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35. 11/28/11, 08:14 pm
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These writing touches very good points on how public service campaigns and charitable organizations uses images of people that are disfigured and/or disabled, to show the public that could be you if you keep consuming that harmful product. I think that it is necessary to have these type of campaign to make people understand the risk and harm that smoking and drunk driving causes. However I strongly agree that these image teaches people to feel pity,fear and horror towards people that have some or the same characteristic as shown in the images. in other word it shows them that you do not want to become a monster. "
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34. 11/28/11, 07:59 pm
Says: "I think that ad campaigns are set up to scary people into stop doing wrong things, for example, the ad about quit smoking, even tho I agree that smoking is bad, they ad campaign go as far as smoking people with missing fingers, A man that had throat cancer, who had his voice box remove. they show all the nasty looking feature of whats the outcome to scary people. The society view people with disability as being a monster, everyone suppose to be normal, so to show these ad about monstrous people would scary people into stop doing wrong."
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33. 11/28/11, 07:44 pm
Says: "Monstrous Appearance provokes diversion in Monstrous behaviors...
Many may take these ADs the wrong way, but in retrospect, they are depictions of a world consisting of monstrous behaviors and their results. Imagine you take your child in for a regular check up at the doctors office, and suddenly it is found that he is suffering from a illness readily found in those exposed to second hand smoke? how would you feel of the smoking community then? Or suppose after years of smoking you are consequently diagnosed with lung cancer and, with a certainty of death soon to follow, regret settles and hatred towards yourself for engaging in that behavior, what then will you think of that behavior?
These ADs are exposures of the real life result of behaviors that are harmful. the psychological effect, in my opinion, has already settled in long before the ADs existence. Picture yourself purposely igniting your hand on fire! The result will be countless mind bottling thoughts as to why the action was done and then regret will set in result of the life long disfiguring of the body. Many forget that consent is also a big part of these ADs. The people participating in these ADs are fully aware of the symbol they will become. Perhaps the psychological distress arises because of the moment in which the person realizes the desire to have had the same kind of AD created in their time of substance use!"
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32. 11/28/11, 07:40 pm
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These aids portray a “person” as an individual without flaws that is in the norms of society. If the person has some type of illness, or disfigurations, it is shown as wrong. Such as in the above Polio poster, where the little girl with polio is displayed with the words “NOT THIS” next to her, whereas the kids without polio are displayed with the word “THIS” next to them. The poster puts the idea into the public’s mind that if someone, in this case a small child has polio; then they are wrong. This is seen throughout history with gender, religion, etc., if someone is different by the standers of society’s norms then they are feared, which creates the Idea of monstrous or evil. People tend to fear what they do not understand, so during these campaigns, the public service use images of people that are disfigured or ill, because it will stand out more to the public. By doing so they public service is both warning people of their actions, yet alienating those individuals they use. Creating these pre-depressions to anyone that resembles the people in the aids, thus causing a chain reaction in society making them now a token to monstrous. Everything now changes in how these people are treated, talked to, represented and visualized. The aids do present a warning to the general public, but the negative implications way outweigh the benefits. I believe the aids are good, but need a lot of work on representing the people they display in more of a mild manor, one that gets the point across, without causing added harm to the individuals who struggles daily with their disability or illness.
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31. 11/28/11, 07:39 pm
Says: "This article explains how we as people label each other. Whether it be because we want to help or if someone looks different. Thesecampaigns intentionally put drastic pictures up to make people feel sorry for the victims,but by having these pictures it also affects the victims.The article states how the victims are exploited and this may cause psychological and social damage."
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