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Summary Of Yes, You, Too Can Practice Winter Olympic Positions At Home

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In this cartoon, the author illustrates how most people spend their time during the Olympics. The author shows this by having a man and woman lounging around watching the Sochi Olympics. Since the Olympics is a televised event, it is typical for people to wind up sitting back on the couch and watch the games. In this cartoon the author uses the caption “Yes, you, too can practice winter Olympic positions at home”. The author also refers to the man’s position as a position for the luge and skeleton.
This cartoon is based highly off of intended. The audience first has to have a basic understanding of the Olympic Games to understand the cartoon as a whole. This is because the cartoon uses the words ‘luge’ and ‘skeleton’, which refer to certain

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