Research on Speech - Essay Example

The video presentation on the Miniature Earth was both touching and enriching as it made one realize that the majority of us forget to appreciate the blessings and basic needs that are met. The short film entitled Chicken a la Carte featured on YouTube and adjudged in the Berlin International Film Festival as the Most Popular Short Film in 2006 was so painstakingly true and has the capability of touching the emotions of viewers.

The first person who came to mind after viewing these short presentations was a very close friend, Emily Buenaventura who was of Asian descent. I informed her the abstracts of these videos and shared to her the links so she can view them. She confirmed that the nationality of those people featured in the Chicken a la Carte film is Filipinos from the Philippines. As the elf is a Filipino, she confirmed that these incidents happen in their country. There was even featured news commentary that previously broadcasted the situation on their national television.

We both agreed that the situation was indeed very sad and heavy to reflect on. The issues presented on Miniature Earth confirmed the inequality experienced by people around the globe in terms of economic wealth and human rights. However, the sorry state of global inequality has been known for decades but not one government has enacted laws and legislations to improve the welfare of mankind. Even international organizations fail to address critical concerns of social poverty, economic inequalities, human injustice, racism, chronic and epidemic illnesses, and environmental destruction, among others.

Even the most developed countries in the world contain issues of poverty, unequal distribution of economic wealth, and violations of human rights. Their governments remain to shift their priorities to military weapons and expenditures rather than focusing on developmental assistance promoting education, good health, food production, and prevention of diseases.

Emily even shed tears when she saw the short film presentation. She agreed with the contentions presented and mentioned that more and more governments all over the world have shifted their agenda towards enriching their selfish interests and turning their backs on the more pressing and obvious dilemmas of inequality and poverty that pervade human life.

Further, she said that parents must train their children to be more appreciative of what they have. The little things that every family could do to assist in improving the plight of human welfare must be done to address these problems. It is the children and women who are mostly affected by practices of human rights violations and extreme economic poverty.

The part in the short film presentation which shows the father acknowledging the family’s need to pray before meals is most touching. Despite the poverty, they still have not lost their faith and hope in Divine Providence.