We are beginning a unit on satire, and political cartoons are one form of satire. Take a minute to look up the definition of satire, then look closely at the political cartoons below. In order to fully understand a political cartoon, you must understand the issue behind the image and then you can determine what/who specifically is being ridiculed or scorned. For the two political cartoons, I'd like you to answer the following questions:
- What is the issue the cartoonist is ridiculing (you might have to research the news from last week a bit if you didn't watch/listen then)?
- What or who is specifically being ridiculed or scorned?
- What is it that the cartoonist wants you, the reader, to think about with this cartoon?
- Who is the specific audience these cartoons are targeting?
1. They are ridiculing the workers rights on Black Friday and the insanity of the shoppers.
ReplyDelete2. The shoppers and the workers.
3. To realize how crazy and insane Black Friday is, and can be.
4. The crazy Mom's that go shopping and get too insane for public rights.
1. They are ridiculing the Americans for deporting immigrants, and they wonder why they can't deport us because they were here first.
2. America and it's immigrant system
3. Realize that the Inidans were here first and we kicked them out, and they feel they still have a right to live here.
4. The Presidential campaign and its plan for the new term.
1.The first ad is about the Walmart workers that went on strike in FL because they had to work on thanksgiving day. The second one is about immigration.
ReplyDelete2. In the first one, Walmart is being scorned. In the second one, immigrants are.
3.In the first one, the cartoonist wants you to think about how angry and upset the Walmart employees are that they are being forced to work on Thanksgiving day. In the second one, the cartoonist wants you to think about the attitudes of Americans towards immigrants.
4. The first one is targeting anyone in charge of Walmart employees and the second one is targeting Americans and immigrants.
The cartoonist is ridiculing the worker's rights for the peopel that work at Walmart on Black Friday. The cartoonist wants us to think about the peopel who have to work on Black Friday, and wants to audience, which is people that controlt he worker's rights, to rethink some of the rights. The second cartoonist is thinkign about deportation. They are trying to convince the reader that if we can deport Idnians,t hey can deport us.
ReplyDeleteCartoon #1
ReplyDelete1. The author is trying to show how walmart employees are not happy with the hours they have been posted on Back Friday
2. Walmart
3. That the employees are really mad
4. The mobs of people who will be shopping on Black Friday.
Cartoon #2
1. The issue on Immigration
2. The government
3. That Europeans came and told the Indians to leave, so we can't make illegal immigrants go back to their origin country
4. The government and american citizens that are against immigration
For the first cartoon, the issue is that Walmart workers in Florida went on strike because they had to work on Black Friday. Walmart is being scorned. The cartoonist wants the reader to see that workers are fighting back because they want more rights. The audience is employees of every company. The second cartoon is about immigration. Immigrants are being targeted. The artist wants the reader to realize that we should not be keeping immigrants out of the US because we were once immigrants ourselves and the Indians allowed us come onto their land. the audience is politicians, educated people, and anyone to do with immigration.
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ReplyDeletePolitical Cartoon 1
ReplyDelete1) The issue being ridiculed is Black Friday and the violence used by shoppers on this day.
2) The shoppers are the ones being specifically ridiculed.
3) The cartoonist wants the reader to think about how ruff things can get at stores on Black Friday and what that can do to others around you and the employees working.
4) The audience this cartoon is targeting are Black Friday shoppers.
Political Cartoon 2
1) The issue being ridiculed is The fact of Americans deporting immigrants.
2) America and it's immigration system.
3) The cartoonist wants the reader to think about how the Europeans came and told the Indian's to leave the land so we shouldn't be able to make immigrants go back to their country they came from.
4) This cartoon is targeting the government and the immigration system.
1. The Walmart ad is ridiculing Walmart stores because of the wages that employees are receiving are not stable enough for them to live easily & they are not getting money for hours from Black Friday & the craziness of the shoppers that they must endure. The second ad is ridiculing self deportation.
ReplyDelete2. The Walmart ad is ridiculing Walmart stores. The second ad is ridiculing the people who are for self deportation.
3. The Walmart ad wants the readers to support the employees and help them get better pay for their hard work. The second ad wants people to realize how ridiculous pro self deportation is.
4. The specific audience in the Walmart ad is people who can change the Walmart employees rights. The specific audience in the second ad is people who will be against pro self deportation.
Walmart:
ReplyDelete1. The cartoonist is ridiculing the Black Friday fights that broke out on Black Friday last week.
2. The person in charge of worker's rights and Black Friday itself is being specifically ridiculed here.
3. The cartoonist wants the reader to think that Black Friday isn't fair to the workers who have to put their selves in that kind of potentially dangerous situation and that Black Friday itself is maybe a bad idea altogether.
4. The targetted audience would be all potential Black Friday shoppers and those who work(ed) on Black Friday.
Indians:
1. This ad is making fun of the republicans that said that the Mexicans will self deport if we make working in America illegal.
2. The author is making fun of the supporters of this idea. Americans were intruders on the Indian land so they could be saying the same thing that we were saying by wanting us to self deport.
3. The author wants the reader to look at the situation in comparison to when the Americans did the same thing. Americans were intruders on the Indian land so they could be saying the same thing that we were saying by wanting us to self deport. The author wants the readers to see this foolishness and how it relatable to the Americans as well.
4. The targetted audience would be those who believed in the "self deport" notion and others who want to be informed on the situation to help spread this knowledge.
Walmart Advertisment:
ReplyDelete1.Cartoonist riduculing the black Friday fights that broke out at Walmart this past week. The workers were the ones that had to put themselves in danger to break up the comotion.
2.The CEO and higher up people are being ridiculed for putting the workers in this positon in the first place. They are saying that their job is not really worth getthing beat up or ingured over. Also the concept of black firday sales are being riduled because many workers are un happy about their working situaion for that evening.
3. The author wants you to think about how if having these sales is really good for the company name. It does make a lot of money but are putting workers in danger and causeing a bad name for the company is a result, it may not really be worth it in the end for the company to continue.
4. THe author is targeting black Friday shoppers and the people who worked on that day. They want people to see the true crazyness of the whole situation.
Indian Ad.
1. This ad is making fun of the republicans that said that the mexicans will self deport if we make working in america illegal.
2. The author is making fun of the supporters of this idea. Bsically people who believed or supported this notion is being made fun of.
3.He wants people to look at the situation in comparison to when Americans came over from england. Americans were intruders on the indian ground so they could be saying the same thing that they want us to self deport. He wants people to see the foolishness of this being said in the first place because it is how life came to be here in the United States.
4.He wants people who believe in this notion to see this comparision and hopefully change their opinions. Also he wants just the general puplic to be aware incase this issue were to ever come up again .
1. The cartoon is downgrading Black Friday shopping.
ReplyDelete2. The cartoonist is ridiculing the Black Friday shoppers. They "mistreat" workers just to get that they desire even if they work long hours.
3. The author wants the reader to calm down about the deals.
4.The author wants customers to take the workers into consideration who are actually working this evening; they would appreciate some courtesy.
1. The author is putting down Black Friday because it shows Ships borrowing goods from Indians.
2. The ad shows that Americans are greedy and can take but we cant give.
3.The ad encourages people to willingly give rather than be hoggish.
4. the ad targets wealthy Americans.
1. The ad is talking about all the maddness of black friday and the rights of the workers of walmart. Also the picture represents the fights breaking out on Black Friday.
ReplyDelete2. The crazy shoppers
3. that the employees were mad about having to work on thanksgiving and that's against their rights and how they got caught in the middle of the maddness from the shoppers
4. the crazy people who got to shop while workers gave up their time
1. it's talking about how we keep immigrants out of the U.S. even though we were once immigrants too
2. people of the U.S.
3. that it is not fair that we don't let a lot of immigrants in the country even though we were immigrants at first too and we took over
4. anyone who knows anything about immigration
ReplyDeleteThe Walmart cartoon is portraying the issue of Walmart stores opening for early Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving. The fact that stores opened on that stores opened to make more sales and therefore more money is being ridiculed because it depicts an employee that has given Walmart a black eye. This is showing that even though Walmart was trying to increase their productivity on Black Friday, workers rights activists in turn protested on Black Friday and 'wounded them,' or hurt their productivity.The Walmart company is being specifically ridiculed.
What is it that the cartoonist wants you, the reader, to think about with this cartoon?
The cartoonists wants us to think about whether it is right for stores like Walmart to force employees to work long hours on days like Black Friday. The specific targets of the ad are probably CEOs and executives of stores like Walmart in addition to consumers and workers' rights activists.
The issue the cartoonist is ridiculing is Romney's statement about self-deportation. The cartoonist wants American's to think about immigration and how we should handle it as a country. HE wants them to realize that, with the exception of Native Americans, we all came from immigrants. The specific audience would probably be lawmakers who would make immigration laws as well as American people who have strong feelings about immigration.
Who is the specific audience these cartoons are targeting?
1.What is the issue the cartoonist is ridiculing?
ReplyDeleteThe first cartoon may in reference to the fight that broke out between two WalMart customers over low priced cell phones on black friday, or the worker strike on Black Friday. But it could simply be about how obsessed America has gotten with Black Friday deals and how people will go to great lengths for a good deal.
The second cartoon is protraying how we came into America and pushed the original residents out and founded our nation on that, but when people want to join us we will not let them because we don't want them to push us our of our jobs.
2. What or who is specifically being ridiculed or scorned?
The first cartoon ridicules the crazy crowds that get so worked up about Black Friday sales and material things.
The second cartoon riducules our government and our way of thinkning that America is our own and that we can't share it with those seeking a better life.
3. What is it that the cartoonist wants you, the reader, to think about with this cartoon?
The first cartoon is aimed to make the reader either question their actions over the Black Friday deals or agree with him that it's ridiculous.
The second is to make the reader rethink how quickly they judge legal and illegal immigrants, because none of us would be here if it weren't for immigration.
4. Who is the specific audience these cartoons are targeting?
The Black Friday ad is probably targeting the crazy crowds to maybe make them regret their actions.
The second is aimed at the people that judge too quickly and make them rethink
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ReplyDelete1. They are ridiculing worker's rights and how unfair they are since they are the people trying to help us shop, yet are getting hurt.
2. the managements of these big companies are being ridiculed, who need to make safer workers rights.
3. The authors wants us to realize that worker's rights are pushed off to the side and that they need benefits while working to help us shop as well, on black friday especially.
4. It is targerting the public and public shoppers as well as managers of big companies that deal with worker's rights.
1. It is ridiculing how hypocritical the United States is towards immigration laws and deportation of illegal immigrants when we invade American indians private property all the time.
2. the american goverment is being ridiculed for being so one sided about the topic of deportation.
3. The author wants the public to see how hypocritical American govermnent is towards these topics and how they should help pick a side instead of playing both the victim and the bad guy.
4. the goverment and united states people are being targeted to help change this certain fact.
1. The artist is trying to display the employees of Wal-Mart's unhappiness with the ridiculous hours they had to work during Black Friday, and the second cartoon is talking about the issue of immigration.
ReplyDelete2. Wal-Mart and the Government are being scorned.
3. With the first cartoon, the author wants the viewer to thinking about the hours the employees have to work, and how Wal-Mart doesn't seem to care about the backbone of their company. The second one, the author wants us to think about the fact that all of our ancestors were immigrants once and how ironic it is of us to be kicking people out when we did not even originally live here.
4. The first one is targeting the hordes of people who shopped on Black Friday, specifically at Wal-Mart, and the second is targeted towards people who have rigid immigration policies.
1st add
ReplyDeleteThis add is ridiculing walmart and its workers because the workers went on strike in order to get better working conditions at walmart. I might be wrong but I think the author wants us to laugh at the workers there becuase the add makes the worker look pretty ugly. This cartoon is targeting black friday shoppers at walmart and people that watch the news because they get the humor in this add unlike others.
2nd Add
This add is targeting the self-deportation issue that some republicans purposed for immagrants. Republicans are being ridiculed because their idea is being proven to not work. The author wants the reader to realize how stupid the idea was by reminding the reader of the Native Americans. This cartoon is targeting Ammericans that are able to vote and, more specificly, poloticians.
First political carton:
ReplyDelete1.) The cartoonist is riduculing the workers of walmart that went on strike on black friday.
2.) The workers are because the strike didn't work well
3.)They want you to think that the workers are mad at wallmart for there conditions and that they are bitter the strike didn't work.
4.)It is targeting people who go black Friday shopping
Second political cartoon:
1.)It is making fun of Romney's immigration policy on immigration
2.)People who support self-deportation
3.)That we are a nation of immigants and we can't tell new ones to go away.
4.)Hispanic voters
The first cartoon is ridiculing the insanity of Black Friday shoppers, and it is also ridiculing Wal-Mart for not compensating employees apporpriately when they have to deal with situations like these. Specifically, I believe that Black Friday shoppers and Wal-Mart management are being ridiculed. The author of this cartoon wants to make people feel ashamed for acting the way that they treated, and the author also wants Wal-Mart workers to receive better benefits. The audience of the first ad is Black Friday shoppers and Wal-Mart. The second ad is riducling the idea of self-deportation. Specifically, Mitt Romney is being scorned by the ad. The cartoonist really wants the audience to think about the idea of self-deportation, and how ridiculous it is. The cartoonist is targeting supporters of MItt Romney and his plan.
ReplyDeleteI think this cartoon is ridiculing black Friday and the workers who are working then and also illegal immigration. I believe that the workers rights unions are being ridiculed because on black Friday the stores thought that they were going to make alot of money because they opened early but then the store actually wasn't a happy store it was more distraught and workers were fighting for their rights. The second article was addressing that if Romney was elected then there would be reasons for the illegal immigrants to self deport because they have better opportunities in their own home land. I think the audience that they are targeting are the illegals and the immigrants that are in our country and also I think the first article is targeting the people of America.
ReplyDeletewalmart cartoon:
ReplyDelete1. the issue is addressing the how walmart workers went on strike for having to work numerous hours on Black Friday. The workers felt they should have been able to stay home and spend the time with family due to Thanksgiving.
2.Walmart and its workers are being ridiculed.
3.The cartoonist wants the reader to think about if it's right or wrong what walmart did, or should the employees have done the job they were employed to do.Working is a committment; if you agree to work then better do it or else you won't get the receiving end of getting paid.
4.The cartoon's audience is all people that work.
Immigration cartoon
1.The cartoon is ridiculing how America is acting like hypocrites. America wants to get rid of immigrants coming to America acting like America is ours only when in fact truthfully when we can to America from Europe in the 1400s to 1500s, we were the immigrants with the native americans trying to kick us out. Truthfully, America belongs to the native americans.
2.America and its immigration targets is being ridiculed.
3.The cartoonist wants us to think about how in one point in history we were the immigrants coming to America with other people trying to get rid of us. Now we are trying to do the same to immigrants. We are in no position to be acting like America is ours and we were here first.
4.The audience is those speaking against immigration to America.
The artist of the first cartoon was ridiculing the fights that broke out in a Walmart on Black Friday, specifically the types of situations the employees have to deal with. The cartoonist wants the audience to feel that the Walmart employees are dissatisfied with their working conditions, and targets those who shopped on Black Friday, specifically those who shopped at Walmart.
ReplyDeleteThe artist of the second cartoon was ridiculing the current topic of deportation in the United States, specifically people who believe in self-deportation. The cartoonist wants the audience to realize that most everyone in America is descended from an immigrant, and the targeted audience is strict advocates of deportation.
Walmart:
ReplyDelete1. The cartoonist is ridiculing the fights that occured on Black Friday and the workers that had to deal with it all.
2. The person that is in charge of the workers rights and all the Black Friday stuff for Walmart is being ridiculed.
3. The cartoonist wants us to think about all the people that have to work on Black Friday and deal with all the fights and whatnot that occurs and how it isn't right.
4. The audience the cartoonist is targeting are Black Friday shoppers and other workers that deal with the same situation.
Indian:
1. The ad is ridiculing the issue of deporting immigrants.
2. It is ridiculing America and the immigration.
3. The cartoonist wants us to think about how Americans did the same thing to Indians when they first came here that we are doing now to the immigrants.
4. It is targeting Americans and immigrants.
In the first one the artist is trying to show that the employees of Wal-Mart is unhappy with the hours that they have to work during Black Friday. In the second cartoon it is talking about the issue of immigration.
ReplyDelete2. Wal-mart of the government are being scorned
3. The first cartoon the author wants the viewr to think about the hours that the employees have to work. Int he second cartoon the author wants everyone to think about the fact that all our sncestors were immigrants once, and how weird it is for us to be kicking people out when we orginally came here too and haven't always lived here.
4. The first one is targeting the people who shopped on Black Friday, specifically at Wal-Mart, and the second is targeting people who have immigration policies.