Stasis theory refers to the four most common types of claims
in academic argumentation, which means that it is often used to find what is at
the heart of a specific argument. In the 1964 Civil Rights picture of an
African American woman being carried away by multiple policemen, many of the
principles of the stasis theory can be vividly interpreted. For starters, I
think that this picture does a great job of plainly presenting the fact that police
brutality is a real and serious issue. From the caption, we can also infer that
this came from a race-related riot, further proving that police brutality specifically
targeting African Americans is a definite problem. What is hard to understand
from the picture is determining what specifically causes these issues, but when
we consider how this is still a major problem in our society today, we can
infer that little has been done to aid it. The one takeaway a viewer of this
picture should have is that something needs to be done about it – you can just
see the pain on the black woman’s face, and this should never happen in our
society.
- Parker Knott
I agree that it was that they showed the pertinence of these types of issues within that era.
ReplyDeleteI think the root cause of segregation stems from a fear of change. Society had hardened the mindset of the American people in a way that made it challenging for them to see different perspectives. The photo captures the need for change and its relevancy to the movements of the time separated it from other photos taken.
ReplyDeleteIt really says something about the dark side of human nature when people still do terrible things in the face of truth and morals. It suggests even stasis theory can't match emotion at times.
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