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James Montgomery Flagg’s famous “Uncle Sam” propaganda poster, made during World War I. Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational ...
A common example of this type of propaganda is a political figure, usually running for a placement, in a backyard or shop doing daily routine things. This image appeals to the common person. With the plain folks device, the propagandist can win the confidence of persons who resent or distrust foreign sounding, intellectual speech, words, or ...
"Free Thought and Official Propaganda" is a speech (and subsequent publication) delivered in 1922 by Bertrand Russell on the importance of unrestricted freedom of expression in society, and the problem of the state and political class interfering in this through control of education, fines, economic leverage, and distortion of evidence.
Des Moines speech The Burlington Daily Hawk Eye Gazette reporting on the speech, September 12, 1941 Date September 11, 1941 (1941-09-11) Duration 25 minutes Venue Des Moines Coliseum Location Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. Participants Charles Lindbergh The Des Moines speech, formally titled "Who Are the War Agitators?", was an isolationist and antisemitic speech that American aviator Charles ...
The days event's included speeches from the likes of John Lewis, a civil rights activist who currently serves as a U.S. congressman more than 50 years later, Mrs. Medgar Evers, whose husband had ...
A notable example was the Norakuro manga, which began pre-war as humorous episodes of anthropomorphic dogs in the army, but eventually developed into propaganda tales of military exploits against the "pigs army" on the "continent" - a thinly-veiled reference to the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels helped write the speech, [2] which was delivered on the sixth anniversary of Hitler's seizure of power in 1933. [3] The speech lasted two [4] or two-and-a-half hours. It dealt with both the foreign and domestic policies of the Nazi government. [5]
Propaganda aimed at women as bulwarks against racial degeneration lay heavy emphasis on their role in protecting racial purity without indulging in the antisemitism of Mein Kampf or Der Stürmer. [38] Gerhard Wagner, at the 1936 Nuremberg Rally, discussed the racial law more in terms of the pure and growing race than the evil of the Jews. [39]