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Attracting Newcomers to Canada’s Prairie West, 1896-1905: The Selling of the West and the Persuasiveness within the Government’s Promotional Booklets
Get PDFAbstract: The prairie west of Canada was, nearing the turn of the twentieth century, considered to be empty, having not yet reached its assimilatory, and resource, economic, social or cultural potential. Many politicians, especially Clifford Sifton, sought to change this. Sifton eventually made Canada’s population increase a reality. He masterminded the most successful promotional campaign within Canada’s immigration policy to ever stretch the parameters of inclusion for enlarging the Canadian mosaic. The largest phenomenon of human migration to the Canadian prairie west was between 1896 and 1905. Sifton’s intercontinental and overseas promotional campaign became the magnet of attraction for newcomers eager to settle the prairie west. Although a great deal of work has been done by Canadian and American scholars on the topic of prairie west settlement and immigration history, none have incorporated an analysis of Clifford Sifton’s promotional campaign’s promotional literature, namely, the promotional booklets. This essay takes into consideration the history of prairie west settlement until 1896, shows the circumstances for favourable settlement in the prairie west during Sifton’s time as Minister of the Interior, and, more importantly, analytically unpacks two Federal Government booklets’ propaganda-like designs. It is within these booklets where pompous claims, pastoral narratives, first-person perspectives and romanticized conceptions showcase the acumen of the booklets’ authors. As for the structure of the booklets, they were meant to be an ‘easy sell’ not only tactically but surreptitiously as well. This acted as a turning point for prospective and desirable settlers to choose to live in the west. The booklet’s explicit use of propaganda techniques and rhetoric convinced people to buy into the incontestably lucrative agricultural opportunities and supposed charming lifestyle the prairie west offered
Faculty Meeting Minutes - September 17, 2020.
No full textMinutes of the Gettysburg College Faculty Business Meeting, September 17, 2020
APPC Minutes - November 10, 2020
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APPC Minutes - December 1, 2020
No full textMinutes of the Academic Policy and Program Committee Meeting, December 1, 2020
Review of Ken Bensinger, Red Card
No full textNear end time of the World Cup 2018 final, a mostly tantalizing match between France and Croatia, FOX Sports cut away from the pitch to an executive box. Gianni Infantino, the current International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) President, who was elected during a raucous 2016 session of the FIFA Congress, was signing a commemorative soccer ball. Vladimir Putin, adorned in a white shirt accented with a blazing red tie, sat contentedly next to Infantino. The next time the soccer ball (or a close facsimile) appeared was in Helsinki, Finland, when Putin, fresh off a propaganda coup after successfully hosting the World Cup, handed the ball to Donald Trump, who continued to fail at attempting to conduct political business on the world stage. I\u27ll give this ball to you and now the ball is in your court, said Putin, handing Trump the soccer ball. What Trump, Putin, Infantino, and soccer have to do with each other might not seem obvious; however, as Ken Bensinger, an investigative reporter for BuzzFeed, makes abundantly clear in Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World\u27s Biggest Sports Scandal, soccer has produced a staggering gallery of corrupt characters who would not feel out of place sharing expresso with members of the Gambino family, especially if they were meeting in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, which New Yorkers call Little Odessa. [excerpt
“Reds Driven Off”: the US Media’s Propaganda During the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Get PDFIn 2008, the Annenburg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania conducted a poll to determine just how informed voters were following that year’s presidential election. One of the most shocking things they found was that 46.4% of those polled still believed that Saddam Hussein played a role in the terrorist attacks on the US on September 11th, 2001. No evidence had ever emerged linking him to it after 5 years of war in Iraq, but that did not matter, as “voters, once deceived, tend to stay that way despite all evidence.” Botched initial reporting can permanently entrench false information into the public’s mind and influence them to come to faulty conclusions as a result. This power of first impressions gives journalists an immense and solemn responsibility when conveying events. A misleading headline or an unsubstantiated report can sway the public towards similarly flawed conclusions with disastrous results
The Holodomor: A Tragic Famine or Genocide Against the Ukrainian Peoples?
Get PDFThe Ukrainian Starvation of 1932-33, also known as the Holodomor, was a famine that impacted the Soviet Union, especially Ukraine, as a result of Stalinist policies and the First Five-Year Plan. This paper looks to argue that the events leading up to and during the famine were evidence of a genocide committed against the Ukrainian people. When the word was defined during the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in response to what had happened to European Jews during the Holocaust, certain groups that would and have been victims of genocide, along with actions that have been used to exterminate groups, were excluded from the definition as an attempt to exempt certain countries from being charged with human rights abuses. With that in mind, this paper looks to examine how Stalin’s policies and the First Five-Year Plan were used to orchestrate a famine in the Ukrainian countryside in a deliberate attempt to exterminate the Ukrainian peoples and culture, despite the suffering of the different ethnic groups living in Ukraine and the suffering of people in other Soviet States
Here all seems security and peace! : How Brookeville, Maryland Became United States Capital for a Day
Get PDFWhen the British burned Washington D.C. during the War of 1812, the city’s civilians and officials fled to the surrounding countryside to escape the carnage. Fearful that the attack on the Capital could eventually spell defeat and worried for their city, these refugees took shelter in the homes and fields of Brookeville, Maryland, a small, Quaker mill town on the outskirts of Washington. These pacifist residents of Brookeville hosted what could have been thousands of Washingtonians in the days following the attack, ensuring the safety of not only the people of Washington, but of President Madison himself. As hosts to the President, the home of a prominent couple stood in for the President’s House, and as the effective center of command for the government, the town was crowned Capital of the United States for a day. This paper hopes to expound upon the history of this event, focusing on the Quaker community that rose so charitably to the challenge. Through an examination of primary sources, digitized archival materials, and previous research, this is a history of Brookeville as it was in August 1814, a tribute to its people and an acknowledgement of its importance
