The first cartoon is with Theodore Roosevelt wearing hunting gear and holding a gun. There’s bull sitting on the moon reading the newspaper. There are different names for this political cartoon, like don’t shoot, I’ll come down, the beef trust and et cetera. This cartoon was made when TR was “trust busting” small corporations. After Jungle by Upton Sinclair, people and TR wanted changed. So changes were made and the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1907, which made sure that inspections are made before meats are processed and ready to be delivered.
The beginning of Meat Inspection Act seemed to be at 1904, after “The Jungle” of Sinclair published. In fact, it started twenty years earlier, the regular law, used to satisfy Europe, the largest meat export market, but in 1865 Congress passed an act to prevent the importation of diseased cattle and pigs. Because of disease, European like Italian, French, and English restricted or banned the importation meat, and they turned to another supplier. Some bills were introduced but they failed to gather sufficient support. May 1884, Bureau of Animal Industry was established, it was doing good job in fighting Europe restrictions, helping the packers, but not helping the domestic consumers. March 1891, the first major meat inspection law was passed; some country removed the prohibitions on importing American pork. It distressed the European packing industry as well. So, they imposed more standards. Government had to do more action; major percent meat slaughtered was inspected. Some of companies exploited the law, but most of them, especially big companies agreed with the committee in 1902. In 1904, Smith, who was a great information aid to Sinclair, published a series of articles in The Lancet...
Stanley Kubrick’s sexual parody, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, illustrates an unfathomed nuclear catastrophe. Released in the midst of the Cold War, this 1964 film satirizes the heightened tensions between America and Russia. Many sexual insinuations are implemented to ridicule the serious issue of a global nuclear holocaust, in an effort to countervail the terror that plagued America at that time. Organizing principles, such as Kubrick’s blunt political attitudes about the absurdity of war and the satirical genre, are echoed by the film style of his anti-war black comedy, Dr. Strangelove.
Socialism versus Capitalism in The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Even before the beginning of the twentieth century, the debate between socialists and capitalists has raged. In The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, he portrays capitalism as the cause of all evils in society. Sinclair shows the horrors of capitalism. In The Gospel of Wealth, by Andrew Carnegie, he portrays capitalism as a system of opportunity. However, both Carnegie and Sinclair had something to gain from their writings; both men had an agenda.
Political Cartoons are illustrations containing significant symbolism that expresses the artist 's point of view towards a political or social issue. Political cartoons are meant to rouse the viewers to take some sort of action upon the message the artist is trying to give or at least get the viewer to see the where the artist 's viewpoint stands. During the eighteenth century political cartoons started to rise in popularity in America culture, they weren’t exactly what we are used to today in exaggerating a person’s features into a type of caricature image. Examining two political cartoons, one dating back to the eighteenth century by Paul Revere and the other from the twenty first century by Bob Englehart.
The scenes that I encountered when reading about the meat packaging industry in the early 1900's were very graphic. Some images were more graphic than others. The first scene that comes to mind when I think about the passage "The Jungle" was the huge iron wheel with pigs on it. This scene sticks out in my mind because I can almost see the pigs squealing as they are ripped away by their feet up higher and higher into the air. I can also see the massive "river" of hogs awaiting their turn to be chained up by the burly Negro. Another scene that is easy to describe is the scene where the "knockers" struck the cows on the head with a sledge hammer. In this scene all I can imagine is worn out man who has swung a sledge all day. This man would have to be worn out in a couple of years due to the physical demand. The next scene im going to describe is the scene in the steaming room. This is probably one of the most disgusting scenes in the entire text. Knowing all the germs that could possibly be there and the fact that there was new germs brought in every hour. The odor those men had to have worked in would have been gut wrenching.
At the turn of the twentieth century “Muckraking” had become a very popular practice. This was where “muckrakers” would bring major problems to the publics attention. One of the most powerful pieces done by a muckraker was the book “The Jungle”, by Upton Sinclair. The book was written to show the horrible working and living conditions in the packing towns of Chicago, but what caused a major controversy was the filth that was going into Americas meat. As Sinclair later said in an interview about the book “I aimed at the publics heart and by accident hit them in the stomach.”# The meat packing industry took no responsibility for producing safe and sanitary meat.
Throughout the course of his lifetime, Ah Cheng experienced major political and historical events that strongly influenced his literature. The Cultural Revolution and rule of Mao Zedong was widespread throughout China starting in the 1960s, and devastated millions of families. Cheng took a different approach to much of the literature ("scar literature") that emerged from the revolution, and instead of focusing on the detrimental effects, chose to use his literature as a way to point out the flaws of the revolution. These counter-revolutionary ideals are subtle but evident throughout The King of Trees, as the political chaos creates a backdrop in the novella, rather than the central focus. They can especially be seen through the use of abundant metaphorical elements. By showing the effects of the “down to the countryside movement”, a major reform under the rule of Mao Zedong, Cheng is able to provide a commentary on the Revolution through his characters and the setting as well. Throughout The King of Trees, Ah Cheng reveals his political views towards the Cultural Revolution through his use of symbolism, and his descriptions of the characters and the setting.
In the book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair; this was first published by Fine Creative Media Inc. in 1906 (edition I read was published in 2003) it discuses life as an immigrant and how immigrants foresaw the American dream and how they tired to achieve it. There where many themes for the book. The theme that I took was most important was that life on the other side is not always better then what one has. This theme can be shown many different ways throughout the book. It is shown through the plot and through many examples of event that occurred though the book.
Cartoons are witty and humorous. Usually, they tell a point to the audience using symbolism, sarcasm, and humor as their tools. Some cartoons comment on politics while some others comment on science, and entertainment. A large chunk of cartoons are created with the sole intent to entertain the readers. In this cartoon, Marshall Ramsey hilariously draws a comparison between the rising obesity levels and gas prices using symbolism, analogy, and exaggeration. The rise in obesity levels and gas prices poses a grave concern to the economy and the society at large. Marshall tries to bring out this message in his cartoon.
The Jungle, a novel by Upton Sinclair, deals with many issues that went on during the early 1900’s. During this time the unemployment was very high, working conditions were awful, wages were low and crime was high. It was not an easy time to be living in America, even though “The American Dream” was on the minds of every immigrant coming to America. In the novel, Jurgis Rudkus and Ona Lukoszaite immigrate to America from Lithuania. They went to Chicago where they met up with some of their family that had already immigrated to America. The couple gets married really young and struggles to make it. Throughout the novel, it follows this family through their journey and struggles to make it as immigrants in America.
In Dave Granlund’s political cartoon, Russia Moves on Crimea, Crimea is shown to be in a dire situation following the Ukraine Crisis in 2013 which provided Russia an advantage in claiming Crimea by making it appear as if Russia was able to assist Crimea in the middle of the crisis by annexing it. Russia and Crimea are depicted as a bear and a fish, respectively, while the water represents the Ukraine and the dangerous features of the wave represents the crisis. The political cartoon revolves around a political “tug-of-war” between Russia and Ukraine over who should rightfully have Crimea as a part of their nation (Ellicott). At the time of the cartoon, March 3rd, 2014, Crimea belonged to the Ukraine, yet Crimea was already leaning towards Russia since it seemed as if they could save the country from the crisis, hence the bear saying, “I’m
Above, one can see the very simple political cartoon. It has been passed around the internet and has no definite author as of late. The message, however, is definite and clear. The goal is to define and proke a choice between the most prominent political ideologies, Capitalism and Communism.
The next example worth looking at is another cartoon by Bengough entitled “Renewing The Lease” (See Fig.2). The context of this cartoon was that though John A. Macdonald was campaigning in the 1878 election on his signature policy platform, the ‘National Policy’, which was centred on Protectionism (e.g. tariffs on American manufacturing goods) the completion of the CPR (" Scandals and Changes." Par. 24). In addition to scandals, elections provide an opportunity to discuss the influence the press has in politics, not as representatives of popular political sentiments but of private political interests. The political cartoon is a powerful device in this situation as through its seemingly innocuous humour, the artist can inoculate their perspective into the reader’s mind so quickly and subtly that they do not have the chance to analyze (much less reject) it (Osler 79; Walker par. 3). The techniques used by cartoonists to do so include: removing details, emphasising, and domestication (Osler 79; Walker par. 11). These tools can be found in this cartoon quite easily. Bengough portrays his simplistic prediction that voters will reject John A. Macdonald because of lack of credibility, and because of a strong approval of William Lyon Mackenzie. This removes details including the unpopularity of Mackenzie’s goal to enact a free trade agreement with the United States, the fact that the National Policy and that his bluntness about the dismal state of the economy did not resonate well with Canadian, in contrast to Macdonald’s optimistic demeanour (" Scandals And Changes." Par. 25). The other devices used can be seen in how the complexity of the National Policy is stressed and in the way that the political situation is presented as what woul...
The movie jungle book is a drama and adventure movie. The conflict involved Shere Khan (the tiger) who tried to kill Mowgli because, he a man club and that he is not good to hang out with other animals in the jungle. When the movie debut in April 15, 2016 with Jon Favreau as the director and (Mowgli)
In the book, “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair, portrays the harsh working conditions and the exploitation of immigrants seeking the American Dream coming to the United States and settling in the industrial city of Chicago. Upton Sinclair demonstrates the cruel evil of American capitalism by taking advantage of new coming immigrants and taking away their hope in the progressive era through cheap working condition, unequal rights, and political corruption for their own corrupted personal gain.