Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Blood Diamond

The model dropped out of the job because her conscience would not let her support this act of crime. 

On the topic of blood diamonds and the issue of the bushman people of the Kalahari. I believe that the bushmen people are right because they are being taken away to be used by the De Beers company to mine diamonds. According to the map of the game area, they want to completely take over all of the bushmen communities in the area.

The young child in the picture will be affected depending on how far they will need to move, the further away he is from the village the more different his life will be. He would have to be used to living in an area starting from scratch, not the village he was born into.

Tuesday, 12 June 2012

Video number 1 summary

This video was an advertisement trying to get people to 'sponsor a child' and send in money to help in Africa. It would cost 15$ a month. The video consisted of a village in Africa which didn't seem to be doing very well. Then it starts to rain, the narrotor explains how this was the first time the little girl has seen fresh water. The shot then zooms out to show thats it not rain but a new water being install and there is water spraying out as people are tightening the bolts. The is an advertisement for a company so it would be biased anyway, but it wasn't extremely biased, it was an honest advertisement.

Monday, 11 June 2012

Give a Man a Fish Exercise

When you give aid to a country it basically means you are donating to them. It could be aid as money or aid as food or anything else that could help the people you are giving aid to. A country might give aid to another country for multiple reasons, 1 could be requested from them. Another could be an ally might need help.