“defense work gave women a heightened sense of their own worth that carried over into their later lives.” Futher more Harris believed these women did not want to go back and if they did they told their daughters they did not have to be just homemakers they could be anything they wanted to be.(3) These women effected society’s view of the strength and ability of women in the workforce that is still seen today. A picture is worth a thousand words and Rosie the Riveter is a visual embodiment of…
cases this may be true about war, there are also other reasons for fighting. What about the freedoms and rights, that as Americans, we are privileged to have? What about the land and the people back home? These were some reasons that made fighting worth it. While there is a lot of pain in war it is also important to remember what one is willing to die for. To some people it is one’s country. The viewers also played a part in skewing the perspective. Especially in Vietnam when war support was…
I stumbled across an article on CNN.com about a Japanese Zero pilot in World War II lamenting the war and his country’s role in it. One point made in the article that caught my attention was “Harada said his main concern is that as his war generations dies out, decisions about Japan’s future will rest with younger people who have only known peace and never experienced the horrors of war” (Wright, 2015). That is a sobering thought and equally applicable here in the United States along with the…
your full abilities, you come to a point when you run out of fuel. You start questioning what you 're doing and if, at that very moment, everything you 've already done was worth it. What is my purpose and, whatever that purpose may be, is it worth achieving? True wisdom is admitting…
Advertisements are powerful tools of communication used to persuade consumers into buying products and/or change their view on how they perceive a particular issue or subject. What makes advertising appealing to the consumer is not just a fancy product or a pretty face, but the underlying messages used to convince, shock, and inform the consumer into taking some form of action. We will explore examples of hidden messages and advertising techniques used in a print advertisement by the Alcohol…
story of an exchange student, forcing readers to analyze the story beyond the text. “At the end of all of my stories, I test for wordless comprehension. So I remove the text and see if it works by itself.”- Shaun tan. It is true one picture is worth ten thousand words, sometimes it’s easier to absorb and communicate through symbolic images. Reading texts and seeing images can lead us to multiple ideas and understandings. his story is about observing various aspects of life appreciating and…
once said, “A camera is a very powerful tool.” Photography is the way in which you express something and show it to world. People see a camera just as a tool to take pictures, but cameras go beyond taking pictures, it puts into image what can’t be described in words. As many of us have heard before, a picture is worth a thousand words; this is exactly what I feel with Candy Cigarettes by Sally Mann and Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park by Diane Arbus. These two photographs are very…
A picture is worth 1,000 words It’s just the second meeting between these two elite teams in the NBA. The offensive juggernauts that are the Cleveland Cavaliers, and a team with one of the best records in the west, the Houston Rockets. One team destine for playoff greatness, and the other hungry for a NBA title. The crowd roars as the starting line ups are announced. Some hear boos as the name “LeBron James” is announced. The crowd stands up and cheers as the name “James Harden” is announced.…
Though a picture can be deleted at anytime, there is no expiration date on it. In addition to this, the caption of an image can be edited at any given moment, and there is no character limit when it comes to how much an advertiser wants to write below a visual. A…
about photographs is that they capture a still moment and it stays like that for the rest of your life, even if the person in that picture doesn't. They always told me that a picture is worth a thousand words, I didn't believe them until you were actually gone. Pictures are like memories that you can show to people. Some pictures though, you keep hidden. Those pictures are the ones that you keep in the bottom of your drawer under your clothes, or in the secret compartment in your jewelry box, or…