Analysis Part 1:
The political cartoon I picked was created by Joseph E. Baker an American artist.He was born in 1837 in Maine. He was an apprentice at first for John H. Buford lithography. Though after Buford death in 1970, Joseph Baker worked for Forbes & Company, where he made playbills and advertisement. Through his life he created several works during the civil war. He was most remembered for his work of Abraham Lincoln..
Analysis Part 2:
In history the Union had won the war and now it was time for the President and Vice President to "stitch" back the divided states into one big uniform union. The two men being depicted in the picture can be interpreted by the viewer as two different ways of in repairing the Union. Vice president Andrew
As a young child growing up in Canada, I didn't ever really understand the political satire that Rick Mercer was talking about on television. Who was Stephen Harper? What did being Prime Minister really mean? What I did know, nevertheless, was that he was funny. Canadians young and old know this, and that is one of the reasons why his largely popular show, The Mercer Report, is still running after 13 seasons.
This cartoon was originally published by Jack Ohman for the Sacramento Bee in 2016. Ohman, finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Award drew this cartoon to portray Americans and the inability to decipher what is truly dangerous. The cartoon about Ebola and other causes of death shows that the main concerns of our everyday lives should not be focused on the “breaking news story” of the newfound deadly disease, but it should be focused on the lack of effect that the everyday bad habits have on us. American awareness of the importance of living a healthy life is lacking, which is what Ohman was trying to achieve with the cartoon.
My political cartoon addresses the fact that the Articles of Confederation was unable to maintain control over army recruits. The title “The States Gain Higher Ground”, sheds more light onto the flaw, as the states held a high advantage over the national government. The title is a bit metaphorical and literal at the same time, because the State Government is portrayed as perching on upper land much higher than the Congress in my cartoon. This blemish on the national government’s cherished first constitution would have been fatal to the states as its army would become very weak – mainly because the states had the power to decline giving up able bodied men. However, it was not the Articles of Confederation’s only weakness.
William T. Sherman William Tecumseh Sherman was born in Ohio in 1820. He was named after Shawnee Chief Tecumseh. After graduating school William served in South Carolina and Georgia during the Mexican War. He later resigned from the army but then became superintendent of the military academy. Sherman joined the Union army during the Civil War.
“All dreaded it, all sought to avert it.” President Abraham Lincoln made a second inaugural address in which he discusses the current situation of the nation dealing with the civil war and his ideas to resolve the war for the future of the nation. During his speech he implements imagery with persuasive, contradicting, and optimistic tones to enhance his argument and achieve his goal. Throughout the text Abraham Lincoln implements imagery to display the seriousness of the matter.
He teaches the reader about a couple of the most important battles and generals of the civil war. Instead of being a plain research book about the civil war, he gives us accounts of true yet hilarious events during the civil war, such as a soldier rushing into battle with half of his hair shaved because he couldn’t finish his haircut. Or even about the time opposing soldiers did not fight and instead met at a river to trade goods like newspaper, tobacco, and card in makeshift boats. Steve Sheinkin explains the Civil war in simple, perhaps oversimplified tales and fact. This, however, does not take away the depth of the book, fully going into slavery and the impact of cotton, he does his part in explaining the Civil War.
Political cartoons can be very funny if we understand it as it drags our attention and interest on it and it also changes our view towards politics as well. Political cartooning began with Benjamin Franklin. The first image as a political cartoon was created to emphasize the importance of unity. According to the article," Picture Power” by Dan Gilgoff , the role of the political cartoon is chronicled from the time of politician and inventor Benjamin Franklin in the 1800s through current day(2008).
Andrew Jackson is shown in all three cartoons. The first cartoon’s significance is showing Andrew Jackson as “King Andrew”. The main importance of this is to show he had power and could veto bills. There are no dates or certains numbers in this cartoon. The word veto standed out to me and the declaration of independence on the floor in this cartoon the most.
The story starts off by the narrator friend Simon Wheeler asking him about his friend Leonidas W. Smiley. However he think his friend doesn’t know who he talking about but he doesn’t really want to know about Leonidas W. Smiley but a Jim Smiley. The narrator meets up with Simon at a bar called Angel`s Camp. He presses him to talk about Jim Smiley. He starts to described Jim Smiley as a man who would bet his very last however his mainly run his bets and rarely lose.
Lincoln does quite a couple compare and contrast scenarios for the two parts of the divided nation, but always ends up putting the north on top. Another appeal is hidden in the big section where Lincoln addresses God’s will and what he desires. He states that the Union upheld God’s law while the south rebelled against it, thus, once again praising the
Lincoln used stories to explain situations that may have seemed like folk tales but provided a solid foundation of strong ethics. During the war, Lincoln would spend the majority of his time in the War office so he could make on the spot decisions. This timesaving practice is one of the reasons the North was able to win the Civil War. The Impact on the Community
Lincoln urges the people to “strive on to finish the work we are in,” “to bind up the nation's wounds,” he is trying to get the United Sate Citizens to become one again to unite and be one strong country, showing that even after a huge war that the country can remain strong and unified and that this war will allow for a strong brotherhood in the US. Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address is significant because Lincoln offered and objective point of view. Lincoln did not speak of the unloyalty of the South nor did he praise the North. Rather, Lincoln used multiple points to show that the Unification should be the main focus of his speech not that the states should be divided because of
A Translucent Cartoon In the article “Donald Trump is not the GOP 's biggest problem,” by David Horsey of Los Angeles Times, a visual aid is used, especially a cartoon, to comment on a statement made by a Republican presidential candidate namely Mr. Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida. He says that his fellow republican rival in the presidential election Donald J. Trump is not a good representative of the values characterizing their party. That cartoon is actually in contradiction with Jeb Bush 's statement because it shows how well Mr. Trump fits the different groups of Republicans such as the Birthers, the Tea Party, and others, but it does not consider the fact that not every simple person in those branches of the Republican Party or
Not addressing the topic clearly can make this cartoon relevant for several years. One can be influenced by the government in a life changing way and some people hold their breath and wait for things to go to how they would prefer. The audience of this cartoon is adults interested in politics. Although the older community is a likely candidate, young adults pay attention to politics just as often. Whether they are associated with politics or stay up to date on the topic, this cartoon can capture their interest.
The same problems influence the analysis of the use of a political caricature, thus the methodology required to analyze a caricature's use and it's position in tradition must factor in these problems. The following chapter will attempt to work around these problems, and find an analytical approach which will deliver data about tradition and the use of political caricatures. It will begin by discussing the issue of tradition and use respectively, and then continue by locating where in an caricature's structure evidence of analysis for either can be found. The next segment will deal with the development of a methodological approach to analysis of use and its relation to tradition, and lastly, the theory will be applied to a historical example