A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Word Analysis

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There is an old saying which states “a picture is worth a thousand words” ("The Meaning and Origin of the Expression: A Picture Is worth a Thousand Words."). What this phrase means is that a picture can tell a long story without any sort of text. Well in my case, a picture could be worth (INSERT WORD COUNT HERE) words. The famous picture of Jesse Owens’ starting pose at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games is a perfect example of this saying (Jesse Owens). This image can be analyzed in two different perspectives: historical and in regards to societal changes. Jesse Owens was born on September 12, 1913, in Oakville, Alabama. He spent most of his young childhood on a sharecropper plantation ("Jesse Owens."). On the plantation, Jesse was expected to pick up to 100 pounds of cotton a day at age 7. He also struggled with chronic bronchial congestion and pneumonia. At the age of 9, the Owens family moved to Cleveland Ohio. During his middle school years, his physical education instructor noticed how fast Jesse was when he was running around the track. The instructor immediately began training him to be a sprinter for the Fairmont Junior High School’s track team ("How Jesse Owens Impacted the Nation (Fall 2012) - Historpedia."). Jesse flourished in both junior high and high school track as …show more content…

According to Hitler, this man was perfect in everything, especially athletically. However, Jesse Owens, who was black, proved Hitler wrong in the 1936 Olympics with his performance which acquired 4 gold medals for the United States of America. The fact that a black man single-handedly beat Hitler’s “super men” in their own backyard made Hitler outraged. However, Hitler did not hesitate to use the concepts of agenda setting and framing to order the German media to publish stories about the collapse of white, American athletes ("1936 German

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