Homework

- After viewing these pictures, discuss how photo journalism can affect the way in which an event is viewed by the public. After viewing the photos that were taken at the time, it really shows the public at the time; the harsh realities of war. Many would be shocked and wouldn't even think that the events in war would be like that. Due to the sort of fighting style, the war was very scary and harsh, not what the public at the time would think. In addition, the photos were very dramatic and they were captured during a particular event; such as the one of the man burning himself; due to his strong beliefs of how wrong war is, shows a photo during that event, which makes everything much more shocking.
- In particular, reflect on how these photos directly affected your personal understanding of Vietnam. Refer to the power point presentation and also the song, i was only nineteen, in your response. In particular, the photos gave me a personal understanding of Vietnam war as being a horrible event in the world's history that should never ever repeat itself. My understanding of the Vietnam war is that people obviously did not understand that the outcome of this war would be so harsh and fatal. The outcome of the war didn't really achieve much, which was a high number of deaths and the introduction of communism, which isn't even a good thing anyways. Also, many people that weren't even involved in the war, (the public), were also distressed and upset and even protested to make it stop and let there be peace. But even due to this, many got hurt or even shot for standing up for what they believe in and protesting on the streets. One man in particular in Vietname, burnt himself alive. He was a monk, and had a strong belief for the wrongness of the war, and as a result burnt himself on the streets, with many watching. This definitely showed how many people had strong opinions that needed to be heard. Also, my understandin of the Vietnam war, is that it was a very horrific war. As it included many war instruments, such as, grenades, M15's, helicopters, large crates of amunition, special gases which would burn the skin, mines etc. The song, "I was only nineteen", expresses the shock of how his mate kicked a landmine and as a result, blew up into pieces. It was much more horrific than the other wars in the past. One picture in particular, is the photo of 3 kids running away from the gas that burnt your skin and clothes. In the photo, there is a little girl who was naked, due to her clothes being burnt off. The look of horror and fright is very visible on their faces, and also visible on everyone's faces in every photo.