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Analysis draft 2

CJ Harrison

I want my poster to have an effect on the viewer by saying Germany had a really powerful army in skill with weapons but they didn't have a lot of people like other countries. Also, I want this to effect the viewer using Germany's war symbol (iron cross) was actually pretty frightening to some countries. The main effect that I wanted was to make people think that the symbol is on top of the flag which says that the army had power over Germany. I also wanted it to be kind of a little less forceful than that and I made the slogan a little less harsh but I made it so that it was mean but not nice sort of like telling people to do something in a mean voice but not mean it to be mean. I guess you could say it would be sarcastic in a way. But I wanted it to make the viewer think that it was a harsh picture but the slogan lightens it a little bit.

This poster fits into the historical content of WW1 by the symbols I used because those symbols that are kind of smooshed together were basically the Germany's main symbols they used for war but I had just put them all together to make one image. The flag in the background was Germany's flag colors in WW1. I had basically translated the slogan so that people could understand what it was saying.

Most propaganda today is that people don't really agree with a lot of things for example people put Obama's head with a knife through it and said “don't join the US army because you will die” so basically propaganda can make anything look bad or good like in the Obama example. The worst part about Propaganda is that it targets certain things but usually most propaganda is based toward negative things because the main goal is to base it towards another country or another cause that created conflict between those two things. So overall I guess propaganda today bothers me because they make things so negative so that is what I'm trying to get at here.

WWII Propaganda

What I really took from this project was that war is something that saves people from certain disasters. For example, getting killed by other countries who were either mad at your country or just wanting to gain more land. You always hear people talking about the bad side of war and why war is bad because of all the killing. But you never honestly hear why war helps our country to fight for it's freedom and keep their people alive.

Roots of war

This project was really interesting to me because we got to learn all about war and the different things that caused war in most countries. What I really thought was cool was when we learned about how different countries were partnered and how they became traitors and what they did to get out of a partnership. Overall I thought this project was really cool and fun to learn about how the whole thing of war really worked because I never really knew what it was about, I was only told stories.

Deogratias

One thing about this book that I really enjoyed was that it was a picture book that gave a story about genocide. I really learned from this book because I hadn't really understood racism until I read about the two races in this book. I remember reading the page where the teacher said something and almost everyone raised their hands, the teacher asked another question and only one student raised his hand, which was Deogratias. The book also had images of people going and killing others and I got to experience what it was like to kill someone by looking at pictures and not actually being there. Lastly I really thought this was something that I liked because I don't read often and to read this book was really interesting.

Slaughterhouse 5

While reading this book I really felt bad but I felt like I could really connect to how Billy lived after the plane crash. The main reason being is that he went into a different world because of the aliens and was in the basement a lot where he didn't have to speak to anyone. I felt like he had gone into the same thing I had gone threw when my parents split. I also feel like Billy had a lot of perseverance because he had published his stories to the public and never gave up on it which was really cool to read about. Overall, I really liked this book because I made a lot of connections with it.

Dulce et decorium

This poem really struck me because it was nothing like I expected. It was really sad at some points but at others it was really interesting. My group and I had a lot of fun saying this poem out loud because we added different tones and Duke with his creepy Hitler voice. The thing I got from this poem is that it was very jumpy in imagery but it made a lot of sense. I had thought about this poem when I had made my poem because I wanted to create different scenes that were all incorporated in the same topic. All in all, I really took away from this poem because I had new ideas to incorporate for my poem.