Elastic Band Characteristics

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The simplicity of a rubber band and make it useful, flexible, easily accessible, but overall, the best part about an elastic band is that it defines society. People are more like an elastic band because they are flexible, and they can break easily. Many traits humans show is adaptability. Humans evolved from many stages through history like the homo erectus to the homo sapiens. An elastic band also can adapt to many situations whether someone are trying to hold something together, or someone is trying to slingshot it at you. Our society has all of these traits which makes civilization like a rubber band. One way culture can be defined by a rubber band is through how easy it is to change it’s shape. This can be seen in the Elizabethan age when …show more content…

One way of this happening is through yellow journalism. This is more like an elastic band because people are not able to evaluate history without humanness. One major player in yellow journalism is a cartoon titled The Spanish Brute. In the cartoon, a monkey like creature is holding a bloody knife with a torn up shirt while stepping on an american flag over a grave and having a belt labelled Spain. This cartoon is clearly biased so that people would hate spain as the cartoon shows many ways of disrespecting americans. One way of this is how the brute is stepping on the American flag and on a grave. This tells people that the Spanish enjoy killing us, as there are also many graves and a bloody knife, but also that they have no respect for us as we are, “The scum on the bottom of their shoes.” Hummaness was attached to this picture, and if someone today saw this, they would develop an opinion the the Spanish are monsters. The cartoon is like an elastic band because it can change so many people’s opinions, and they can be manipulated to think a certain way. Also, with many cartoons out in the world like this, it can sometimes break people and they do not know what to dom, and can make them confused and make them feel useless. This is just like how if you stretch a band too far it will break and become useless. Also, too much bias can be dangerous as seen in Sierra Leone. This is because children are kidnapped and taken to the army where they are told to listen to the rebels and fight for evil. The children are given drugs and are brainwashed only to go to war and fight a fight they cannot win either way. Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier has been brainwashed and told to fight as seen when he states, “‘Visualize the banana tree as the enemy, the rebels who killed your parents, your family, and those who are responsible for everything that has happened

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