Revised Extend Essay2

An Earthquake Destroys Sichuan China

   On the afternoon of May 12, 2008, a 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck Sichuan Province, a mountainous region in Western China. It was China’s worst natural disaster in three decades in China, which topplinginged thousands of buildings, trappingped students in schools, and killinginged about 70,000 people and leavingleavingleft over 18,000 missing. News about the earthquake happening in China flooded the Internet overnight reaching all across the world. As the event progressed, more media outlets got involved in the issue and wanted to release the latest information about Sichuan and the earthquake to attract their readers. Although all the reports were related to the serious tragedy, their contents were entirely different because the journalists would focused on different perspectives and purposes even when discussingeven when discussingin the same issue. By examining numerous news reports in different media agenciesrelated to the earthquake, I would demonstrate that writers rewrote the same story in different ways to have found out that represent their the reports showed people’s diverse understandings about this earthquake, the different aspects they highlighted in rescuedifferent aspects in the rescue and contrastingopposing attitudes toward the Chinese government.

   TFirst, he first reason that writers’ rewritten articles varied in was because they as the purposes of different reports related to the earthquake began to shift, people developed diverse understandings in their minds about this earthquake, as this event unfolded later on. In the beginning, media outlets tried to report the story and provided readers with some basic information about the earthquake as soon as possible to get people involved in the tragedy. On May 13th, the New York Times published an article named “Powerful Quake Ravages China, Killing Thousands,” written by Jake Hooker and Jim Yardley, just after the earthquake. In the article, the authors write, “Ms. Tang said she and her husband had tried to escape down a stairwell, but a second tremor knocked her husband down the stairs, and he broke three ribs...She also wept as she described how a school for handicapped and deaf students collapsed while the children were in class” an interviewee, Ms. Tang, described how she and her husband escaped from a stairwell, and she also wept when describing how a school for handicapped and deaf students collapsed while the children were in the classroom (Hooker and Yardley).. The article The interview conveyed a sadness feeling to Inreaders, because some people in Sichuan Province just went through a disaster and lost their homeland. And readers may become more serious about this issue when they knew that some schools were collapsed in the affected area and many children were trapped in the rubble. In addition, somHooker and Yardley also wanted to also attached in the article force the Chinese people to confront the tragedy more profound and deeper wayrealistically by showing the readers an image that an unconscious girl was digging out from the ruin. For example, in a picture, a childlaid like a fossil in the ruin of a schoolhouse, tough only his head was exposed on the ground. In my opinion, mthis report revealed how serious the earthquake was ost of the r sure that people felt sadness about it. eadersd they could not hold in their tears because of the unbearable pity that their friends suffered in the earthquake. None of them had ever gone through such suffering in their lives before. At that time, the story could convey nothing to the public but sadness. 

   As things developed, many articles reported online showeding people more information and different perspectives. After reading some reports published later o the Chinese began to find out that the earthquake gave them more than just sadness. People developed different understandings about this tragedy. An essay titled “A Teacher Covered Four Students in His Arms Before He was Dead” was published in Sina News (a Chinese media outlet) on May 14, 2008. In this article, the author exposed a teacher’s heroic deed when the earthquake was happening. . Thinking in different ways, People changed their understandings of the earthquake lat.

   An essay titled “China: Roused by Disaster” was published in Time Magazine on May 20, 2008. In this essay, Simon Elegant exposed volunteer deeds in the rescueHe writes. Two men, Wu Guanglei and Wu Xiangping, reached the core of the devastation by train, car and, finally, on foot to help victims in the earthquake. They said that Chinese people were growing closer and closer together. Because of that, the country's morality was rising too. (Simon Elegan). "When we found him, we saw that he held four students in his arms to protect the kids from being hurt by the falling debris. And fortunately, these four kids are still alive" (My translation). In this report, people saw that a Chinese teacher sacrificed himself to save the students’ lives without any hesitation. The teacher’s deed made the Chinese recognize that they were surround by love in their lives. They felt that the earthquake not only bring them sadness, but also the feeling of love.They felt happy that they could reach Sichuan and make contributions to their mother countryland. Seeing the disaster area, the immense contrast of the city before and after the earthquake madekes people to thinking about the meaning of satisfaction, and they got to know thatrealize that they should be thankful for what they had earned in life now. The earthquake helped the Chinese realize that they were enjoying the “luxury” happiness every day . In addition, people also understood the importance of unity in that tragedy. Chinese national anthemChinese national anthemChina has a saying “Millions of hearts combine with one mind”;”; However, Chinese could rarely feel the force of unity because they have been living in a peaceful and stable environment for decades. But the earthquake changed everything. Motivated by the tragedy, the Chinese got together to illustrate the word “unity” through their deeds. In spite of class and profession, millions of Chinese went to hospitals to donate their blood until the cities’ blood banks were filled.  And a student told a reporter from CNN: "as Chinese, we must unite. China can do it". Based on the discussion above, writers changed their opinions, perspectives and examples to rewritetell the story, since they have different understandings about itpurposes. Authors thought that people should not only pay attention to the sadness of loss all the time, but also need to recognize what they got form this tragedy.that they were surrounded by loves. And many readers changed their understandings about the earthquake after they read different articles.  

   The second reason that writers’ rewritten reporters varied in was due to the different aspects in rescue they highlighted. The second way journalists’ rewritten reporters varied in was du to the different aspects in rescue they highlighted. Second, some articles were rewritten differently because the authors focused on different aspects in the rescue. Experts in different areas were concerned about rescue in different ways; , and theirtherefore, journalists’ ; therefore, journalists’ articles about the solution had different foci. An article named “Chinese Soldiers Rush to Bolster Weakened Dams” in the New York Times showed readers different details in the rescue instead of those representing people helping victims directly. In the report, Edward Wong and John Schwartz focused more on some weakened dams in the disaster region by exposing,explaining, “experts said that these dams were built around the well-recognized Longmen Shan fault. They warned that such dams might have sustained damage that could cause them to fail even weeks later” (Wong and Schwartz). What’s worse, they also pointed out that there is a dam just three miles upriver from the devastated town of Dujiangyan, which showed some cracks and was in a dangerous situation at that time. To reduce the menacing pressure of water behind the dam walls, two thousand soldiers were sent to the nearest dam immediately to fix it. People could not fight against the earthquake successfully if they only valued how to dig victims form the ruins immediately. So based on different foci, the story was written several times to let readers know the rescue comprehensively. 

   Third,The third reason that writers’ rewritten essays varied in was due to reports about the Chinese government evaluation were rewritten differently by media outlets showing their different attitudes toward the Chinese authority.  

   In Andrew Jacobs’ article “Rescue in China, Uncensored,” in New York Times, he praisesd the Chinese governments’ deeds in the earthquake by saying “So far, that approach appears to be paying off. Commentary on Chinese Web sites and in chat rooms has been full of praise for the government’s emergency response” (Jacobs). He also revealed that, unlike when it sought to cover up in the SARS epidemic period in 2003, the government was more willing to be open to the public now. The official was no longer concerned more about how to promote a false image of stability; they tried best to have immediate reactions to deal with the event and save as many victims as they can in 2008. Moreover, the authors also wanted to prove that the cause of the earthquake was not related to the authority. In Jack Hassard’s essay “Impact and Cause of China’s Sichuan Earthquake”, he revealed:

The quake was caused by movement along a thrust fault located on Longmenshan Fault (yellow line). The deformation of the rocks in this region was caused by the collision between the Indian and Eurasian tectonic (crustal) plates and the continued movement of the plates relative to each other. The Sichuan Province is a very active tectonic area, as is the entire West Coast of the United States (Hassard).

Referring to  Jack Hassard’s statement, people could figure out that is ordinary for Sichuan to have earthquakes more frequently than other regions, and also because there was no such a technology in the world that can accurately predict earthquakes, people claimed that it was not the government’s fault.

   However, after reading this report, some writers questioned that since the Chinese government had already known the peculiar situation of Sichuan Province, why did they not taketook measures to minimizeminimum the loss by constructing some stronger buildings just as Japan did. They found a weak part of others’ arguments, and came up with some rewritten reports to demonstrate counter statements. BBC published an article called “China anger over 'shoddy schools',” The article paid attention to another perspective, and had rewritten the story by representing the facts instead of the public’s opinions and experts’ analyses. The journalist emphasized the failure of school building, writing a situation, “the school collapsed, but other nearby buildings withstood the earthquake” (BBC). It also mentioned that one Chinese person told the AFP news agency that schools collapsed because they were shoddily built. Someone wanted to take advantage of it. In the essay “Two Weeks On…” published on May 26, 2008, in Time World, Simon Elegant writessays, “the single most explosive issue was that of the large number of schools that collapsed, the so called tofu dregs buildings (ie, soft as tofu). It was an extremely delicate issue for the Communist Party to punish some of those local officials being blamed for the poor construction of schools because of corruption/incompetence” (Elegant). To judge the Chinese government, the BBC and Elegant did not simply oppose others’ argument and deny the government’s contribution in the rescue part, but cared more about somewhere that others had not mentioned before, and supplemented it with some extend ideas. Journalists showed contrasting attitudes toward the Chinese government in rewriting to make the story much more complete and reliable to readers.

   After following the story for a long period, I have realized that, once a story develops or authors have different foci and purposes, the rewritten articles become utterly different compared with the initial ones. In 2008, millions of people got involved in this Sichuan earthquake event, and countless articles in different languages were published every day to influence people’s opinions all over the world. The materials that I represent in this essay are only from several of most famous media outlets in the world. Because of the language issue, I am unable to display information in Chinese to discuss it. However, I believe that these articles from the New York Times, BBC and Time Magazine have already clearly demonstrated Harris’ opinions about the rewriting. As the event progressed, people showed diverse understandings about this earthquake, different aspects in the rescue and opposite attitudes toward the Chinese government. People do illustrated the basic information, borrowed ideas from other reports and then extended it to form their new understandings about the earthquake. In addition, they argued the Chinese government from different perspectives. Someone praised the Chinese government by comparing its reaction in the earthquake with what they had done in 2003; however, others found some information about the building quality problems that proponents’ articles had not uncovered before to do rewriting. All in all, I was deeply affected by the earthquake in 2008, and paid attention to the whole story at that time.

Works Cited

China anger over 'shoddy schools'. BBC. Web. May 15, 2008.

                  <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7400524.stm>

Elegant Simon. "Roused by Disaster." Time 171.22 (2008): 26. Web. 22 May 2008.

    <http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1808638-2,00.html>

Elegant Simon. “Two Weeks On…” Time World. Web. May 26, 2008.

    <http://world.time.com/2008/05/26/two_weeks_on/>

Hooker Jake and Yardley Jim. "Powerful Quake Ravages China, Killing Thousands: Foreign          Desk." New York Times: A.1. 2008. Print. Web. May 14, 2008.

                  <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/world/asia/14response.html?pagewanted=al             l>

Hassard Jack. “Impact and Cause of China’s Sichuan Earthquake” The Art of Teaching    Science: Progressive science Education: Geology. Web. May 19, 2008.

                  <http://www.artofteachingscience.org/2008/05/19/impact-and-cause-of-chinas-sich               uan-earthquake/>

Jacobs Andrew. "A Rescue in China, Uncensored: News Analysis." New York Times. A.1.             2008. Print. Web. May 14, 2008.

                  <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/world/asia/14response.html?pagewanted=al             l&_r=0>

Joseph Harris,. Rewriting: How to do Things with Texts. Logan, Utah: Utah State University     Press, 2006. Print.

Sina News “A teacher covered four students with his arms before he was dead” Sina News. Web. May 14, 2008.

< http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2008-05-14/141015537527.shtml>

Wong Edward and Schwartz John. "Chinese Soldiers Rush to Bolster Weakened Dams:                  Foreign Desk." New York Times: A.1. 2008. Print. Web. May 15, 2008.

                  <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/world/asia/15china.html?pagewanted=all&_              r=0>

Final Blog Post

Final Blog Post:
    At first, I had a hard time to read the articles in the new york time, because the reports there had much longer sentences and various structures. What more, many words there were unfamiliar to me, so I need to read with my dictionary all the time. As time went on, things got better. I became adjust to the reported, and it took much less time to read an article. And I began to use the sentence structures I met in the New York TImes into my writing class essays. 

    I think I have learned a lot of thing about how to writing and rewriting news and stories after taking this course. Now I would consider more about my opinion about the story and then come up a new perspective or idea when I want to write an essay. Instead of just summaring the content that I have read in from others' articles, I prefer to do forwarding and countering now. I think this is a very helpful change in my writing part, because I think others would like to see more analyses and different perspectives about the story. And as for me, I can go though the story by myself, and really think about it. 

   This skill is really important for academic writing, and I will use Harris' method in rewriting in the future. And I  think our Chinese students even need to think about the method more, and it really help us to prove our writing skills. When I was in the a Tibet religion course in the last quater, the professor told us to do the discussion board. I thought I did a good job; however, I always could not get a very high grade in the that part. I talked with my professor, and she answered my question. She told me that she studied in China for several years, and she knew that Chinese students were really good at math, science and summary. However, they did not good at analysis. But in America, professors wanted their students have their own opinions about different issues. They focused more on analysis in the students' essays.  

An Earthquake Destroy Sichuan China

   On the afternoon of May 12, 2008, a 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck Sichuan Province, a mountainous region in Western China, killing about 70,000 people. It is the worst natural disaster in three decades in China, which topped thousands of buildings, trapped students in schools, and killed about 70,000 people, left over 18,000 missing. News about the earthquake happened in China flooded into the Internet overnight all over the world. With time went on, more media got involved in the issue and wanted to release the latest information about Sichuan and the earthquake to attract their readers. Although all the reports are related to the serious tragedy, their contents may be completely different for the reason that journalist would focus on different perspectives and purposes in the same issue. By following the whole story through news reports in different media, I find out that the reports showed people’s diverse understandings about this earthquake, different focuses in the rescue and opposite attitudes toward the Chinese government.

   First, as the purpose of different reports related to the earthquake varies a lot as time went on, people had diverse understandings about this earthquake in their minds. In the beginning, every media tried to report the story and provided readers some basic information about the earthquake as soon as possible to get people involved in the tragedy. On May 13th, the Now York Times published an article named “Powerful Quake Ravages China, Killing Thousands” written by Jake Hooker and Jim Yardley after the earthquake happened. In this article, an interviewee Ms. Tang described how she and her husband escape from a stairwell, and she also wept when describing how a school for handicapped and deaf students collapsed while the children were in the class (Jake Hooker and Jim Yardley). Besides, some horrific images also attached in the article forced the Chinese people to confront the tragedy. For example, in a picture, a child layered like fossil in the ruin of schoolhouse only leaving his head on the ground. The two authors wanted to reveal how serious the earthquake is to readers. I am sure that People’s first reaction of knowing this tragedy is sadness, and they could not hold their tears on the unbearable pity for the suffering of their friends in the earthquake, because none of them have ever gone through this kind of suffering in their life before. At that time, the story could convey nothing to the public but scariness and sadness. 

   As things went on, many articles were reported online showing people more information and different perspectives. And referring to reports published later on, Chinese began to find out that the earthquake gives people more than just scariness and sadness. By thinking in different aspects, People changed their understandings of the earthquake.

   An essay titled “China: Roused by Disaster” was published in Times Magazine on May 20, 2008. In this essay, Simon Elegant exposed volunteer deeds in the rescue. Two men, Wu Guanglei and Wu Xiangping, reached the core of the devastation by train, car and, finally, on foot to help victims in the earthquake. They said that Chinese people are growing closer and closer together. And because of that, the country's morality is rising too. (Simon Elegan). They felt happy that they could reach Sichuan, and made contributions to their motherland. The earthquake helped Chinese realize that they were enjoying a kind of "luxury" happiness every day. Seeing the disaster area, the huge contrast makes people to thinking about the meaning of satisfaction, and they got to know that they should be thankful for what they have earned in the life now. In addition, people also understand the importance of unity in that tragedy. China has a sentence “Millions of hearts combine with one mind” in its national anthem. However, Chinese could rarely feel the force of unity, because they have been living in a peaceful and stable environment for decades. But the earthquake changed everything. Motivated by the tragedy, Chinese got together to illustrate the word “Unity” through theirs deeds. In spite of identity and job, millions of Chinese went to hospitals to donate their blood until the cities’ blood banks were filled. And a student told a reporter from the CNN: "as a Chinese, we must unite, China can do it!" in Tiananmen Square. Like forwarding a story, authors began to shift the focus of readers away from the old perspective and toward to their new projects (Harris 38). In the following reports, Writers changed their opinions, perspectives and examples, since they have different purposes. They thought that people should not always pay attention to the ruins and people’s bodies in this event all the time. There are also many touching stories happened every day in the rescue.

   Second, some articles were rewritten differently because the authors focused on different aspects in the rescue. Experts in different areas concerned about rescue in different ways, and their articles about the solution had different focus. Unlike other reports, an article named “Chinese Soldiers Rush to Bolster Weakened Dams” in the New York Times showed readers different details in the rescue instead of helping victims directly. In the report, Edward Wong and John Schwartz focused more on geology issues in the disaster region by exposing some experts’ warning about the dams built around the well-recognized Longmen Shan fault. The dams might have sustained damage, because the earthquake could cause them to fail even weeks later. What’s worse, there is a dam just three miles upriver from the devastated town of Dujiangyan, northwest of the provincial capital of Chengdu shown some cracks and was under a dangerous situation at that time. To reduce the menacing pressure of water behind the dam walls, two thousand soldiers were sent to the neatest dam immediately (Wong and Schwartz). People could not fight against the earthquake successfully if they only value how to dig victims for the ruins immediately. They also need to consider

   Third, reports about Chinese government evaluation were rewritten differently by media showing their different attitude toward the Chinese authority.

   In Andrew Jacobs’ article “Rescue in China, Uncensored”, he spoke highly of the Chinese governments’ deeds in the earthquake by exposing the public’s feedbacks to readers. He declares that so far, commentary on Chinese websites and in chat rooms has been full of praise for the government’s emergency response (Jacobs). He also reveals that unlike seeking to cover up in the SARS epidemic period in 2003, the government is more willing to be open to the public now. The official no longer concerned more about how to promote a false image of stability than with the commonweal; they tried best to have immediately reactions to deal with the event and save as many victims as they could in 2008. Moreover, Authors also wanted to prove that the cause of earthquake was not related to the authority. In Jack Hassard’s report “Impact and Cause of China’s Sichuan Earthquake”, he said that the quake was caused by movement along a thrust fault located on Longmenshan Fault (yellow line). And the deformation of the rocks in this region was caused by the collision between the Indian and Eurasian tectonic (crustal) plates and the continued movement of the plates relative to each other (Hassard). And based on Hassard’s statement, it is ordinary for Sichuan to have earthquake more frequently than other regions, because it is located in an active tectonic area, and there is not such a technology in the world can accurately predict earthquake. So people may claim that it is not government’s fault.

   However, after reading this report, some writers questioned that since the Chinese government has already know the specific situation of Sichuan Province, why don’t they took measures to minimum the lose by constructing some stronger buildings just as Japan did. They find the weak part of others’ argument, and come up with some rewritten report demonstrate different statements. BBC published an article called“China anger over 'shoddy schools'”. The article paid attention to another perspective, and rewritten the story by representing the facts instead of the public’s opinions and experts’ analysis. The journalist emphasis the situation that a school in the disaster area collapsed, but other nearby buildings withstood the earthquake. It also mentioned that one Chinese told the AFP news agency that schools collapsed because they were shoddily built. Someone wanted to save money and took advantage on it (BBC). In the essay “Two Weeks On…” published on May 26, 2008, Simon Elegant pointed out that the single most explosive issue is that of the large number of schools that collapsed, the so called tofu dregs buildings (ie, soft as tofu). It is a very delicate issue for the Communist Party to punish some of those local officials being blamed for the poor construction of schools because of corruption/incompetence (Elegant). Actually, there is no definitely right or wrong in this case. Just as Harris’ opinion countering, about how to write arguments. The aim of academic writing should not be simple to prove how smart you are but to add to what can be said above a subject (Harris 56). The BBC and Elegant did not simply oppose others’ argument and deny the government’s contribution in the rescue part after earthquake, but care more about somewhere that others have not mention before, and supplement it with some extend ideas. The story became much more complete and reliable after add some new materials, opinion and resources.

   After following the story for a long period, I do realize that as for the same story, once it develops or authors have different focus and purposes, the rewritten articles would become completely different compared with the initial ones. In Sichuan earthquake in 2008, millions of people were involved in it, and countless articles in different languages were published online every day to influence and combine people’s opinions all over the world. The materials that I represent in this essay are only from several most famous media in the world. And because of language issue, I am unable to display information in Chinese to discuss about it. However, I believe that these articles from New York Times, BBC and Time Magazine have already clearly demonstrated the Harris’ opinions about the rewriting. With things going on, people show diverse understandings about this earthquake, different focuses in the rescue and opposite attitudes toward the Chinese government. People do forwarding in the story by illustrating the basic information, borrowing ideas from other reports and then extending it to form their new understandings about the earthquake. As for countering, they argued the Chinese government issue in another side, and found some information about the building quality problems that the previous argument articles had not uncovered yet to do rewriting. All in all, I was deeply impressed by the earthquake in 2008, and pay attention to the whole story at that time.

Works Cited

Andrew Jacobs. "A Rescue in China, Uncensored: News Analysis." New York Times. A.1.2008. Print. Web. May 14, 2008.

        <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/world/asia/14response.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0>

China anger over 'shoddy schools'. BBC. Web. May 15, 2008.

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7400524.stm>

Edward Wong and John Schwartz. "Chinese Soldiers Rush to Bolster Weakened Dams:Foreign Desk." New York Times: A.1. 2008. Print. Web. May 15, 2008.

<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/world/asia/15china.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0>

Harris, Joseph. Rewriting: How to do Things with Texts. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2006. Print.

Jack Hassard. “Impact and Cause of China’s Sichuan Earthquake” The Art of Teaching Science:     Progressive science Education: Geology. Web. May 19, 2008.

<http://www.artofteachingscience.org/2008/05/19/impact-and-cause-of-chinas-sichuan-earthquake/>

Jake Hooker and Jim Yardley. "Powerful Quake Ravages China, Killing Thousands: Foreign Desk." New York Times: A.1. 2008. Print. Web. May 14, 2008.

<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/world/asia/14response.html?pagewanted=all>

Simon Elegant. "Roused by Disaster." Time 171.22 (2008): 26. Web. 22 May 2008.

        <http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1808638-2,00.html>

Simon Elegant. “Two Weeks On…” Time World. Web. May 26, 2008.

        <http://world.time.com/2008/05/26/two_weeks_on/>

 

Images In the News Reports

In recent decades, rapid developing technology contributes to a variety of news media in people’s life by combining image, animation and words. Many readers are more likely to skim over some pictures related to the story that they are interested in instead of reading thousands of words in the article. However, what can images in the news report tell us?

When thinking about the relationship between stories in words and images, a series of shocking pictures about an earthquake that happened in China just floods into my mind. On the afternoon of May 12, 2008, a 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit Sichuan Province, killing about 70,000 people and leaving over 18,000 missing. I can easily recall the past tragedy because the images I saw at that time deeply impressed me.

Based on the reports about the earthquake in 2008, I want to discuss the relationship between the image and story in respect of attention catching, brief introduction and responsibility evocation. The picture below is attached in an article published in New York Times on May 13, 2008, named “Powerful Quake Ravages China, Killing Thousands”.

   

Firstly, I think the image would catch readers’ attention successfully. Closely related to the story, the picture was amplified and placed in front of the main content. People’s first reaction seeing this picture should be shocking and regretful. The image leads them to concern themselves with this issue so that people would be more patient to read the whole report in detail. In addition, there are other images also presented in the story next to the content in the report for readers to see while they are reading the whole story. The images enrich the report and showed the event to readers in different aspects. From my perspective, the combination of image and words would have an excellent result, because they work as complements to make the story more vivid to readers.

What’s more, as Errol Morris revealed in his article “Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire” that pictures are supposed to be worth a thousand words (Errol Morris), the attached images contained a lot of useful information about the report, and they can give readers a brief introduction of the content. The entire report introduced some specific information about the earthquake as well as government’s reactions. What’s more, it also talked about some victims’ present statuses and their descriptions about the earthquake by interviews. From my perspective, just by viewing the image, readers can easily identify that the report was about a tragedy based on the rescue image. And one of the smaller images next to the content also showed the ruins of buildings after the earthquake, directly representing readers the serious damage caused by the earthquake. Based on these images, readers can understand the story easier.

Finally, the image attached in this story tends to appeal to people to give their hands to the victims. In the picture above, rescue workers were working together to pull out an injured girl from a collapsed school. This image was taken during the rescue to evoke emotion from the readers. It tries to get people involved and motivate them to become the worker in the rescue. I prefer the idea that images have the power to persuade people to become involve in the rescue, more than words would. The moving scene displayed in images could raise a sense of social mission and responsibility in people’s minds. Readers are more likely to be aware of the responsibility and duty to contribute to the relief and help of victims to rebuild their homeland through these images.

In conclusion, related images play a significant role in the news reports, because they can achieve some goals that words could not. And it works as a valuable material to cooperate with words to present a rich and whole story to readers.