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My proposal for our Unit 3 portfolio project is that I will respond to Option 2, a sample dilemma, with a response and a drawing. At this moment I am currently deciding on which option to do, but I have narrowed it down to options 1 or 2. Option 1 being the Robber Baron story and Option 2 being Singapore's answer to drug problems. Because this project seems to be more of a writing project I will write my artist's statement answering this question; but I then plan to create a drawing of the famous statue with the justice scales. I will change this drawing though to be more represenetative of the individual dilemma: such as changing the statue from the woman holding the scales to the robber baron's relative, with both choices in each side of the scale.
I think in both dilemma's there are deep moral issues at stake. For me the first choice, yes the money was gained by illegitimate means, but I was not the younger relative who did this to get the money; so why should he suffer for what his older relatives did? And in the Singapore case, while Singapot may have a significantly lower crime rate because of their strict ways of dealing with their drug problems, they are taking many human lives, which may be considered excessive. In the Singapore case human lives are at stake! Singapore will convict someone of just owning keys to a place in which drugs are stored at, which can cause a person to lose their life!
I believe that my idea for my drawing is a strong one because it will literally show the two issues at stake in an image that people have seen before. Everybody knows the statue holding the two scales, so it should be easy for people to see my symbolism.