never seen as anything other than a freak, suddenly remember him and talk about how they knew him. Evan meet Connor Murphy, the boy who died, at school where they were both outcasts. Connor, during their short interaction, signed Evan’s arm cast and said “that way they can both pretend to have a friend."

Dear Evan Hansen uses social media and the internet to show how information can spread like wildfire and there is little people can do to know of it is true or not. Evan Hansen has extremely low self esteem, and major social anxiety. He has no friends, and people always seem to look through him and never at him. His mother is also never home due to working many nursing shifts and then going to classes to get a type of law degree.

The second time Connor and Evan meet at the school computer lab. Connor takes a letter that Evan wrote to himself signed “sincerely me” to help with his self esteem as prescribed by his therapist. In the letter there were some things about Connor’s sister, Zoe. Connor’s family  finds the letter in his pocket after he is found dead. This leads Evan to lying to Caleb’s family and the world about being his best friend just so he and Connor’s memory will not go back to being ignored. He knows what it is like to be ignored and works to make sure that no one feels that way again. Evan enlists the whole school to spreads that message via social media, and the internet

  Most people know how serious teen suicide and alienation is but do not talk about these topics. Dear Evan Hansen makes these topics public knowledge, which I believe is an important step. This opens the door for conversations about teen suicide, anxiety and alienation as well as enforcing the precedent that Broadway can make shows that are not just lighthearted, but about serious topics.  

Using theatre to open the conversation about real-life, difficult topics is one way art impacts our lives in positive ways. Whether you agree or not with the situations, shows like Dear Evan Hansen shines a light on societal issues.

For more information about how this book, turned Broadway show, now turning movie go here

Groupon Commercial 2019

Actress Tiffany Haddish

            Superbowl Ads are as much an American past time as football itself. The newest, funniest and most effective ads are talked about for weeks before and after their Superbowl debut. This year's group of Superbowl Ads included a series of ads with a fresh take on the usual formula.

The Groupon Commercial is one of the shorter commercials that was on during the Super Bowl. The commercial length, though short, had many aspects that made you remember it. One of those is using a memorable spokesperson --actress/comedian Tiffany Haddish, who appears in every one of the commercials.

The producers and directors were trying to make people remember the commercial by using comedy. Like the part when the football player kicked the football at the rich man in the mansion or the way Tiffany talks about what is going on in the commercial.

By using a well known actress the audience who knows her will be more likely to watch more ads. But the celebrity endorsement is different than how you normally see it. Usually it's a celebrity just saying I love this, or this is amazing because..., but in the Groupon commercial Haddish is just walking down the street, and she is retelling to the audience what has happened. Then she says tells us why she uses the product.

There is also the incorporation of her being a plain or just a normal person. Even though she has some fame from acting on television shows and being a comedian, Haddish is walking down an ordinary street just talking. It seems like something anyone would do. The Groupon commercial exaggerates the other situations. The rich, white man, who lives in a mansion, was a clear stereotype. He wants the best of the best and so he would never use Groupon. But the commercial shows that it is for everyone and that everyone needs Groupon.

Tiffany Haddish is a famous comedian, and the commercial uses that strength to get the audience to remember her and her remarks. Her asking, “Who doesn’t like supporting local businesses,” is a rhetorical question. She is hoping and expecting after her talk that people will care about local businesses. Again the older white man is a stereotype and makes fun of how corporate business owners think or how any CEO of a company thinks.  The commercial is trying to change the mind of people of all ages but is more geared towards the older generation because their way of thinking tends to be more old fashioned.


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