Group+2+Activist

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​ During World War 1, There were people against the war. They gave speeches against the war. These people were called activists. Also during this time period, there were people called four minute men. Activists were the opposite of the four minute men. The four minute men encourage the war.​ =====

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An example speech for a four minute man: "Everyone is not the same. different beliefs, cultures, options, on everything. Well my opinion would be to go with the president's decision and go to war. Money is everything to this country, but so is a victory. This is just what this county needs, a little more to edge us on, to wish. to dream. And everyone should have the same wish in my opinion, to win. So hear me out, let's make the right decision. Stay with the idea to go to war. Thank you." =====

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Activists would disagree to that. They would want the war to stop. They don't believe we should have war. Activists give speeches similar to this only they disagree with the president and the four minute men. =====


An argument by an activist: ​"I completly disagree! we shouldnt be in this war at all! we are just killing off our people in a war that shouldn't even be happening! We should not listen to our president. He hasn't helped our poor country at all! I mean sure everyone loves a victory but not like this! We shouldn't even be apart of this war! This is insanity! my dream is to get out of this war. So don't listen to these four minute men. Or our president. This war is not what this country needs.' 

There were Twenty- seven different nations involved in this war. there was absolutely no reason for America to be involved too.



“I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier”
 Ten million soldiers to the war have gone, Who may never return again. Ten million mothers' hearts must break, For the ones who died in vain. Head bowed down in sorrowin her lonely years, I heard a mother murmur thro' her tears: //Chorus//: I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier, I brought him up to be my pride and joy, Who dares to put a musket on his shoulder, To shoot some other mother’s darling boy? Let nations arbitrate their future troubles, It’s time to lay the sword and gun away, There’d be no war today, If mothers all would say, I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier. //(Chorus)// What victory can cheer a mother’s heart, When she looks at her blighted home? What victory can bring her back, All she cared to call her own? Let each mother answer in the year to be, Remember that my boy belongs to me! //(Chorus)//

This song was written because it tried to tell people war was wrong. It was also to spread peace. People needed to start realizing war was just killing our people. If i was someone during this time period, i would have agreed fully. No one asked for war. So why have it?

bibliography:
 * "four minute men: volunteer speeches during world war 1"HistoryMatters12-17-09[]
 * Hamilton, John. __Events Leading to World War 1.__ Minesota: Abdo Consuming Group Inc, 2004