Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Nicholas D. Kirstof's "Where Sweatshops are a Dream" tries to make the argument that improving labor by ending sweatshops is not the ideal scenario. He references the extremely impoverished locations that most consider when thinking of sweatshops locations and shows their feelings toward sweatshops.
Most living in the area would greatly prefer sweatshops factories to work in. They say that working in a factory would provide shade to work in, an actual salary, and a safer environment. He also states that we should promote manufacturing with these countries and increase trade as well.
Overall, Kristof's article provides a unique perspective on the issue, and presents it very well.

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Violent Game Annotation

The image from mediviolence.org shows a child playing video games with a list of violent games next to him. The child's Extreme look toward the list of games suggest that he is playing one of the games. The list also is made of violent games.
The intent is to suggest that the child is playing a violent game, and on an emotional level for those with kids might work, but doesn't do much aside from that.
A lot of aspects about this image seem to be made vague enough to appeal to this demographic. The list of games simply states the games, not where they place on any sort of list, or what this list measures. There is also no absolute clear connection to this child and these games aside from conjecture.