Living On One Dollar

“12.7 percent of the world’s population lived at or below $1.90 a day in 2012. That means that 896 million people live in poverty across the globe” (Leary). Many large organizations have been working around the clock trying to solve the poverty problem, such as the Peace Corps and Red Cross. Organizations like these have set up local banking systems for people living in poverty to manage their money safely. But although they have set up many service centers like banks and doctors offices across the globe, poverty is still striking the population hard. Living on One Dollar follows the journey of four friends as they set out to live on just $1 a day for two months in rural Guatemala. Their main mission is to study the economics of the area, which

Within a good film, there has to be a base for the targeted audience. A base, or rhetorical situation, is something that everyone included in the audience is familiar with and/or can make a connection to, weather it be the language spoken or the style of clothing worn in the film. Other attributes of the rhetorical situation can consist of things as small as the camera angles used. I think of all of these attributes as pieces to a puzzle, a puzzle made for the intended audience. The way Living On One Dollar conveyed the message inspired me to think about the world around me in a much broader sense, which I believe is a major key to any kind of movie. The whole rhetorical situation created a very black and white comparison for how well we have it here in America. While poverty exists everywhere in the world, these four boys chose to travel halfway around the globe to study it. Why not start in their own hometown? The answer is simple; the targeted audience for this movie needed their attention grabbed, and learning about people suffering in their own community was not interesting enough to gain support for the