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    The book “Animal Farm” by George Orwell uses a lot of propaganda. Propaganda is information that is being used to promote or make aware of a cause or point of view. This paper will be comparing different types of propaganda in “Animal Farm” and modern day propaganda. Some of the types of propaganda being used is bandwagon‚ ad hominem‚ and appeal to fear. The first type of propaganda that is being compared is bandwagon. Bandwagon propaganda is where a majority of people are doing it so it is considered

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    make the equipment for the military that the men were no longer around to do. This encouraged women to leave their home sphere and enter the work force. A woman helping in the work force was highly encouraged; the government even introduced their Rosie

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    Evan Schweikhart June 11‚ 2013 Social Studies 8 Period 7 Social Studies Final Exam Review Sheet 1. Literacy tests‚ poll taxes and grandfather clauses created to do were each created for people to have people become American citizens and have American rights. 2. The Supreme Court case that established “Separate but Equal” was the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case. 3. A carpetbagger was a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have

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    WWII provided the opportunity for women in the United States to caste aside their traditional roles. It allowed them to enter the workforce. Especially factories that were producing the war supplies that helped the United States win the war against the Axis powers of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. The women were a key factor for the United States winning World War II. Without their contributions and help than victory would not have been possible‚ and it advanced women’s rights and reputation as

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    Stephen Colbert on American Jobs In Stephen Colbert’s book‚ America Again‚ Re-Becoming the Greatness We Never Weren’t‚ he talks about a wide range of problems in American society. They range from jobs to energy to healthcare‚ and of course‚ they are all written in a satirical sense. In the second chapter‚ Colbert and his writers talk about jobs in America. They discuss the problem of jobs being shipped overseas to countries like India and China and Colbert puts forth his “solutions” to the problems

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    As men left their factory jobs to go fight in World War II (WWII)‚ women stepped into their jobs to produce the heavy machinery needed for war and at home to keep the country running. An excerpt from the book The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter spoke of a young machinist‚ Celia Saparsteen Yanish‚ and the transition that women had to make into their jobs doing “men’s work.” Before the war‚ this country was battling an unemployment problem brought on by the Great Depression. The start of WWII

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    could do. It was mainly targeting women who weren’t already in the work force. “The advertisement glorified and glamorized the roles of working women and suggested that a woman’s femininity need not be sacrificed”‚ according to “We Can Do It! Rosie the Riveter.” Women were portrayed as confident‚ attractive‚ and successful throughout these posters and films. On the poster‚ a woman was dressed in overalls with a red bandana tied around her head while she is posing with a serious facial expression‚ lifting

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    unemployed. By 1941‚ however‚ unemployment was almost unheard of. There were actually labor shortages in some industries. As a result‚ more and more women entered the workforce. Women took up jobs in industry that had once been reserved for men‚ and "Rosie the Riveter" became a popular American icon. By 1945‚ women made up 36% of the nation’s total workforce. In the course of the war‚ aircraft continued their roles of reconnaissance‚ fighters‚ bombers and ground-support from World War I‚ though each area

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    Cited: Brunner‚ Borgna. The Wage Gap: A History of Pay Inequality and the Equal Pay Act‚ Rosie the Riveter; Patriotic and Underpaid. Information Please Database. Pearson Education Inc: 2006. < http://www.infoplease.com/spot/equalpayact1.html > Chao‚ Elaine L.‚ Katharine P. Utgoff. Women in the Labor Force: A Databook. U.S. Department of Labor.

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    Most usage of propaganda plays off of a person’s emotion rather than their intellectual opinion. There are many images that display the usage of propaganda‚ the two most noticeable ones are the American recruiting poster of “Uncle Sam” and “Rosie the Riveter.” One of these posters was used to recruit soldiers during WWI and WWII and the other was used to help influence woman to take men jobs while they were away fighting in the war. The media promotes propaganda‚ it gets it to the person through

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