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Personal Narrative-The Ethnography Of An Afghan Girl Photograph

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When I was fourteen-years-old, I saw the Afghan Girl photograph on the cover of the National Geographic. Her eyes are the color of the sea, and the expression on her face is haunting. At the time, I living on Maui, and had been since infancy. Evidently, I did not remember a life before Maui, and it was hard to image a life away from the island. To me, the Afghan Girl photograph represents the life I had on Maui. It is innocent and there is an element of anonymity to the girl, because she is only identified by the country she is from rather than her given name. When I was sixteen-years-old, I saw a black and white photograph from the Rwandan genocide. Even without color, the violence in the photograph was palpable. I saw the photograph shortly

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