Saturday, 9 November 2013

Extreme Makeover - Home Edition



The TV show “Extreme Makeover – Home Edition“ is presenting itself as a charity show assisting poor families by remodeling their houses, but in fact, they are doing nothing of long lasting effect to actually help the people. While shoving upon the affected families a new house and all sorts of technological gadgets for free, the show ignores that future bills, maintenance costs, and taxes will increase for the family, while their income will most likely not. Since most families are presented to be in a tight spot even before receiving the house, this begs the question just how they are supposed to afford keeping it in the long run. Instead of providing a more substantial, long-running help, the show drops a huge burden onto the family, and then moves on, making it more of a self-serving display of charity for the TV network than an actually functioning social charity project.

[Please excuse the delay, I was experiencing some trouble with my google account for some reason.]

2 comments:

  1. I like that your article is logically structured. Your argumentation is easy to follow and conveys your message!

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  2. This is a nice and concise article. I like your insight how this show serves to aggrandize ABC and its sponsors rather than helping people in need.

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