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The term ''poster child'' (sometimes ''poster boy'' or ''poster girl'') originally referred to a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters or other media as part of a campaign to raise money or enlist volunteers for a cause or organization. Such campaigns may be part of an annual effort or event, and may include the name and age of a specific child along with other personally identifiable attributes.〔This convention was notably employed by the Muscular Dystrophy Association (see e.g., http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930422&slug=1697184) Obituary of Jolene Kay Worley, who in 1955 became the first National Muscular Dystrophy Poster Child.〕〔(search:"poster child" )〕 The definition of "poster child" has since been expanded to a person of any age whose attributes or behaviour are emblematic of a known cause, movement, circumstance or ideal. Under this usage, the person in question is labeled as an embodiment or archetype. This signifies that the very identity of the subject is synonymous with the associated ideal; or otherwise representative of its most favorable or least favorable aspects. == Examples == * Bobbi Campbell was a self-professed "AIDS poster boy" in the earliest years of the epidemic.〔(Finding Aid to the Bobbi Campbell Diary ), Online Archive of California, Collection Number: MSS 96-33〕 * Willie Horton became a poster boy for the Massachusetts prison furlough program and the liberal sensibilities of Michael Dukakis in the 1988 United States presidential election campaign.〔"Willie Horton revisited; Who really played the race card first?" ''Minneapolis Star Tribune'', March 6, 2000〕〔Joe Domanick, ''Cruel justice: three strikes and the politics of crime in America's golden state'', University of California Press, 2004〕 * Emily Susan Rapp was a poster child for the March of Dimes in Wyoming, following the amputation of her leg at age four, due to a congenital birth defect. * Aziz Shavershian was described as the poster boy of a subculture of amateur bodybuilding in Australia, dubbed "aesthetics" and gained a large cult following of admirers. * Ryan White was considered a poster child for social acceptance of AIDS sufferers, after he contracted the disease from a blood transfusion and was expelled from his school.〔"To a poster child, dying young," ''U.S. News and World Report'', April 16, 1990〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Poster child」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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