Imagine a world with news coverage that lacked images or live footage of a current event or catastrophe. We would all find ourselves less drawn into the situation and feel less emotion because we would not be able to see the suffering of the victims. If this was the case, watching the news or reading an article would be like looking through a car ad with tons of descriptions about the cars, but no images. No matter how descriptive you are about the cars people still want to see a picture for that extra assurance and visualization. The same goes for news coverage or articles, if a horrific incident is being covered images are a vital element to include, especially graphic ones, because they help strengthen the story, allow the viewer/reader …show more content…
If a large scale natural disaster was to occur chances are that the victims would be in much need of assistance. By exposing the rest of the world to that horrible event people will begin to feel very sympathetic thus increasing the chances that they will donate money to help the victims. In the article “Face to Face with Tragedy” author, Clark Hoyt, describes the outcome of an earthquake that struck Haiti and how the world responded to the images the journalists published. Within his article, Hoyt cites Mary Claire Carroll who went on to say, “How else can you motivate or inspire someone like me to donate money” (Hoyt). Carroll helps make it clear that exposing the public to such images (figure 1) increases or is even possibly the only method to motivating people to donate money. Later in the article Hoyt quotes Damon Winter, the first Times photographer in Haiti after the earthquake, who states, “I have had so many people beg me to come to their home and photograph the bodies…because they so desperately want people to know what has happened…and that they desperately need help” (Hoyt). Winter helps prove to us that the publication of graphic images offers great benefits and can even be the difference between life and death for victims of a severe …show more content…
Being told that a young girl has been raped and left in horrible conditions sometimes isn’t enough however, telling someone that a young girl has been raped and showing them a picture of her horrible conditions will arouse different emotions. Suddenly the viewer feels more sympathetic and wants justice for the little girl. In Conakry, Guinea rape was something that had occurred in the past but never at the scale as on September 28, 2009. In the interview conducted by Michel Martin on New York Times West Africa bureau chief, Adam Nossiter, we learn that “in full view of thousands of people, women were raped and sexually molested in public” (Martin). Numerous images of the incident were released and were being widely distributed (figure 2) because “there is such revulsion about this” (Martin). The people of Conakry finally had enough of all the rape and violence taking place so they began to distribute the graphic images of the latest incident in hopes of achieving justice. This incident goes to prove that graphic images can be used for good and help raise awareness and demand
Originally published in 1975, Nora Ephron’s essay “The Boston Photographs” is both still relevant and controversial almost forty years later. It deals with the series of three photographs that were published in newspapers across the country. The most important one shows a mother and child falling off a collapsed fire escape. Both have their limbs outstretched. If both had survived, maybe the reaction would have been different. The child survived by landing miraculously on the mother, but the mother ended up dying. The question on everyone’s mind was why the photographer, Stanley Forman, decided to take the photographs instead of trying to help the falling mother and child.
I chose to do my paper on the movie, For Colored Girls, by Ntozake Shane (2010). In the movie For Colored Girls, I thought about all the Tangies who have not been professionally treated for their childhood rape. It is not an easy subject to talk about. The victims sometimes hide their emotions for years. Sexual abuse on a child is vulgar and according to Martin (2010), it is considered maltreatment and should be reported to authorities. Tangie knew her attacker, in fact he lived with them. He was a caregiver who was supposed to protect her. She held a lot of anger towards her mother because she felt that at least her mom should have protected her.
Rape is devastating to its victims. I feel as if this statement should stand alone, underlined and in bold typeface. It is crucial that we, as a society, come to a deep understanding and awareness of this message. For that reason, I will state it again:
Rape can happen to anyone. Women from different cultures, races, ages, and economic level are all vulnerable. It does not matter who you are or where you live, although women of lowest status are most vulnerable to rape, and so are Hispanic and African American women. (An...
Holloway’s experiences in Mali regarding childbirth and the difficulties of women shed light on the topic of ethical and moral issues in other countries. Prior to reading Holloway’s “Monique and the Mango Rains”, I had only heard about FGM and poverty in Mali. Transforming data and numbers into descriptions of people, Holloway reveals the faces and voices of the people of Mali.
Conley defines rape as a “crime in which a man overpowers a woman, using actual or threatened force to take sexual advantage of her” . 4 out of 5 women “per 1000 are raped each year” , however not all rape cases are reported. The difficulties and discrimination that women experience in the legal system, caused victims to refuse reporting this offence thus lowering the reporting rate to 20%. According to the statistics given by Powell, only “15-20% result in charges being laid” . That is the due to struggles associated with meeting the standard of proof; the ‘rape myth’ that is entrenched in our legal system/community that involves women having to evidence obvious physical injuries in order to be clas...
In today's world, photographs are the most form of media to deliver news and messages. They depict the mere fact, but are censored to hide violence. Such an act conceals the reality of life and is unfair. Graphic images must always be exposed to the public as they present the blatant reality and educate people about world crisis.
From the time that they’re children, American citizens are taught to associate the words “...Liberty and Justice for all,” with their country. However, there’s at least one group of people being greatly deprived of justice: survivors of rape. It comes as no surprise that approximately sixty-eight percent of rapes are not reported in a country where approximately ninety-eight percent of rapists are never jailed (Rape - Definition, Examples, Cases, Processes). Victims of this horrible crime are going through possibly the worst trauma of their lives, so it’s very difficult for them to want to come forward to law enforcement and somewhat have to relive their trauma, especially given the previous statistics. Perhaps one of the greatest contributors to these horrifying statistics, therefore, a reason rape survivors are unlikely to come forward, is the backlog of things called rape kits that many jurisdictions in the United States currently have.
Jewkes, R. (2012) Rape Perpetration: A review. Pretoria, Sexual Violence Research Initiative. Retrieved April 21, 2014 , from http://www.svri.org/RapePerpetration.pdf
...apidly our world today. There are hundreds of places people may go and visit for help or more information about rape and sexual violence. It is very important that when and if it happens, the victim needs to report the crime to authorities immediately. People must know the truth about rape and sexual violence and what to do about it.
Inertwined with rape myths, are subsequent rape scripts. As Ryan (2011) and Clay-Warner and McMahon-Howard (2009) showed, depending what script is prevalent or dominant, reporting rates and overall acknowledgement can be greatly affected. Our understanding of what constitutes a rape or sexual assault needs to significantly change otherwise countless victims will remained silenced. If the understanding of these crimes was broadened, and the acquaintance scenarios taken more seriously, more victims would come forward, report, and get the help they may desperately need, in addition to aiding the legal system in punishing the offender and improve society’s population.
5 Reasons Why People Share Fake Photos During Natural Disasters There are many reasons why people would share fake pictures especially during these tragic events. Natural disasters like hurricanes, tornados, tsunamis, or anything are horrifying. People go through a lot with the destruction that these disasters make. So why would people want to deal with more distractions?
Both the Iran-Iraq war and the Holocaust were tragic events that happened at different times in different places; both ended so many lives that could have been saved. Images that portray these events cause people to understand the background of these events, and it demonstrates more evidently in proof. People would most likely understand images based on the quote “A picture is worth a thousand words” than handwritten words; most people in our society are able to understand the catastrophic history easier as visual
The society we live in is rape-conducive, rape-friendly, if you will. Despite the anger I feel joining those two words together, I know the sad paradox holds within it a great deal of truth. We are a violent society that has shrouded rape in mystery and shame. To stop this nightmare’s venomous crusades, all people must wage a private war to eradicate their own acceptance of the savage crime. While it is only a minority of men that actually commit rape, it is everyone’s silence that tells them it’s ok.
More importantly, “60 percent of children who are sexually abused do not disclose and most are acquaintances but as many as 47 percent are family or extended family” (The Scope of, 2016). The prevalence of child sexual abuse is difficult to determine because it is often not reported; experts agree that the incidence is far greater than what is reported to authorities (Child Sexual Abuse, 2012). Startling statistics represent the depth of the issue. Globally, prevalence rates show that a range of 7-36% of women and 3-29% of men experience sexual abuse in childhood (The Scope of, 2016). “The U.S Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau report child maltreatment 2010 found that 9.2% of victimized children were sexually assaulted” (Child Sexual Abuse,