Satire Project Reflection
After completing an entire project on homelessness, I can confidently say I've learned a lot about the topic. Choosing homelessness as a topic seemed like an obvious choice. Growing up in New York City, I've become accustomed to seeing homeless people. From subways to city streets, all New Yorkers can attest to how serious the problem of homelessness is. However, too many of us don't see homeless people as actual human beings, but as an annoyance, which is exactly why we chose to do our project on a topic as difficult to address as homelessness. I think this problem exists because of human nature. Since humans are inherently selfish creatures, it can be hard to consider other people's problems important. Though many good and caring people do exist, the goal, though it might seem unrealistic to some, is to get most, or even all, people to care about homelessness as if it was their own situation. At first, I was honestly slightly uncomfortabl...