VULTURE AND THE KID

Personal Reflection:

Entong:

I feel that this picture reflects about poverty in parts of the world. This picture shows a vulture eyeing on the poor and skinny child, showing that even a child had became of a prey of an animal. This makes me think back about how blessed I am to have sufficient food to eat and water to drink. People in other parts of the world are suffering from famines as well as poverty, but we continue to throw away left over food and forgetting to off the tap water. Every second, there are people dying in poor countries such as Africia, but we can do nothing about it. The only thing we can do is to appreciate what we have and stop wasting our resources. Although we are not able to do something very effective for those suffering from poverty and famines in other parts of the world, I believe that if we learn to not take things for granted and appreciate what we have, it is enough.

Fernanda: 
I am sure this picture of the vulture and a kid makes some of us feel uncomfortable. The fact that a human being had become a prey of an animal makes me feel truly upset and sorry. This paints how serious poverty had gotten in the third world countries. The kid in the picture looks like he is suffering from malnutrition and here we are wasting our food sources. I count myself lucky to be born in a developed country where i have no fears of having to face not having food or proper shelter to live in one day. Some people have started addressing this problem but while we are as students of age 14, i think the best we can do is to stop wasting resources and know how forunate we are to have proper education. It is time the world starts doing something about poverty.

Qianyu:

I think this picture reflects poverty and it also shows how lucky and blessed we are to be able to enjoy the luxuries that we have around us, like the handphones and electricity that we take for granted. While we are here enjoying the modern and luxurious lifestyle, people are suffering in other countries, hunted as prey for vultures which feed mainly on decaying flesh due to their poverty that eventually led to their inability to feed themselves. Thus, we should not be taking these luxuries around us for granted, as in other countries, people are suffering much more while we are here complaining about first world problems such as having our phone batteries dying out. We should understand how blessed we are to be able enjoy life simply with food fed to our mouths while people in third world countries are suffering due to hunger and poverty.

Amos:

 The fact that the vulture is shown in the background behind a very malnourished kid shows that the kid is so malnourished that even a vulture think it is dead as vultures are scavengers. This is just one of many pictures that show poverty. Poverty is very common throughout the whole world especially in less developed countries such as China and parts of Africa. In one of the UN conferences in the 1980s, I teenager called Severn Suzuki adressed the problem of poverty to the people in the UN conference. Even thought efforts have been made to improve the life of the poor. There is still a very distinct gap between the more fortunate and less fortunate in developed countries. One example can be our country, Singapore. Is not an uncommon sight to see construction workers from china or India working in nearby construction sites to build us fortunate people houses to live in or a place to enjoy such as shopping malls while they are working and living in such a bad condition. Even though Singapore has implemented efforts on improving the conditions which construction workers live in, there is still a long way to go.

Suikiat:

The vulture and the child symbolizes how badly poverty is affecting the people in poorer countries. This poverty, in my opinion is beneficial for the whole human race in general as the population of 7 billion combined with a birth rate that is higher than the death rate is not sustainable for long periods of time and thus should be advocated. Global warming has affected since the industrial revolution, as the standard of living became higher. Hence, by not helping the poor, we are saving more money for the progress of the country and economic development. Of course, whether its leaders and good enough to make that country shine is a separate issue, but by not helping the poor, we are creating a more superior race as the money saved from welfare can be used to benefit the rest of the country where funds can be used. As there is a higher standard of living among the rich, this would allow more eco-friendly technology to be developed as the higher standard of living would cause more global warming. Also, funds saved from welfare can allow funding for projects like this to improve eco-friendly technology. In addition, as the poor people would die eventually without welfare funds, we would have a more controlled population to deal with and in the long run, the human race would not die out so quickly.