Responses to other Video's

Esther

hwhat lol. I think that what stood out the most for me was how your focus was on family, while virtually everyone else's video put emphasis on friends or personal things. Good job, and you have a massive family, i have like 8 people lol.

Insight: The way that Esther looked at her life, and did her video was really telling into what matters to her most. I would look at myself and think that I value my friends and think more of them than my family, but Esther was very matter of fact and made her family the forefront of her video. I think this is what made her video and her life not typical for an American teenager.


Binta

Really good video, i liked how you put your sister on the spot and you got a very spur of the moment response. I think this was enough to really make the viewer look at the rest of your movie with that in mind. Good job.

Insight: Their are so many different ways in which our lives are shaped and defined, but in Binta's video, the interesting thing was that she had someone who helped to shape her life (her sister) explain what they thought her way of life was. For the most part, her sister said quite typical things about Binta's way of life (not bad, just typical). Interestingly we saw through her pictures and family that she did not lead a typical American life, but infact a diverse and worldly one, unlike most Americans. Myself included.


Chloe

Nice video Chloe, i the fact that you showed so many different parts of your life helped to show how your life was a culmination of parents, friends, and different groups of friends, school and...not school

Insight: Chloe's video in my opinion seemed to show that she had a relatively typical way of life; friends, boyfriend, and family. The interesting thing was that, if this was a typical AWOL, than really it is a balanced and healthy way of life. The AWOL, similar to Chloe's way of life is not heavily based on a value of family or friends or anything for that matter. It is about participating in many different things, land being involved with many different people. This is what makes the AWOL different from the rest of the world, where certain countries and cultures highly value family, or hard work, or friendsack, or love.