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Name: Professor: Course: Date: Introduction In this paper, the negative and positive impact of the image of a 17-year-old girl that was featured on Wednesday, 26, October 2016 by the Reuters will be covered. The body of the girl was pictured dead next to her doll with blood coming from her mouth and staining her white top. Though the photograph covered only the girl, she was not alone, because some of her friends were also killed by the unknown motorcycle-riding hit men. The hit men are believed to be members of the vigilante who are working with the government to fight drug business (Hincks 5). The incident occurred in the Philippines, Manila alley. Besides, the police also found the cardboard next to the bodies that claimed that the girls were drug pushers, therefore, called them animals. Positive impacts of the image In the Philippines, the stringent laws, vigorous prosecution, spectacular police drives, and imprisonment of both the addicts and the drug peddlers have proved to be ineffective and expensive as far as the war against drug is concerned. It is worth noting that President Rodrigo Duterte promised during his campaigns for the 2016 elections that his government would suppress crime, corruption, and drugs within a span of three to six months of his time in the office. Moreover, he also promised to fatten the fish found in the Manila Bay with the 100,000 criminals' bodies (Hincks 9). This means that the government has resorted to killing as the only way of fighting drugs in the Philippines. The move is working because the report from the Al Jazeera claimed that between July 1 to the September 5, of this year, more than 686,000 drug addicts and
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