Eitan's Open Minded World

"W.E.B. Du Bois"   by  US Department of State  is licensed under  CC BY-NC 2.0                                                                                                William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (W.E.B. Du Bois) was an American sociologist and civil rights activist. Bois was born in Great Barrington Massachusetts where he was in a family of a small free population. Bois studied at Fisk University, a historically black college, where he first experienced Southern racism. These experiences helped define who Bois is as he started questioning the behaviors of society. In the year 1900, Bois wrote the " The Exhibit of American Negroes " where he composed hundreds of photographs depicting the future of African Americans. These pictures included charts, graphs, and maps. As well as a sociologist, Bois was also a civil rights activist. He criticized presidents for their racist beliefs such as when he urged black people to withdraw from the Teddy Roosevelt's

  "Uncle Sam I Want You - Poster Cleaned"   by  DonkeyHotey  is licensed under  CC BY 2.0 Political advertising is a tool that's been around for centuries. This tool is the most effective way politicians send their messages to their audience. Obviously this shouldn't be a full paper listing out all of the candidates policies, more of a slogan or catch-phrase to persuade the audience. This is because it is very easy to be emotionally invested to a simple poster/ad, then a paper listing policies. This is dangerous because when involving peoples emotions you can manipulating an entire country and that was shown in last election.   An example I have for this is Donald Trump's Make America Great Again slogan. The way Trump advertised this slogan to America is incredible. The other day I walked to the grocery and saw a guy wearing a red hat and automatically thought he's a Trump supporter. Trump did pollical advertising the way it was intended. He gave a simple red

  "Crazy anti-vaxxers protesting outside 111 Bourke Street, Melbourne"   by  avlxyz  is licensed under  CC BY-NC 2.0      Propaganda can be defined as the management of collective attitudes by the manipulation of significant symbols. What this means is the ability to have a collective amount of information and spread the ones that's most favorable regardless of how damaging. An example of this is let's say hypothetically speaking, Bob saved 30 people, but while doing so he let 3 die. A witness who holds a grudge against Bob spoke out and said “that guy murdered 3 people”. He would be saying the truth, but not the whole truth. There is a saying the best lies are the ones with the truth in them.      A current example we see of blatant propaganda would be the way Donald Trump uses it. For total covid death count in the world, America is first with 252,000 deaths with Brazil second at 165,000. Covid affected America worse than any other country in the world and this loo

                                        "World map"   by  Martyn Wright  is licensed under  CC BY 2.0 Mapping became a key tool in human succession. Whether it was mapping villages to understand your surrounding, or mapping oceans to have a route to your destination, or even trying to find Kingda Ka in six flags. Maps are just extremely simple and efficient. But throughout history, as countries started becoming more nationalistic and humans started thinking they were more superior to others, they would as a result present these behaviors through everyday life including maps.      In the 15th and 16th century as North and South America were just discovered by Europe, the world maps that we are familiar with were being concepted. However, because these maps were being drawn by Europe the scaling and proportion for the map was going to be  propagandized for their benefit. Some of these benefits could be making Africa seem smaller to other countries in order to imperialize the mo

 When wanting to share knowledge on a certain subject, our goal is to be to share the most information to the audience about the subject. Writing novels on this might be an advantage if you want to point out all the details in your learnings, but according to research only 20 percent of all the information we read actually gets retained. Through evolution, our brain learned to gain the most information through colors and visuals. Texts involving colors increase our willing to read by 80 percent. This means we get 80 percent more interested in any subject just because it has colors. The best way to present information to the reader would therefor be via infographic visuals. I can tell you from experience that my eyes would glue to these types of visuals. An example of this would be from the election race. I wanted to see the states from last year's race and understand which ones are going to be the important deciding ones. Instead of reading 2,000 words on why its Florida and Pennsy

                                              "a generalized human cell"   by  adrigu  is licensed under  CC BY 2.0           Science is the understanding of our physical world. However unlike the other subjects, science requires a visual picture or video to fully understand it. You cant put a picture on math or English. You may be able to make an argument for history, but science works hand and hand with pictures. This is because our brains want to make a connection with a picture. In high school I remember I would draw pictures of how cells, and atoms work. This helped me because instead of just memorizing words, I would understand the picture first and then the definitions would just make sense. This method of visualizing science isn't anything new either. This dates back millennials to the time of Alexander the Great when Greek physicians would record their studies. However during the Renaissance, visualizing science globalized the world. This was due to the printing