My topic for Essay 3 will be Damali Ayo's "Panhandling for Reparation."

1.Did she do this to bring attention to the issue or display a cynical attitude?
2.How did dressing like a bum further her point?

Sources
1.Black Power : The Politics of Liberation by Charles V. Hamilton
2."A Day in the Life of Damali Ayo" by Brian Robinson of ABC News
3."How to Rent a Negro" by Damali Ayo
4."What Did She Say" by Damali Ayo

Oct. 31st Blog

“Video and Resistance: Against Documentary” says that a photograph is very special because it captures an even as a fact. It explains how memory often times misshapes images and events while a picture captures it indefinitely. Then it goes on to tell how documentaries are bad because they use images to tell a biased story. During documentaries, people aren’t allowed to discover their own opinions, they just buy into what the documentary says
Sontag has a view about photography in that it reveals the truth. She says that photography is a clear and truthful gateway to history. Yet unlike a documentary, they give the viewer room to have his/her own interpretation of the image being that it is just an image. Both Sontag and the author above believe that photos are important tools in with many different uses.

Superfund,a government subsidized program that takes on the task of cleaning toxic waste infested creeks, lakes, streams,and other natural environments is about to go bankrupt. In the past, the polluters such as factories, chemical waste plants, and military bases, have funded this program under a government enforced levied tax. However, 1995 Congress has not renewed this plan and the money is running out. Recently the revenue for Superfund as come directly from American tax-payers walets. There is much debate over this issue becuase it is hard to make a corporation pay for toxic waste cleanup unless they are directly involved. Such situations have resulted in legal battles that have in turn costed Superfund even more money. In other cases, urban development planners have shyed away from polluted areas in fear of being held responsable for coving the cost of cleaning. It is evident that Superfund needs to be funded one way or another. Whether it falls in the hands of the tax-payers or wealthy corporations will be up up to the government.

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