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__Political Cartoon analysis__ 1) What do you see in the cartoon, including objects and people, as well as caption and words in the cartoon? In the cartoon, the Uncle Sam is teaching children about "U.S. first lesson in self government". The children symbolizing Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and Philippine are in front of the whole class getting scolded by Uncle Sam. The rest of children symbolizing U.S. states are reading at the back of the class quietly. Outside the classroom, the child representing China are forbidden to come in and join the class and the Native person is being excluded from class and is reading the book upside down. 2) What or who is the subject of the cartoon and how is the subject represented? The subjects of this cartoon is the Uncle Sam and the children representing Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and Philippine. These nations are depicted as children because it shows the sides of weakness and powerless of them. The Uncle Sam is in the higher position than these poor countries and has the power to 3) Which of the things in the cartoons are symbols? What do you think the symbols mean? 4) What is the opinion of the cartoonist toward the subject and how is it expressed? 5) Who might agree/disagree with the cartoonist’s opinion? 6) What is the over all message of the cartoon?



__Political Cartoon analysis__ 1) What do you see in the cartoon, including objects and people, as well as caption and words in the cartoon? In this cartoon, I see Mark Tweed standing beside the ballot box that looks full of votes. The ballot is on the table that has the writing that says "In counting there is strength." He looks very arrogant with cigarette in his mouth. There is also two quotes written: "That's what's the matter," "As long as I count the votes, what are going to do about it? say?"

2) What or who is the subject of the cartoon and how is the subject represented? The subject in this cartoon is the Boss Tweed, and he is represented with full of arrogance, especially the quotes represent his unconcerned mind toward his citizens as long as he has all the votes.

3) Which of the things in the cartoons are symbols? What do you think the symbols mean? In this cartoon, I think the symbol is the ballot box and Tweed himself. The symbols show that Tweed is apathetic and doesn't care about other workers as long as he gets all the votes. From the cartoon, we can see that he would make no effort to bring changes in worker's hazardous working condition and poor living conditions.

4) What is the opinion of the cartoonist toward the subject and how is it expressed? The cartoonist's opinion toward the subject of the cartoon is not respectful and doesn't depict him as a good boss. Despite of the hardships the workers face from the exhausting work, he is careless of them and only think of himself and his wealth.

5) Who might agree/disagree with the cartoonist’s opinion? The workers of the lower class people would agree with the cartoonist's opinion because the workers have no power to go against Tweed's greediness but to constantly work hard under Tweed in order to live and survive. However, the people who are at the same level as Tweed are likely to disagree with the cartoon because they are satisfied with their wealth and positions. Therefore they would have nothing against Tweed's way of ruling.

6) What is the over all message of the cartoon? The overall message of this cartoon is the Tweed's selfishness and his irresponsibility towards his workers.

THE NEW IMMIGRANTS

OPPORTUNITIES -Many immigrants were able to escape from poverty or persecution -Able to make enough money and have more economic opportunities -Some religious families were able to escape from religious or political persecution -Many immigrants learned of available opportunities from railroad and steamship company promoters -Religious organization (benevolent society) supported immigrants to get started with businesses and helped children to get public educations

HARDSHIPS -Most of the immigrants had to travel in the poorest accommodations. -Worked for 15 hours and the wages were low. -Poor and crowded living condition -They worked under hazardous and nasty working conditions -Most immigrants found their work to be difficult and physically exhausting

In this picture, the poor man whose trying to go into the United States of America gets rejected. I think this picture is trying to depict the existence of discrimination between the poor and the rich people. The poor man seem like a Jewish immigrant who holds bags with "poverty" and "disease." Therefore I think the picture is trying to say that although U.S. say that it welcomes everyone, the reality is different and in fact, the citizens hate immigrants.