Media Construction of Peace

PowerPoint Slide Show, Unit 3, Lesson 1

World War One

“Liberty And Freedom Shall Not Perish”

A. Lincoln

“COLORED MEN: The First Americans Who Planted Our Flag On The Firing Line”

“TRUE SONS OF FREEDOM”

“ARMY MEDICAL EXAMINER:

‘At last a perfect soldier!’”

- Conscientious Objector

Sedition Law Passed

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“The Web is published by authority of the National Directors of the American Protective League, a vast, silent, volunteer army organized with the approval and operated under the direction of the United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Investigation.”

Caption -

BIG BUSINESS (to Labor, generously): “My good fellow, you’ll be well paid for your patriotic action in tending this glorious plant; you shall have all the fruit above the ground - I’ll take ONLY the roots!”

Skull inscriptions: Disease, Despair, Insanity, Sorrow, Debt, “Honor and Glory,” Taxes, Pain, Want, Death, Ruin, Disability

Price tag: WAR

(Homo Sapiens Damphoolis)

Plot Alley

Scrolls: A Report of Agitation in the U.S. - Waste, Strife, Plots, Fires, Disloyalty, Plots to blow up U.S. shipyards, Inside information for Germany, Industrial unrest, Draft Scandals, Dates of Sailings of US Transport, Munition Plants Destroyed

Bird - “He’ll Get The Double Cross From Him Later”

Man on left

in pocket - “German Pay” necktie - “Agitator”

Man on right

Sword - “Frightfulness”