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The picture I chose to represent this chapter was the board game, Operation. As I was reading about the “wound man” (pg 341), it reminded me of this game. They are similar because the “wound man” was a map of the typical battle wound locations, and the operation man also showed a map of a man with multiple wounds. Both men act as scientific and medical symbols. The “wound men” for doctors to quickly identify typical war injuries, and the operation man allows future surgeons to practice their eye-hand coordination and fine motor skills. 

The topic that most interested me was how restaurants, such as Subway, will advertise their food as fresh and allow their customers to believe incorrect information. Subway is a restaurant that demonstrates this by their slogan “Eat Fresh.” In reality, the majority of their food is processed, frozen, and sits in trucks for days at a time before being served to their customers. Knowing this, I decided to do “Subway, Never Fresh.” At some point, the food they are advertising was fresh but by the time the customer consumes it, there is hardly anything fresh about it.

One concept that really interests me is how television acts as a unifying force in this day in age. With major events constantly going on it is easy to see the shear amount of power the television still has on our population. A good example of this is the Black Lives Matter protests, a sequence of injustices by police officers that were televised were able to spark outrage all over the country. This was a moment of intense unification for many people in the United States. Other moments that unify us on television are events such as major sporting events, such as big college football games or even the college football national championship and even the super bowl.

via @danesekenon: The next generation of journalists and visual communicators. #pod #podDKP #day1093 #tfw17 #journalism #journalistlife #journalists #visualcommunication #visualcomm (at Newhouse School at Syracuse University)

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