After reading the comic Palestine by Joe Sacco, it is evident to me that human life is not universally valued. Prior to reading this, I knew that there is a ocean of messed up things that are happening in this world. I watched a documentary on healthcare in the United States vs. health care in Europe. There are so many cases of people who cannot afford the medication they need and are dying because of it. Health insurance companies are letting people die. To not grant somebody the help and medication they need to survive is sinister, in my opinion. They know somebody needs help and America will just watch them die to save a few thousand dollars. I read scenario after scenario of situations depicted in this comic. Every story has the same
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There are much more disturbing instances that would not be that appealing to put in a comic book (if you catch my drift…rape). With every story I get more and more pissed off. How many stories is it going to take before something positive happens? Or should I find a smidge of happiness when a father gets released out of prison for no valid accusation. All I can think is what can be done. I feel as though people blow all this stuff off. Like, “If it is not affecting my life then it does not matter”. To solve this, I purpose that every week, all schools across the country just spend at the most one hour discussing events that have happened in the world that week. I think that most people do not really know what is going on, because I do not. We get really small-minded within our lives that we forget about the bigger picture. I am currently angry with my roommate eating shrimp and stinking up the room, and in Israel soldiers raid houses. It makes me grateful for my problems, because it makes my problems feel so irrelevant. I am certain that others would feel this way if somebody just informed them about such events. It is so simple. But something tells me the more Americans that knew about these things, the more uprisings there would be, and the government would not like this. But that’s just my
There are much more disturbing instances that would not be that appealing to put in a comic book (if you catch my drift…rape). With every story I get more and more pissed off. How many stories is it going to take before something positive happens? Or should I find a smidge of happiness when a father gets released out of prison for no valid accusation. All I can think is what can be done. I feel as though people blow all this stuff off. Like, “If it is not affecting my life then it does not matter”. To solve this, I purpose that every week, all schools across the country just spend at the most one hour discussing events that have happened in the world that week. I think that most people do not really know what is going on, because I do not. We get really small-minded within our lives that we forget about the bigger picture. I am currently angry with my roommate eating shrimp and stinking up the room, and in Israel soldiers raid houses. It makes me grateful for my problems, because it makes my problems feel so irrelevant. I am certain that others would feel this way if somebody just informed them about such events. It is so simple. But something tells me the more Americans that knew about these things, the more uprisings there would be, and the government would not like this. But that’s just my