2014+PERIOD+5+PROPAGANDA,+BRAINWASHING,+and+PSYCHOLOGICAL+CONDITIONING

What is propaganda?
**__Propaganda-__** information usually only showing one side used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view

**__Brainwashing__**- making someone adopt different beliefs by using forms of propaganda or taking advance of their weakness for them to agree with you

**__Psychological conditioning__**- “A process of behavior modification by which a subject comes to associate a desired behavior with a previously unrelated stimulus” (The Free Dictionary)

Web Pages
[|__http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Brainwashing.html__] - This web page is all about mind control. How they physiological trick people into believing something usually by video or picture advertising. They also give other examples, which are mostly about war.

[|__http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/__] - This web page talks about what propaganda is, and how it relates to the Holocaust. It gives examples of the propaganda during the Holocaust. It also explains propaganda in it's own definition. It has there other main ideas. The other ideas are incitement to Genocide, Poll and Online Forum and Student Activity. You can learn more about each topic and how they relate to propaganda.

[|__http://www.cbsnews.com/news/isis-threat-british-hostage-john-cantlie-appears-in-sixth-propaganda-video/__] - This is propaganda. This one doesn’t explain what it is. It is an example of what propaganda is. This specific one talks about British hostages in the ISIS propaganda. Which means that ISIS took hostages from Britain and used them as bait aka propaganda.

[|__http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-propaganda.html__] - This website talks about examples of propaganda, and what propaganda looks like in everyday life. Basically, it teaches people what to look for if you wanted to know if something is or isn't propaganda.

News Articles
These are a few articles related to propaganda, brainwashing, and psychological conditioning that are currently going on in the world.

[|__http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2014/0610/New-jihadi-recruitment-tool-militants-Instagram-accounts__] Information about how Jahidi fighters, in the Middle East, are using social media to reach out to people all over the world, and convince them to join there fight.

Blog Posts- Blogs are opinions that are able to get feedback, from anyone who reads the blog.
[|__http://blogs.cfr.org/davidson/2014/08/21/the-isis-propaganda-machine-is-horrifying-and-effective-how-does-it-work/__] - This blog is by a guest blogger for Janine Davidson. The name of the blog is ”The ISIS Propaganda Machine Is Horrifying and Effective. How Does it Work?” This blog mostly talks about how they make people fear them through their propaganda.

[|__http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/brainwashed/__] - This blog is by Steven Novella under the topic of Neuroscience. It talks about brainwashing, the definition of brainwashing and examples of it. Also, it gives an example of a movie that has brainwashing it. But mostly it talks about the definition of brainwashing, and where it draws line between everyday brainwashing in the community and where you literally brainwash people.

Videos
[|__http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100206758/americans-eat-snow-claims-north-korea-propaganda-video-and-its-yummy/__] This video is about how North Korea came to America and filmed American people after a hurricane or a tornado where everyone is living in tents. It shows how bad America is that they can’t even take care of their own people and showing that North Korea is better because at least their people don’t eat snow.

[|__http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/04/12/indoctrination-4th-grader-taught-giving-up-rights-for-security-is-ok/__] This fourth grade teacher in Florida made her class made “I am willing to give up some of my constitutional rights in order to be safer or more secure.”This could be looked at as a form of brainwashing because they are only in fourth grade and don’t really have an option about anything yet and for the teacher to influence her opinion on them, isn’t fair.

[|__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2eTqVjEObM__] This commercial is brainwashing because it is saying that if you don’t drive a car that runs on green energy, that that car is wrong just like everything else that they showed like plastic water bottles and using the light bulb. Since they are showing that the car is green, anything that doesn’t run on green energy is bad and is so bad that you will get arrested for it.

[|__http://www.cbn.com/tv/3027504196001__] This video is about Israeli and Palestinian telling their children that the other culture must die. They also teach them songs about hating Israel and how bad they are for taking their land and brainwashing the children into hating Israel.

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Radio and Podcasts
__ [] __ Interview with a North Korean women who was brainwashed in North Korea to not leave and to only bow down to the leader

__Corresponding Criticism:__

__Pros__
 * A powerful way to communicate
 * You can protect national secrets which means when a government's own people know something, it is difficult for another country to find out information. (http://classroom.synonym.com)

__Cons__
 * Destructive outcome to the public.
 * Can trick people into buying products that aren't good for them, and essentially get people “hooked” on to certain products. For example: Cigarettes
 * Destroys alternative understanding, which means it imposes them on a cynical view.