First Blog Assignment

Colin Bonhag

Josh Call

First Blog Assignment

1/13/11

                Burke looks at the book, Mein Kampf, as a person in the world who had heard about what happened and was looking back on what Hitler did. Burke looks at Mein Kampf from a rhetorical perspective because Hitler’s book conveyed a message from him to the people of Germany, and to all of the Jews in Europe. Some of the rhetorical appeals that Burke talked about were how Hitler preached that Christian theology said that all other races, such as the Jews were inferior. Hitler responded to this exigence by pushing his ideas on his country while in economic depression, and the people’s minds were distracted. Hitler wanted the Aryan’s to remain superior and control the economy instead of the Jews, so they saw the Jews as a threat and attacked them. His support from most of Germany is what ultimately led to him declaring war on much of the world in his hunt to exterminate the Jewish population.

                Some recent propaganda that I don’t necessarily agree with, but everyone else seems to be the war in Iraq. The news, president, and media tell the public that we are over there to be friend to the Iraq people. They say that we are there to get rid of the Taliban, but really we just want to control people. We should stay out of other countries business, and stop putting the lives of our soldiers at risk. This still has a lot of followers because many people have family members in Iraq, or support the fight against terrorist. The audience of this rhetoric/propaganda is U.S. citizens because it affects all of our lives depending on the outcome. We are in a war which could always cause harm to us. The main audience is the people who have family members Iraq right now, and any government officials who are controlling what we do while in Iraq.