History coursework: Representation 1 evidently was produced to discourage people from joining the army. It exudes a death –like demeanour, as a skeleton is being portrayed as Uncle Sam, it mimics the iconic original poster of Uncle Sam, albeit in an antagonistic manner. The very statement “I want you” seems like an unpleasant and unjustified demand and depicts that joining the Vietnam War would lead to a futile death. It portrays the eventual inevitability of dying if you take part in the Vietnam War. It seems obvious from this poster that at the stage when the poster was created that many Americans no longer supported the war and as the above writing states were trying to “unsell the war”. Representation 2 seems like it was made merely to inform – an investigation into the protests against the Vietnam War. It explains and states
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