Short Story Public Service Assignment

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Short Story Public Service Announcement (PSA) Assignment A public service announcement (PSA) is like an advertisement that informs us about something important. The purpose of a PSA is to benefit the public by raising awareness about an issue or topic.
Watch these public service announcements first to get an idea of what a PSA is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x-KaVwUpNI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPmLoUDFIHY
1. Create the PSA flyer
In this assignment, you will choose a single fiction story from the Part 2 Analysis Tips document in Lesson 3.3, analyze the story, and create a PSA flyer on a single theme from your analysis (see the example attached to the directions). Your PSA flyer should:
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In the story about Everything Stuck to Him, he talks about how all the struggle they go through in the marriage, through life, working, struggling, and children. He discusses about how he just would love to go hunting and leave his family behind when his baby was sick. This really stuck out to me because we all go through challenges in life, and in marriages working everyday just to make it by and seems as the world in all over us and every bill, every problem is stuck to us like syrup on waffles. I have been one marriage that did not work focusing on us giving it my all but my wife did not want the marriage, she just wanted to walk away from the marriage, just like the story said he wanted to go hunting instead of taking care of his sick baby, she wanted to go out and party and did not care she had a husband at home. After that marriage, I started thinking about myself and what I wanted in life. I am poor, do not have a lot but do work hard and wanted a family. I got married again and work every day and we go through struggles everyday but I choose to be there and fight through with my wife and children now. My children get sick, I am there to help my wife instead of running away, they are my life and my marriage is worth fighting for and through all the struggles. The lesson here and the theme of his story is family is more important no matter what you have or do not have. We all need to stand up and fight. Who is with

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