This brutal image of communist China is primarily a protest of the Olympic games that were held in Beijing over the summer of 2008. Amnesty International believes that such a country does not deserve to host the celebrated tradition because of their human rights record. However the Olympics did give them a platform from which to beg awareness of the travesty that is China’s human rights policy. Before the time leading up to the Olympics all the common man had seen of Amnesty International were the hippie students on college campuses or perhaps a benefit concert by an influential musician on CNN. The Olympics are something that we are all intimately involved with and we cannot help but wake up to this harsh reality when we are so close to it, if only from television.
You chose a graphic image, and I think your characterization of disturbing is appropriate. This thesis post is long, but provides necessary context and a debatable claim. Make sure you focus on your analysis of the visual for the paper. You might want to revise your thesis to include reasons based on elements of visual rhetoric.
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