MODERN LIT ASSIGNMENT VIETNAM ERA MUSIC 10/27/15

Find 3 songs, print the lyrics, and describe in 1 paragraph each how they portray the war experience.

GOVT PROJECT DUE 10/28

AMERICAN GOVT

PROJECT ASSIGNMENT

Research two current presidential candidates.

One Republican and one Democrat.

1. Find 2 examples of propaganda in their ad campaigns. Which technique is used? Copy the ad or video link into a PPT slide.

2. Visit their sites and list 3 of their top issues of concern.

Example:

Hillary Clinton, Democrat- voting rights, women’s rights, and LGBT rights.  

Give a few sentences per topic to describe the candidate’s views.

Present this information in POWER POINT

Vocab Words Per 1

Trepidation: n: a feeling of fear about something that may happen.

Vindictive: adj: having or showing a strong desire for revenge.

Deference: n: respectful or courteous regard:

Defamation: n: the act of hurting someone’s reputation

Abyss: n: a deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity; vastchasm.

Sect: a religious group, denomination

Paradox: a self-contradictory statement

Innate: adj: inborn, natural

        “The wolf had an Innate sense of smell for blood”

Formidable: adj: making people scared by being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable

Prodigious: remarkably great in extent, size, or degree

        The prodigious lion was 100x larger than the others.

Methodical: adj: done according to a systematic form or procedure

Exaltation: n: the act of elevating someone in rank or power

Intro notes 10/20 HOLOCAUST

1933-Holocaust began

Adolf Hitler came into power, as a dictator

Holocaust comes from a Greek word “holokauston”= sacrifice by fire

Nazis targeted Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the disabled

Nazi= National Socialist German Worker’s Party

“The Final Solution”= term Nazis used to describe the mass murder

11 million people killed in Holocaust

6 million were Jews

2/3 of all European Jews killed

1.1 million children died

Govt notes 10/13

Public Opinion and the Media

 Public opinion=citizens’ attitudes about political issues, leaders, institutions, and events

It serves as a political basis of support for politicians

People agree on issues such as: legitimacy of the govt, equality of opportunity, liberty, and democracy

Personal Preferences/Opinions are rooted in self interest, economic, geographic, social status, personal values, attitudes are shaped by parents’ views, education, social groups, gender, racial group, labor unions, religion

People don’t devote enough time to research political issues, they look for cheap and easy answers (Facebook, online news, word of mouth, etc)

Interest groups= opinion leaders who want to shape public opinion and promote ideological causes

2081 movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05bjtSKo0Ow