Reflection

Presidential Campaign Speech Reflection

1.  What was your role in the campaign and what did you contribute, besides your own personal speech, to the campaign effort?
I was the president. I wrote my own speech but I helped the other people in my group. We all came up with the slogan together. I help make the slogan and write some of the text.
Response:

2.  Which two propaganda techniques did you use in your speech and why did you select these techniques?
Bandwagon
Glittering Generalities
Plain Folks
Testimonial
Card Stacking
Transfer
Name Calling

Response:

I used these too methods because I thought that they would be best for my speech. I used Glittering Generalities because I thought that it would fit well for my part about taxes. I've seen many other elected officials use this method with the topic of Cutting taxes. I wanted it to seem like I had a great idea and my voters could be excited by the idea, not the actual plan. For the Plain Folks, I used a story to use pathos. I wanted my voters to know that I had a background and I wanted to relate with them.
3.   Which parts of your party platform did you present and why did you select those parts to present?
Cutting Taxes and Increase Military Spending.
Response:
I used those two because I thought that they were very important in America's future. I thought that they were topics that were very controversial but were very important. They also connected well and had a easy transition. They were both connected with money and what to raise and what not to raise. 

4.  Which two Presidential Responsibilities did you emphasize in your speech? How did you support these roles with evidence about your candidate?

Chief of the Executive Branch
Commander in Chief
Head of State
Director of Foreign Policy
Guardian of the Economy
Legislative Leader
Head of Political Party
Chief of Armed Forces 

Response:
For the Guardian of the economy, I talked about cutting taxes because people should be able to choose about what they want. I talked about the republicans point of view on the topic. I said we should lower taxes but didn't go into too much detail because I used the Glittering Generalities. As for the Chief of Armed Forces, I talked about my goal for the country. I told them that I wanted our men back in Iraq by the end of my 1st term. I told them my personal story to appeal to their emotions. 

1 Minute Video Reflection

Multicultural Video Reflection

Immigrants Like Me Essay

In the late 1880s, Japan was experiencing a famine which led almost 200,000 Japanese men to migrate to Hawaii where sugar cane and pineapple plantations needed laborers. The Japanese knew that America was doing quite well by then and Hawaii was part of American territory. The men traveled by boats and arrived in Hawaii a few weeks later. Japanese women didn’t accompany them because the only jobs that were needed required hard labor in the fields.

The Americans didn’t know the difference between the Japanese and the Chinese people. They originally brought the Chinese over to America because they needed cheap labor to build railroads. The Chinese were good workers and Americans believed Japanese would be the same. Therefore, it was easy for the Japanese to come to America because they were following in the Chinese workers' footsteps. (Back then the Chinese were like the Indian foreign workers here in Singapore, doing all of the dirty 

work.)

Once their labor was no longer needed in Hawaii, Japanese men began to settle on the west coast of America and wanted to start families. So in the 1910s Japanese women began to come to America. All Japanese marriages back then were arranged. With the husband to be in America, another man would stand in for him at the altar for the marriage ceremony in Japan. These brides were then given a picture of their husbands and traveled to America by themselves on a ship and to unite with them. That's how they acquired the name “Picture Brides.” Many couples thought that they would stay in America until they made enough money to return to Japan rich. Because of that, the women would send their American-born children back to Japan to go to school and stay with their relatives. 

My great grandmother and grandfather had a different story. They also had an arranged marriage, but my grandmother was not a picture bride. Beginning in 1910, my grandfather would travel back and forth from the US to Japan shipping pottery for his family’s import/export business. In between one of his trips he was introduced to my great grandmother. The families liked each other so the couple married on May 23, (the year is unclear), and about a month later they started their voyage to America. On July 3, they boarded the Osaka-Shosen Line ship. My grandmother’s sister also went on the trip with her little baby. The exact reason why my great grandpa had to go to the US was unclear but I think they went for a new start and more money. Fifteen days later, they arrived in Seattle where they spent the day in immigration. That night they stayed at a hotel. 

On November 26, 1922, they had my grandfather, John. He was the oldest of 14 children. When he was around 7 or 8, he and his two brothers were sent back to Japan to go to school where they stayed with their aunt and uncle. When my grandfather was 13, he was brought back to the United States. His parents wanted him to return because they knew that World War II was beginning and they wanted him with them. So he went to high school there and later fought in World War II on the American side.