2014년 9월 19일 금요일

The Story of Stuff: A Critical Analysis

Even number Q's:


2. What audience do you believe Annie Leonard is trying to reach?
The audience Annie Leonard is trying to reach are the consumers. She is trying to create an awareness to the consumers that the continuous cycle of materials economy: production, consumption, and disposal is putting the environment in jeopardy by exploiting the world’s natural resources, people’s health through toxic chemicals in products and people’s happiness though the media measuring happiness with materials.

4. Why do you think Annie uses the format of a 20-minute video rather than another format, such as a report, web blog, or poster?
Annie uses a very powerful method to demonstrate the material economy’s negative effects to our world through a fast-paced, informative, and visually attractive 20-minute video. This is a more powerful method to present her ideas and change people’s perspectives instead of using a report, web blog, or a poster because of our over-stimulated society. It has become easier to grab people’s attention through visual attractions than thousands of words. Therefore, Annie chose a video to present the critical vision of our consumerist society supported by her persuasive voice tone as well.

6. Who might disagree with Annie's message? Why do you think they would disagree?
People who might disagree with Annie’s message are the companies, corporations, and organizations who are involved in the materials economy. They would disagree with any anti-consumerists like Annie because if the numbers of consumers start to decrease, an economy shrink would follow which means less money for them.

8. Has The Story of Stuff affected the way you think about consumption? If so, how?
The Story of Stuff did affect the way I think about the consumption since it was shocking to know how quickly we are using up the world’s natural resources, putting our health in danger by surrounding ourselves with toxic-containing products and how a lot of our value in happiness has been measured through our mass consumption of materials.

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