Writing your homework with a pen is permanent. You can't erase. Only covering it with whiteout. Covering something permanent is ugly
In this activity, I was supposedly lucky to get a lot of money, but when we started working on the poster, I realized how little people there were that had that much money and how lonely it became when you have a lot of money but no one else does.
In the Global Items Mall, you can see that the cheaper the items are, the worse they become either for the environment or socially. The majority, the poor people could only afford the cheap items, that proved to be unhealthy but because of this they have more time to spend with the people close to them.
A lot of poor people couldn't afford education because they had to spend their money on basic human needs, like water, heat, and food. Because they don't go to school, they probably spend that time doing something else like collecting water or farming for food, but because of this, they can spend more time with their community members.
Food is considered a basic human need to live, but health care can save a dying person. But over a long period of time, I would say that food is more important because it is needed to live and stay alive.
Many times, hospitals have saved the lives of many people. If medical care hadn't been able to be reached, a lot more people would have died and in bad times such as after a natural disaster or in war, if not for medical care, the mortality rate would have gone up by a lot.
It seems that the rich people have more impacts environmentally due to the fact that the products that they consume are more complex and require more resources and workers. For example, to grow food for the people who can afford them, rain forests might be cut down to get more land to grow the crops. But because of this, the rich people don't have to produce their own products and don't spend as much time with the ones around them.
The poor people get the things that they need from around them because they don't have enough to import products. They farm their own food, gather their own firewood and water, and this results in higher mortality rates and more disease. But because of this, they can spend more time with their community members from when they go out as a group to gather firewood and they experience more hardships together.
Though Eve Ensler could just live an easy life, she chooses to go live in hard conditions in order to learn more about the hardships of girls to make their voices heard and let others know about their hardships.
For example, a girl might stay in a bad relationship just so she can have someone to go out with... someone to brag to her friends about... to make it seem like she is liked.
Both are things in the process of producing goods that we don't think about. We don't think about which conditions the product was made in and who made it. We just buy it and probably will soon throw it away though a worker such as the girl making barbie heads probably used a lot of effort to make it.
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