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Are Photos Really Needed' Nancy McLeod English 1210 MWF 4:00-5:15 November 11, 2010 Abstract: This article is based upon several research surveys conducted by a group of multi-culture college students, all in pursuit to find out what type of images people have by their beside if there are any. This article explores the emotional attachment that women seem to portray through having photos. There were women who took the survey and did not have photos. The paper therefore also argues, if photos are need by all women to show their emotional attachment. Research Question: Why do women tend to emotional attachment through photos' Literature Review: In a research article by Rose G (2004) two specific questions were addressed for guiding the study. This paper was based on a small-scale, qualitative research project, which wed in-depth. Semi-structured interviews to explore what a particular group of middle-class, white mothers with young children were doing with their family photographs. It was evident from the interviews that this group of women felt ambivalent about their photos. On the one hand, photos were seen as precious objects which evoked intense emotional reaction. On the other, they were seen as banal and trivial. The paper explores this emotional paradox, and suggests that it is part of the spatial proximity so central to these family snaps, which the mothers described as 'togetherness'. This togetherness was also enacted, in a number of ways in relation to the photos. The paper also argues, more generally, that studies of visual imagery need to pay more careful attention to how particular images are engaged with in specific, diverse and multi-sensory ways when they are 'seen'(2004). In comparison to the study we conducted based on the results it showed that some women also where attached to certain photos, but on the other hand that some women do not have photos. In which raised the question “Are photos really needed”. In contrast to this study, we surveyed women of various races, social classes, and locations and ages, some of whom had children and others which did not. We also used a general question of which was “Do you have any image by your bedside”, which included family photos or any image in they had, which in return gave us a greater variety of answers as to what type of photo they had by there bedside. Methodology: We did a simple survey of a random sampling of people on or around North Carolina Central Universities college campus, at about 4:30 in the afternoon .We asked the following questions. 1. What type of image do you have by your bedside' 2. Male or Female 3. Where are you from' 4. Age Above are the results we received, these results showed that we interviewed the overall images category was 43.The results also show that 18 people did not have images. Discussion and Conclusion: Looking at the initial research question the research does support my claim that some women have images by the bedsides and other do not. Based on the people surveyed it is hard to come to a solid conclusion, being that the result polled were not tallied for my gender. If the survey were tailed by gender and age it would be easier to make the conclusion of which females do or do not have images by their bedside. When the survey is conducted again it would be really interesting to see if according to gender and age if there are images of family by their besides, raising the question again “Are photos really needed”.