HW:40 Iraqi kids try to help their parents out
I chose to write about the story from Alive In Baghdad called, “Iraqi Teens Work To Help Their Families” , which was published in October 15, 2007. In the podcast it talks to three different Iraqi teenagers who basically describe their life in Iraq. They talk about how they constantly work to help support their families, but because of the war, it is harder for them to go to work because of there is no safety. One of the children who really caught my eye was a young boy named, Hussein Kamal. He had worked with his father and uncle since he was a young boy, mostly doing carpentry and painting the furniture. I thought it was interesting because he was about the same age as my brother, and yet they come from two different places. My brother would never think of being able to know how to make doors, and couches at this age, yet Hussein didn’t think that it was weird at all, it was just how he was used to living. I also thought it was interesting how he kept bringing up that there is no real safety in Iraq anymore and any time you leave for work or go some place, your risking your own safety, which I thought was very sad. In the background of the video everything was all dirty and dusty in their homes and work places. All the plants seemed to look dead or dying. The buildings were cracking and looked very nimble and old. Nothing looked very clean, or new. A viewer would learn a lot from watching this video, mostly they would learn how Iraqi children spend their time, and how much different they are from American children, mostly due to the war. I think this video is the same to some of the videos ive seen about Iraq, yet instead in this, the children were not saying the war was bad because we were fighting terrorism, just that we should keep terrorism out of Iraq. I think the most memorable thing in the video was just seeing how smart these children were, and how mature they are for their age, because they have gone through so much more than any child in America could ever think of going through.
http://aliveinbaghdad.org/2007/10/15/iraqi-teens-work-to-help-their-families
