Propaganda is the use of ideas and information for the purpose of inducing or intensifying attitudes and actions in a certain group of people. Some propagandist may intentionally distort the fact and others just give you the facts in such a way that it tries to convince you to believe what they want you to act or feel or think or react to. Although a propagandist may intentionally distort fact, some others may present it as objective observers. This means that they give you the facts as they truly are without trying to influence the way you believe or feel or act. Here are a few of the common ways that propaganda is used in our daily life that we might not think of as propaganda; a lawyer’s brief, a teachers lecture, a minister’s sermon, or the message of a billboard advertisement. Prop

Another category of propaganda is literary propaganda. You can see examples of this in the pamphlets that Martin Luther king passed out or in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin; a story of black slavery in the south that contributed to the growth of the abolitionist movement before the American Civil War.

Sundays (Virginia, 140). Another example of poster propaganda was “Our Boys Need Sox- Knit Your Bit”. The American Red Cross distributed this. This poster called for people to help the war effort get into gear. Numerous people responded in many different ways, some people knitted woolens to keep the soldiers warm. Others like housewives saved tons of fruit pits, to make charcoal filters. Many families cleaned out there bookshelves and sent the soldiers reading material (Virginia, 142). Probable one of the most well-known propaganda posters was the “I Want You” poster which was used to convince people to enlist in the military service. It featured a picture of Uncle Sam in red, white and blue, pointing a finger towards the onlooker stating “I want you in the U.S. Army. (Daniel, 218).

Another form of propaganda use is in wartime and is probably the best known; is the type of propaganda that is associated with the use of posters. An example this would be the liberty bond campaign printed for purpose of inspiring

anyone from realizing that this type of deceit is being used on them or there

In Conclusion; propaganda may have come into mass popularity during WW1, with uses that varied greatly from country to country and medium to medium, yet each example had its own successes and failures that influenced the outcome of the war. Propaganda is still in evidence today in such modern day examples like billboards, lawyer’s briefs, a teachers lecture, and a commercial on TV or radio. Even though the reasons and types may vary we are still being influenced in our everyday life by some form of pr

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