The photograph is called “The Terror of War” by Nick Ut and it is more commonly known as “Napalm Girl”. The photograph was taken by Nick Ut on 8 June 1972 in Trng Bàng, Vietnam. The children in this photograph have been seriously injured with an American chemical weapon known as napalm, which was dropped on them. This occurred during the Vietnam War. This war was fought mainly between the Viet Cong and America. This was due to American involvement in the battle between capitalist North Vietnam and communist South Vietnam. America used firepower, bombs and technological warfare to destroy Viet Cong territory. The turning point that officially started the war was when the USA accused the North Vietnamese of firing US warships and US Congress …show more content…
Napalm produces a gel that is very thick which will attach to the skin and can burn through muscle and bone. This photo depicts Vietnamese children who have been victims of napalm. The naked child (second from the left) has ripped off all her burning clothes. The girl’s name is Phan Th Kim Phc. The girl, as well as other villagers, were hiding in a Buddhist temple to avoid the fighting taking place between the South and North Vietnamese. Behind the children are American soldiers who are part of the Vietnam Army 25th Division. This photo has been called “The Terror of War” and is also commonly known as “Napalm Girl” and is a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph. The events that occurred happened when innocent civilians were caught between North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese soldiers as the North Vietnamese were trying to take control of a village that the South Vietnamese soldiers were defending. Unfortunately, planes that were meant to drop napalm on the North Vietnamese accidently dropped it on Trng Bàng, injuring …show more content…
The photo was seen as an example of depicting the terrors that can be caused by war. At first, the photograph was seen as controversial and President Richard Nixon even doubted how authentic the photograph was. The photograph even had an impact on American soldiers, who also saw the brutality of the war and feared for their lives as the war continued. This photograph also caused many Americans to lose moral and trust in their country as they witnessed innocent children and civilians suffering from a war that many opposed. The war was opposed on moral and economic grounds. Many Americans felt that the funds spent on the Vietnam war could’ve been used on American issues such as the Great Society, which focused on aid to education, urban renewal, conservation and other issues such as fighting poverty. Songs were also written in opposition to war, which is important as songs are able to be listened to all over the world and they’re an easy and entertaining way to bring recognition to the atrocities that occurred during the war. The photograph also won an esteemed award called the Pulitzer Prize, which is an award presented by Columbia University. This shows the recognition of the war internationally as well as more people becoming aware of the atrocities of war and this increased opposition to the
Avery Hatfield Ms. Zehnder English Honors 2A 5.10.17 The Napalm Girl The Vietnam War was a long and violent conflict between the communist governed North Vietnam and the non-communist governed South Vietnam. In late 1955, when the war began, mixed emotions arose because of the controversies surrounding the war and why the United States was involved. In an effort to sway the views of the people to support the war, photographers began to document the horrible injustices that were occurring overseas
Ut’s ‘Napalm Girl’ A captured moment of desperation and terror; amidst the suffrage of the Vietnam war quickly became one of the most influential photographs in the world. Phan Thi Kim Phuc was nine years old when she was photographed, naked and screaming, running towards the camera after an aerial napalm attack by the South-Vietnamese air force on her village near Trang Bang in South Vietnam. Vietnamese American photographer Nick Ut, was 21 when he took the photograph of the ‘Napalm Girl’ on June
Lawson’s “The Drover’s Wife” and “In A Dry Season” embody the distinctively visual as a way to vividly recreate life within the Australian Outback and embody notions of survival, isolation and suffering. Perceptively, Nick Ut’s photograph “The Napalm Girl” visualises the brutality of bloodshed in order to prompt audience members into critiquing the construct of war. These texts recreate aspects of their contextual era, offering a variety of perspectives on the world that drive their respective audience
than humans. Some wished to leash its power and use it against others. Through the greatest invention came one of most terrible weapons ever created: napalm. The Creation Throughout history, many incendiary weapons have been made such as Greek fire and the lighting of hot oil off castle walls, but none were more notorious than Napalm B. During World War One, the flamethrowers used only gasoline. Though it was liquid fire, the flamethrowers had a very short range and would run off
We use pictures to develop our own views on specific events that have gone on in the world past and present. In the photograph “Napalm Girl”, Associated press Nick Ut captured a story that only him and the people in the photo would know. The picture was captured of a group of children and soldiers getting away from an accidental napalm bomb that was dropped during the Vietnam War. I am going to establish the history of the event. The issue that this photograph was editors from different media companies
From alarm clocks to step counters, price checkers to language teachers, smart phones these days have it all. Add instant connectivity to people across the globe, and it’s no wonder young adults are using their phones almost eight hours a day (qtd. in Spend Your Hour). Ironically, excessive cell phone use has neither increased productivity nor created stronger relationships—quite the contrary, actually. University of Maryland researchers are studying whether cell phones cause selfishness
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notch. Daisy wanted to be the best but no-one could beat the weather girl, she was the best. Everybody loved her. Chelsea was a smart, classy but beautiful girl that was down to earth about things in life. Chelsea had come so far in life without any family and was only 25 years old. She was laid back about things but aware of people’s needs and worldwide issues. She was brave and confident to show people she wasn’t a little girl but a fighting woman waiting for the right time to show that. It
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The Vanishing Hitchhiker in Pakistan During my search for stories, I met a sophomore, nineteen year old male student who is majoring in Chemistry and Math. His parents are from Muzaffarabad, Pakistan. Currently, he lives in Maryland. His father is a cardiologist and his mother is a housewife. His parents immigrated to the United States in the 1970's. The source says this story is known by almost three quarters of the people living in Pakistan. His uncle initially told him the story when
The Tale of the Banshee On a dark and stormy night it happened. Not too far in the recent past, two teenaged girls were out camping in the woods. There, they sat in their tent while exchanging frightening ghost stories by the flickering candle-light. What began as a normal, cool, summer’s night, took an eerie turn for the worse when, in the middle of one particularly terrifying tale, an ominous howl rang out too close for comfort and a thunderous crash was heard. As they scrambled to be
The Redundant Woman Thackeray’s portrayal of Jane Osborne in Vanity Fair is very troubling to the reader of the twentieth century. Grown to be a woman who is stuck under her tyrannical father’s roof, her life appears to be very confining and menial. Her sister snubs her, her nephew mocks her behind her back, her father mocks her to her face, and her main role in life seems to be as her father’s housekeeper. However, Thackeray’s portrayal would have had a very different effect on the Victorian
called them. Bead work was one of the main things the Indian women did and so the little Indian girl also learned to do bead work by watching her mom. This book also tells of the many Indian myths or beliefs. In one case the little girl and many of the villagers were going to see a young warriors first arrival and their was a great party and during the walk to the center of the camp the little girl tried to grab a plum when her mother told her not to get a plum because the plum bush was growing
Wayne Eisenhart's “You Cant Hack It Little Girl: A Discussion Of The Covert Psychological Agenda of Modern Combat Training,” Stanley Kubrick uses his film, Full Metal Jacket to say that people today are brainwashed products of decades of conditioning. Kubrick strongly encourages us to relish individual thought. He expresses that society’s ideology encourages conformity, which can eventually cause fatality. Also the article “You Cant Hack It Little Girl: A Discussion Of The Covert Psychological Agenda
beginning Scout is a naive little girl but as the story commences she begins to understand what goes on in Maycomb and by the end she may still be young but she has matured. In “To Kill a Mockingbird” author suggests the actions we take lead us to become human beings and what we have done and learned from it leads to mature beings. In the beginning, Scout is an outsider, a tomboy who is not accepted by her brother or his friend. She is known as “the girl” also she announces that she is five