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May 21st 2009 media type="custom" key="3852023" Jan. 29th, 2009 Roaring 20's

This picture represents a type of propaganda called "Assertion". It is used as propaganda in the United States during the Cold War. The USSR was under communistic rule during the Civil War. This picture depicts what would happen to Americans if they did not fight the Soviet Union. They would be treated under harsh conditions and beaten. Although this picture represents something that could happen, it does not show any facts. Assertion is depicting a message that this is what will happen even if the message is not necessarily true. This picture represents a type of propaganda called "Pinpointing the Enemy". It is used as propaganda in the USSR during the Cold War. During the Cold War, the Soviets thought of the US as an enemy. They thought of the US as an enemy because it contained the atomic bombs. The Soviet Union had doubt in the United States and its word to not attack because the US ad power over them. Pinpointing the Enemy, in this case, is taking multiple countires that formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and that had the potential to be a threat to the Soviet Union and simplifying it to only the US. This picture represents a type of propaganda called "Card Stacking". It is propaganda found in today's society. This person believes that war is a bad idea and that if this war doesn't end now, it will proress forever. Sure war is a bad idea, but this person has not displayed all the information behind the scenes. There is reason as to why this war was started and it isn't because we "feel like" having a war. This person is acting like "blowing up" our world trade centers was no big deal and that we are in a war over nothing. He or she is totally ignoring the fact that it was planes that flew into the world trade centers. They took passenger jets fully loaded with people and fuel and flew them into the world trade centers. Nearly 3,000 people had died in this attack. They didn't need bombs for the fuel in the plane acted as a bomb itself. This person obviously was not affected by the killings on September 11th. If he or she had been affected, their mentality would be the complete opposite. Card Stacking is choosing what you want other people to hear and believe and putting that into action while omitting other information that is necessary in making an opinion.
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