The Hidden Advantage

By: Alex Milewski

1. Marco Capovilla and Venezia Pulita took this photo on March 8th, 2020 in Venice, Italy

2. The message behind this picture is that with covid-19 impacting Italy deeply and causing residents to be quarantined. Has lead to there not being as many people out which entails that not as many are littering and its making our planet cleaner. Which in this compare and contrast picture you can tell the canals in Venice are more clear and cleaner then ever and more fish are to be seen in the waters. This is stated in the article NBC news made including this picture.

3. This is a very persuasive picture because it shows how easy it is to keep our Earth clean and how quickly this can be effective. This uses a logos appeal because it logically makes sense with great reasoning. Which being is that logically if more people didn’t litter our Earth would be abundantly cleaner. Then the reason littering isn’t happening right now is because covid-19 has caused many people to stay inside which means not as many people are out to throw there trash in the streets, water bodies, and not in proper trash cans.

4. This image is made for everyone to show people how much of a difference we can make in the world by not littering. This message is intended for everybody because everyone reading it is living on Earth and applies to them all. It is a group effort to make this planet we live on cleaner.

5. This image is floating everywhere over the internet right now since we are in the middle of the covid-19 pandemic. This is in current day and times showing whats going on in our world today and how quarantine might actually have some benefits.

Symbolic: This picture is a compare and contrast on how the waters in the Venice canals in Italy have became cleaner then ever due to corona virus pandemic. On the picture on the left which is the before picture you can tell how dark the water is , how hazy the reflection is, and how light doesn’t contrast off the water as bright. Also you can notice there are people in the waters. On the present picture, the right one shows how the water look in the middle of the pandemic while everybody is stuck inside. The water look much cleaner, the water almost has a reflection of glass, and the sun reflects right off the water. As you can tell that is with nobody in the canals.

Written: The caption for this picture is “Water in Venice’s canals appeared to run clearer in the absence of boat traffic in early March.” They get straight to the point by saying exactly the message of the picture. These pictures were used in this NBC news article to spread awareness that Earth is getting clean all because of covid-19 written by Dennis Chow.