How Did Elton John Work To Improve The World

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Across the span of Elton John’s career he has made numerous charitable investments. The amount of money he has given is very remarkable in itself. However, the worth of these investments reaches well beyond just the amount of money they comprise. You cannot put a price on someone’s health. A numerical value cannot be placed on a long, fulfilling life span, a person’s smile, a chance for somebody to see people, places, or events they never thought they would live to see. Elton John gave much more than money to charities. He gave parents the ability to watch their children grow. He gave people the freedom to get out bed and go outside. He gave them a chance to interact with other people with being ashamed or in pain. Elton John gifted numerous people the ability to live rather than exist, or even to live rather than die. It is true that many other people work to make the world a better place. Plenty of people do wonderful things to improve people’s lives, or the environment, or the way people treat each other. This is a fact that cannot be denied. There are some questions to be asked, however. …show more content…
The most important question of all; without Elton John’s work to make the AIDS problem less prevalent, how many people would have been left to improve the world, or for other people to improve the world

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