Weather Underground Questions
Due: Mar 14, 2018 at 11:59 PM
Homework:
Please answer the following questions. Try practice using author centered language in your responses (i.e., “Directors Sam and Siegel claim/portray/construct an ethos of the US Government as…/use ______ to support their argument/etc.” Each answer should be approximate one paragraph in order to receive full credit.
1. What ethos do Green and Siegel construct of the Weather Underground? How to they ultimately portray them–as heroes, “thugs,” terrorists, etc.? Do the Weather Underground come across sympathetically, and if so, how do the directors create sympathy for their cause?
2. How do Green and Siegel portray the U.S. government? What evidence do the directors use to depict the US government?
3. How do Green and Siegel incorporate footage of personalities like Martin luther King, Richard Nixon, etc. to support their claims about the US government and the Weather Underground or other anti-government groups (such as the Black Panthers)?
4. What, ultimately, do Green and Siegel conclude about the uses of violence? When is state violence and/or citizen violence justified? What, do they argue or imply, should people do to confront what they perceive as violent injustices committed by their governments?
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