WWI Propaganda Posters

1.   This poster was meant to convey happy feelings when people looked at it. It is a poster advertising how exciting joining the Navy would be, in a time when they needed men to fight. The artist uses bright colors to convey how exciting joining the Navy would be. The artist also uses a man wearing a clean uniform that is blue, the color of boys, to convey that this poster is targeting men and it is a good job, because the men can keep their uniforms clean. Also, the poster is conveying a sense of urgency by the words, “Ashore, on leave” saying that the Navy needs you whenever you’re ready. The artist also uses the word, “wonderful” to convey how amazing this is to try and convince men to join the Navy.

2.  This poster is also targeting men by trying to get them to join. The colors outside the window convey life and activeness. The man inside the window is dark, and the question is asking men whether they want to be outside the window, with their friends, or inside the window, in the dark.

3.  During WWI, propaganda posters were used to get women to join and help out in the army as medics. This poster is appealing to the maternal side in all women and getting them to join so that they can do something even better and take care of their soldiers.

Civil Rights Field Trip

I learned about the 16th Street Church. I had heard about the church and how it was bombed, but never knew how many girls were killed and that the bomb didn't blow up the entire church. I think hearing about the events in a classroom can often bore people. By going to the event, it allows us to connect with what we learned and when we have to remember the material for a test, we can easily say, "Oh I remember seeing that on the trip," and it will stick because there is a visual picture that is already present in our mind. Otherwise, by hearing it in a classroom, we are visualizing the image and stories in our head, and not always able to remember what we came up with. I don't think this experience changed my perspective on the Civil Rights' issues because I still feel like schools shouldn't be segregated and there shouldn't be racism towards any race. I just am horrified that our country, who speaks so much about diversity and being the melting pot, had a time in history where we were being absolute hypocrites. I think the field trip was worth it because I now have a more distinct view on what people mean when they say Civil Rights movement. I've always thought of it as the period of 1950s-1960s and that's when people started speaking up even more, but I never realized the extent of how much better life was for a white person. Actually going to the historic site makes it even more worth it because you are forced to pay attention. If you're in class watching a movie or going through a slide show, it is already tough to pay attention. On the field trip, you are responsible for doing the work and you have to. The visuals at the museum made it much more interesting because I wasn't just reading or seeing pictures, I felt like I was in the classrooms, on the buses, at the water fountains. What the museum had done was re-create the 1960s with stone people and allowed us to see what that time period was really like.

World War I Fast Facts Homework Questions

1.     Began in 1914; triggered by assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; officially began when Germany invaded Belgium and France; groups: Allied powers (UK, France, Belgium, Serbia, Montenegro, Russia, US, Italy, Japan). Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria)

2.      The Unites States entered the war in 1917 because of: sinking of Lusitania (British passenger liner), unrestricted German submarine warfare, and Zimmerman note(German plot to provoke Mexico to war against the US)

3.      The war ended because Germany (the Ottoman Empire) had realized that it was had lost the war and its territories were slowly being lost. They surrendered on November 11^th, 1918

4.     The major agreement was called the Treaty of Versailles; made Germany give up territory and pay reparations for the War; also started the League of Nations (now the United Nations)

5.     I want to know how the other countries were able to stop Germany and the Allied from fighting back after WWI had ended. How did these countries ensure that the Allied Powers followed the terms set by the Treaty of Versailles.

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraid=12

http://www.is.wayne.edu/MNISSANI/WWI/Encarta.htm                  

http://cmes.arizona.edu/sites/cmes.arizona.edu/files/2.%20Overview%20-%20WWI%20in%20the%20Mid%20East.pdf

WWI Casualties Graph