1. Flavio's home is an incredibly sad story that focus's on the topic of poverty. Flavio's home tells the tale of how Parks feels about how individuals allow other people to live. He tells the story of Flavio, a 12 year old boy living in a slum called Catacumba in Brazil, who carries the responsibilities of an adult on his shoulders. He not only discusses how disappointing the environment around him is, but he then goes into specifics of how him and his family live and how difficult it is for him to find food for his family and provide for each and every one of them on a daily basis. On top of that, Flavio is sick, and slowly dying, but no matter how lousy he feels each day he still focus's on providing for his family and continuously puts them first.
Parks went into Flavio's family as an observer and chose to write a story about the life they live. They were unsure of how to interpret his gesture of interest in their family, but with time welcomed him in despite their fathers objections. To me, the picture above represents Flavio and his siblings.
-I feel that poverty is one of the most depressing things to think about in the world. Its reality, but its saddening to think of how many people suffer due to it. Even more heartbreaking is the fact that its not just adults that have to suffer from it, but the children in the world that don't have much to survive on and are caught in the statistics too.
2. I don't think that the government should be paying the poor women for birth control. Homeless shelters exist all over the world, and if the womans situation is that bad, then she should check into the homeless shelter. I think that the government should potentially offer sex ed classes or wellness classes for women who are in unfortunate circumstances so that they may learn from it and make better choices to better their future. Stay teen states that "Three out of ten teenage girls in the United States get pregnant at least one before age 20 -- that amounts to 745,000 teen pregnancies each year" as well as "Almost 50% of teens have never considered how a pregnancy would affect their lives."
http://www.stayteen.org/get-informed/default.aspx
I agree with Caitlin about the education of the women, but I think that the government should offer incentives towards taking birth control.
ReplyDeleteThe homeless shelters she is speaking of, yeah that's great, but homeless shelters do NOTHING to stop women from getting pregnant, especially since that would be a place where they would be more likely to end up pregnant for again, lack of services for these women and lack of education. You never really know that until you go to one, which is why I cannot blame Caitlin for not knowing this.
Good points though.
Excellent job and good evidence on your Question 2.
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