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Essay / Heal the World by Michael Jackson - 1365
Nowadays there are still many wars, hunger exists in this world, many people still live without enough food and water, a large number of people live in wars. According to Shah's article, until 2013, more than 660 million people still lived on less than $2 a day. In Michael Jackson's music video, "Heal the World" tells us a story about this phenomenon. It's a song about children and war. This song was featured in the album Dangerous and it was released in 1991. Michael Jackson wrote this song for his charity that had the same name as this song, it is called “Heal the World Foundation”. The charity has worked to protect the rights of children. This organization has helped millions of children. Therefore, in this clip he shows us the people who live and suffer from wars, especially children. This video mainly wants to show people how hard these children live. Throughout this video, the main characters are children and soldiers, they are both victims of wars. This video starts with very soft and a little sad music, at the beginning of this video we can see many children lying on the bed, these children are injured and some of them are wrapped in gauze, so we know that 'there is a hospital. However, the hospital is quite run down, there are candles at their bedside instead of electric light, so the place must be very poor. From this scene we know that these children live in very difficult conditions. With the music, a child's voice rings out, he says: "Think about uh... the generations and say that we want to make it a better place for our children and our children's children, so that they, they, they, they know. it's a better world for them. And this... middle of paper ...... try to arouse people's sympathy through this war context, because music is a very powerful medium, it can change people's feelings and emotions. Through this clip, they will change their opinion about life, because through this video, they know that many people live in difficult conditions, so they will help people who live in difficult situations. Works Cited Causes of Conflict: Why Wars Happen. The Economist, December 16, 2008. Web. February 16, 2014. .Fitzpatrick, Frank. “Can popular music heal the world?” Layoga Magazine May 2010. Web. .Shah, Anup. “Facts and statistics on poverty”. Global Issues (2013). Internet. February 16. 2014. .