...Week 07 Written Assignment – Morals and Ethics in Cartoons Michael Lenz Rasmussen College G332/MMC3407 Section 03 Visual Communication in the Media - 2013 Summer Quarter Todd Woods August 17, 2013 Week 07 Written Assignment – Morals and Ethics in Cartoons My morals and ethics in Cartoons example is a comic strip I found on www.dilbert.com. This comic strip details the dilemma of the character Dilbert trying to access a website that the security department at his workplace has placed a block on. Dilbert is in need of accessing this site for a business reason. Dilbert visits the Security department at his workplace to have them unblock this website for him, so that he can access for a business reason. The security guy says websites can only be unlocked if the Director of Human Resources sends written approval. The Director of Human Resources states that he can only make recommendations to the CIO (Chief Information Officer). The CIO yells at Dilbert for bothering him for this issue, and tells him to go back to his hole and think about the career mistake that he made. The last section at the meeting with his department, Dilbert asks if they can skip what they accomplished this week. The dilemma that Dilbert is struggling with is very obvious, as he tries to get to a site to help with his work, and spends a lot of time going through channels only to get shot down, talked down to, and basically told he just made the biggest...
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...on different issues. Most pop art are variations of well known, everyday objects. 3)Warhol’s works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement. Throughout the course of his pop art era he focused on four main subjects: product paintings, cartoon paintings, movie stars, and death. These paintings showed popular consumer items that were familiar to the average American person, such as Brillo soap pads, Coca-Cola bottles, and the most famous of all, Campbell’s soup cans. He chose products such as these because they were top-selling products in the United States and they were considered important, useful, and economical by consumers. Andy Warhol’s second type of paintings was drawn from comic strips and comic books. Examples of these cartoon paintings include Dick Tracy (1961) and Superman (1960). he decided that he...
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...[pic] VISUAL LEARNERS 65% of learners belong to this group. Visual learners prefer written information, diagrams and pictures. They prefer to take down notes during a presentation, They will even make their own notes even when they are given printed hand-outs. They are better at written communication. These learners have the ability to think in pictures as well as see and create images complete with shapes colours and size. They tend to remember faces but not names. A LOOK AT VISUAL LEARNER A typical visual learner uses visualization techniques to remember things. They often have a good sense of direction because they visualize maps and directions in their mind. Many prefer to read information in a textbook or on the whiteboard rather than listen to the teacher lecture. They also enjoy doodling and drawing. Visual learners typically use sight words in their everyday terminology. For example, they might say "Let's take a look at this." or "Let's look at this from a different perspective." They remember details including colours and spatial arrangements. VISUAL LEARNER CHARACTERISTICS Visual learners are those who learn through seeing things. Look over the characteristics below to see if they sound familiar. A visual learner: • Is good at spelling but forgets names. • Needs quiet study time. • Has to think awhile before understanding lecture. • Is good at spelling. • Likes colours & fashion. • Dreams in colour. • Understands/likes charts. • Is good with...
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...These paintings showed popular consumer items that were familiar to the average American person, such as Brillo soap pads, Coca-Cola bottles, and the most famous of all, Campbell’s soup cans. He chose products such as these because they were top-selling products in the United States and they were considered important, useful, and economical by consumers. He drew his inspiration from the leftover Campbell’s soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles that he used at lunch. Andy Warhol’s second type of paintings was drawn from comic strips and comic books. Examples of these cartoon paintings include Dick Tracy (1961) and Superman (1960). Although he had begun to produce these before the product paintings, this phase lasted only a short period of time – once he discovered that Roy Lichtenstein was also painting characters from comic strips (seen in Castelli’s Gallery), he decided that he needed to find a different subject matter. After his attempts with American products and comic strips, Warhol began doing productions of Hollywood movie stars, the most well-known being those of Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and Elizabeth Taylor. This was his first attempt at silk-screening, images in different colors that were all based on the same original portrait, because silk screens were cheaply mass...
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...The idea of news is as old as language itself. (Campbell, Martin, and Fabos, 221) News in its earliest form was passes from person to person by word of mouth. The first written document that was considered news was the news sheet, which was developed by Julius Caesar. These daily events were posted in public spaces and on building in Rome in 59 B.C.E. News through journalism in its earliest form is not the same new we know today. News started out purely informational. It was a way to keep neighboring tribes and towns current with the state of relations. By the fifteenth century the printing press was introduced and allowed society to send and receive information. In September of 1690 the first newspaper Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestic was published in North America. This newspaper was banned after only one issue because of the negative tone regarding British rule. In 1704 the regularly published newspaper appeared in the American Colonies called the Boston News Letter. At this time news was transported by ship, it took weeks to arrive in the states. The news was not current and people found it to be boring. In the 1820’s the cost of a newspaper was about six cents per paper, and required a subscription. In 1830 the Penny Press was introduced to the world. This newspaper was the paper for the common man. Up to this point newspapers were not for the common man. They were expensive and boring. The Penny Press was a steam powered mechanical machine that was able...
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...Subject Matter * produced realistic variations of well-known, everyday objects * throughout the course of his pop art era he focused on four main subjects: product paintings, cartoon paintings, movie stars, and death. * product paintings- showed popular consumer items that were familiar to the average American person, such as Brillo soap pads, Coca-Cola bottles, and the most famous of all, Campbell’s soup cans. * chose products such as these because they were top-selling products in the United States and they were considered important, useful, and economical by consumers * Warhol’s second type of paintings was drawn from comic strips and comic books. Examples of these cartoon paintings include Dick Tracy (1961) and Superman (1960). * began doing productions of Hollywood movie stars, the most well-known being those of Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and Elizabeth Taylor * Politics and newsworthy events and imagery were also captured in his art., The Birmingham riots were captured along with several other images of the civil rights movement. Mushroom clouds, electric chairs and police dogs were also depicted. His signature art style was silkscreened, mass-produced canvas art in variations of color in multiple editions. Andy Warhol used commercial silkscreening to create multiple copies of his art pieces. Based on close-up portraits of his subject material, silkscreen techniques enabled him to produce the same image in multiple color variations. He...
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...American comic strip created by cartoonist Mort Walker. The setting is a fictional Military base and is one of the oldest comic strips still running today. Walker created Beetle Bailey on September 4, 1950. He has been assisted by Jerry Dumas, Bob Gustafson, Frank Johnson and Walker’s sons Neal, Brian and Greg Walker. The characters in the strip were created after Walkers fraternity brothers at the University of Missouri. Beetle was a college student at Rock view University, he quit school in the first year and enlisted in the U.S Army on March 13, 1951 and has remained there ever since. Beetle Bailey is a sort of lazy private who just think he can sleep his way through the army, he always wears his headgear below his forehead so you never get to see his eyes, in the rare instance he is without headgear his eyes are covered by his hair he a misfit and suffers through constant physical and verbal abuse from his company sergeant and nemesis sergeant first class Orville P. Snorkel. Beetle Bailey was circulated in the stars and stripes newspaper which is a military paper to boost military morale but it was banned from the japan issue because it was said be disrespectful to officers. The civilian papers thought it was funny and it continues to run today. The stories change to fit the times but beetle is still a private and still wears the same uniform. Beetle is one of the funniest comics strips that is still running to date and the only one to have family with their own comic series...
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...Aaron McGruder, a young cartoonist has made history with the start up of his comic strip the “Boondocks”. When he first started his strip, it was published in over 160 newspapers. He set a new record for the most newspaper publishing in a first release. The 24 year old created the “Boondocks.” Boondocks is a slang term for white suburbia. The characters in the Boondocks are two brothers Huey and Riley. They relocate from the Chicago south side to an area called woodcrest which is “middle-class white suburbia.” They two brothers live with their grandpa. He wants them to fit in and give them better opportunities but the brothers are not interested in fitting in. They view the world differently. Huey is what you would call a freedom fighter always trying to fight the power! His younger brother Riley, is a wanna-be gangster. The Boondocks deals with racial views of blacks and whites, such examples are when Huey talks about in...
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...http://www.cagle.com/news/women-in-combat/page/16/#.UXWAKbW-kX8 I am analyzing Adam Zyglis' "Women in the Military" political cartoon. Zyglis is the staff cartoonist for The Buffalo News and his cartoons are also internationally syndicated by Cagle Cartoons. I chose this political cartoon out of the sea of political articles, cartoons, and videos due to the fact that I feel strongly about the subject, and I feel as if this cartoon states a very strong and true message. Adam Zyglis uses a spin-off from an archetype to portray is opinion on women being unprohibited from military combat. Zyglis uses the "We Can Do It!" American wartime propaganda poster produced by J. Howard Miller in 1943 for Westinghouse Electric as an inspirational image to boost worker morale. The poster was used to promote feminism and other political issues. Most recently its been used to promote women canidates in elections. His political cartoon uses this 1940's motivational workforce poster to promote women's right to go into combat in our armed forces. If you research America's past beliefs it will be shown that women's rights have made a lot of advancements in our nation's society and without these advancements our country would not be as advanced as it is now. Women have come a far way even when all odds were against them, and by Zyglis using the "We Can Do It!" photo in his political cartoon he expresses this. Media has changed a great deal over time in the way that it is distributed and used...
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...Political cartoons usually demonstrate a powerful message within an illustration. Cartoonist demonstrate their point of view and usually target people to comprehend their point of view with a convincing argument, not many people had the education to read but many did have the ability to see and draw a conclusion based on a picture “I don’t care a straw for newspaper articled Tweed declared like constituents can reed but they can stop seeing them dam pictures. (Tweed, Min 5:30)”. Over the centuries these cartoons have helped expose corruption with a political system or simply reveal the true image of a politician and what his/her motives and ideals depict. One of the two biggest leaders that have been attacked by political cartoons are Boss Tweed to Theodore Roosevelt. Tweed was the first to be attacked by these cartoons by an artist named Thomas Nest and within his illustrations he mentions how Tweed took advantage of the system and grew in power by doing so “He was one of the first people who saw the power of man’s politics (Tweed, Min 0:46)”. As soon as he became a senator and sought this power he took advantage and defrauded New York by what is called the Tweed Ring a group of political leaders that worked with all the finances. The way they were able to take in billions of current dollars in their pockets was by overcharging companies. Roosevelt in the other hand was less about money and industrial power and more about global power something known as imperialism. Imperialism...
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...Term paper First draft Reflection Of Cartoons On Child Psychology (Based on problem with solution) Submitted to: Submitted by: Farzana Sharmin Pamela Islam (Senior Lecturer of English Department) Date Of Submission 11-02-2012 Content Topic Page # Abstract 3 # Introduction 4 # Methodology 5 # Literature 6 # Findings( only our own view) 7-8 # Limitation ...
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...Theme: This cartoons theme is based on the current gun law debate in America. It’s responding to the current gun epidemic and multiple shooting in schools due to the easy access to guns and other weapons. This topic has always been debated but is re surfacing due to Obama pushing for more control over gun laws. Characters: In the cartoon it shows two people in full colour and 2 other kids in the background almost like a shadow. One of the characters says “ Mummy put it in my lunch box in case i have to protect myself”. This shows how irresponsible Americans are getting with their guns how would a child that young know what calls for a child to protect themselves. If another child is bullying him does he deserve to get shot ? that is what...
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...Technology June 2, 2014 Rube Goldberg Rueben Garret Lucius Goldberg was born on July 4, 1883 in San Francisco. His parents, were German Jewish immigrants. Goldberg was the middle child of four children . When Ruben was young he loved to draw, trace and was very creative. He graduated high school in 1904 and graduated with a degree in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He later had a job as an engineer for the City of San Francisco but eventually quit to become a sport cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle. By 1907 He moved to New York where he worked for several newspapers. In 1915 Ruben found national acclaim as a copious artist. Ruben was married to Ima Seeman in 1916 and had two children, Thomas and George. During the World War II Ruben asked his sons to change their name due to receiving hat mail after doing controversial political cartoons. Rube Goldberg gave up cartooning and wrote popular articles and stories but returned to editorial cartooning for the New York Sun. He retired in 1964. Rube Goldberg was a jack-of-all-trades throughout his life. He was a cartoonist, an engineer, an inventor, a sculptor, and a writer. When as a writer, he was credited for having written essays, plays, and even poetry. Goldberg claim to fame, and perhaps his most significant legacy to the world, was the satirical cartoons illustration. His engineering degree at the University of California Berkeley had provided him with some knowledge...
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... When we were told that we would be creating a multi-genre research project on Charles Schulz, some cartoonist, you could say we weren’t exactly ecstatic about it. We didn't know who Schulz really was and we hardly knew anything about animations or cartoons. Of course, we knew about Peanuts and it’s star character, Charlie Brown, the tragically mediocre boy. But we didn’t know much about Schulz himself. Why did he create this infamous cartoon? And what led him to fame? Since we didn’t know much, if anything, about Schulz, we started off with getting to know Schulz. And this required - guess it! Yes, research. We read biographies, encyclopedia articles, newspapers, and magazines to gather information about Schulz. After some preliminary research, we created a guiding question for a more in-depth analysis on Schulz, and this was our research question - how was Schultz’s journey to success fueled by his individualistic pursuit of happiness? Moving apart from research and onto executing our work came the question, how are we going to finish this project as a group? How are we going to work? At first, we implemented a system in which our entire group was trying to work on everything together but we soon realized that this system was not working. And this posed the question of - what would be a better and more efficient way to execute our tasks? And this was when we implemented the divide and conquer system to carry out the work needed to be done. We started to work on different...
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...even made a theme park, and not just in America! He’s made thousands and thousands of jobs that helps society, but he’s also made society more fun. Dreaming is believing and believing is doing, he thought that to the world. Like I said believing is doing, he inspired me to follow my dreams, not just dream it but do it. He’s shown that anything is possible. H-Harness-He wanted to go into the Army, but declined because of his age, he decided to be an artist. U-Underestimate- He dropped out of high school, but after he wasn’t permitted to the Army he went to an Art School. N-Network- His first real job his brother set up, he animated for commercials. T-Take- He started with a cartoonist for a school paper, and wanting to go into the comics section of the newspaper, but instead taking a job with a filming company. Citations Crowther, B.. "Walt Disney Biography." Bio. true story. A E Publishing Networks,LLC, 2002. Web. 12 Aug 2012....
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