How Do You Analyze a Political Cartoon

2. For analyzing political cartoons, I already knew that there is either some irony and some of prior knowledge. I learned that prior knowledge is a big part of knowing how to read political cartoons and what message the artist is trying to get across.
3. From now on when analyzing political cartoons I will go to the Library of Congress Cartoon Analysis Guide. When looking at a Political Cartoon I will look for symbolism, exaggeration, labeling, analogy, and irony.
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Imperialism Philippine War

In this political cartoon the Philippines are being portrayed by a donkey and America as Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam is tied to the imperialism tree and has control over the donkey (the Philippines) by the rope, and also trying to tie the donkey to the tree as well. 

Philippine Conflict 

This political cartoon is portraying that America is with drawing from the Philippines, but they will still have a foot hold there. 

Spanish American War

I think this political cartoon is about America, portrayed by Uncle Sam, that claims that they will give independence to the caribbean and other pacific islands, but in actuality America will not.

Hawaiian, The Legend of Eddie Aikau

1. The filmmakers called the documentary Hawaiian, The Legend of Eddie Aikau because he is a Hawaiian symbol of his culture and what he was able to bring the the surfing community and around the world.
2. The angle of this documentary is the life of Eddie Aikau played a role in spreading his Hawaiian culture  and that Hawaiian people are proud of their culture and can achieve great goals. He could also bring his culture to the surfing community.
3. The filmmakers assumed that their audience is watching this film because they are interested in sports since this film was produced by ESPN. Therefore surfing is a huge part of this film and Eddie's love of the ocean.
4. If the documentary had been produced by either PBS or the History channel the filmmakers would have gone more in depth about Hawaiian culture and what it meant to Eddie and his family.
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Topic: Americas entry in the Spanish War
Focus: The US ship, the Maine, blowing up in Havana harbor and how the media created a bigger problem out of this and inaccurately reported the accident.
Angle: How the media in this time period inaccurately reported the Maine blowing up and started a national chant for revenge "remember the Maine" and how they were spinning the  Spanish war just for rating even though most of what they reported not accurate.

Phrenology

I looked at a phrenology bust and started with googling what phrenology is and more questions to find out more about it. I learned about research that googling the broad terms is good do find basic background about what I am researching. Then when learning more about the topic make the search more specific. I did find out that depending on the question given can determine if the artifact is a primary or secondary source. Provenance is the earliest place of something that is known and where its from. Provence can provide value to an antique by knowing the history of where its from and how old it is.