The subject matter of this song is about military wives worrying about solodiers, celebrity minds, cannibal kings, anchor men, America, and brilliant minds.
-I think the theme for this song is that some people take on too many challenges and respomsibilities that will soon take oer your life. You can get this when he says the following: "Cause America can, and America won't say no, And America dies if America say's no"
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
"Race for the Prize"
This songs' theme would be that through competition, one can lose oneself for the thought of victory.Even though this image of victory seems great, it can interfere with one's personal life. "So determined, so locked in the heat of battle theirs is to win if it kills them" these lyrics help support the authors point that competition can consume one's life.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Fallacies: JFK Innaguration Speech
"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
-This quote commits the fallacy of non sequitor because the ending of this quote doesn't hold any relevance to the statemnet before it. Just because a society caqn't help the poor, it shows no correlation to saving the rich making the statement irrelevant to the previous thought. Making it a fallacy of non sequitor.
-Speeches that commit so many fallacies can still be seen as effective and famous because most fallacies appeal to our emotions, and are typicly catchy. which is why we remeber the speeches so easily. And most people can't really pick up on fallacies just by hearing them, so people are kind of blinded to these fallacies when they just hear them.
-This quote commits the fallacy of non sequitor because the ending of this quote doesn't hold any relevance to the statemnet before it. Just because a society caqn't help the poor, it shows no correlation to saving the rich making the statement irrelevant to the previous thought. Making it a fallacy of non sequitor.
-Speeches that commit so many fallacies can still be seen as effective and famous because most fallacies appeal to our emotions, and are typicly catchy. which is why we remeber the speeches so easily. And most people can't really pick up on fallacies just by hearing them, so people are kind of blinded to these fallacies when they just hear them.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
"Duck and Cover"
-The overt message would be to duck and cover in dangerous situations.
-The covert message was to join the allied forces to help protect American citizens from horrible disasters like the atom bomb.
-This would be informational because the government was informing us on the different ways to protect yourself and other's when disaster strikes, they inform us with street signs, protective tactics, and assistance from the elderly.
-The covert message was to join the allied forces to help protect American citizens from horrible disasters like the atom bomb.
-This would be informational because the government was informing us on the different ways to protect yourself and other's when disaster strikes, they inform us with street signs, protective tactics, and assistance from the elderly.
Destination Earth
-The overt message is that with competition and oil anything is possible.
-the covert message would be to go out and be yourself rather than one who blends in with the crowd, drilling for oil is patriotic, and having a form of dictatorship or totalitarian isn't good.
-I consider this to be propaganda because it has multiple covert messages that secretely form our opinions for us about oil and competition.
-the covert message would be to go out and be yourself rather than one who blends in with the crowd, drilling for oil is patriotic, and having a form of dictatorship or totalitarian isn't good.
-I consider this to be propaganda because it has multiple covert messages that secretely form our opinions for us about oil and competition.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Propaganda WWII (1941-1945)
-The overt message is to stop consuming bread.
-The covert message is to try too support your troops in anyway possible from service to all sorts of donations.
-Since this ad has mutiple deep meanings about support, lifestyles, and sexism; it would be considered propaganda.
-The covert message is to try too support your troops in anyway possible from service to all sorts of donations.
-Since this ad has mutiple deep meanings about support, lifestyles, and sexism; it would be considered propaganda.
"Clampdown" by the Clash 1979
-I believe this song is about the nazi regime trying to change averyone to follow their beliefs and opinions. You can get this thought through the syntax like "Is this man a jew?", "We will teach you our twisted speech" and "We are the Clampdown!" The twisted speech is their german language and beliefs, the questioning of the man's religousness is their discrimination, and the clampdown are the nazi leaders.
-This deals with persuasion because they try to convince everyone to join the nazi party and it's rhetoric due to allusions to the nazi's and parallel structure.
-This deals with persuasion because they try to convince everyone to join the nazi party and it's rhetoric due to allusions to the nazi's and parallel structure.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Propaganda Quotes
1008-The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
STENDAHL (1783-1842)
This topic is very broad and can be related to almost any subject matter, but one recent discussion of ours are the novels we have read lately. This quote goes hand in hand in some of the magor topics we discussed in 1984, and Brave New World about deception. Just as Big Brother and the One State deceived their people for the essence of happiness, the shepherds do likewise with their interests for their liovestock. These two governments ( the shepherds) lied to their people (sheep), so that they would feel content with their lifestyles and governing. They were misguided and misinformed about their true reasons for being there, as were the sheep.This is a prime example for rhetoric because this quote can be perceived in a variety of metaphors and analogies.
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