Operation Blog is ACTIVE

OK students...this is the platform upon which students will share their knowledge and understanding of the great marker event of 20th century world history: World War 2. The rules are simple:

1. All students must make at least one post to this blog. Posts are in the form of reflections, opinions, links to articles, video, music, images, etc. Students must relate the nature of their posts to a theme of the conflict and make commentary.

2. All students must make at least one comment on another students post. Comments must be thoughtful, argumentative if inclined, insightful, or you my pose some question leads to another post by you or another classmate.

3. You must tag your post with the applicable theme(s).

4. Grades will be based on an holistic scoring scale which heavily weights the frequency and substance of posts and comments. Minimum participation equates to minimum scores for this class exercise.

Monday, February 22, 2010

This American propaganda encourages their soldiers to continue fighting the Japanese, who are portrayed as killers. The American soldiers are supposed to stay on task and massacre all these murdering Japanese. The picture given in the propaganda and the cutout of the newspaper article further strengthens the proof by the Americans that the Japanese are not worthy to stay alive. Not only does this propaganda distinguish the enemies, but it also motivates the soldiers to fight on...
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4 comments:

  1. Amy SupawanMarch 1, 2010 at 5:41 AM

    I think this doesn't encourage the soldiers, but it forces the soldiers more. It's like the italics show the voice of the person who wrote the propaganda that if they don't do what they're told, they're going to get in trouble by the commanders. In that time, people are forced to go to war also, so this should be something that would make the soldiers fear if they don't kill the Japanese.

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  2. Aparna :)March 3, 2010 at 10:23 PM

    Propagandas are used to advertise ideas or beliefs, whether they are factual of not. I think that this propaganda is trying to brainwash the American soldiers into thinking that the Japanese are cruel people who kill people without any purpose. By making the American soldiers believe this ideology, the leaders can expect more effort from their armies in trying to kill the Japanese. However, if they would have forced the American soldiers to do so, the result could be negative in case they refused to fight.

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  3. AnonymousMarch 3, 2010 at 11:33 PM

    I think it's a useful source but I don't think it encourage the American to continue fighting the Japs because the picture looks like the guy is hitting the gun on the slave.

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  4. PremMarch 7, 2010 at 1:04 AM

    The italics for you makes you stress the word you so its like what are YOU going to do about it. It makes you think about what you're going to do and in those times they were very nationalistic so the idea is "what are YOU doing for YOUR country" kinda. Its also not just for soldiers it could be for the civillians back in America to make them participate for the war. The WHAT doesn't always have to be fighting.

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