...My overall experience in this course has been very helpful, I have been able to learn a lot throughout the course, especially all the essays that I have been asked to write about, they have made me a strong writer, and I have also developed some writing skills that I was not aware of I had. Throughout the course I was asked to write four essays, every one of them with different purposes, topics, critical thinking, and some of them required some research. First, I had to write an essay concerning an iconic image, stating the factors that made the image iconic across the world. Next, I wrote an essay about a political cartoon while reflecting upon the main message that the cartoonist was attempting to convey to the audience, I analyzed the cartoon, described what was going on, pointed out what the cartoon was referring to, and recognized some persuasive techniques within the cartoon. Then, I wrote an essay regarding the Sam Sheppard murder case, where I was able to use my critical thinking and state with valid evidence who fit the profile to be the murderer of Marilyn Sheppard. Lastly, I was asked to state my position regarding the Little Gallery Controversy, stating whether or not the piece of work should have been removed from the art...
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...Political-Editorial Cartoon By Gary Bacskay Kaplan University HU345 Professor Sean Choi 3-14-2014 I chose a cartoon that is portraying President Obama on a fighter jet exclaiming that we are in need of Defense Cuts. Photo by Michael Ramirez - Townhall http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/michaelramirez/2014/02/26/116552 This cartoon to me is describing how the government (with Obama in charge) is so far in debt, that the government is deciding where they need to cut back the federal budget. What better place to do that than taking money away from the military. This cartoon is displaying a military U.S. fighter jet in the sky with a person (President Obama) straddling the plane behind the cockpit holding a chain saw. It shows that the President just got done cutting the end or the back of the fighter jet off as the back of the jet is falling. There is a phrase that the President is saying, it says; “You Won’t Even Notice The Defense Cuts.” Thesis The most logical area to cut the national debt is by reducing the amount of money that is put into our military branches, but is this the best way to shrink our debt? There are those who think that we do not need our military. But I truly believe this is not the way to fix our problem. We need our military whether we like it or not. I know, and I feel much safer knowing that I have my fellow brothers and...
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...the South and North Discussion Questions CheckPoint: Compare and Contrast Matrix Week Three: On the Road to American Independence CheckPoint: Great Britain and the Colonies Assignment: Seven Years’ War Paper Week Four: The American Revolution and a New Government Discussion Questions CheckPoint: The Confederation Government Table Week Five: Toward Nationalism CheckPoint: Hamilton’s Financial Program CheckPoint: War of 1812 Assignment: Western Expansion Presentation Week Six: Economic and Political Transformation Discussion Questions CheckPoint: The Bank War Week Seven: Social Structure and Transformation in the North and South CheckPoint: Class Structure and Slave Culture Assignment: Perfection Era Paper Week Eight: Expansionism, Sectional Conflict, and Civil War Discussion Questions CheckPoint: Civil War Matrix Week Nine: Civil War Impact on American Society Capstone CheckPoint Final Project: Historical Timeline and Essay HIS 115 Week 1 Assignment - North American Civilization Paper Assignment: North American Civilization Paper Resource: Ch. 1 Interactive exercise, Gutiérrez Map, at the textbook hyperlinked Web site at http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072970871/student_view0/chapter1/psi_source__gutierrez_map.html Due Date: Day 7 [post to the Individual forum] Examine the Interactive exercise, Gutiérrez Map, on the Nation of Nations textbook Web site. Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper...
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...American politics in different media An essay written by Emil Holte. As the headline articulates this essay would be about American politics in different medias. This essay will discuss the representation of American politics in three different medias. The media consists of books, TV-series and Cartoons. To be more specific it is, America – A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction (chapter 6), House of Cards and a cartoon with Obama and Romney. These three medias do all somehow have a common representation of American politics or American politicians. What do they have in common and where do they differentiate from each other? The common thing all three different medias are representing is the overall opinion of the American politician and American politics in general. The book, America – A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction (chapter 6), is deeper in the “theoretical” aspect than the other two. But you should not be fooled by the word theoretical. The book does describe the American politics and the politicians, but it is in a very informal and sarcastic approach. The sixth chapter describes campaigns and elections and therefore also how the American politician acts. It tells basic facts about American politics but with a twist of a subjective and sarcastically opinion. As an example “Initially, the process of conducting campaigns and holding elections was conceived as a means to an end – the peaceful transfer of power.”. Later on in the same passage “Today, running for...
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...This political cartoon was created by a political cartoonist named John Darkow. It was made on the date of December 2nd, 2007. He drew it for the Columbia Daily Tribune. The reason for its creation was to reveal how much Oprah was involved with Obama’s election. The bias in this political cartoon is definitely leaning more to a conservative side and is shedding negativity onto Obama’s political campaign. The way that Obama and Oprah are standing together, raising their holding hands, suggests that it is more of their campaign rather than his campaign. I believe the two elderly ladies making the commentary were created to be elderly on purpose because it gives the humor a more innocent and lighthearted view yet at the same time, it reveals the point of the picture. The most noticeable piece of the cartoon is Oprah’s name in huge letters over Obama’s name. This makes it seem as if they really were running a campaign together. Our media has changed over time by going from anonymous published political essays such as The Federalist Papers, to multiple sources of constant coverage such as the Internet and television. During the time of the Federalist Papers, people had to wait weeks to discover what was happening in politics. Today, we almost don’t have to wait any time at all to know just what’s going on not just in politics but, on any publicized topics. This has affected political communication by giving us the resources to find out so much more about our politicians. This...
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...Ethan Kolodny Kolodny 1 Debra Booth English 1301-375 2 October 2014 Essay 1 The political cartoon, “Anglozona Illegal Tan Block”, was published by St. Luis Post Dispatch on April 28, 2010 by Matson. Because of the plain white background, a centered image of a sunscreen bottle is caught by the eye. The bottle, with the same colors as the Arizona state flag, has a picture of a cactus dressed as the Statue of Liberty, holding a tablet that is inscribed with the words, “Show I.D.”, in one hand, and a flaming torch in the other. The sunscreen is 12,000 SPF, and claims that it, “Protects from Police Harassment.” With the situation at hand in 2010, this cartoon was created, and each element presented on the cartoon is a representation of something during that time. In 2010 the state of Arizona created a law that gave any police officer the power to determine if a person was an immigrant or a U.S. Citizen. The law was created because of the mass amounts of illegal immigrants taking refugee in the state, hiding out, and trying to live in the United States. The law also required immigrants to carry documents that proved they were not illegals, or else they were considered, “breaking the law”. The law gave officers the right to arrest people, based on their skin tone. The, “Anglozona Sunblock”, cartoon was created in order to show how messed up this law was, and bring it to the public's attention. With an impossible amount of 12,000 SPF, the sunscreen would not let any light get...
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...HIS 115 Entire Course (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.his115.com HIS 115 Capstone CheckPoint HIS 115 CheckPoint: The Confederation Government Table HIS 115 CheckPoint: Compare and Contrast Matrix HIS 115 CheckPoint: Civil War Matrix HIS 115 Assignment: North American Civilization Paper HIS 115 Final Project: Historical Timeline and Essay HIS 115 Assignment: Seven Years’ War Paper HIS 115 CheckPoint: European Societal Changes HIS 115 WEEK 2 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS HIS 115 CheckPoint: Great Britain and the Colonies HIS 115 WEEK 4 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS HIS 115 CheckPoint: The Bank War HIS 115 WEEK 6 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS HIS 115 Assignment: Perfection Era Paper HIS 115 WEEK 8 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS HIS 115 CheckPoint: Hamilton’s Financial Program HIS 115 CheckPoint: Class Structure and Slave Culture HIS 115 Week 5 Assignment: Western Expansion Presentation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HIS 115 Assignment: North American Civilization Paper (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.his115.com Resource: Ch. 1 Interactive exercise, Gutiérrez Map, at the textbook hyperlinked Web site at http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072970871/student_view0/chapter1/psi_source__gutierrez_map.html Due Date: Day 7 [post to the Individual forum] Examine the Interactive exercise, Gutiérrez Map, on the Nation of Nations textbook Web site. Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper addressing the following points: Use the information...
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...Cole Ryan Debra Booth 1301 378 19 February 2016 Essay 1 On April 28, 2010, the political cartoon titled “Anglozona Illegal Tan Block” was published by the St. Luis Dispatch. Pictured in the political cartoon is an orange bottle of sunscreen, patterned just like the state flag of Arizona. With a completely white background surrounding this bottle of sunscreen, it’s hard not to focus directly on the bottle and analyze every detail of it. Also shown on the bottle of sunscreen is a picture of a cactus that seems to be dressed to look like the Statue of Liberty. The cactus holds a tablet in one hand with the words “Show I.D.” inscribed, and a torch in the other. The sunscreen’s impossibly high SPF of 12,000 is printed in bold white letters across the bottle to show that there is absolutely no way that your skin will get any more tan than it already is. Under the bold letters, the sunscreen claims that it “protects against police harassment.” Why would a sunscreen need SPF 12,000 protection as well as protection against police harassment? All of these factors come into play with the circumstances that were in play back in 2010. The Arizona Senate Bill 1070 was a legislative act that was passed in 2010. The SB 1070 act stated that U.S federal law requires all aliens over 14 years of age who have stayed in the United States longer than 30 days to register with the U.S government and keep their registration documents with them at all times. Violation of this law was considered...
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...Running head: STANDARDIZED TESTS ARE KILLING SOCIETY 1 Standardized Tests Are Killing Society Alyssa Masula Jonathan Alder High School STANDARDIZED TESTS ARE KILLING SOCIETY 2 ABSTRACT STANDARDIZED TESTS ARE KILLING SOCIETY Alyssa Masula This essay provides an exploration of the harm done to individuals and societies by standardized testing. In her studies, the author discovered mixed results, containing both support and rejection for her original hypothesis. She includes evidence to prove her point true. She provides information gathered from various sources including published works and studies by Peter Sacks, Nicholas Lemann, and Jacques Steinberg. As well as these, she has added the support of a political cartoon and an article from the distinguished newspaper “The Columbus Dispatch”. STANDARDIZED TESTS ARE KILLING SOCIETY 3 Standardized Tests Are Killing Society A student sits down at a desk and is given a #2 pencil, a test, and a time limit. Upon him rests the expectation that his future will will depend on the result of said test. Overwhelmed by the idea of failure and a consequential meaningless life, he cannot concentrate and has a panic attack. Too much pressure is placed on young people to succeed on tests that are supposed to be objective, yet in re...
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...Drinking Age In all of the articles and political cartoon there are many examples of ethos, pathos and logos. However, some of them are more effective than others. Each of these documents discuss the drinking age in the united states and why it should be either be lowered to 18 or stay at 21. The first source is the least effective out of the three because it does not explain what age the drinking age should be at. On the other hand, the third source, “Lower the Drinking Age Back to 18” is a very affective article because of the facts that it has and the experience that he had growing up in a world were colleges taught you how to drink responsibly In the first source you see a cartoon. This Cartoon shows the drinking age at 21 and what the drinking age would look like at 18 years old. However, both of these cartoons look exactly alike. The repetition of the same image with different captions emphasizes in what happens if the drinking age changes … nothing. Ethos is created because there are less females than males and statistically speaking more men drink binge drink. The symbolism in the shorts "OSU" and a fraternity are all zeugmas for drinking. This cartoon also establishes pathos by showing the emotion each person has in there face. All of the “adults” in this cartoon are very happy and look like they are ready to have fun. On the other hand, it does not show the repercussions of drinking irresponsibly. To improve this cartoon, I feel that it should show the after math...
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...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 of and ideas for his mechanical contraptions. Source:...
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...In America there seems to be a major problem. It has hindered this country since America was founded. It has been used against Native Americans, Japanese, and Black Americans. The problem is racism. If this country wants to become truly great racism must be eliminated. Racism is a blot on society that has transgressed mankind over hundreds of years. It is conscience of humans that few things are far superior to others. In his words, Martin Luther King wrote that “we (the citizens of the United States) are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial ‘outside agitator’ idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.” Hence, I feel that racism has no place in a united and progressive nation. Racial discrimination only leads to the corrosion of the foundation and structure that make the United States of America great. I find that there is truth in the writer’s statement that “freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” I can say that racism is a euphemism for dictatorship. As what history is telling us, persons in authority find it hard to relinquish their position and tend to be corrupted by power itself. This creates a state of dictatorship wherein the freedom of the people is greatly limited. Laws are created in...
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...South just letting it happen. After the Civil War, the United States of America was in desperate need of a reunion of the states. The South was in a bad condition after 4 years of fighting, more than a million casualties, and $337 million spent. It was imperative that some control was established so the Nation could be preserved. This is where Reconstruction came in. It was founded on the idea that “the United States was creating enough opportunity that all Americans could pursue their hopes for happiness just as Thomas Jefferson had envisioned 100 years earlier” (Background Essay 505). This project included rebuilding the South and giving equality to African Americans. The United States went right to work on Reconstruction. Federal soldiers were sent to remove the Confederate government and this action was soon followed by an election of “freedmen, carpetbaggers, and scalawags” (Background Essay 505). The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were made giving more rights to African Americans. Reconstruction was greatly improving the nation- until the early 1870’s. The voting of Southern states was biased and many were voting on white-only rule. The controversy of the election of 1876 also divided our nation. Rutherford B. Hayes was granted the presidency on the condition that he remove the federal troops from the South. Reconstruction had officially ended. What is up for debate and what many historians have wondered is who really finished Reconstruction? The KKK was a big...
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...as gangster mafia violence, drugs, degrading of women, and many other realistic, pessimistic values, whether the artist has experienced those situations or not. Currently, the public has opened their ears to a whole new level by listening to the ludicrous lyrics of some of the mediocre, modern-day hip-hop and rap artists. Due to much of the publicity, some of these artists are put on such a high pedestal that they go to extremes by acting out their music and wind up being horrible role models, ruining the names they made for themselves. On the other hand, some artists in hip-hop culture see a political trend form and decide to incite it with heart-grasping lyrics that pertain to the governmental issues. From the 1970s to current times, there is a pattern emerging that Americans are willing to listen to politically subjected songs that hip-hop artists have written as signs of political trends. America’s changes through hip-hop culture have had some influences on the government and public as a whole through significantly realistic lyrics, violence, and trend-setters. Since 1979, when Sugarhill Gang came out with “Rapper’s Delight”, hip-hop music has been “all the rage” for about three decades (Blanchard 1). Hip-hop came from the different genres of jazz, gospel, reggae, and soul, all collaborated into the music styles of the African-American culture (Blanchard 2). Hip-hop culture became so popular from the incredible and unorthodox music, producers and hip-hop artists collaborate...
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...Thematic Essay Practice – Reform Movements US History/Napp Name: __________________ From the August 2004 New York States Regents/ U.S. History & Government THEMATIC ESSAY QUESTION Directions: Write a well-organized essay that includes an introduction, several paragraphs addressing the task below, and a conclusion. Theme: Reform Movements Task: Some suggestions you might wish to consider include the abolitionist movement, Populist movement, Progressive movement, women’s rights movement, civil rights movement, and the labor movement. Gathering the Facts: 1- The Abolitionist Movement • “The goal of the abolitionist movement was the immediate emancipation of all slaves and the end of racial discrimination and segregation. • Advocating for immediate emancipation distinguished abolitionists from more moderate anti-slavery advocates who argued for gradual emancipation, and from free-soil activists who sought to restrict slavery to existing areas and prevent its spread further west. • Radical abolitionism was partly fueled by the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, which prompted many people to advocate for emancipation on religious grounds. • Abolitionist ideas became increasingly prominent in Northern churches and politics beginning in the 1830s, which contributed to the regional animosity between North and South leading up to the...
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