Robin Williams Substance Abuse

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Substance Abuse How substance abuse can have several effects on anyone’s life Many people don’t realize or see the major effects that substance abuse has on everyone’s life. There are many substances in our world today that people are abusing. This problem is becoming widespread among children and adults. The more this problem keeps on rising, the younger the ages of these substances are being abused among. I chose two texts that are concerning similar topics and actions. I think these two texts relate to each other and work together to help explain this big widespread issue. In this essay, I am going to compare and study the relationship between two texts concerning the effects on anyone’s life that use abused substances. Substance…show more content…
Also, why I chose this topic, concerning it is a very important subject and a problem that keeps rising today. Both videos have a specific type of audience their directed towards, although both messages are directed towards a specific type of audience. These two texts I chose both have the same overall message, they’re just directed towards a different group of audience. These two texts send messages to different groups of audiences, to help show the widespread people that are abusing these substances. The video concerning Robin Williams addresses substance abuse in the celebrity social world. Robin Williams was very open with his problem, although not all celebrities are open about their personal lives. Many people don’t realize how big of a problem substance abuse is among celebrities. Therefore, the video concerning sports and athletes addresses any athlete in general. This type of audience can include parents, college athletes, high school athletes, and any injured student. I chose both of these texts because I feel like they relate to each other while also getting the big message out there to several…show more content…
The video directed towards athletes is made by The Fresh Outlook. The Fresh Outlook is more of a talk show environment. However, ABC News is directed more towards worldwide audiences. ABC News is a more popular and well known author. The Fresh Outlook seems to be a newer type of talk show, that isn’t as well-known as ABC News. However, The Fresh Outlook has guest speakers that are well known, this helps bring bigger audiences. I believe that the authors made a great point in their videos. I also think that these videos were made in ways that will extremely help people that are also being affected by these “personal demons”. The videos are made in a way that help make people better aware of the affects these harmful substances can have on anyone’s life. These speakers and authors were helpful in being informative not just doing the “Hollywood gossip talk”. This gossip that goes around in the world only makes the situation harder on
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