...World War II Propaganda Poster The poster I made was a propaganda poster that would be used in hopes of recruiting more soldiers. In this case I have used my poster to go mainly against the Nazi’s, but I added a little bit against the Japanese as well. Within the poster itself you are able to see a nasty green hand with a swastika on top of it. I also included four hands breaking apart the swastika, and lastly I have portrayed the Japanese and their evils within a sort of scythe. This is what is mainly seen, apart from the slogan itself and the evil eyes in the background. As you can see, I used Demonization in this poster. This can be seen in the way Hitler’s hand was drawn. It is a nasty green color, with long yellow nails in which way giving it the looks of, perhaps, being a zombie or simply un-human. When it comes to the Japanese, I have represented them within the scythe. This was supposed to be a scythe just like the one of the grim reaper, but I decided in the end to make it look more like a skeleton hand as opposed to just having a long rod as is typically seen. The last factors used were the evil-looking eyes. I added Hitler’s mustache and comb-over so that he could be identified. In this way effectively showing how evil he is. The next tool I was able to use was name-calling. By saying, “Help get rid of those filthy Huns!” I am, in a sense, degrading the German army. I also used “Eliminate the yellows from the rainbow.” By doing so, I am not only making fun of...
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...Continuation of Government Propaganda In the years following the Cold War, the American government scaled down its mass propaganda operations. Now that the imminent threat of the Soviet Union no longer existed, there was a sense that there was nothing that was worth fighting in a war for. These notions of an unclear foreign policy and waning resolve for war were reflected in the series of conflicts America was involved in during the 1990s. However, this spark of American spirit was reignited after the attacks on September 11, 2001. Once again the government implemented propaganda against the new enemy: terrorism. While most Americans would not appreciate overt propaganda through posters and cartoons, people have been greatly influenced by subtle attempts by the government to turn the people against radical Islamic ideologies. Continuing to the present day, the government does create forms of propaganda, yet is more quiet in its efforts. Since the World War One, the American government was convinced that the country could achieve anything as long as the people are on board. Conclusion...
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...Propaganda During World War I By Khaled Almuaigel A week after the congress approved of the war declaration that brought the US into The World War I, President Woodrow Wilson signed an executive order that created the Committee on Public Information which was a government agency to advertise and mobilize public opinion on the war effort . This committee was presided by then famous journalist and a political ally of Wilson’s, George Creel. Under creels leadership, the committee had over 150,000 full time employees and volunteers who had affected the lives of every citizen of the United States. The Committee on Public Information was responsible...
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...Summary and response essay Subway’s slogan and advertisements suggest to eat their fresh food. However, what the advertisements don't say is if the food is even fresh or healthy, which we just tend to predict it is. Therefore, Subway uses propaganda in order to lure people to eat their so called "fresh food”. Indeed, propaganda is widely used by various companies in order to sell their products with different brainwashing techniques. In the essay, "Propaganda Techniques in Today’s Advertising” by Anna Mcclintock suggests that propaganda influences people’s thoughts over a subject by using different propaganda techniques, I believe that those techniques work and do change people’s opinion over a subject. In fact, propaganda can be found on advertisements all around the world, like in magazines, commercials, and newspapers. The truth about propaganda is that it was designed to influence people’s opinion towards a certain point of view or a specific subject or product. Thus, propaganda uses seven different techniques in order to lure people towards the subject or product. For instance, one of the techniques is Name Calling, in which one uses negative or offensive names against a subject or product in the process changing someone’s opinion about it. In contrast, the Glittering Generalities technique uses attractive and appealing words or phrases in order to influence positive emotions towards the product a company is selling. Another technique is Transfer, which a company uses...
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...Write an analytical essay in which you analyze and evaluate the techniques used in World War II propaganda. WWII Propaganda Posters Read More >> Propaganda is the spreading of information through media with the purpose of promoting a cause. During World War II, posters were widely used in the propaganda campaigns. Their content ranged from simple instructions to purely motivational content. In a series of posters, the British government employed a variety of persuasive techniques to convince people to join the war effort. A very common theme in the propaganda was unifying the country around the war effort. The purpose of it was to convince the people that entering the war is a good idea and to increase patriotism. In one poster, it shows a group of people wearing different job uniforms together and on it says "England expects national service" and it is trying to convince people to join the war in any way possible. The propaganda technique used in this specific poster is bandwagon by trying to encourage people to join the war effort. This technique reinforces peoples natural desire to be on the winning side and...
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...Propaganda Galore Propaganda techniques are used in many of today’s advertisements in order to persuade buyers to purchase their goods and services. Almost any commercial that you would watch today has some form propoganda buried deep behind the light humor and smiling faces. Companies like AT&T and Verizon have both released a swarm of commercials that has every type of propaganda. I have discovered two commercials for both of these companies that have great examples of how big business persuade buyers to purchase their products and services. My first commercial is by Verizon it is about how everything is not made to last and breaks very quickly and the fact that manufactures lie about the quality, functionality, or reliability of their products. The commercial starts with a random assortment of products breaking in everyday live. During this time the narrator is using negative words describing her frustration with the cheaply made things in life. After the random assortment of products break the narrator introduces Verizon as the most reliable network, thus giving the viewer a reason to switch to Verizon. One of the more evident propaganda technique used in this essay is plain folks. The producers of this...
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...Propaganda is commonly biased information, used to promote or publicize a specific point of view or cause. Today, we see many examples of propaganda, in advertising, politics, and media. People assume that propaganda only started in the 20th and the 21st century, but in reality the roots can date back to times in Ancient Egypt. It’s hard to believe that propaganda has been happening for quite long, but people are always trying to find ways to obtain power, even if it includes lying. Pharaohs and Queens in the 18th dynasty have used propaganda to make themselves seem more powerful. In this essay, propaganda in the 18th dynasty, the ways the propaganda was expressed, and how it manipulated people will be discussed, using historical sculptures,...
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...difference between wartime propaganda and peacetime advertising or politics? 2500 words. Introduction Propaganda is an art requiring special talent. It is not mechanical, scientific work. Influencing attitudes requires experience, area knowledge, and instinctive “judgment of what is the best argument for the audience”. No manual can guide the propagandist. He must have a good mind, genius, sensitivity and knowledge of how that audience thinks and reacts From this we can consider that propaganda is not something based solely on warfare or politics or advertising. The use of propaganda is virulent in peaceful societies not at war by virtue of bombarding the general public with advertising (Newspaper/Magazines/Radio/TV/Internet) for goods and services, political canvassing and promotional material (to channel social development and public opinion, to mold the population into following the the ideals of conflicting political ideologies). Does this contrast with the use of propaganda in wartime? The objective is obviously the same – to get the general populace to accept what the propaganda states and take appropriate action i.e. buy goods, vote for a party or support the war effort. Advertising and political propaganda continue to take place during the periods of War propaganda although the reverse is not generally true (or is reduced to recruitment advertising and maintaining armed deterrents). The method of delivery of the propaganda, in whichever age you choose...
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...“Our reality is never our own but is influenced by others.” FLAPC: In this expository essay, I aim to discuss how our reality can be our own although it’s often influenced by others. Our reality can be influenced by several external sources; the media, government, values, beliefs and perceptions. I’m aiming to connect to my audience of VCE students as they will have a better understanding of ‘Whose Reality?’ and the context, ‘Wag the Dog’ (a 1997 film directed by Barry Levinson). I aim to get my readers to recognise the large role that media play in influencing our realities along with how dangerous the collaboration of the media and the government truly is. In order to put forth my opinion I’ll write in a cynical tone to portray that the motives of particular people are bad, I’ll use factual (gun crimes in the US) and fictional (‘Wag the Dog’ and ‘Leaky Boat’) evidence and I’ll use proper terminology to add sophistication and credit to my piece. In this piece, I draw on examples from ‘Wag the Dog’ (1997 film directed by Barry Levinson), ‘Leaky Boat’ (2011 ABC documentary) and gun crimes in the US in order to illustrate the idea that people are easily influenced by external sources, especially when they have authority. ESSAY: Stephan Lewandowsky’s study shows that “weighing the plausibility of a message is cognitively more difficult than simply accepting that the message is true – it requires additional motivational and cognitive resources.” This shows why peoples realities...
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...Media and Socio-Cultural Change The 2003 Iraq War Did Not Take Place Did the 2003 Iraq War take place? This question derived from Jean Baudrillard’s essay with the title ‘The Gulf War did not take place’ written in 1991 in response to the Gulf War (August 2, 1990 - February 28, 1991). Baudrillard began his essay with a provocative statement “Since this war was won in advance, we will never know what it would have been like had it existed. We will never know what an Iraqi taking part with a chance of fighting would have been like. We will never know what an American taking part with a chance of being beaten would have been like” (Baudrillard, 2004). This bold paragraph prompts us re-think whether the war actually occurred as what we saw, read or heard from the news and the media, however we are not supposed to consider this literary. Baudrillard’s argument was to demonstrate the war perceived by the world was not the “actual” war rather it was a media spectacle. According to Kellner, “Media Spectacles are those phenomena of media culture which embody contemporary society's basic values, serve to enculturate individuals into its way of life, and dramatize it's controversies and struggles, as well as its modes of conflict resolution." (Kellner, 2005) In Kellner’s essay ‘September 11, Spectacles of Terror, and Media Manipulation: A Critique of Jihadist and Bush Media Politics’, he implied how media spectacles have been used by terrorists and the Bush government to promote...
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...The Everyday Uses of Propaganda Techniques Caitlin Matthew 27483147 February 19, 2016 Coms 361 Propaganda has been associated with both the terms technique and phenomenon, and it’s been questioned as to which term it best meets. The Webster dictionary defines phenomenon as “something (such as an interesting fact or event) that can be observed and studied and that typically is unusual or difficult to understand or explain fully”, and technique is defined as “a way of doing something by using special knowledge or skill”. I believe that propaganda as a whole is always a technique, the technique of trying to convince people of certain messages and ideas, and only in particular propaganda messages, not in all circumstances, are they subject to being a phenomenon, which is why propaganda, in its entirety, cannot be called a phenomenon, and this essay will argue why this is true. Propaganda is a technique, ancient, well known and studied; employed in all politics, religions, ideologies, and of course in every sales method known to man. “Propaganda is itself a technique, resulting partly from the application of the social sciences, including psychology, to technology. It is a technique used to promote acceptance of other techniques” (Marlin 2013, 23). There are multiple different forms of technique that propaganda uses, such as emotional appeals which aim at getting an emotional attachment out of the individual, or such as the use of morally evaluative language, which uses...
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...In this essay i will address and discuss the propaganda and the techniques used in the late 1930's, what they did to reach out with a message to the public for help. Also the influence behind it, If you saw this poster, would you try and help war fighters? Back in World War 2, it was different then it is right now, now you can post a problem on the internet and it would spread through out the country with in minutes. Back then they made posters, these posters had powerful images, inspiring quotes and phrases, vibrant colors, and a message. These messages were to reach out to the audience of whom may be concerned, to help Brittain in their battle with Germany. One poster showed women with her arms open and welcoming the fighter jets, but the...
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...Manufacturing Consent Questions – Avery Reyner – September 30, 2012 Manufacturing Consent is a technique of control. Noam Chomsky was first introduced to this concept from an author named Walter Lippmann who wrote about ‘Manufacturer of Consent.’ Chomsky augmented his concept to Manufacturing Concept and the philosophy has become so popular it later became a documentary film produced by two Canadians. Noam Chomsky has been called ‘arguably the greatest intellectual alive' (Fox, 1998) by the New York Times as he not only is a very outspoken professor, he is also an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, historian, political critic and activist. The information in this essay was obtained from his video called: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. Manufacturing Consent is the control of distribution of ideas and stories by media to purposely be in charge of the results and beliefs held by the masses of people that watch and consume those stories. Chomsky believes decisions regarding investment, production and distribution etc. are controlled by a relatively concentrated network of major corporations and conglomerates and investment firms. Chomsky also stated that the major companies are also the ones who employ executives in government and media supporting their campaigns thus motivating and manipulating control in society. Manufacturing Consent is the opposite of a democratic society because the government and media believe...
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...Evaluate the usefulness of the hypodermic syringe model to our understanding of the role of the mass media. By: Amy Rashid The amount of influence the media has on the society has been extensively debated and researcher. The hypodermic syringe model is an analogy between media messages and a drug injected by a hypodermic syringe; which represents the content of media being spread by the medium (television, newspaper, etc.). In this essay, I shall discuss the usefulness of the hypodermic syringe model alongside some other models to our understanding of the role of the mass media. First and foremost, the hypodermic syringe model explains the role of the media in the manipulation of the gullible public and creating moral public. This can be seen from the classic example of the application of the Magic Bullet Theory was illustrated on October 30, 1938 when Orson Welles and the newly formed Mercury Theatre group broadcasted their radio edition of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds." On the eve of Halloween, radio programming was interrupted with a "news bulletin" for the first time. What the audience heard was that Martians had begun an invasion of Earth in a place called Grover's Mill, New Jersey. It became known as the "Panic Broadcast" and changed broadcast history, social psychology, civil defence and set a standard for provocative entertainment. Approximately 12 million people in the United States heard the broadcast and about one million of those actually believed that a serious...
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...DATU IBRAHIM PAGLAS MEMORIAL COLLEGE Datu Paglas, Maguindanao MIDTERM – EXAM IN COMMUNICATION AND ARTS Name:__________________________________________________ Date:__________ Year:______________ Score:_________ I- Direction: Fill in the blank with the correct answer on the space provided. _______________ 1. The process of drawing reasonable conclusion from facts or bits of evidence. _______________ 2. Is a descriptive word or phrase placed beside the unknown word and is often enclosed or set off by commas. _______________ 3. Explains or describes the similarity between the relationship of a plain words and that of another pair. _______________ 4. A common process is forming words in which we cut off the beginning or the end. _______________ 5. Are formed by fusing the first part of one word with the last part of another. _______________ 6. A politician presents only one side of an issue or tries to make the other side idiotic. ______________ 7. The public is urged to follow the crowd and accept the propagandist ideas and leadership. No reason or logic is used. ______________ 8. The process of forming a word from initial letters of several words as in WHO- World Health Organization. ______________ 9. Refers to the big class or group to which a specific group belongs. ______________ 10. A high-sounding word is connected with an idea to make it sound better so people will accept without examining it. ______________ 11. Words are formed by partial...
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