Wednesday, March 16, 2011

political cartoon 3


Adam Zyglis - The Buffalo News - Prison Signs - English - gitmo, guantanamo bay, terrorism, enemy combatants, camp, dentention, obama, white house, prison, campaign, promise, wall street, crime, criminals, ceo, pay, bonuses, bailouts, fraud, taxpayer, insider trading

  • Identify the cartoon caption and/or title. Why are those words being used to describe the cartoon?
  • Guantanamo bay stays open- saying Obama still hasn't done what he said he'd do, while there are crooks robbing america blindly
  • What objects, symbols, or people are represented in the cartoon? What do you think the artist means?
  • crooks free and guantanomeros imprisoned
  • Describe the action taking place in the cartoon.
  • two prisons, while one is open and allowing crooks free, one is still closed, the one obama claimed to want to change
  • Explain the message of the cartoon. What ideological perspective is represented by the cartoonist?
  • saying that things under obama are the same, just liek with bush
  • How does this cartoon relate to a current political event? How does it relate to our in class discussions?
  • Guantanamo bay should have closed a long time ago, it has to do with the war
  • How does satire and irony influence the topics covered in the cartoon?
  • satire influences that you think things would have changed drastically but they didn't at all

1 comment:

  1. I can't actually see the political cartoon here-could you fix the link please?

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