Hold Up Your End ! By William P. King

Typically, people use their personal views and intelligence to motivate their actions and to make important decisions. However, during troubling times such as war people are far more easily coax into making rash choices and behavior. One of the easiest ways to inference people to a biased conclusion is using propaganda.
One use of propaganda is by posters such as, “Hold up your end!”, made by William P. King during WWI in 1914–1918 to increase the aid support during the first war. And another WWI poster made by Lindsay Norman and W. E. Smith in 1918, called, “Will you fight now or wait for this”, that was used to show the necessity of additional troops. Posters such as these were made in an attempt to make citizens contribute to the war by either donating money or joining the war force by using methods such as oversimplification and parade of horrors to stir emotions such as guilt and fear into the public to enhance assistance in the military. The poster made by William P. King, “Hold up your end!”, is the fallacy of oversimplification
Both posters show death as the consequence of lack of support but used different methods to active their goal. King’s poster used overcomplication to show the complexity of the aid need in war showing a solution with a simple answer of just helping out the military that is obviously made known in the poster by the nurse needed more than one person. And Norman and Smith’s propaganda poster used parade of horror to make it seem that if the army does not gather more soldiers they will lose and be enslave and slaughter by the enemy. Both images are successful in their attempt to encourage the population by using the extreme emotion of fear and terror that is generate during times of conflict to convince the citizens to convert to their ideals and