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.

Commercialization of Holidays

Commercialization was a huge part in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Most holidays were not celebrated till this time period. Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, and Valentines Day were some of the holidays that became wildly popular in this era because of commercialization. The commercialization of holiday affect urban life by being able to mass produce items for a particular holiday. Also in big cities with different cultures and immigrants also changed holidays and started to make a way for the modern holidays.

During this era Easter and Valentines Day started to grow in being celebrate. Now easter is a big holiday with the famous easter egg hunt, but back before the late 19th century  Easter was only  celebrate by a few people in the United States. In 1878, President Hayes hosted the first annual Easter egg hunt on the white house lawn. Now this hunt is a big part of the american culture. Also the mass production of clothes also helped with the growing popularity of Easter. Men and a women turned Easter into a holiday to wear their new bright colorful spring clothes. During this time period Valentines Day became popular. Esther Howland of Worcester, Massachusetts started making lacy handmade cards with romantic messages on them, they sold for fifty dollars. The industrialization and the mass production of cards made this holiday grow. The modern Valentines Day includes buying cards and chocolates, and Esther Howland was the start of making the classic Valentines Day become a holiday.

Esther Valentine Card

Thanksgiving is one of the most popular holiday right behind Christmas. Thanksgiving is the American version of the harvest festival. England was the start about having a huge lavish dinner, some of the immigrants brought this part of their culture with them, and it got adopted into the United States culture. This holiday originated in Philadelphia campaigned by Sarah Josepha Hale. Her goal was for this holiday was that a day for giving thanks might unify the country more. This holiday is meant for humanity and generosity. Department stores had affect on this holiday know as the Macy's Thanksgiving day Parade. Macy's department store help with some of the commercialization of this holiday in a sense of help getting the american people ready for Christmas on Black Friday, the day right after Thanksgiving. By 1900, most holidays were invented for a consumerist purpose with a little of family meaning mixed in with all the buying. 

Macy's Parade

Santa Claus, one of the biggest symbols for Christmas was created by Thomas Nast. The popularity of Santa grew as when the importance of gift giving grew. Industrialization grew as the need for more gifts increase, the factories started to mass produce toys and getting the toys became easier to access. Thomas Nast created the popular image of Santa Claus, he based him off the german tradition of St. Nicholas, "the father of Christmas". Thomas Nast first drew Santa Claus in 1862 in the Harper's Weekly, Santa came across to the children as a kind figure that represented Christmas. Being able to mass produce his photo made him more a recognizable figure for Christmas. 

Thomas Nast drawing of Santa

Christmas the most popular holiday was most impacted by commercialization. Immigration helped shape all the Christmas traditions we know today. The English brought over the tradition of Christmas caroling, and gift exchanging. Episcopalians and Moravians brought the religious services and prayer to Christmas. One of the most iconic tradition of Christmas is the tree, the germans brought the idea of decorating the home and tree with ornaments and lights. Most of the iconic Christmas tradition and symbols were came from german traditions.  In 1900, one in five americans now had a Christmas tree. On the side of the streets, vendors were selling ornaments for the tree. Newspapers and magazines in this era changed the standards for the ornaments. After 1880, The commercialized gift exchanges were developed in big cities, led by New York City. The gift giving and receiving also produced a social change, by the day becoming more materialist than religious. 

Christmas Tree

Urban life changed dramatically during this time by the commercialization of different holidays. "Acquiring goods was becoming part of individuals identity, their measurement of what a satisfactory life involved." This quote is from the book Consumerism in the World by Peter N. Sterns. During this time period gift giving and receive especially around Christmas changed the atmosphere of urban life. It changed it by mass producing gift and cloths made it easier to access. The Commercialization of holidays shaped americas holidays producing new ways to celebrate holidays not just religiously. 

"Santa Claus in Camp": First Representation of Santa

Sources:

Philadelphia Encyclopedia

• I learned from this site about the founder of Thanksgiving and how the holiday grew.

Encyclopedia of Christmas

• Thomas Nast came up with the image of Santa Claus.

This Fabulous Century 1870-1900

• Learned about Esther Howland and her Valentines Day cards and how it grew that everyone either gets or gives a card on Valentines Day now.

A Visit from St. Nicholas: The Poetics of Peer Culture, 1872-1900: pages 59-74

• Commercialization of Christmas and how Thomas Nast further develop Santa Claus from St. Nicholas.

Christmas in the 19th Century

• I learned from this site were all the traditions from Christmas came from and became apart of the American Christmas. 

Consumerism in World History: The Global Transformation of Desire

• I learned from this book how people are formed by commercialism of products and going into more depth about the commercialization of holidays.

Migration

I learned today about migration that most people was going to bigger regions or were it was more populated. I saw that a lot of people were going either to Europe, or North America. I think it is very interesting that the majority of people were moving to the more populated area or "popular".  I also learned that in the PBS Race quiz that what people stereotype what African, Asian, or Indian people look like may be very different then what they actually look  like.

migration

Philanthropy

Philanthropy is wanting to help the human kind. I really like Andrew Carnegie and what he was  doing by really wanting to help areas that need better education. I think its very helpful to towns and country to have libraries given to them to help broaden their minds. I would like to also help with safety, more specifically , in Africa and creating a safe environment for kids to learn and grow in.

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Thinking About Success

Ranking of the Four Words:
1. Opportunity
2. Hard Work
3. Skill
4. Luck

I ranked this words in this order because I believe that all are important but opportunity should be first. Opportunity is first because I believe if you have the opportunity to do something great you should take it, but you can also lose it because you have to work hard at it. That is why hard work is next because I believe after you have the opportunity you have to work hard at to keep it and get skilled at it. That is why I ranked Skill third. I ranked it third because after you work hard you become skilled at it and you start to have natural skill in your choice of job or in your opportunity. After all of those I believe Luck is last because after you have become skilled at something you need a little bit of luck to "open doors" for new opportunities in your work place.

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