Water Buffalo Response

The Water Buffalo video, is about an american giving a water buffalo to a poor family in China. I believe that this video has a lot of connections towards what we are doing in English. In the beginning of the video it shows that there is a fake organization in which to give money to and with this information and guy and his friend are inspired to make it into a reality. But the major connection to English is with the Singer's Solution to World Poverty. In Singer's Solution, the author discusses ways in which american people can help dying children around the world and why people do not give their money to help many helpless people. The connection between this essay and the video is that the video shows someone actually taking Singer's ideas into their own hands and helping some one in need. The person did not just donate to a society or charity but he decided to use his willing friends money to buy a water buffalo to help work and also feed a desperate family. I personally enjoyed watching the families reaction to the great gift. It seemed that they where extremely suprised and over joyed to know that someone cared about them and bought them something that they could only dream of.