An article I found interesting while reading the New York Times is an article called 'Weary of War, But Still Favoring Plan for Airstrike'. The article talked about Obama's most recent speech (at the time the article was written) saying American needs to take a stand, and invade Iraq and Syria in order to diminish ISIS. He decided against sending troops there, and thought an airstrike would be the best option. The article had an array of interviews with different people, each explaining whether they agreed with Obama's decision or not. The reactions were pretty mixed. In an interview with two married couples, one Democrat and the other Republican, they all agree with Obama's airstrike plan. One man who voted for Obama in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012 said America needs to be the country that leads everyone else. He says "There is always going to be evil in the world"…"Someone has to address it."
The reaction I got from this article was right away I felt like the people agreeing with the airstrike were being unfair, it seemed like there was something wrong with these people deciding they supported going into a country to help them, when we have done that before and completely messed up nations governments. I didn't fully know what an airstrike was until my mom explained to me it was someone controlling a flying drone, and presses a button for the drone to drop a bomb. This caught me by surprise and automatically created an image of my head of people and power and control. The thought of people having so much control that they don't realize who they might be negatively affecting. Dropping a drone on an area where they think someone will be could go wrong if that person happens to run over a couple feet, and the drone ends up killing too many innocent civilians. It just seems like such a big decision and reading the article where all these people seemed to be so entitled, saying this is what needs to happen. It made me think of American people as cruel, and almost controlled by technology. Because we have fast-paced computers and smart phones things just seem easier and we don't have to worry about bombs dropping on us every day. But with the click of a button we can choose drop a bomb anywhere else.
I ended up taking photos of my friend sitting in front of a window. He was wearing headphones to symbolize technology controlling us. There were planes passing by the window and I took some photos as if the planes were shooting out of his head/eyes. I took some more photos of people from the ground looking up at them, the intimidating, powerful, prideful Americans. My reaction to the article was anger, and the feelings that I conveyed through the photographs were greed and power.
The reaction I got from this article was right away I felt like the people agreeing with the airstrike were being unfair, it seemed like there was something wrong with these people deciding they supported going into a country to help them, when we have done that before and completely messed up nations governments. I didn't fully know what an airstrike was until my mom explained to me it was someone controlling a flying drone, and presses a button for the drone to drop a bomb. This caught me by surprise and automatically created an image of my head of people and power and control. The thought of people having so much control that they don't realize who they might be negatively affecting. Dropping a drone on an area where they think someone will be could go wrong if that person happens to run over a couple feet, and the drone ends up killing too many innocent civilians. It just seems like such a big decision and reading the article where all these people seemed to be so entitled, saying this is what needs to happen. It made me think of American people as cruel, and almost controlled by technology. Because we have fast-paced computers and smart phones things just seem easier and we don't have to worry about bombs dropping on us every day. But with the click of a button we can choose drop a bomb anywhere else.
I ended up taking photos of my friend sitting in front of a window. He was wearing headphones to symbolize technology controlling us. There were planes passing by the window and I took some photos as if the planes were shooting out of his head/eyes. I took some more photos of people from the ground looking up at them, the intimidating, powerful, prideful Americans. My reaction to the article was anger, and the feelings that I conveyed through the photographs were greed and power.
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