As you can see from my poster it is showing England , a country significant to WW1, fights with Turkey , Hungary and German. These three countries were England ’s enemies during WW1 and to show this the countries have flames on them, which are bordering the flag. This is to show that these countries are attacking Britain . I want people to look at my poster and see the amount of work I put into it, and I want this poster to make people say "wow, that's impressive". I also want people to look at my poster and automatically want to side with England, so they can defeat these countries. I am going to have text on my poster that will make it difficult for them to make their own decision and side with England. Some of the propaganda techniques I used were fear; people should have fear because their country is being surrounded by its enemies with fire. I also used flag waving, there’s a flag, attempting to make this justified. Direct order is another technique I used; here propagandists try to make a decision easier by attempting to eliminate any other options. The final technique I used was demonizing the enemy, by making the three enemy countries seem inhuman.
In WW1 England had three countries that it was in war against, Turkey, Hungary, and Germany. This was an important issue in these four countries then, so naturally posters and tactics such as displayed on my poster would have been used to get as many supporters as possible. I think that this is relevant to WW1 because it shows exactly what was happening at this time, while one country is trying to get everyone to join them and the other country was trying to get everyone to side with them.
I personally think that propaganda influences people on how they perceive the world, because it makes it difficult for people to make their own decisions. It's almost as if people have lost the ability to make their own decisions altogether, because they base what they think so much on what the news and media says, as if what they say was written in stone. But the reality seems to be that the media likes to twist the facts and make you think what they want you to think. Another thing I have found to be true, is that the media knows exactly how to get people to do exactly what the media wants them to do. I think that it's almost as if we could be called "robots", or rather "machines" to the media. The media tells a six year old who is watching TV that they need the Pillow- Pet, for example, because it will make them happy, and sleep well, the child even at that age, might say I want that, because who doesn't like to be happy? Just the same, a parent sees this same commercial and hears the same thing, that their child will be happy and sleep well, and then of course that parent is going to get that for their child, because they are told it's what's best for them.
Yet at the same time, I think that people also make conclusions they draw from what their only told part of the story about. For example, I read the challenge reading, "Is Obama an anti-Christ?." The author referred to a experiment where a philologist asked one group of people to write an essay about a student named Tyrone Walker, while the other group was asked to write an essay about Brad Walker. This is called priming, and it turns out to be that those who wrote about Tyrone Walker wrote about a black student, because Tyrone is usually assumed to be a black name. Brad is more than often a white name, thus the essays from this group were about a white student.
So to conclude, I would say that the media, whether it be targeting children or doctors, knows exactly how to tell us what we should think, but we are not always aware of it, it's how our brain works. So truthfully one can't say that they aren't influenced by the media, because even if you say you are not, you most likely are without being aware of it. It's not very likely that we can have the time to make our own decisions about what propaganda is telling us. But there is a difference between influence and control, and no matter what we can’t resist propaganda. No matter how hard we try not to be controlled by propaganda, it seems to be we will be anyways.
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