Amber's Blog Critique

I read Amber's blog titled "Homelessness and Poverty" on April 8, 2010. First, I loved the colors used in this blog: there were different shades of pink on a white background. Again, the use of these colors made the information on her blog really stand out. She used a video bar which portrayed four different pictures of poverty, a few other pictures relating to the topic throughout the blog, as well as a calander at the top of the page. I thought the calender idea was original, however, i'm not sure as to how it relates to poverty and homelessness. For me, it still did add to the blog's creativeness. The first picture when you look at her blog was of an emaciated (to say the least) African American child. Under this picture Amber wrote some words of her own to get the reader to think about how many of us take food for granted in this country. Along with this, she discusses an article titled "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" which states that we waste 96 billion pounds of edible food on a yearly basis. This shows how much food is really wasted in today's society if this information is correct. I always wonder, for example, what restaurants do when the day is over and they have a large quantity of food left over. Do they save it for the next day? Do they donate it? Or do they throw it out? I'm sure each place does something different, however, it should be a much more common practice to donate all this extra food as opposed to throwing it out when we have people who are literally starving on our streets. Overall, I really liked the layout of Amber's blog, as I feel it was different from many of the others I have seen.