Thursday, October 30, 2008

A picture worth a thousand words







This is a picture I will be doing my third essay on in my English 101 class  We were asked to look at a gallery of World Press Photo of the Year gallery.  This gallery is full of 50 pictures with the most memorable/tragic photo of the year.  This one specifically took place in April 1980 in Uganda.  This as I'm sure you can tell is a small, starving Ugandan boy with a missionary holding his hand up.  I have a  heart for people hurting such as this and I felt like what a better opportunity to learn more about it and pray for these people than by doing a report on a picture that says more than I will be able to express in my essay.  Mike wells is the photographer and in the paragraph about him, it included that this picture laid on his desk for five months before he published it.  When he won he felt as though he was unworthy of the gift when people are starving and suffering in Africa.  This picture says so much to me, and I can't wait to write about it.  Although this boy is likely not with us any more here on this earth, pray for others who are in the exact same position, and likewise, for their salvation.  It is sadly, but so amazingly the only thing they have to hold on to. 

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