A picture is worth a thousand words, but no one ever says how much history, emotion, thoughts, and gut wrenching reactions some pictures are worth as well. Finding an image of war, an image that appealed to me as a thought provoking, deep picture, was one of the most challenging assignment for me yet of my college career. Not because of the difficulty or intensity of the writing, but because of the images I had to browse through, and the emotions it put me through. It was also hard to chose from the many images, because after so many websites containing thousands of snapshots of the dead, the wounded, and most of all, those pleading for their lives, I could not decipher which ones had had the deepest impact on me- to be honest I believed they all did in some way.
             After seeing enough that I could stomach, I stumbled across an image of a little girl. She is clinging to an object, and in the background there are adults holding children, and civilians who seem to be fleeing from somewhere. There are billows of black smoke that smog the air and probably come from fires and wrecks. Yet this little girl is standing alone, with a face of fear and sadness that is indescribable. It caught my attention at first because, as many of the images, it was a picture of a child- the symbol of innocence. She is the largest image in the picture, the camera obviously focusing on the sensations and horror in the little girls face, and the background examples what this child's world has come to. I think that pictures like this appeal to most of us because it is in the world of a child. It is not bloody or repulsive, but is so powerful from the emotions that you read by the background and by the girls face. Fear, nervous, wreckage, desperation, sadness, helplessness, innocence, and victim all come to mind when I glance at this picture. It can provoke many things by looking at it. When I see it, I felt as though I know that this is going on, but I ...