{"id":25,"date":"2007-07-18T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/kcannon\/2007\/07\/18\/a-picture-is-worth-1000-words\/"},"modified":"2007-07-18T14:00:14","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T20:00:14","slug":"a-picture-is-worth-1000-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/kcannon\/2007\/07\/18\/a-picture-is-worth-1000-words\/","title":{"rendered":"A Picture is Worth 1000 Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

After our FTC yesterday I am especially grateful for the blog. I feel perhaps I may now be able to better articulate my thoughts. I make no guarantees. <\/p>\n

I feel I must have sounded somewhat like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Debbie Downer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d yesterday saying things like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trust anything\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Let me say, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think that is the case. However, there are so many different opinions in the world, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know that anything replicated ever can be 100% the exact way in which things occurred. I guess I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m saying that I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t buy Kraucaur\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s argument. I was glad when we started talking about CGI and how so many things can be manipulated through film now. I suppose I feel that I need to think for myself and not blindly believe just anything somebody happens to tell me. With that being said, there are many things in this world I do believe. For example, I believe without a doubt that Hitler was not a good man and that the Holocaust did occur and that was a horrendous thing to have occurred in human history. Can I say I know first hand this is true? Absolutely not, I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t there – I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even born until 40 years after Hitler, However, I have made a judgment based on the evidence that I have seen throughout my life. I have been to the concentration camp Dachau in Germany and walked through the gas chamber. I was young but I still have a sick feeling in my stomach thinking about it. I remember the barracks with the small wooden bunks; I will never in my life forget that experience. I have been to the Holocaust Museum and watched the videos of Jews who were experimented on in Concentration Camps. I have seen pictures of naked starving Jews taken during the Holocaust. These images are very powerful and I will never forget them. What makes me believe these things are true? I would have to say that surrounding information helped me form my opinion. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know that anybody would be able to form an opinion on anything without input from others. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean that in a bad way, I think it is just part of learning and utilizing another\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s knowledge in order to develop a more informed point of view. I do not really think film has an obligation to show 100% reality \u00e2\u20ac\u201c for one, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know that is even possible, and for another I feel that I<\/strong><\/em> am obligated to research and be educated. After I watched \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Thin Blue Line\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I immediately formed the opinion that it was very well done, interesting, and thought provoking. After that movie, I began looking for additional information about Randall Adams, David Harris, and even the death penalty. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think it was Morris\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s obligation to show absolute reality, I think it was my duty after watching what was shown to gather further information on my own. Furthermore, I think that was something Morris hoped would happen. Morris stated in an interview he does not agree with the death penalty, yet that was never stated in his movie. <\/p>\n

Alright, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know that I have made any sense at all. I was really feeling conflicted during our class yesterday and I hope to better sort out these issues in time. Wish me luck. <\/p>\n

dachau_2.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s a picture of the bunks I remeber from Dachau.<\/p>\n

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Here is a short video with images of Dachau.<\/p>\n

Do either of these mediums affect you differently or in a particular way? <\/strong><\/em> Images really are powerful, I will never make an argument to the contrary. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After our FTC yesterday I am especially grateful for the blog. I feel perhaps I may now be able to better articulate my thoughts. I make no guarantees. I feel I must have sounded somewhat like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Debbie Downer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d yesterday saying … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/kcannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/kcannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/kcannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/kcannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/kcannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/kcannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/kcannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/kcannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/kcannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}