Month: January 2017

Carol Ann Duffy uses imagery in her poem, war photographer to show us how emotion is a big part of conflict. One way she shows us this is when she says ‘how blood stained into foreign dust’. This quote shows us how all the bloodshed of war has absorbed into the earth and were forgotten and so the victims are forgotten. This quote links to emotion because the quote is about rememberance. It’s about how so much conflict happens at once, the people dying through that time are forgotten.

The people you are about to meet are not as lucky as you. Most people prefer to ignore them. They themselves prefer not to bother us. But at the end of the day, there is an issue that the government, politicians and the media decide not to mention, because they believe it will expose a crack in our economy.

These people are the ones living in the UK who have jobs but are somehow still not able to provide for their family.

The government are made leaders of our country to help us as citizens. They are meant to be integrous, honest and sincere however they lack these traits at times. An example of this is the people living in poverty you see around you all the time. They say they are going to make people’s lives better but that doesn’t seem to be happening. In 2014, 6.5% of the UK’s population were in severe poverty, equivalent to approximately 3.9 million people. This is a shocking statistic as the population of the UK is 65,329,580. If the government were true to their word then the poverty rate would be much lower. 43.52% of people went to food banks because their benefits were cut by the government.

Victims of benefit cuts are left with no other option. Now that they cannot pay to keep a roof above their head, they have to go and live in a homeless shelter with complete strangers. In these shelters they have mattresses for the people to sleep on.  

For a lot of people, poverty is just something we read about in the news. For my neighbor however, it was something that he lived on a daily basis. One night when I was cleaning up my room, I remember looking out of my window onto my road and seeing him rummaging through my dustbins for food. For a split second, we caught eyes, then he ran off into the darkness.

At that moment I realized that poverty is a massive problem in the UK and the government ones who struggle with poverty are to blame.