More than fifty years ago, one of the most famous political attack ads in U.S. history has not lost the impact that it was set to give. For almost thirty seconds, a small, freckle faced little girl who seems to be a redhead even though the scene is in black and white, counts in an incorrect order as she plucks the petals from a daisy on what seems to be a breezy summer day. When she reaches the number ten, an unsettling voice begins a countdown. The camera suddenly becomes still and the camera zooms into the little girl’s eye. When the countdown reaches zero, a nuclear bomb explodes with an extremely large mushroom cloud. "These are the stakes," says President Johnson. "To make a world in which all of God's children can live, or to go into
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It is the ad that everyone blames for encouraging continuous negativity within campaigns. Whether it was for better or for worse, this ad made using emotions as a weapon in political campaigns a much larger concept. This technique had already been used in commercials or ads about car sales and other products like soap. Without commercials like these we would not have the negative impacts that some campaigns give today. The 2016 election had some large examples. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump went head to head in some very intense arguments and the campaign was not as civil as it should have been. If the United States had never been introduced to negative ads and negative campaigning, then things like this could have been …show more content…
The tall grass is blowing gently in the wind along with small strands of her hair. The open field most likely represents freedom. Martin Luther King received the Nobel Peace Prize which was a huge achievement and milestone for the African American population. The Mariner 4 spacecraft was launched with the intention of photographing and studying the atmosphere of Mars. This would open doors for scientists and give them an advantage. The United States Supreme Court made the decision about the Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States court case. The motel had been turning away African-American patrons and telling them that they could not stay there and was then charged with violating Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title II of the Civil Rights Act made racial discrimination illegal in places that offered public lodging. This was also a huge step for African Americans and the rights that they were given. Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty campaign. Johnson introduced this legislation, in response to a national poverty rate of about nineteen percent. None of these achievements and milestones would have been possible, and new ones would not be able to come into play if the U.S started more wars and used atomic bombs. In the ad the beautiful scene of the child in the peaceful field were gone in the blink of an eye. Within that blink of an eye, everything was destroyed with a massive
It is the ad that everyone blames for encouraging continuous negativity within campaigns. Whether it was for better or for worse, this ad made using emotions as a weapon in political campaigns a much larger concept. This technique had already been used in commercials or ads about car sales and other products like soap. Without commercials like these we would not have the negative impacts that some campaigns give today. The 2016 election had some large examples. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump went head to head in some very intense arguments and the campaign was not as civil as it should have been. If the United States had never been introduced to negative ads and negative campaigning, then things like this could have been …show more content…
The tall grass is blowing gently in the wind along with small strands of her hair. The open field most likely represents freedom. Martin Luther King received the Nobel Peace Prize which was a huge achievement and milestone for the African American population. The Mariner 4 spacecraft was launched with the intention of photographing and studying the atmosphere of Mars. This would open doors for scientists and give them an advantage. The United States Supreme Court made the decision about the Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States court case. The motel had been turning away African-American patrons and telling them that they could not stay there and was then charged with violating Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title II of the Civil Rights Act made racial discrimination illegal in places that offered public lodging. This was also a huge step for African Americans and the rights that they were given. Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty campaign. Johnson introduced this legislation, in response to a national poverty rate of about nineteen percent. None of these achievements and milestones would have been possible, and new ones would not be able to come into play if the U.S started more wars and used atomic bombs. In the ad the beautiful scene of the child in the peaceful field were gone in the blink of an eye. Within that blink of an eye, everything was destroyed with a massive