Class Task #5
1) How did you enjoy the film? What stood out for you?
The film wasn’t too bad. It got boring at times. The energy of the children and the harsh lifestyle they live really stood out for me.
2) Did you learn anything new about photography, life, people? What?
I learned that anyone can learn to take photographs, its not that hard. I also realized how good I got it here in Canada where I can go to school and is given the opportunity of success. I learned that people born into a hard life are expected to fail in life. All the girls where expected to be in the line like their mothers. This doesn’t have to be true if these people living trife are given an opportunity to succeed.
3) How do you think the world needs to change? How important is this?
The world needs to change dramatically. Everyone should have the chance to live a good life. Poverty is a big problem everywhere. Poverty creates crime, disease, depression and other negative situations.
War is wrong because violence doesn’t solve anything. After war there is still hostility and it will always be there.
4) What are you willing to do TODAY to be a part of that change?
If someone less fortunate comes my way I will not hesitate to give them the spare change I have. It isn’t much but it is a start.
5) Do you know a good song/rap/poem with good lyrics about change in the world?
Yea, I do. This is called “A Dream” by the rapper Common.
Here are the lyrics…
[Chorus - Will.i.am and Martin Luther King]
(I am happy…I Have a Dream) I got a Dream
(That One Day ) Were gonna work it out out out
(That One Day ) Were gonna work it out out out
(That One Day ) Were gonna work it out
(I Have a Dream) I got a Dream
(That One Day ) Were gonna work it out out out
(That One Day ) Were gonna work it out out out
(That One Day ) Were gonna work it out
(I Have a Dream) I got a Dream
(That One Day) That one day
(That One Day) I’ma look deep within myself
(I Have a Dream) I gotta find a way…
My Dream Is To Be Free
My Dream Is To Be
My Dream Is To Be
My Dream Is To Be Free
[Verse 1]
In search of brighter days, I ride through the maze of the madness,
Struggle is my address, where pain and crack lives,
Gunshots comin’ from sounds of Blackness,
Given this game with no time to practice,
Born on the Black list, told I’m below average,
A life with no cabbage,
That’s no money if you from where I’m from,
Funny, I just want some of your sun
Dark clouds seem to follow me,
Alcohol that my pops swallowed bottled me,
No apology, I walk with a boulder on my shoulder,
It’s a Cold War – I’m a colder soldier,
Hold the same fight that made Martin Luther the King,
I ain’t usin’ it for the right thing,
In between Lean and the fiens, hustle and the schemes,
I put together pieces of a Dream
I still have one
[Chorus]
[Verse 2]
The world’s seen me lookin’ in the mirror,
Images of me, gettin’ much clearer,
Dear Self, I wrote a letter just to better my soul,
If I don’t express it then forever I’ll hold, inside
I’m from a side where we out of control,
Rap music in the ‘hood played a fatherly role,
My story’s like yours, yo it gotta be told,
Tryna make it from a gangsta to a godlier role,
Read scrolls and stow slaves,
And Jewish people in cold cage,
Hate has no color or age, flip the page,
Now my rage became freedom,
Writin’ dreams in the dark, they far but I can see ‘em,
I believe in Heaven more than Hell,
Blessings more than jail,
In the ghetto let love prevail,
With a story to tell, my eyes see the glory and well,
The world waitin’ for me to yell “I Have a Dream”
[Chorus]
6) Pick a non-profit organization that is important to you. Why is this important to you? Do they have a website?
The non-profit organization that is important to me is Free the Children. For the past year our school been collecting money to build a school in Sierra Leone through a campaign called Brick by Brick. This is important to me because I am apart of this school since my dress down money went towards it. The website for this non profit organization is http://www.freethechildren.com
7) What ideas do you have for media arts projects that we could do individually or as a class to help contribute to these organizations that are important to us?
We can make posters showing hardship in many different places around the world just to build awareness so others might want to help out and contribute to help less fortunate others. We don’t really see what’s going on in the world since we got it so good over here. So if no one shows people the harsh reality, no one will know what’s really going on. We got problems over here that we believe to be big problems, but would be a very small problem to someone in a less fortunate place. I once heard in a song “I thought I was messed up with no shoes until I met me a dude with no feet.” That’s an easy, understandable way of putting it.
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