responsibility project
The Responsibility Project
The Responsibility Project by Liberty Mutual Insurance is a place where people can go to watch videos that show many situations all about doing the right thing. All of the videos that I watched were either emotionally moving or thought provoking, which is the whole purpose of the site, to start people thinking and discussing what is right and wrong in the world and how people see this all differently.
In the short film “Dancing on a Dream”; you meet a young woman by the name Michaela DePrince. She was born in Sierra Leone during the Bloody Civil War. This War left more than 300,000 children without parents, and she was one of them (Liberty Mutual, Dancing on a Dream). When she was just three, she was sent to an orphanage where the children were ranked by age, Michaela said all this in the video. There she was ranked lowest of the children because she has a skin condition that made her different. Being last meant that she received the last of the food, the last of the clothes, the last of everything.
There are many issues in this video, and one is adoption. According to the video there are 153 million orphans in the world and 95% of them live in developing countries (Liberty Mutual, Dancing on a Dream). Michaela was adopted with her only good friend in the orphanage which Michaela said, “…that never really happens to people but it happened to us.” She goes on to speak about how she wanted to become a dancer and is currently a principal with the Dance Theater of Harlem.
This issue is important because not everyone sees the world the same way. The people that are affected by wars or children being treated poorly just for being different or just for being orphaned, need to know that there are people out there that would not treat them with malice and would not stop them from doing what they want to do. The people at Liberty Mutual felt that Michaela DePrince’s story was important and that is why they made a video about her life. This
The Responsibility Project by Liberty Mutual Insurance is a place where people can go to watch videos that show many situations all about doing the right thing. All of the videos that I watched were either emotionally moving or thought provoking, which is the whole purpose of the site, to start people thinking and discussing what is right and wrong in the world and how people see this all differently.
In the short film “Dancing on a Dream”; you meet a young woman by the name Michaela DePrince. She was born in Sierra Leone during the Bloody Civil War. This War left more than 300,000 children without parents, and she was one of them (Liberty Mutual, Dancing on a Dream). When she was just three, she was sent to an orphanage where the children were ranked by age, Michaela said all this in the video. There she was ranked lowest of the children because she has a skin condition that made her different. Being last meant that she received the last of the food, the last of the clothes, the last of everything.
There are many issues in this video, and one is adoption. According to the video there are 153 million orphans in the world and 95% of them live in developing countries (Liberty Mutual, Dancing on a Dream). Michaela was adopted with her only good friend in the orphanage which Michaela said, “…that never really happens to people but it happened to us.” She goes on to speak about how she wanted to become a dancer and is currently a principal with the Dance Theater of Harlem.
This issue is important because not everyone sees the world the same way. The people that are affected by wars or children being treated poorly just for being different or just for being orphaned, need to know that there are people out there that would not treat them with malice and would not stop them from doing what they want to do. The people at Liberty Mutual felt that Michaela DePrince’s story was important and that is why they made a video about her life. This