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    propaganda in war one were available, the main two ways that Britain used propaganda were for enlistment and to target German’s atrocities. Enlistment was a crucial element to the war, as if no one signed up to join Britain’s war effort they would stand no chance against the opposing alliances, therefore propaganda played an important role for gaining participants and atrocity propaganda was used as a tool to target Germany to help gain supporters and to rack sympathy for Britain’s war effort. Enlistment

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    Art and Empathy

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    unwilling to talk about the things that made him the way he is. Through Vladek Spiegelman, we are able to see how atrocity affected men during the Holocaust. Vladek’s character traits evoke empathy because he cannot be the man and father that he could have been because of this event. Art is a way to express emotions and feelings. Holocaust art and literature are products of atrocities. Men in literature and art are usually expressed as very bold figure. When you see a sculpture of a man, it is usually

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    traditional laws are ignored, and atrocities are committed. While all nations have committed atrocities during wars, perhaps the most disturbing are the atrocities committed by Imperial Japan. Imperial Japan was responsible for numerous atrocities before and during WWII. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japan massacred millions of Chinese, which then spread to other nations as Japan gained more power and territory. All in all, Imperial Japan committed some of the worst atrocities mankind has ever experienced

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    all mankind. atrocities should never be celebrated, and humans at large must stop them wherever they occur. Since their presence is inevitable, however, society must change malevolent actions into good results so that humanity can progress both in moral understanding and advance. As John Steinbeck wrote in The Grapes of Wrath, when mankind takes a step “forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back,” and likewise society must ensure that when an atrocity comes, it does

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    ordinary people come to commit atrocities against defenceless victims? Hitler was an evil man, or at least was prepared to employ evil actions to achieve his goals. There is very little in literature to suggest anything contrary to this opinion. Most literature suggests that while Hitler had some level of power over Himmler and the rest of the Nazi Party’s inner circle, they were also well aware of the extent and implications of their actions. Despite this, the atrocities of the Holocaust were not carried

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    Manufacturing Consent Questions Baljot Deol Part A: Paper of Manufacturing Consent The Manufacturing Consent The Manufacturing Consent was actually borrowed from Walter Lippmann’s book named Public Opinion. He was a writer around 1921. In his writings he described manufacture of consent as a revolution in the practice of democracy. It was useful and as well necessary because “the common interests and general concerns will elude the public.” They have to be the domain, what he called a specialized

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    the United States was stopped because individuals didn’t allow it to occur, so why not the Holocaust? Both the Holocaust and slavery were human atrocities, a cruel or terrible act involving violence or an injury. In Night, by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel narrates his life before the Holocaust up prior to the time of his release. The Holocaust was a human atrocity that involved the assassination of numerous Jews. Victims were sent into camps where they were assigned hard labors. Eventually, the victims were

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    Devastation, destruction and atrocity clearly define the savagery of war. This is echoed Michael Marshall’s statement about war. “There is no war without atrocity. War is atrocity, pure and simple: only greed, nationalism and faith help us pretend otherwise”. In this statement Michael Marshall conveys the belief that greed, nationalism and faith are used as excuses for committing the atrocity of war. The Boy in Striped Pajamas by John Boyne depicts the horrors of war emphasizing the effects of war

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    Genocide is not a random phenomenon but a well calculated mass atrocity that is carried out over a duration of time. The horrendous act occurred enough to call for nations to convene in 1948 under the United Nations Geneva Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Academia has also been able to study the phenomenon to understand different casual mechanism for genocide. First the dominate power must convince the majority that the victimized group is less than human and

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    Propaganda In World War I

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    common need for males to be recruited into the military force, and propaganda was one technique that was globally used in an attempt to recruit men as allies and defeat the enemy by using different methods such as conscription, recruitment, and also atrocity propaganda. Recruitment propaganda was a technique used to recruit males for the military in the time of need. This became very prominent during the time of World War I. This was majorly influencing in the years of 1915 and 1916. While it was at

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