I studied the fourth option, and begun with 'The Danger of A Single Story". Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaks about reading books as a child with white characters and then writing her own stories along the lines of the stories she read, even though she didn't relate to them. It reminded me of diversity in casting, especially casting people of color or LGBTQ+ members as side characters, often not getting their own story. This has started to change in the film community however it still needs to keep changing. After finishing her Ted Talk, I continued on to Sarah Jones, "One Woman, Many People". Each character was so different, with different backgrounds and stories but all had similar things to say, pointing out that we are all human, with a set of similar truths, even though we are all so different. Anna Deveare Smith is an absolute legend, and like her, I believe theater and activism are completely tied, and everyone must have a seat at the table. We must all be equal or none of us are free. I loved what the story she told with the four lines 'Walk on water, walk on a leaf, hardest of all is walk in grief'. The interviewer said that she had the greatest respect in the theater, which is silence, which I also really liked. I think the overall theme is to keep an eye open for possibilities to diversify, remember privilege, and keep striving to create and change.
Issues that have been impacting my life and the ones around me mainly revolve around environmental issues. One of the pressing issues that affects the agriculture community in California is the State’s distribution of water. Now a tactic that the State Government has had for many years is to take water from Northern California and send it down to the South. The south is in need of water as they do not get enough to support themselves, but the issue is a bit larger and encompuses the states refusal to create more reservoirs to store water to be used during the dryer months. But the main issue is that the focus is uneven and falls heavily on the side of sending it to the south instead of distributing it evenly so farmers in all regions but mainly central and southern california have the proper amount of water to grow their crops. California is one of the leading states in the production and exporting of agriculture products due to our vast and wide scale of geological environments, but ...
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