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Animal Farm Campaign Poster

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What propaganda techniques did you use to design this poster?

In my campaign, “Say No to Trump, Say No to Napoleon!” I am using three propaganda techniques: appeal to celebrities/authority, fear, and hyperbole. Propaganda techniques are used to influence an audience’s attitudes, beliefs and behaviours.

By appealing to celebrities/authority, I have drawn a poster of Napoleon from Animal Farm in the image of Donald Trump. Trump is both a celebrity and someone of authority. Trump has had a negative response from many American citizens, as well as many other people around the world. Trump is similar to Napoleon because they are both corrupt and terrible leaders. Napoleon is corrupt because he breaks laws to his advantage. Napoleon is so corrupt that he would execute someone else’s life if they get in his way. Trump is popular in a negative way because of his corrupt leadership and Napoleon is the same. Because we are all familiar with Donald Trump, I used his image and combined that with Napoleon’s image. Using an image we are all familiar with, allows us to attach ourselves more easily.

I also used fear as a technique because fear evokes a scared emotion. Instilling fear in the audience, allows the audience to choose the opposition. In this case, many people fear that Trump may continue to president for a few more years. More so, many of the animals fear having Napoleon continue on being the leader. This encourages the fearful audience to choose other leaders, rather than Trump or Napoleon. In the case of Animal Farm, the fear of this poster encourages the audience to choose Snowball.

Thirdly, I used “hyperbole” as another technique. Napoleon’s image is exaggerated to look like the image of Trump, a leader who is corrupt and cruel.

“Say No to Trump, Say No to Napoleon!” slogan helps the audience realize how horrible Napoleon is in Animal Farm because the audience knows how terrible Trump is as a president.  This slogan also uses the same three propaganda techniques.

What could I have done better?

Because I did this project on my own, I didn’t get the chance to discuss details about the book. I enjoy having conversations about characters and plots while i’m reading the book. I also wasn’t able to bounce ideas about my campaign poster with others. I like seeing other people’s ideas and I didn’t get a chance to do that either.

On another note, this was the first time I purchased both a copy of the book as well as the audio version. I really enjoyed listening to the story and I was able to listen to parts over again if I needed to. As a musician, I know that I’m definitely an auditory learner. I didn’t realize that I could use audio books as another way to read a book. In the future, I will use audio books for any novel that I have to read for school because I felt that I didn’t struggle as much as I have in the past.

 

 

 

 

My reflection for English

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MY REFLECTION

 

Through the past years I have thought these were one of my better presentations. Some things that i have thought I’ve done well at was being confident when I talked, when I put some emotion into my speech and making sentences that make sense. When I did the presentation, I thought I was very confident in myself because I felt very comfortable when I told my speech to everyone. Another reason why I thought I was confident is because I had emotion. I like having lots of emotion in my speech because it can change the whole story from beginning to end. it can make the story happy or sad. I find that if people have good emotions in their speeches and presentations, I find it can be more interesting. But with that I need to be comfortable so when I finished writing my speech, I practiced a lot so when it was my turn, I could be more confident. There are lots of things I can work on but one of the big things can be editing more on the story. I thought I can work on this part more because sometimes my story can have ongoing boring sentences and can have some simple errors like capitals and periods. But hopefully one day I can have no mistakes in my writing.

Short story Assignment – DigitalStorytelling

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MY REFLECTION

Through the past years I have thought these were one of my better presentations. Some things that I have thought I’ve done well at was being confident when I talked, when I put some emotion into my speech and making sentences that make sense. When I did the presentation, I thought I was very confident in myself because I felt very comfortable when I told my speech to everyone. Another reason why I thought I was confident is because I had emotion. I like having lots of emotion in my speech because it can change the whole story from beginning to end. It can make the story happy or sad. I find that if people have good emotions in their speeches and presentations, I find it can be more interesting. But with that I need to be comfortable so when I finished writing my speech, I practiced a lot so when it was my turn, I could be more confident.

In middle school there was a lot of things that I had to figure out and one of the things that I had to learn was how to becoming confident because I didn’t really know how to be confident in front of my peers without being nervous. Some strategies that I would use would be writing my speech. I would say it out loud instead of saying it in my head. I feel that when you say it out loud you can see your errors and where you went wrong but if you say it in your head it’s definitely way harder for me personally. Another way you can practice is to practice in front of your peers, family, grandparents etc and if you can get comfortable with them then I believe you can perform in front of anyone. I would use that strategy whenever I learn a new song so I don’t get nervous or mess up when I do the song. I find that all of these strategies can help you in the future and for me this helped a lot because when I did this presentation I was very confident and was very proud of myself.

There are lots of things I can work on but one of the big things can be editing more on the story. I feel that it’s something that everyone has to work on because if you don’t edit your work you can make mistakes and you won’t get the results the you want. I also think I can work on this part more because sometimes my story can have ongoing boring sentences and can have some simple errors like capitals and periods. But hopefully one day I can have no mistakes in my writing.