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Dominant And Oppositional Perspectives On WWI

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Dominant and Oppositional Perspectives on WW1

World War 1, an era of loss and death to millions around the world that started when Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated. There were different perspectives on the war, including dominant and oppositional, that were portrayed through poems and propaganda posters. An example of an oppositional poem is 'Suicide in the Trenches’, and a propaganda poster is 'Destroy this Mad Brute.' Suicide in the trenches is a war poem written by Siegfried Sassoon. The poem is about a boy who was happy and young and went to war to find it scary and upsetting, this reflects an oppositional view on world war 1 as he is talking about his bad experience. Sassoon was a British Soldier that was in the first world war. He …show more content…

R. Hops is an American poster trying to recruit people for their army in the first world war which means it is providing a dominant perspective of war. At the time this poster was created, world war one had started once Austria and Hungary declared war when Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated. The US has just joined the war with the Allied forces which includes the UK, US, Russia, France, Japan, Montenegro, Serbia, and Belgium to defeat the Germans. The cartoonist includes many significant features to portray the dominant perspective of war. These features include a big, angry gorilla holding lady liberty, A destroyed city and gloomy skies in the background and big orange writing that says, ‘DESTROY THIS MAD BRUTE,’ ‘ENLIST.’ The big gorilla that is holding lady liberty is representing Germany which is painting this picture that Germans are aggressive and angry people who are taking over. This also symbolises the American’s freedom being takes away as it is holding Lady Liberty which is what represents their freedom. The destroyed city and gloomy skies in the background add to the ominous and ominous atmosphere of war, emphasizing the urgency of the situation. The use of bold lettering and the exhortation to “destroy this mad brute” are designed to motivate Americans to join the fight and help defeat the enemy. This poster is a powerful example of propaganda and the use of visual media to influence public opinion and support for war efforts. It also reflects the dominant perspective of war at the time, which emphasized the importance of national unity, sacrifice, and military

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Source A is a propaganda and was created by Norma Lindsay for the Commonwealth Government of Australia in 1918. It was sourced by W.E Smith LTD. Sydney. This poster Depicts a group of armed German soldiers threatening a young man pinned against a water tank. The other victims in this scene include an elderly man in the foreground, who has been shot, an elderly woman on her knees pleading with their captors, and a young woman in a state of half-undress who is being restrained by two German soldiers in the background.

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D. Clayton James and Anne Sharp Wells inserts the reader profoundly into the time period that the world was at war in their book America and The Great War: 1914-1920. They take the reader through eyes of the Americans on how they looked at Europe engaging in their confrontations and through the eyes of the American soldiers who were prompted to learn how to fight after years of living their lives of normalcy. The minds of the United States citizens were not universally made up on the how they should enter the war. Many Americans and especially leaders throughout the country believed that the war was sickening and “a senseless war” to be fighting.

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In the propaganda poster picture it shows how all these countries was like a chain if you touch them we will... . as it said things like this in the poster it shows how big this was it involved the whole world and making these enemies and allies it a torrential thing in how our country can progress in the future especially our people. It shows how big of a thing we were entering and this was affecting the people because it was very dangerous. And it was a huge chain reaction of countries where you were always making different enemies because whoever you fight with has people under them and under them so it was not a good situation to make enemies at this time. Finally that how the people were affected by the chain of enemies and other countries that we were getting into war

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Hi Bridgett, This painting is so on-point. There were many writers, artists, thinkers, and playwrights who fought in WWI. Their experiences were reflected in their works. Many of the show the horrors of war, disillusionment, man 's inhumanities to man, and the grotesqueness of their experiences. In many ways these paintings look like exaggerations but in a lot of ways, they were the realities of modern warfare: poison gas, machine guns, and advanced technologies.

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One of these was the romanticism of war. Everyone viewed the war as a strong, noble, and patriotic cause. Propaganda would go out to arouse people’s interest in the war and urge them to enlist. Oddly enough, it brought people together more than peacetime would. However, all that excitement fades away as soon as those people hit the scenes of the war (Doc C, D, & E).

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World War I is a gloomy and cruel place; it obliterates the beliefs of fighting for one’s country and transforms the minds of the soldiers. This realization is found in Erich Maria Remarque’s book All Quiet on the Western Front. In the book, a young teen named Paul Baumer and his friends join in the war believing it’s going to make them become important and that fighting for their country is such a great privilege, but once they are in the war, they all realize it’s not the same as what they were told. The young soldiers witness what war is truly about and they reflect on what they were told, knowing the truth makes them see they were told lies, so they are the same which obliterates their trust in the adult world. Remarque employs symbolism,

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Term limits are the limits on a term an elected official can serve. Some officials, like the president, have two terms but some, like senators, don 't have any term limits. A pro of having term limits is allowing new people to be in congress. New people bring new ideas and it prevents old officials from making a career out of what they are doing. Being in congress is not suppose to be a career; its suppose to be more like a temporary job.

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The progressive reform that had the greatest impact on American society was the 18th Amendment which made the producing, transporting, or selling of alcohol prohibited. It all began when the Anti-Saloon party gained an advantage during World War I. Women who began these reforms gained support because of their influence on the workforce. If the women had not helped by working men’s jobs during the war, it would not have been as easy. Another aspect of the war that contributed to the amendment's publication was the limited resources available. Since alcohol was made of food sources, many saw it as a waste of food supply that could have been used for “our boys at war”.

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With his cartoons, he gives a feeling of understanding to the US soldier, which keeps them sane and keeps the infantries’ moral high, too. As for the poster, the message is to obviously show the ideal freedoms that American citizens wants to protect, but is intended to motivate and push Americans to participate and fight to protect our freedoms, too. Even though the Four Freedoms displayed the ideal Freedoms of America, it failed to show that America was also built by the idea of not participating in foreign affairs. Stated in George Washington’s Farewell Address, he mentioned and forewarned Americans to not interfere in foreign affairs. Unfortunately for America, we break Washington’s promise when Japan brings the fight to US territory,

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