Propaganda 2011????

  

                 These two pictures are prime examples of propaganda that governments would use to get there citizens to join their military.  They would basically put these posters everywhere just like advertisements that we all see today.  Such as Soft Drink advertisements and posters for cars.  Common media for transmitting propaganda messages include news reports, government reports, historical revision, junk science, books, leaflets, movies, radio, television, and posters. Less common nowadays are letterpost envelopes examples of which of survive from the time of the American Civil War. 

                Now the big question that I thought would be important is “Is there propaganda that is aimed toward getting people to join the military?”  And the answer is very obvious and it is yes.  At first I thought that there want really any propaganda but then I watched T.V and there were tons of things that we all see that is an advertisement to join the military.  Such as all of the Navy and air force commercials that we all see, the phrase they use is “The few, the proud, the marines.”  Not only that, but there is also video games that influence kids to join the military.  The biggest one is “Call of Duty”, they are one of the best selling games out there.  All these games are basically about being in the military and being a war hero.  I know that all Call of Duty games are for 17 or older, but a lot of children play this game by the time they’re 8.  I personally think that these games are great, but I think that children, who are easily influenced, should not play this game.  So as you could see there is still plenty of propaganda around us today and the best thing you could do is be aware and be smart.

Beat Street!

So this week’s blog is on a movie called Beat Street.  I have watched this movie three times now, twice when I was younger and once in my American Literature class.  This movie is alright but I personally think that “Breakin” is a way better movie. It is kind of like beat street except that there is a lot more dance battles with better characters.  Either way both movies inspire you to get up and start doing flips and become a break dancer.  I know that when I was young I wanted to be a break dancer and I used to practice doing windmills, which by the way I never learned to do.  Even today I still try to practice break dancing, even though every time I attempt to do a windmill I fall straight on my back.  It is fun and it also looks cool when you’re able to do flips and tricks.  I think that Beat Street is a great movie and should be watched more often, because everyone that I know has never even heard of the movie. People are weird, and you know what is even crazier?  People said that they don’t like the movie.  They were obviously hit on the head with a rock and must hate everything about Hip-Hop.  Beat Street has so much music, dancing, and art that it is hard not to like it.  The characters are also very cool, such as Ramo who lived for art, even though it was on the side of a train he still loved it and died defending it. RIP Ramo

Hungry????

Richard is a very complex person, you never know what he is going to do next.  He sets the house on fire and even kills a kitten.  And why does he do these things?  Maybe it is because he is lonely or because he doesn’t feel close to his family.  But what we know for sure is that he is hungry for attention.  His family doesn’t give him the attention that he needs, so he does these bad things in order for people to pay attention to him.  This behavior can be very destructive in the future because what if he starts to do drugs or commit crimes just to get attention.  Richard likes to get all of this attention but once he gets it he doesn’t know what to do with it.  Like when he sets the house on fire he thought that this would give him some attention from his parents but instead he almost gets beaten to death by his mom.  He also kills a kitten out of anger to his dad. His dad told Richard to kill the cat, but not to literally kill it, but to shut it up.  And since Richard wants all of this attention he killed the cat.  He didn’t get in trouble but his punishment was to bury the cat and pray for it with his mother.  Even though Richard is strange in many ways, he is still a kid like every other kid in the world who is just curious about life.