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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The Beauty of Metaphor A Metaphor is defined as a grammatical device that “compares two different ideas by speaking of one in terms of the other. It asserts that one thing is another thing.” One of the best poets at using the metaphor is Edward Taylor‚ an intellectual New English Puritan. In his “Meditation One‚” Taylor compares “God’s Matchless Love” to water‚ saying that it fills “Heaven to the Brim!” Then‚ in his “The Reflection‚” Taylor says “Earth” was once a “Paradise of Heaven.” In both
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The political cartoon “The Media” by illustrator and graphic novelist Vincent Kao was drawn for the 2015 Paula F Pfeffer and Cheryl Johnson-Odim Political Cartoon Contest. The image portrays and criticizes the media’s bias and tendency to report matters differently due to race. The illustration depicts a news report of two boys who were shot by police‚ one who was an unarmed African American civilian‚ and the other a Caucasian murder suspect who are characterized differently through appearance and
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Music Analysis Cartoons & Cereal “Now I was raised in a sandbox next to you and her You was holding the handgun‚ she was giving birth To a baby boy to be just like you‚ I wonder what that’s worth I-I wonder if you ever knew you were a role model to me first …You told me‚ ’Don’t be like me‚ just finish watching cartoons’ Which is funny because all I see is Wile E. Coyotes in the room (ironic)?” The bridge is the foundation of the entire song. It has a way of notifying the listener of the adventure
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In Ray Bradbury’s novel‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ the main character is an individual Montag seeks pleasure in his job as a book burner. Through imagery‚ metaphors‚ symbolism‚ and personification‚ Ray Bradbury conveys that Montag is a man who has a sense of adoration towards his job. Ray Bradbury uses figures of speech such as imagery and metaphors to express how Montag is an impassioned man. Bradbury says that it was a “pleasure” for Mantag to “see things” he burns to be “blackened and changed.” The
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perception of our team’s metaphors as a whole is that we all are capable of expressing our thoughts about things in our lives as we see them through metaphors. Each of our metaphors allowed others to identify with our thoughts by connecting words with our senses. The metaphors that my team members have written are descriptive and easy to understand. The metaphors that the team members have written were very good and descriptive in my opinion. Personal Barriers None of our metaphors seemed to have any
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Metaphors are part of technology simply because language is a part of technology and metaphors are “characteristics of language‚” as Lakoff and Johnson explain that make up this “extraordinary language” that people use on a daily basis (3). Many people simply consider metaphors as “just words‚” not thoughts or ideas‚ when actually they are heavily involved with the “conceptual system” and the way people think‚ interact‚ explain‚ and perceive the world based on ideas and objects. This is translated
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Metaphor is a rhetorical figures that the reader or listener tries to understand through choosing the terms. Thus‚ the selection of the words helps to appreciate a good figure that needs a colorful consideration. Also‚ metaphor is a comparison that is implicit between two different phenomena by using the vocabularies figurative. I. A. Richards says that a metaphor has two parts‚ namely‚ tenor and vehicle. Tenor is the complete sense while the vehicle is the tool when he give us his view as : “…
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Whether we know it or not‚ we make use of metaphors and the many ways in which they help us make sense of the world. A metaphor is defined as a figure of speech that identifies an object or an idea that is similar to an unrelated thing. The use of metaphors and the language that it portrays helps to create new insight and evidence of the universe. Metaphors not only help classify the culture and diverseness of the natural world‚ and help interpret the scientific world‚ but help us set our outlooks
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Paper 1 The Power of Cartoons It was a dark and confusing time‚ towards the end of the Civil War. The Union would soon find out how unprepared they were once the Reconstruction Phase started. There were many issues that needed to be handled‚ but the biggest one would be getting the Whites to accept African-Americans as citizens with rights. It was 1865‚ post-civil war‚ when Thomas Nast started to contribute to the views of public opinion through the use of his vivid political cartoons. Nast constructed
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