Big Questions

1. The US got involved in the World War because all of our allies were in the war and they needed help.
1. The panama canal helped shaped the US readiness to participate in global issues.
2. The US prepared to participate in modern warfare overseas with a voluntary recruitment process.
2. One aspect of the US involvement was the african american troops, and the extended period of time that the troops were overseas.
3. For the US the involvement was to produce products for the war, and to help finance it.
4. The US was affected by the war it lead to a new social environment, and a post war recession occurred.

Propaganda 2

I think the poster set I reviewed gave a good starting point for the goal the American government was working towards.
All of the new posters that I saw seemed to be trying to draw the public in to get them to help in the war efforts.

WWI Poster Analysis

1. I would define the word propaganda as artistic means to persuade people to one political belief or to tell a political story through art.
2. Propaganda → the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person: ideas, facts or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause. (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/propaganda)
4. PHOTO 1 : I immediately notice the woman who appears t be sleeping in a chair while wearing an american flag. My eye is drawn to the dark background behind the woman because the darkness seems to have a face which is very intriguing.  PHOTO 2 : Immediately my eyes are drawn to the large what seems to be gorilla in the center of the poster, who is carrying a distressed lady. You can also see a body of water and what looks like older architecture like what can be found in europe. You can also see in the sand where the gorilla is standing, “America”. ALso the gorilla seems to be carrying a large stick which I believe says culture.  PHOTO 3: In this poster I immediately notice the person in the back of the picture, he is holding what can be assumed to be a baenet. The person also has blood on his hands and seems to have destroyed a city. The final thing that i notice right off the bat was the person's green eyes.
5. PHOTO 1: I think the artist was trying to tell the people of america to get off the butt and do something to help the war . You are able to pick up on the message from the large writing on the top and bottom of the page. PHOTO 2: I think the artist was trying to say that the europeans aren't afraid to come to america and mess stuff up for us. The writing on the page suggests that the europeans were brutes and the fact that the gorilla is carrying a women shows that they are willing to do anything to win this war. PHOTO 3: The artist of this poster was trying to tell the people of america that if they didn’t buy liberty bonds then they were going to be killed by the huns.
6. PHOTO 1 : I think the audience the artist was trying to reach was the amercian women and children, i think this because it is stated and the lady in the picture looks to be a teenager. PHOTO 2: I think the audience the artist was trying to reach was all the american people who were able to enlist. The artist wanted to show what would happen if we didn’t have a large enough military to fight the europeans. PHOTO3: The audience of this photo was everyone in america, because it doesn't give any context clues that it was reaching for a certain gender to look closer or a certain age group.
7. I personally believe that the federal government shouldn’t used tax dollars to create propaganda, because if you need to convince that many people of what you are doing is right than it is most likely wrong.
8. I think the federal government thought it was important to create propaganda during World War I because they need as many people as possible to help win the war, otherwise they were toast.

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Thinking About the Future

1. John Watkins made the predictions in the 1900s that by the 2000s we would have digital color photography, that people would be taller, we would have mobile phones, the population would be being to slow down, there wouldn't be C, X, or Q in the alphabet, and that their would no longer be cars in large cities. In the 1950s Robert Heinlein predicted that by the 2000s there would be interplanetary travel, cancer , the common cold , and tooth decay will be "conquered", and your personal telephone will be small enough to carry in your hand bag.
2. Things that one might still hope for the future would be no mosquitoes or flies, everybody would walk 10 miles a day, life will be found on mars, Radio transmissions of matter, proof of survival after death, and a laboratory creation of life.
3. Ones that are still out of reach/ might never happen are radio transmissions of matter, there won't be C, X, or Q in the alphabet, and cancer, the common cold, and tooth decay will be conquered.
4. Some of the trends were smaller and more advanced technology, life outside of the earth, and less transportation in cities.
5. If I could predict the future I would say that space travel will become a norm, humans will be healthier, and there will be fewer wars.

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Urbanization In the Lizzie Borden Trial

In the late 19th century, in Fall River, Massachusetts there were two murders which caused urban life to change, and important urban topics to be brought into the light. On August 4, 1892 both Andrew and Abby Borden were found murdered in their  home. The police immediately suspected Andrew’s youngest daughter, Lizzie, to be the killer. Due to the circumstantial evidence they brought her to trial for the murders and she was acquitted. With the amount of hearsay about the trial everybody in Fall River believed that she did it, which still causes people today to think that she did it. The Lizzie Borden trial had a large effect of urbanization and is still talked about today.

Lizzie Borden in 1890

Some of the urbanization trends that were associated with this trial were the jury pickings, parts of the arguments from the prosecution and defense, and the other suspects that the police had.  The defense wanted the jury to be made up of people who were not from Fall River. They wanted this because if they were from Fall River they were more likely to fall subject to the “urban pettiness” that came with being apart of a small town. Also due to the somewhat lack of urbanization or diversity the trial jury was made up of middle or upper class white men. This shows the lack of urbanization because they didn’t have a good diversity of people on the jury, and they were all from the same part of New Bedford so they were more likely to have the same thoughts about what had happened. Parts of the prosecution's argument showed the lack of urbanization and mindsets that came with it. They tried to argue to the all male jury the “ferocity” and “cunning” that a women could posses. They were try to change their mindset from the idea which the defense argued. Which was that Lizzie couldn’t of possibly done it because she was a good church women who taught sunday school every week. Another trend of urbanization that went along with the trial was the police's other suspects. The other suspects were Lizzie’s older sister Emma, Bridget Sullivan, the family’s live-in maid, the family doctor, or a possible outsider who they didn't know. This fits in the the trend that urbanization wasn’t occurring much in Fall River because the list of suspects was so small and the idea that it most likely would have been somebody that they knew. The trial didn’t just point out certain trends it also cause an certain amount of urban growth to occur.

The Jury of the Lizzie Borden Trial

Urban growth had to occur while the Lizzie Borden trial was occurring and in the time between the murders and the trial. The growth occurred between the time of the murders and the trial, and we know this because Lizzie was arrested and held without bail for the 10 month period between the events. This can be connect to urban growth because they were protecting the growing population from what the police and prosecutor thought was a murderer. During the trial large amounts of reports flocked to New Bedford and Fall River, they were drawn to the layout of the borden household and how the detail of the house could have affected how Andrew and Abby Borden were killed. All of the reporters were concerned with why the family had so many locked doors in the house , and why the family showed very few displays of affection. The low amount of affection was also another reason the police suspected the Lizzie killed her father and stepmother. The urban growth by the trial cause the Law firm which defended Lizzit to keep all of the records of the case confidential even to today. Urbanization evolved the Lizzie Borden trial to where it is still a popular topic even today.

The Borden Household in Fall River, Massachusetts

Urbanization cause the Lizzie Borden trial to become a well known unsolved murder. In the last two year two dramatized accounts of what happened have been made. One was a television series that was created in 2015. While the the other was a movie which was made in 2014. Both of the movies show that people still think that it was Lizzie who committed the crimes. Urbanization caused this to become so large becuase the more people that were coming into Fall River and New Bedford were bringing in new ideas of what happened. Urbanization also caused this to spread all the way to New York, where there were multiple articles talking about the murders. As it was published in the New York Times, “ He was one of the best known men in Fall River -- no clue to the murder -- but the police suspicious of his brother-in-law --story of the crime.” The fact that the story was able to travel to New York shows the effect that the trial had on urbanization. Without urbanization the trial never would have become as popular as it is now.

Movie Decicated to Lizzie Borden "Lizzie Borden Took an Axe"

Some conditions that affected the Lizzie Borden trial that had to do with urbanization were the communities, and the circumstances. The community of Fall River was so close knit that it changed the ways that the lawyers dealt with her trial. The lawyers had to consider the small town pettiness and the gossip that travels fast around small towns. Also the circumstances of which cause the police to believe that it was lizzie that killed her father and stepmother were that their live-in maid was out at the barn when the both occurred, the fact that she was the one who found them and that the murder weapon was never recovered. These conditions affect the trial just as much as the affected the urbanization in the area.

Andrew Jennings, Lizzie Bordens Lawyer

The Lizzie Borden trial caused urban life, and important topics to be brought into light. Al of the trends, growth, and conditions either affected urbanization or the trial itself. The trial never would have been as popular as it is today without urbanization.

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