fandomhigh | 20th Century American History, Friday, March 4, 2016

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20th Century American History, Friday, March 4, 2016

"We've now hit World War II," Steve said, "and since this is kinda my area of expertise, we're going to devote a couple of classes to it. Today we're going to talk about propaganda and the rise of authoritarian regimes in Europe."

Guess who'd spent his insomniac nights reading about Super Tuesday election results, kids.

"Some of these images and ideas are pretty disturbing," Steve warned as he passed out various pieces of Nazi, American, British, and Japanese propaganda.

"My question to you is, why did this work? What does it tap into for people that makes images like this so effective? What can we learn about the different countries based on what their propaganda was aimed at stirring in their populations?"

After the discussion, he started up a DVD. "And for something a little lighter," he said, looking slightly rueful, "a selection of propaganda films I was in."

Enjoy your teacher in black and white and tights!

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Patriotically.

What are the major differences in tone between the German and the British posters, for instance? Or the American and the Japanese?

The Star-Spangled Man With a Plan!

Yes, those are booty shorts.

Not about the booty shorts. Please.

Ada Miller

This was the sort of shit that Townies did to each other? Ada was, quite honestly, appalled. An 'Us vs Them' mindset she was used to, sure, that was about survival since Townies could turn violent towards outsiders in a blink (and she had a few scars from thrown rocks to prove it). But they did this to each other??

She was going to spend the discussion slightly shocked and withdrawn, and not contribute much.

Ada couldn't help it; she was giggling madly after the first few movies, horror set-aside for pure joy.

"You got a future in the carnival if'n you want, Mr. Rogers!" she called out, holding up her phone to snap a picture of the booty shorts on the screen for Isabela.

Sorry, Steve. So sorry.