Heal the World by Michael Jackson

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Nowadays, there are still many wars, hunger happen in this world, there are still many people live without enough food and water, there are a huge number of people live in wars. According to Shah’s article, until 2013, there are still more than 660 million people live on less than 2 dollars a day. In the music video of Michael Jackson “Heal the World” has told we a story about this phenomenon. This is a song about children and war. This song was in the album Dangerous and it was released in 1991. Michael Jackson wrote this song for his charity organization which had the same name with this song, it is named “Heal the World Foundation”. The charity organization was hammer at protecting the rights of children. This organization helped millions of children. Therefore, in this music video, it shows us that people who live in and hurts by wars, especially children. This video especially want to show people that how hard those children live. Throughout this whole video, the main characters are children and soldiers, they are both victims of wars.
This video starts with a very soft and a bit sad music, in the beginning of this video, we can see many children lie on bed, these children are injured, and some of them are bound up gauze, therefore we know that there is a hospital. However, the hospital is quite shabby, there are candles on their bedside instead of electric light, so there must be a very poor place. From this scene, we know that these children live in a very difficult condition. With the music, there is a child’s voice comes, he said, “Think about um... the generations and say we wanna 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 thi...

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...try to awaken people’s sympathy through these frame of war, because music is a very powerful way, it can change people’s feeling and emotions. Through this music video, they will change their mind of life, because through this video, they know that many people are living in difficult conditions, then they will help people who live in difficult situation.

Works Cited

Causes of conflicts: Why wars happen. The Economist, 16 Dec. 2008. Web. 16 Feb. 2014. .

Fitzpatrick, Frank. "Can Popular Music Heal The World?" Layoga Magazine May 2010. Web. .

Shah, Anup. "Poverty Facts and Stats." Global Issues (2013). Web. 16 Feb. 2014. .

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