Places and forms of power

So, I’m going to present the notion "place and form of power". First of all, I’m

going to give a definition of this notion. In politics and social science, power is

the ability to influence people's behaviour. In order to live together, all members

of the same community that accepts the rules and the laws. This helps to create

social cohesion but can also lead to conflicts and tensions. This notion may

include different forms of power, such as the financial power or the power of

the media. But now, I'm going to develop a much more disastrous power, the

power of weapons in the USA.

The question we will try to answer through three different documents, each

having a different angle of view is: Are weapons and guns responsible of the

violence in the USA?

To answer this question and illustrate this notion, I chose three documents. My

first document is a poster published by the association Brady Compaign, my

second document is a recording titled “Shooting at Columbine High School”

and my last document is also a recording, named “Getting a gun in Colorado”.

My three documents are linked to weapons in the USA and all demonstrate that

weapons in the USA are a serious issue.

My first document is a poster created by the association Brady Compaign to

discourage the use of guns in the USA. The elements I can see are a logo in the

bottom left corner of the poster and statistics regarding gun crime, specifically

the number of people killed annually due to guns in various countries in the

world. There is also an ironic slogan in the center of the poster written in capital

letter where we can read “God bless America”. This slogan is just above an

image of gun decorated with the American Flag. The target audience of the

poster is the American public. Indeed I know that because guns are a big part of

American culture. Moreover, the American flag is printed onto the gun.

This document shows that guns are dangerous and aims to awaken the

American people so that they respond to the scourge of second amendment

advocating free use of weapons.

My second document is a recording titled “Shooting at Columbine High

School”. This document tells of a criminal act. Through this document we

understand that the killers are teenagers, named Eric and Dylan and they are

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