Assignment 5

So much time and money is spent on award season. The dresses seen on the red carpet cost more than all of the clothes in my closet combined, the earrings more than all the shoes in my house. Why does society put such an emphasis on these "stars"? Why don't we put this emphasis on other things like Nobel Prize winners? People are selfish. We only like to concern ourselves with thinks that directly involve ourselves. Sure the Nobel Prize winner in chemistry discovered some cool thing, but how is it going to effect us? Celebrities do concern us because we see them on TV and in the movies all the time. This also occurs on a global scale. When a tragedy strikes in the US everyone is quick to point out what went wrong and how they feel so badly about it. For every major US tragedy there is hours upon hours if news coverage in newspapers, magazines, and TV. But much more awful things happen across the world everyday and there is no news coverage over it. Everyday there are people dying from awful loving conditions in refugee camps in Jordan, work camps in North Korea, countries divided by civil war. People all across the world will be dying tonight from tragedies but the United States won't know because they will be seeing who has the most expensive gown walking down the red carpet.