In my personal opinion, everyone has a speaking fear of some sort, but how we deal with that fear determines how well of a speaker we become. When it comes to my speaking fear, I would consider that fear to be the fear of mispronouncing words. One such instance was when I gave my graduation speech. I was at the podium and started off smoothly, but then I started to struggle to get my words to come out correctly. My speech slowed, I would have to backtrack, and I became less audible as I tried to find my comfort spot again. I felt so embarrassed! After the speech, it was all I could think about. How? How was I struggling to get words out of my mouth that I had said so many times before? It wasn’t the first time, nor will it probably be the last. Sometimes in class, when reading a book out loud, I would experience the same flaw. You feel as though your brain is not correctly connected to your mouth, like there was suddenly a jumbled sense of thinking. Even though I got many congratulations on my graduation speech, the fact that I had struggled with my pronunciation was what stuck in my mind. I felt ashamed of myself and embarrassed. I knew that I should have done better, but I didn’t. Maybe this is because I get nervous and think about making a mistake, or I let my mind get ahead of my mouth. Whatever it is, the fear remains there. So hopefully, when I give this rhetoric speech, I will actually be able to speak without mispronunciations and feel like I succeeded.

Michael Lawn – CAS 137
Image: Liberator/Kultur-Terror (Culture Terror) 1944 by Harald Damsleth
• World War II
o 1944- liberation of Germany controlled Europe by allied forces
• Harald Damsleth
o Norwegian cartoonist and illustrator, and spent time as war reporter
o Over 200 different propaganda posters
o Moved from modernism to naturalistic style
• Used widely in Norway and Denmark
• Themes/Motifs
o Sexual casualness of American women
 Miss America, Miss Victory, Most beautiful leg
o Gun violence and Gangsterism
 Convict, Thompson submachine gun
o Anti-black violence
 Noose, Ku Klux Klan, Caged African-Americans
o Support for violence
 Boxing glove
o Mistreatment of Native Americans
 Indian head-dress
o Commercialism, materialism, greed, and corruption
 Moneybag ($), business suited arm
o Mongrelizing/primitive elements mixing with white race
 Muscle of African-American male, Jitterbug, JITTERBUG-Triumph of Civilization
o Distasteful American culture and its influence
 Jitterbug, phonograph record, gullible European
o Military violence
 Bomb, metal legs, airplane wings
o Jingoism and war fervor
 Drum, Miss Victory, Drum major outfit
o Love/influence of Jews
 Star of David banner, caricature of Jew on moneybag
o Demonization of USA symbols
 Reverse flag, Air Corps roundel
• “The USA wants to save the European Culture from downfall. With what right?”
• Ethos
o It would not be ethical to let the United States destroy our culture.
• Logos
o Is it logical to change the culture of Europe?
• Pathos
o Fear that the United States will destroy what Europe is and its traditions.
• What one side may feel is good, another may view as evil. No side is pure.