Running Head: Letter to the future

My Letter to the Future
Susan Steichen
HU300: Art and Humanities: 20th Century and Beyond
Kaplan University
Unit 9 Project
11/11/12

Dear People of the future,
My name is Susan Steichen and I live in the year 2012. Just wanted to let you know a little bit about me and what the past consists of through my point of view. My day usually consists of getting up at 3:30 am to get ready for work; I have to be to work at 5 am. I work in the accounting department at Wal-Mart, so I have to be there early to process the previous day’s transactions. I count all the monies and checks that get process throughout the day. I find the shortages and hold people accountable for their transactions. I usually leave for work around 2pm, I like that schedule as it gives me my afternoons free. I go home and spend some quiet time by myself until the rest of my family starts to come home around 3pm. I play with my granddaughter Trinity; she is the light of my life! We just re-elected the 54th President of the United States Barack Obama. What I hope to see in the future is a greener planet. I would like a better place to live for my future generations. I am hoping the human race had not been taken over with robots doing the work of man. I would say the biggest decision of morality would be this past election on November 6, 2012. The opposing candidate was named Mitt Romney. He was pro-life; to me this is a big moral issue. He denied the emergency contraception bill, stating that life begins at contraception. I take that as being a woman/girl gets raped by a stranger or a family member, they would have no right to end this pregnancy. It also means that maybe this rapist wants to see his child? They victim would have to bear looking into the eyes of the rapist to exchange the offspring of a violent act. No woman should have to face the rapist to appease someone’s moral issue. As I don’t believe in abortion as a form of birth control who am I to decide what a woman should or shouldn’t do with their bodies. My hope for the future would be no more issues on abortion, which unfortunately it is going to happen, just give the woman the support they need through this trying time.
My idea of happiness is family! Growing up we had a small family, my mom and my 5 brother and sisters. There was no dad, grandparents, aunts, or uncles to speak of. There was an 8 year age gap from the oldest to the youngest kid. When my mom had to work to support us, we raised each other. We depended on each other for various things, my sister Flora was the cook, my sister Annette was the cleaner, and my brother Kenneth was the oldest boy so he was the protector, which made my younger brother Michael the protector’s helper. I was the nurturer so I had the responsibility to take of my baby sister Tammy. It was a hard life going out to play when my mother had a rare day off was a luxury. Since then we all grew up got married and have had families of our own. Something my kids had that I never had dads, grandparents, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews, and cousins. We started out a small close family and always thought I was missing something; through the years we have become one big close family and to me that is happiness.
I am including in this time capsule several items that will hopefully be around for you to enjoy. The first thing I am going to include is a novel. The book I chose to tell you about is The Wizard of Oz it was written by L. Frank Baum and was published in the year 1900. This book is one I remember from my childhood, it gave me some great joy reading it. This book is one of a very few shared experiences that unite Americans as a culture, transcending barriers of age, locale, politics, religion, and so on. We all seen it when we were young, and it leaves a mark on our imaginations. I can hardly imagine not knowing it. It ranks among my earliest and most defining experiences of wonder and of fear, of fairy-tale joys and terrors, of the lure of the exotic and the comfort of home. This book has everything from an evil witch, cowardly lion, a tin man, and your favorite dog. This novel explores a child’s imagination. I think this novel would be good in the future as would show you how the world back then found this story as entertaining. As things are going in my time, everything is electronic. My kids have electronic readers where they read their book on a tablet. I would really like to send a hard copy of this book, to know that the book has not all gone electronic.
The next example of something I would like to discuss is a piece of architecture. Is the Statue of Liberty! According to the Nation park service,
“The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World was a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States and is a universal symbol of freedom and democracy. The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on October 28, 1886, designated as a National Monument in 1924 and restored for her centennial on July 4, 1986”.
This National Monument stands in New York harbor and she is a symbol to the American people of freedom. I would like it to still be around in the future for everything it symbolizes. On Lady Liberty pedestal there are these words "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." I hope for the future that this statue and it words would remain with the same meaning. That no one would be ever turned away.
The next thing I would like to include is some music, I am hopeful that there are still music writers and the music is composed and not digitally made. The song I chose is a Brian Adams song (Everything I Do) I do it for you. This song has so much meaning to me. I gave a child up for adoption, and this song is my anthem to him. He will know that there were some choices I had to make and there were sacrifices just so he had a life.
I am hopeful that this song would remain a classic as it helped me. During a difficult time in my life it gave me strength. This song could help other people during their trying times. It would give someone else the strength they need.
I would also like to include a film from 2012. This film would be Hunger Games; this movie is about the future after the last war. The country had divided into Districts and there are 12 districts. Each year every district has to send two tributes one boy and one girl from the ages of thirteen to eighteen they are put into an arena and fight to the death. Until one victor remains and that person will be taken care of for life. The reasoning behind this is so there would be no more war to lose a huge amount of young ones.
I would hope this film would still be around as a reminder of what the world could come to. I am hoping that there would be world peace and war would be a thing of our past. But as humans are human I don’t think that would ever happen. Another reason why I would want this movie to remain is that it is also a love story. That through all this bad there still can be love.
The last thing I am going to include is something fun from our time. It’s the latest fad! It’s a dance called Gangnum Style. It’s a fun dance that you can be silly to. It’s sung by a South Korean his name is PSY. The song is about an un-attractive man that has money is surrounded by attractive woman who does this dance. You wouldn’t see this happen every day, and Psy sings.
I would love for this song or a song like this as its silly. There are times in life where you just need to let go and be silly and laugh at yourselves. If this song or any songs like this are still around there would still be hope for the future.

References
Retrieved 11/05/2012 http://lightomega.org/worldwatch/StatueofLiberty.html
Retrieved 11/05/2012 http://read.gov/books/oz.html
Retrieved 11/10/2012 http://www.aboutmittromney.com/abortion.htm
Retrieved 11/11/2012http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392170/
Retrieved 11/11/2012 http://www.nps.gov/stli/index.htm
Retrieved 11/07/2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0