Synthesis: Can Republicans and Democrats Get Along?
For this project I teamed up with my friend Maddy Spahr to talk to a republican and a democrat about different issues both sides seem to disagree about. These days you can never see a healthy conversation between two different political parties without it getting out of hand or becoming insulting. We decided to focus on health care and had my mom a 43 year old registered black republican who immigrated from Africa and my friend Chloe a 18 year old white democrat and was born here.
History & Art
We wanted to provide synthesis in the sense that we would combine different ways of editing this video to be focused on the seriousness of this topic while providing a light feel. We wanted people who watch this video from an artistic standard to be given a sense on "Wow we can do this together as a country and work together to get through these issues without always fighting with each other." We also wanted provide synthesis with the salad that we made. Salad is kind of synthesis in all its self because it's literally taking other fruits and veggies in its natural form and mixing it together to create a healthy meal. We also thought it would be a nice touch to talk about health care while making a healthy food such as salad.
English
Our english portion honestly consisted of the message we left at the end of the video. We gathered our thoughts on how the shooting went and how the conversation went between us and between my mother and Chloe. It was a beautiful thing that we witnessed that day and I think we need to do more of these. It was also interesting hearing about my mothers perspective on health care since she is one that actually works in that department. I hopw you enjoyed the video!