Media Assignment

Poverty has been and is a global problem today, especially in the third world countries. From the article, Kimberly Lewkowtiz, a CNN reporter, interviews students from USC (University of Southern California) who traveled to India to raise awareness of oral cancer and water. However, as the students stayed in India, I believe they began to notice the gravity of poverty.
For this specific article, I believe the students are the ones being impacted the most of the experience of poverty. As noted in the article, the students were invited to a ceremony of the Desphande family for their son, who graduated MIT. Until after a week, the students were unaware of the gravity of poverty. The student decided to go downtown for a weekend. “It was in this particular adventure that I began understanding the inescapable poverty in the Hubli people's lives. The townspeople walked barefoot in the muddy streets, carrying hefty baskets on top of their heads. Countless unsupervised children darted back and forth, some on rusty bikes, others in the hands of other siblings”(Lewkowitz). Not too much later, the students head back to the hotel. On his way to the hotel, he witnesses a crowd of people. The student stops and goes with the crowd to witness the unexpected, a dead man. I deduce that this few hours in downtown dazed the student. The poverty the people live in. The purpose of this article is obviously to notify the world with the poverty that people still deal with today. The characteristics of the media, internet, is simple and to the point. Almost anyone can read it anytime and be impacted just like me. Although I only read two articles of poverty so far, the two articles were very sturdy and has changed my thoughts on poverty drastically. I never really that poverty was so drastic in other countries. However, reading about poverty and reflecting on it, I hope to change and learn more about it.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/08/13/india.lifestyles/index.html?iref=newssearch