Week 7&8: Reading Response 1

The "Sikhs Proud to be Americans," have five pictures in that one ad to show. In each picture they have some kind of head covering that closely resembles a turban. Also in each photo they have something to that they are patriotic or have an American heart. At the bottom of each photograph there is a shadow picture of the Statue of Liberty. These images were probably chosen because of the whole September 11th, thing to show others the difference. They are representing the ones that in a lot of ways resembles terrorists. They are trying to tell us that there is a difference between them and terrorist.
The repeated picture of the shadow Statue of Liberty at the bottom of the ads are representing them as an a American. It's to let everyone know that their heart is an American heart. The message that they are sending is "how can they be terrorist if they have an American heart." The role of this visual argument is to try and get America to see that we do have allies that very closely resembles terrorist and that we are so blinded by September 11th that we are just hurting or possibly killing our allies.
We are the audience, America. As mentioned before our minds are clouded by the September 11th terrorist attack that we are blinded by who our allies. They are trying to get us to understand that we shouldn't judge them by what they around their heads or what they look like but judge them by their hearts.