QUESTION 3
NAPALM GIRL
A young girl, naked, runs screaming toward the camera in
pain after a napalm violence burned her village, her clothes, and then, her
skin. She was 9 years old in 1972 when she was
photographed, screaming in pain, after a U.S. commander ordered South
Vietnamese planes to drop napalm near her village. Editors made an omission to
a policy stopping front nudity in photos and went ahead and published it. Known
simply as "napalm girl", the photo surpassed the disruptive debate
about the rights and wrongs of the Vietnam War and cruelty .
The image of the naked girl can be viewed as both
appropriate and inappropriate. The photographer apprehended a major yet brutal
moment of the Vietnamese war. Therefore the image could be seen as appropriate
as it shows the brutal honesty of the war and what effect it had on the public,
however the girl is naked and it could be seen as child pornography (the
picture was taken without the girls consent too) which makes the picture
inappropriate.
(Sunday, 2012)
According
to the picture that was given, the photo was very disturbing and also very much
inappropriate reason being that Napalm girl was being chased and
was running for her life .The picture clearly shows that she was frightened for
her life, because clearly as the picture has been portrayed she was naked and
running for her life. The picture was inappropriate because it portrayed nudity
and also promoted violence towards youngsters. (Singh, 2014)
I
found this picture to be inappropriate but very educational and informative to
the audience that view the picture. Reason for indicating that is because it
shows that it was not her idea to run in nudity but rather she had no choice to
the matter seeing that she was being chased by men holding intimidating guns.
In spite of the fact that the photo is as yet achievable from online networking
with the life span of remarks that can't be belittled, despite everything I
trust it is not the young lady's blame for the picture and this ought not, in
any in any case undermine her future. (Sunday, 2012)
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/03/154234617/napalm-girl-an-iconic-image-of-war-turns-40 (Accessed: 19 May 2017)
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