Friday, August 3, 2012

Kony 2012


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   Have you ever seen the video "KONY 2012"? "KONY 2012" is one of the most influential and viral videos in human history. Made by an American, the video spreaded as a virus through people. Even some are thinking to change their donation groups to Tri which is the donation group that helps to arrest Joseph Kony and to help his poor army. The craze didn't stopped. However, suddenly, people began to have a question. "Is the video(Kony 2012) 100% all true and real?" Many people are arguing about that, and the topic is quite controversial, some agrees with the video and think it's true, in the other hand, some are suspecting the video and think the video is faked. I disagree with video as the others do as well, but  not completely all. 

  We even do not know exactly if Joseph Kony is dead or alive. We haven't heard any movements or actions that Joseph Kony did for 6 years. There is no evidence that Joseph Kony is still alive and is kidnapping children nowadays as well. Well, its kind of strange that the world didn't have any news of Joseph Kony for 6 years. He wouldn't have any reason to hide or stop his actions because he wasn't that famous and the US didn't even helped the group(who's putting effort to stop Kony and arrest him) 6 years ago. For instance, the US mentors had no reports of viewing Joseph Kony for almost one year as well. 

   The LRA, Joseph Kony's army is not that big as well. The video said that there were almost 30000 kids who were soldiers at the LRA. Actually, there were about 30000 kids totally for the past 20 years. We can know by this that the video is not totally 100% true and is kind of exaggerating the facts. Also, some says that the LRA doesn't even exist anymore. If the LRA still existed there would be lots of conflicts in Uganda, and would be a serious problem that's certainly urgent to solve. However, the most significant point is that Joseph Kony is not the most serious and urgent problem to solve, such as, East Africa food crisis, Middle East and North Africa unrest, and lastly crisis in Libya. There are lots of problems that are more urgent to solve then Joseph Kony. And we don't have any ease or comfort of money to spend on both of the problems. We should carefully think about what is the most important and urgent problem to solve. 

   In conclusion, I disagree with the video "KONY 2012" for few reasons as there are rumors that Joseph Kony were already dead 6 years ago, and that the video is exaggerating that the LRA(Joseph Kony's army) has almost 3 million kids, but the truth is that LRA had 3 million soldiers totally for 20 years. I'm not completely disagreeing with the video, however, I believe that the video is not completely true , and the video is exaggerating facts as well, however, I also think that we should catch Joseph Kony as fast as we could if his alive, cause even his crimes were exaggerated those crimes would still remain as crimes.

2 comments:

  1. Hi. Your writing TA Sohyeon here. A very well organized and logical essay, Katherine. Good job.
    Some suggestions to think about:
    The last sentence is way too long, and it has two howevers in it. Try to shorten it. I don't think suddenly saying we should try to catch Joseph Kony would be a good way to end the essay. Maybe say it somewhere in the middle, but in the conclusion, work on emphasizing your position.
    Overall, a very good essay. I will be keeping an eye on your work :)

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  2. Very good! Nice structure and wise argumentation. I like your balanced views. One thing to watch out for is accuracy of your facts. You mention 30,000 and then 3 million in two different paragraphs mentioning soldiers in the LRA. Other than that - strong work! The video would help people know what video you are talking about.

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