“The Mighty Umbrella” Ahmed Iqbal’s Creative Rationale:
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he reason why I chose my topic to be climate change is because I think climate change is the
biggest issue in the world that I am willing to protest about. The reason why I think climate change is important is because Climate change affects everything on earth including nature, animals, humans, natural disasters and many more. Climate change just won't affect our generations but many more to come, and even more animals that don't deserve to lose their homes or become extinct such as the passenger pigeon. Climate change also makes the earth warmer which makes it more hot during the summer in some countries which can massvilt impact nature and human lives. Rising sea levels is a cause from glaciers melting from climate change which means in the future some islands would be gone because of rising sea levels. My thought process with my work is I want people to understand ways that they can help stop climate change by Recycling, Using natural energy, planting a tree, stopping deforestation and reusing. The umbrella is supposed to show by doing these things such as planting trees and recycling it will protect the earth. Also I added some text to the side to get my message across to the people who don't understand what I am trying to draw and imagine. The main reason why I made my PSA poster is to spread awareness to people so they can understand about climate change because I think it is the biggest issue the world faces today. I hope that people can become more knowledgeable about climate change when they see and read my PSA poster, because that is the purpose of it. I think that joining a physical protest requires you to be an IB learner profile which is a risk taker, because I think joining a protest is risky. The reason why I think it is risky is when you protest you are spreading and sharing strong beliefs that you believe that other people may find to be offensive or be mad at which could result in some violence. Also if you are a leader of a protest people may send death threats to you or your family and sometimes they may even kill you which happened to Martin Luthur King Jr and Malcom X. I think the best way for me to protest and voice my agency is by using social media. I am able to reach out to more people on social media than I am in person. With 1 post or tweet I can reach 10s of thousands of people if it goes viral, which would show some awareness for my issue and topic. I believe the point of protests is to spread awareness for a topic and I think to make a change because the people are not satisfied with what is going on in the country. Protest may take a long time to set in such as BLM becuse they were protesting ever since slavery and there has ben a big improment, but people are still not satisfied in the way African Americans are treated in America. In this unit I learnt the many ways people protest such as music, art, and social media. I think music and social media have the biggest impact, because they both have access to more people than art would. It is easy for someone to stumble upon a song which talks about protest and the same with a post. Also, it is easy to take music and a post at face value compared to an artwork which requires you to decipher what is in the art and what the artist wanted to communicate about.
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