Political Cartoon “Tick-Tock Tick-Tock” January 11‚ 1949 – The cartoonist’s cartoon shows a man reading the newspaper that says scientist have developed the atomic clock while above him the atom bomb is swinging the atomic clock in front of the man. Usually the swinging of a clock is used for hypnosis. The artist made their statement of Brain-washing or hypnosis clear; there couldn’t possibly be a misinterpretation. “Fire!” June 17‚ 1949 – The cartoon is of a man with a bucket of water‚ climbing
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War of 1812. The young and dynamic boomtown stood antithetical to the aged‚ ordered‚ and settled civilization of southern Maryland whose economy was founded in the eighteenth century on the backs of African slaves and tobacco production; a crop which remained during the grain transition of northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania farmland at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Baltimore‚ since 1798‚ had been a Democratic-Republican bastion and‚ starting in 1801‚ the Maryland state government
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�PAGE � �PAGE �1� THE WAR OF 1812: THE AMERICANS WERE JUSTIFIED Over the years The United States of America has forged itself a reputation of declaring wars. Ironically‚ declaration of war was most justified in one of its least acknowledged conflicts‚ the War of 1812. The United States was justified in its attack on British North America‚ which was a colony of Great Britain at the time. The reasons for this justification were Great Britain’s breach of Maritime rights‚ their support for the Natives
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The War of 1812 The War of 1812 lasted from June 18‚ 1812 to February 18‚ 1815. The war took place in Atlantic‚ Central and Eastern North America and Pacific. There were many causes. On the foreign side‚ France and England had been attacking American merchant ships‚ forcing impressment. Impressment is forced recruitment into Britain’s Royal Navy. It is much like kidnapping or enslavement. For many years‚ Washington stayed out of the French Revolution. In 1793 they drafted the Neutrality Proclamation
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Clemenceau‚ the Vampire Interpreting a cartoon How do I interpret this cartoon? ‘Clemenceau the Vampire’ From the German newspaper Kladderadatsch (July 1919) 1. Context – what was happening at the time? 2. Content – what is happening in the cartoon? 3. Comment – what is the meaning of the cartoon? Context – what was happening at the time? • Germany had just been defeated in WWI. • The Treaty of Versailles was signed in1919. • It had been written by the ‘Big Three’ and imposed on Germany
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High school students in the United States are graduating at a higher rate than ever before. By 2020 America’s goal is to have a 90% graduation rate‚ and we are on track. (Chokshi) After a dropout crisis in the early 2000’s high schools have steadily increased the number of graduates each year‚ but receiving a high school diploma has not always been such a common achievement. In the early 1900’s under 20% of students were graduating high school‚ and for students‚ such as Red Grange‚ completing
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Prep: Political Cartoons Your Assignment Read the pages in your textbook that relate to this topic. The readings associated with this lesson can be found in America: A Narrative History. In America: A Narrative History‚ you will: •read the chapter about Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. Answer the questions relating to the political cartoons provided. What You Turn In You will turn in your answers to the questions asked about three cartoons. Any political cartoon‚ whether contemporary
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Political cartoons are usually used to demonstrate an illustrator’s point of view during any political issue or event. More times than not a cartoon is making fun of or strongly putting down whatever that political view is. In McCutcheon’s interpretation over ratifying the treaty of Versailles his illustrations demonstrate that he doesn’t agree with that ratification. McCutcheon’s obvious disagreement is shown through specific negative characteristics of the people and the objects in the cartoon. Woodrow
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The War of 1812 can be viewed as a war for independence to a certain degree. In both the War of 1812 and the American Revolution‚ we fought against wrongs whether they were real or perceived. While America was not fighting for independence in this war; they were fighting for respect as a nation. The War of 1812 was a bit like the American Revolution because some people were ready to fight while other Americans opposed the war. It was much like the American Revolution because it was a lot a stake
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Teenagers dropping out of high school is a growing problem for citizens in the United States. High school dropout rates have progressively gotten worse because of a student’s lack of work and problems at home. Although the United States’ teen dropout rate is slowly declining as a whole‚ it is still leading to many other problems. I recently watched a report on the news‚ which mentioned that the U.S. is still towards the bottom of the education count throughout many countries. This report makes me
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