HW 40: Respond to a Podcast
The tile of the episode I watched was called “Iraqi teens work to help their families.” I found this viedo on the website www.aliveinbaghdad.org. The date this was published was October 15th, 2007. The link where readers can view this podcast is called http://aliveinbaghdad.org/2007/10/15/iraqi-teens-work-to-help-their-families. In this video it talks about how young children in Baghdad help their families make money. Young boys were interviewed and they talked about how they work a full day to help support their family. In this podcast three boys appear between the ages of fourteen-fifteen. One person that I found very interesting was a fourteen year old boy called Yousif. He attended the College of Agriculture where he did a lot of work for no wage. Yousif was born with a birth defect. He talked about how he suffered greatly from the war. He also mentioned that he had many operations but nothing can really be done about his birth defect. I feel like a reader can learn a lot from watching this podcast. They can learn that they are lucky to live in America where many teens don’t have to work full time to support their families. I think the one thing I find most memorable about watching this video is hearing how much the boys work to support their families. They don’t seem to ever complain and I think this takes a lot of courage.