Radios in the 1930s

welcome back my history fans!! today we are learning about radios. my part of the assignment was how is the technology different from the radios we have today. with radio technology now and then, the detection of communication schedules remain almost the same between then and now both consisting of electromagnetic waves travelling through the air.

the differences in radios between then and now:

• then
• they used to be about 4 feet tall
• really no differences
• now
• can be handheld
• tooks very different
• easier to tune
• easier to receive connections
• you can connect your phones to them

 

picture of a 1930 radio

picture of a 2017 radio

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xoxo ellie

WWI Poster Analysis

welcome back history fanatics!! today i am analyzing a couple of WWI propaganda posters. but first i need to answer a few questions.

1. to me, the word propaganda means a type of way to mislead the reader and have a very biased opinion over a certain subject

2. propaganda: information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.

3. for the propaganda posters i will be analyzing include posters 1, 2, & 4.

poster 1:
with this poster it is very striking to me whether me being female or just my emotions but, this poster is very intense with the mother reaching out to her sons while holding babies. the dark cast over this poster shows how distraught the mother feels and what emotion the poster is trying to convey: sadness and heart brokenness. the feelings that the artist is trying to make people feel sad and very sad for this mother that is losing her babies. the artist is trying to make people feel empathy for this mother and since no one wants this for anyone then they will feel very persuaded to buy more liberty bonds.

poster 2:
this poster again shows another women looking heartbroken that her family member is overseas fighting for us. this poster portrays many different images of the american flag blending into the ocean while she is pointing across the ocean and holding her hand towards you to put money in. with the bright red cross behind the women makes you think, she is christian, i am christian so i need to buy more liberty bonds. this artist is trying to make people feel bad that while those soldiers are fighting overseas for our safety/protection, we are sitting at home safe not doing anything to help them and buying liberty bonds will help the soldiers.

poster 4:
in this poster it is talking about when all the immigrants first came over to america for the "american dream", i mean the poster literally says "remember your first thrill of american liberty?". i mean it is literally guilting the people who read this poster to buy liberty bonds because you know the thrill of american liberty. the artist made the immigrants looking scared/excited to be coming on a boat, passing the statue of liberty so that they know they are in america. the artist wants the immigrants to feel bad that they were allowed to stay in america and that they need to do "your duty" to buy more liberty bonds. i mean the artist deliberately puts "your duty" in massive print and in a dark color to guilt the observer into buying more liberty bonds.

um to be honest i don't think it's right for the government to be using our money to persuade us to use more of our money to buy stuff for the government. i think it's a little twisted to be honest.

since it was our first world war, it was very scary to go across the sea, where we haven't been before, so the government thought that if they had more money for support, then we wouldn't have to worry about falling hard on the grounds of war, more like we fall onto a nice cushion of liberty bonds.

my posters


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xoxo ellie

20th century Imperialism in Hawaii

welcome back history lovers!! today i am writing about how imperialism in the 20th century affected the Hawaiians. In the film Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau, Eddie and his family are native Hawaiians that obviously inhabit Hawaii. When Eddie was getting older, he started noticing more and more white people everywhere! They were on his beach, surfing his waves and he was not too happy about it. But he could not do anything about it, there were "whites only" signs only restaurants he used to eat at and now white people actually living on the island. This film lets us see imperialism by having a real person/primary source speak freely about what it was like having someone take over your country. Clyde Aikau, Eddie's younger brother, spoke on this subject and brought him to tears. Seeing this reaction really shows the cause and effect that imperialism has on the original inhabitants, it really opens your eyes to the other side of the story.


picture showing imperialism


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xoxo ellie

How do you analyze a political cartoon?

welcome back history infatuates! today we learned about the messages that Political Cartoons convey. when i see a political cartoons i first just look at the image, try to see if i recognize any people or objects in the cartoon. next of course i read the caption or the words on the cartoon and see if i can connect the dots with the people in the cartoon. while looking at the cartoon you have to multitask, you have to determine who the artist is communicate with, while trying to see you are the audience, and try to figure out what this cartoon means.

i just researched about how to properly analyze a political cartoon, what i learned is that you have to look for these certain things when analyzing a political cartoon: symbolism, exaggeration, labeling, analogy, and irony. then after you have identified these techniques you can ask yourself the questions like: what issue is this political cartoon about? what is the cartoonist's opinion on this issue? and what are the other opinions that can be thought of when other people are looking at this cartoon?

since this guide looks pretty straight forward, i am going to use this guide for analyzing political cartoon.




this cartoon is showing how mckinley is being a coward and not letting america fight with the spanish. i can tell this by seeing that mckinley is holding uncle sam back from crossing the ocean to go fight with the spanish.



with this source you can tell that all three countries: cuba, hawaii and philippines, are all excited that the US had saved them. you can tell this by all three countries (represented by people) are all skipping, holding hands and are all holding american flags. plus the caption under the picture also helps with it by saying "hurrah for the fourth of July!" which is americas independence day.


this cartoon shows america and spain consulting about the philippine conflict. i know this because i can see america and spain talking very closely and you can see that spain has a knife behind his back, which also plays of the saying "he is a backstabber" or " he will stab you in the back". you can tell it is about the philippine conflict by the sinking ship in the background, like all the spaniards ships that were sunk.


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xoxo ellie