Propaganda

My definition of Propaganda-The distribution of bias information

Propaganda-ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated and that are spread in order to help a cause, a political leader, a government, etc. From: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/propaganda

The first image shows a nurse with a kid with fighting in the background. I think this image is trying to show that women can help during war and that it is not that dangerous for them. The little kid being there and not being scared shows that it is safe. On the poster it says "our greatest mother," i think this is trying to show how helpful nurses are during war.

The second image is a nurse walking through a door. The top of the poster says "be a trained nurse," this is trying to get people to want to train to be a nurse. The door that the woman is opening says opportunity on it to show that this is a big opportunity for women and they should take advantage of it.

The third image shows a woman in what looks to be like a communication room. She is most likely sending messages to different parts of the battle field. The room she is in seem to have soldiers surrounding her like she is one of them, but at the same time it shows here in here communication box that is away from all the danger of war. I believe this poster is trying to show that communication  people are just as important as soldiers, and that it is not that dangerous of a job.

I think that propaganda is a very useful recruitment tool and that if used correctly it can have a very positive effect, but in many cases it can be too much. I support the use of some propaganda but not the use of too much of it.

The government knew they needed more people to join the military so they decided they needed to advertise using propaganda in order to reach more people.

Question Key

1. A
2. C
3. C

Progressive thesis

We combined all of the theses in order to create one for all of them.

In the progressive era, people and the Government tried to improve the health and well being of citizens by acting as a referee, but in the processes of solving poblems, they created new ones.

Progressive Questions

1. The progressive era was during what time period?
A. 1890s to 1920s
B. 1800s to 1900s
C. 1900s to 1920s
D. 1900s to 1930s
E. None of the above

2. The progressive era mainly targeted what?
A. Unhealthy drinks
B. Crime
C. Corruption in the Government
D. School
E. None of the above

3. Prohibition was meant to cut down on the consumption of ________.
A. Lemonade
B. Coke
C. Alcohol
D. Candy
E. None of the above

Progressivism

I was working with Mathew, Trey, and Myself. Our topics were prohibition, the black socks scandal, and patent laws.

Thesis:

With our three topics, prohibition, patents, and the 1919 world series, there was a clear relation between them. The one thing that connected them all was the government coming in and being a referee and to the people. The government was a trying to control civilians when it came to their consumption of alcohol, control them from stealing other people's ideas, and intervene when it came to professional sports and how there should be rules on and off the field.

Conclusion:

The government stepped in to act as a referee in order to stop the consumption of alcohol and to keep ideas from being stolen from one one another, and to make a higher level of rules in professional sports.

U.S. Patent laws and how its related to progressvism

Engine Patent 

            Patent laws were first invented in 1790. These laws allowed people to claim their inventions so that other people could not steal them. Before patent laws when people came up with ideas there would be problems with people stealing their them. Say a poor homeless man were to come up with a brilliant idea for a new way to build houses that made them a lot more stable and affordable. Before patents this man with the idea would gain nothing for coming up with the idea, because the man is homeless and has no resources so he could not do anything with this idea. Someone who did have enough resources would come along and make a lot of money off this idea and claim it was there. Since the homeless man did not get anything from coming up with his idea, he does not care about coming up with new ways to improving things, because they will just get stolen.
          Pantent laws started to give people incentives to improve the world. Even if you were a homeless and came up with an idea then you would be rewarded for it. Once the idea was patented you would be able to sell the patent to someone who wanted to use your idea.

Revolver Patent 

         News papers loved talking about patents. They would first give credit to who ever came up with the idea, then they would say what was patented. After saying what was patented and by who, they would then give a short description of the new invention. For example while describing the patent for the fire engine, the Salem Register talked about how the new engine made by Mr. Elijah Ormsee was better than the English Pump engine because it is made of a simple infrastructure, it has no the machinery other than a crank and a screw making it a whole lot more reliable and affordable. Like in this disruption of the fire engine, the description would often say how the new invention was better than the idea it was supposed to replace. In the Salem Register it talked about a new improved saw mill. The news paper talked about how the saw mill would reduce the amount of labor needed and the cost of the saw mills. It also talked about how it would saw in a fraction of the time the old saw mills would take. Some of the articles would just say it fixes these problems in the old invention, and others would just flat out say that the new invention is better in all ways than the old one. Most of these descriptions were basically an advertisement for the new invention.

Patent for legos 

        The news papers led to rise in the number of patents because it helped spread other peoples new ideas and got many people thinking about ways to improve the world. Some of the patents were very simple. Mr. Jefferson patented the art of carrying fish on ice to market. The first patent was in 1790. Samuel found a better way to produce pot and pearl ashes. Both of these patents show that it is possible to patent pretty much anything.






Sources:

     http://www.infoweb.newsbank.com

     "Love's Patent Lamp"-Norwich Courier - Connecticut, Norwich, January 02, 1799 

     "New Patent Fire Engine" -Federal Observer - New Hampshire, Portsmouth, January 31, 1799

      "The Improved Saw-Mill"-Salem Register - Massachusetts, Salem, August 02, 1802 

      "Mr. Jefferson's patent, for the discovery of the art of carrying fish to market in ice..."-Trenton Federalist - New Jersey, Trenton, September 13, 1802

         "A patent has been obtained for a machine reaping corn in general..."-Daily Advertiser - New York, New York, November 02, 1799

       Samuel Hopkins's Patent for Producing Pot and Pearl Ashes-Salem Gazette - Massachusetts, Salem, November 23, 1790

          "Hopkins's patent for making pot and pearl ash."-United States Chronicle - Rhode Island, Providence, December 30, 1790

Reflection on Second Semester

I have become more and more confident in my reading ability and my ability to comprehend what I am reading. I have also learned how to analyze what I am reading faster. I would still like to be able to improve my comprehension so i am able to do the harder reading questions confidently. I would also like to keep improving my ability to analyze movies.