The artists behind The Roof is on Fire employed a naturalistic environment, authentic conversations between real teenagers in a parked car, and filled the space with an unrelated audience, free to move between (but always outside of) cars and conversations as they wish. This creates a space that gives teenagers active agency to share whatever they wish to, a platform often denied from youth at large but especially marginalized youth. Such candid behavior could give valuable perspective to audiences—the issues that plague youth are often foundational systemic issues that can be overlooked. However, there is no guarantee that this is the actual takeaway. Despite the prompts and shelter of the vehicles, the conversations are not truly candid as the teenagers are fully aware of the situation, and they vary drastically depending on which teenagers are paired together, who the teenagers are, and many more unpredictable factors. Regardless of “the moral teachings” of the event, it seemed to be extremely undeniably successful in one regard: giving teenagers a unapologetic platform for their voices.
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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