We can end poverty 2015 image is an emotional appeal aimed towards political leaders and the general population about the need to end global poverty. The image makes an argument that challenges the viewer’s emotions and values hence inducing a change in paradigms in the way the viewer understands politics and its effects on global poverty. In a word, the argument made by the image is that “the world leaders are in a position to help children out of poverty, but they are doing nothing. Instead, world’s political leaders are using income inequality as an advantage that they use to exploit the poor.” For this image, the leaders of the world great eight economies are particularly emphasized as the perpetuators of income inequality in the world. The great nations include the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Russia.
The style employed is the use of Photoshop. The top half of the individuals in the image is the pictures of the leaders of the world’s leading powers dressed in nice suits and ties. Eight of the members of the individuals in the picture are men with only one woman. We can tell she is a woman because of the color of her jacket that is purple and the little piece of her face that we can see. The woman in picture is Angela Merkel who is the chancellor of Germany. The bottom part of the picture is made of the legs of eight black kids (Africans). Six of the children have no shoes while two of them have rusted black shoes. They stand on dusty red soil that is typical of tropical Africa. One child is holding an empty mug that symbolizes the absence of food. All of the children are dressed in brown school shorts that mean that they are probably elementary school children.
The image is intended for a global audience. There is emphasis on politicians and their hypocrisy on helping poor people all over the world. The image is a call for people of the developed world to take a central role in making decisions that affect the world positively. Electing leaders that care for the world is one way of doing that. The message for this image is to generate debate on the role of the politicians. The viewer is perplexed by the contrast created by the black school kid’s dressing and those of the top well dressed political leaders. Another contrast is by the well-made suits that are compared to the shoeless legs of the children. Perhaps another argument that the picture makes is the income inequality between the races of the world. It is obvious that the top part of the pictures is made of people who are all whites while the lower part of the picture is all blacks. This means that income inequality also takes place mostly in the underdeveloped parts of the world like Africa where mostly dark skinned people live.
The bigger message is that the burden of the world is left for the vulnerable to carry, the less fortunate of the world’s population. Changing this attitude requires that the world’s population takes part in the activity that makes us aware of the nature of politics.
Works Cited
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Enabling poor rural people to Overcome Poverty. IFAD. International Fund for
Agricultural Development, 2011. Web. 2 May 2012.
