Starvation in Africia
Africa is the world’s poorest continent, and also the one with the scarcest food and water resources. This extremely disturbing photo was taken by Kevin Carter, who won a Pulitzer prize for this photo. To capture this photo of the child…
Your Words Have Power – Verbal Abuse
This image has been circulated around the internet to provide viewers with an interesting perspective regarding verbal abuse. While many people are aware of the consequences of verbal abuse, this image helps to present the mental and emotional consequences that…
Got Milk? An unforgettable visual argument/public issue campaign.
For my visual argument example, I chose a classic “Got Milk” printed commercial from the 2006 campaign Body by Milk. The campaign lasted for many years and I have lots of confidence that most people have seen an ad…
Lorde Comes out Against Photoshopped Image
BuzzFeed has released an article concerning a recently released photo of the pop singer Lorde. The image she tweeted was a side-by-side comparison she created with a Photoshopped image of herself on one side and an unedited photo from the…
Homeless
Aside from the people who do not know what a trash can is, the audience for this image is everybody. At some point or another we have all thrown away perfectly good food. This image of a trash can with…
Getting Parents to Quit Smoking
This visual argument put out by the Healthcare Security Service states that smoking can indirectly harm your children as well as yourself. The audience of this ad is parents who are smokers. This ad creates pathos by using the fact…
Anti Bottled Water Campaign
This ad was created by Tappening in an effort to diminish the use of plastic bottled water. Many times bottled water companies advertise their water as coming from pristine springs or arctic ice caps. In reality, the tap water from…
WWF Ecosystem Awareness Campaign
The World Wildlife Fund’s ad campaign to advocate for keeping ecosystems safe is simple yet effective. The campaign consists of many images similar to the above image, a photo with an animal(generally an unpopular animal ie….
Scotland Votes on its Independence
This image was a public appeal to the Scottish people, asking them to vote “Yes” in the Scottish independence referendum on September 18, 2014. It is interesting to look back at this ad because we already know the final results of…
A Quest for a Cure
Who knew eating yogurt could have an impact on the lives of those affected by breast cancer? Yoplait’s campaign “Save Lids to Save Lives” has been around for fifteen years. Breast cancer continues to to affect one in…
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