Great Gatsby Pre-Rdg

    Some people think that having money leads to happiness. Do you agree? Why or why not? What are the advantages or disadvantages of being wealthy? 

To some people, money can cause happiness for them. Going shopping and wasting money on useless things makes them feel good. In my opinion, money does not lead to happiness. Money can purchase lots of material things like purses, shoes  and clothes but it can't buy a healthy life, or family. Even the richest people suffer from dangerous diseases or sicknessess, and can't buy a new healthy life. They can spend billions of dollars on surgeries and go to the best doctors in the world but their health can't be fixed. Although there is disadvantages to being wealthy like the ones I just explained, there is some advantages too. Some advantages of being wealthy, is not having to worry about rent or being short on money, to buy groceries or any of those necessary things. Which are the most important, especially if you have kids. Giving your kids everything they need is more than enough. Even if you don't have kids, you still need to maintain yourself with a stable lifestyle.Their is lots of bills that need to be payed once you're an adult, That is why going to college and becoming succesfull is key. If you are succesful then you are most likely wealthy in life, and can provide a better life for yourself and or for your family. 

World War 1 Propaganda in America

Propaganda is something that you do to influence people's thoughts and actions. 

In this poster, Its telling how during the war, the people had to give up some of the their food for the Soilders who were serving in Europe. For example, in this picture they are giving. Up bread, or wheat.

In this poster, we get the same view of food administration. It's persuading people to save their food for the soilders, in return they will be considered patriotic.

  

   Both of these posters focus on the Food administration, which was invented by Wilson to help produce and reserve food. As a result, American food shipments allied tripled, and Hoover set a high government price on wheat and other goods. These posters had to be very effected because of the the Espionage and Sedition Acts, which was a law that made it illegal to undermine government war effort. Which means that people can't speak up about what they believe in about the war, so they all have to obey the law. If today's world had propaganda posters, they would be different because we don't have a limit on what we can eat or buy at a grocery store. We don't have to save any food for anyone. The type of propaganda poster we would see today, would probably be about something we all use every day like technology.