Topic: Many people would argue that in the modern world, the image is becoming more powerful than the written word. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
According to a Chinese proverb “a picture can describe thousands of words”. Some conservatives believe that using images to provide information or prohibition is an impolite method. However, those images have been used worldwide as a signal to inform people and even illiterates find it easy to understand. Thus, images are a powerful way to provide information, compared to written word. Good.
Every nation has their own language and script and it should be used officially as medium to convey information instead of using icons. For example, the written words have been used in many circumstances in many developing countries in order to preserve languages such as poetry and novels, and it is the best way to provide correct spelling to students. Furthermore, use of the images is hard for some uneducated people to understand and easily misinterpret. Thus, the icon is mysterious, misinterpreted and hard to comprehend.
However, the image is becoming an international mechanism to raise awareness to people concisely. Most places such as roads, airports, schools and hospitals to give messages and warn people, and it is a useful device because illiterates could understand. For instance, some symbols in hospitals are displayed to alert people from smoking and annoying. And those images are more attractive than the written words that sometimes people could not read or understand. Therefore, the image is a powerful path to disseminate information because of its attraction and visibility.
To sum up, due to the attraction and visibility the image has became an international standard and potent method to inform or prohibit people. While using the written word is enormous barrier across cultures.
By Ith Hero
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