Preview

Name-Calling, a Type of Propaganda

Better Essays
Open Document
Open Document
1109 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Name-Calling, a Type of Propaganda
Bader AlMohri
Ms.Cindi2 Dewitt
English 9C
May 27, 2013

Name-Calling

Name calling, a type of propaganda used by many for their own good. There are specific ways on how and when it should be used. There are also specific places on where you can use it and who can use it. This method has ruined people lives; it has given some specific people a bad reputation. Made the people of the public think that the person they know isn’t what they think he is. Name-Calling is one of the many techniques used in propaganda. Propaganda is the act of spreading the wrong information to influence the people of the public’s opinions. It is used to support one’s own group and ruin the opposition’s reputation. Misleading ideas and lies are used to fool the public (cis, Propaganda). There are 11 techniques for propaganda, each has its different or own method on how to support or oppose, but the one that is most commonly used is Name-Calling. Name-Calling ties a person or cause to a largely observed bad and contradictory image (cis, Propaganda Techniques). Name-calling can be used by comparing two places. For example it can show food for a specific school and then compare it to somewhere else where it looks better and healthier for the kids. Where the food is much more well prepared , then showing a picture for the school and the food doesn’t look clean, might there be a piece of hair in the food (Nichole). Name-calling is used when there are 2 oppositions competing for something in specific. One of the oppositions might be losing the battle, so what they do is use the Name-Calling method on the winning side so its reputation on the public goes down and they (the losing side) can catch up. This Name-calling method is used a lot in politics. Every 4 years Name-calling is used a lot, and that is in the US Presidential Elections. For example Obama vs. McCain in the US President elections. McCain ruined or at least tried



Bibliography: cis. Propaganda. cis cis cis. 6 June 2013. <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/propaganda>. —. Propaganda Techniques. cis August 2001. 6 June 2013. <http://library.thinkquest.org/C0111500/proptech.htm>. —. zaandaruwala. 22 November 2011. 6 June 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0pgO3uffvk>. Nichole, Jeri. Propaganda in advertising. cis cis cis. 6 June 2013. <http://unit2project.weebly.com/name-calling.html>. Wilson, Luke. bestadvertising. 8 December 2009. 6 June 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=PoAuhptVF-g&NR=1>. —. dmo580. 2 December 2009. 66 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTHCCsDx4Eo>.

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    Propaganda – the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person…

    • 779 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    direct form of dehumanization. These verbal insults lead to not only your view of yourself,…

    • 1184 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    <br>It makes bullies feel powerful, Because they want to impress others, Because they have an unrelated prejudice against the victim, the bully simply doesn't know how offensive they are being, Because others have influenced them to do so, Because they have been taught this way, Because they find it a matter of amusement, Because they are forced to do so to fit in, Because they haven't thought about what they are saying and have no previous thoughts before they open their mouths, Or they do so to get even with the bully who bullied them.…

    • 1149 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Slaying the Beast

    • 954 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The Institute for Propaganda Analysis. "Name Calling." The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing and Rhetoric. 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin 's, 2008. 757. Print.…

    • 954 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Unlike fallacies, rhetorical fouls cannot be used in an argument to achieve success. The lack of success is owed to how the fouls lead to a dead end in which the argument cannot continue on to any proper conclusion. Humiliation is used to make the opposition feel negatively instead of trying to convince them of something. Threats are a non-subtle way of producing a fight. As stated earlier, fights are in now way an argument. Nasty language is a threat, toned down a little. Like a threat, nasty language constitutes a confrontation that has nothing to do with argument or persuasion. Utter stupidity is an obvious foul. Arguing with someone unintelligent leads to nothing but frustration. Without the ability of comprehension, the audience will never…

    • 127 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    I recall reading an article about trigger words a couple of months ago. The article was titled Killing the Conversation in College Classrooms. In in this article they discussed trigger words and their effects on academic discussions in the classroom. They argued that professors are watering down their lectures so not to offend anyone and students are avoiding upsetting discussions because they are unable to handle the stresses that go along with the controversial topics. This article was obviously written from a leftist position because they failed to realize the actual problems. I cannot say I have ever met a student that is so triggered or upset by the use of words that they cannot engage in conversation about their meaning. Also, have you ever heard of a professor being afraid to share his opinions for fear of offending someone? I have sat through too many political rants to know that that argument is simply not true. In reality, the people who end the conversations in classrooms always seem to be the ones who preach open mindedness. These “progressives” hear an opposing opinion and employ what has now become a common tactic today, name calling. Oh, if he thinks that way he must be a racist,…

    • 464 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    While campaigning in lowa, the candidate, who is a businessman, wears a flannel shirt and jeans…

    • 280 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Civics 11 Notes

    • 5693 Words
    • 23 Pages

    The unfavorable or prejudiced treatment of individual or group based on race, sex, appearance, income, and so on…

    • 5693 Words
    • 23 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    I do not know where name-calling, labels, or being “different” originated from, but I despise it greatly. I think name-calling, labels, and all forms of using words to hurt others are very unacceptable. All this does is hurt someone; it does not help the person who is saying the words, at all. A lot of the words people use to hurt others do not even make much sense. For an example when someone says someone is ghetto it that someone or something is trailer trash. No one really knows where this came from and it really does not make sense at all yet, people still use it to hurt others. Using words to hurt people can become a pretty big deal. Recently, a handful of homosexual students committed suicide due to the bullying by others. According to ABC News Clementi jumped off the George Washington Bridge Tuesday, days after his roommate allegedly posted video on the Internet of him having sex with another man. The recent eruption of gay teen suicides has been across the country, from the East Coast to Indiana, Texas to California, where 13-year-old Seth Walsh, who recently hanged himself, was memorialized Friday night This could happen to anyone at any time if the verbal bullying does not come to a…

    • 816 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Out Of Name

    • 1265 Words
    • 6 Pages

    George, boy, dyke, chink, bitch-- these are just a few of the many words used to rename persons of color, females, homosexuals, immigrants, and any minority who does not fit within society’s norms. Out of context, some of these words do not seem like used to dehumanize and belittle, but the context and hate attached when these words are used can make them offensive and disrespectful. The act of renaming a person robs an individual of their sovereignty and forces the individuals into submission. Calling a person out of name is when individuals with more power address a person with significantly less using an undesirable name or title in order to degrade and demean them. Calling a person “out of name” is always an act of aggression because…

    • 1265 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    each other seemingly derogatory names and no one seemed to mind that! For example “Yo…

    • 667 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Propaganda is the organized spread of ideas. It is an attempt to persuade a group emotionally, to promote a cause. In the fable, Animal Farm, George Orwell explores the use of propaganda on the animals. Equality and freedom are lost and they live a life where lies and terror rule. The scapegoat technique, card stacking and appealing to authority, are three propaganda techniques used by the strong to gain power and control over the weak.…

    • 658 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is an account of Frederick Douglass’ life written in a very detached and objective tone. One might find this normal for a historical account of the events of someone’s life if not for the fact that the narrative was written by Frederick Douglass himself. Frederick Douglass used this tone purposefully in an attempt to use his narrative as propaganda to convince others to join in the abolitionist’s movement. According to Donna Woolfolk Cross in “Propaganda: How not to be Bamboozled,” propaganda is “simply a means of persuasion” (149). She further notes that we are subjected daily to propaganda in one form or another as advertisers, politicians, and even our friends attempt to persuade us to use their product, vote for them, or adopt their point of view. Propaganda is usually considered in a negative sense. However, when viewing propaganda as just persuasion, one can readily appreciate that it is neither good nor evil; the good/evil effect is the direct result of the purpose for which it is used.…

    • 1253 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    * Being picked on because they look different, i.e. being called “ginger nut or carrot top” because they have red hair or “specky four eyes” because they wear glasses.…

    • 1031 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Online Defamation

    • 548 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Just as its name suggests, defamation is when you defame another person through harmful statements about another person that you know or should know are false.…

    • 548 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays