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First World Countries Third World Poverty Essay

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First World Countries, Third World Poverty

The decision to include the critically acclaimed movie, The Blind Side in the upcoming film festival, Global Issues, has been met with overwhelming support. Director, John Lee Hancock, reaches across class barriers and highlights a growing issue in today’s global society, the increasing disparity between privilege and poverty in developed countries, writes Clary Ritchie.

Do you think that the country that put man on the moon, has the world’s largest economy and invented the internet suffers from poverty? Michael Oher was just one of 26.4 million children living below the poverty line in America (Feeding America, 2013). Despite America and the developed world’s many feats, countries such as Australia, England, the US, Germany and Canada all have serious poverty issues. Globally 76.5 million children living in developed countries are below the …show more content…

Hancock uses the excellent technique of a mirror story within The Blind Side to highlight how people are unable to escape poverty without assistance. David, a citizen of Hut Village is shown to have lost his opportunity to play football after becoming involved in drugs. David explains to Michael he was playing football before he dropped out to become a dealer, implicitly manipulating the audience to see the cyclic nature of poverty that trapped David and would have trapped Michael if he hadn’t escaped it. The movie finally closes with Leigh-Anne explaining the David had been murdered, despite his “superb athletic skills” and how “different his life might have been if he hadn’t fallen behind at school and dropped out”. She ends by saying “that could have been anyone, that could have been my son, Michael”. This leaves the explicit and resounding message with the audience, that without Leigh-Anne, Michael could have easily ended up the

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