During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, one of the candidates, Donald J. Trump, in the few weeks before Election Day, repeatedly warned the U.S. that the election polls were being “absolutely rigged” at “many polling places.” One of his Twitter posts stated, “Of course there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day.” Although the impossibility of rigging an election on such a large scale has been proven, Trump had continued making the claim. Many recognized that the reason he continued making the claim was because he was losing the popular vote. The creator of the cartoon “Gimme the gold,” Mike Luckovich, depicts Trump and his arrogant assertion in the situation of a swimming race in the 2016 Olympics in an attempt to demonstrate how ridiculous the statement is. The cartoon makes an argument about how much more fit and skilled the other candidates are in comparison to Trump, and how the reason Trump is losing is due to how unfit he is for president, not rigging. …show more content…
Although, the cartoon draws from logos the most. For example, the author uses logos when depicting Trump as out of shape and hinting towards his lack of capability and aptitude by putting him in arm floats. One would logically deduct that he would be unable to win in the swimming race when competing against well-fit professionals who have a significant amount of experience swimming. This can be connected to the actual Trump’s lack of political experience and capability to be president in comparison to the other candidates in the author’s perspective. In the illustration, Trump also makes the irrational assumption that losing would mean that the race is rigged. The illustration implies that Trump’s statement, considering how unfit he is for the race, is ridiculous and reflects his
Many political cartoons often contain rhetoric device, such as pathos, ethos, and logos. Ethos often is the speaker, pathos is the audience, logos is the subject. In my political cartoon, Barack Obama is holding an image of the Pope and the Pope is smiling, there is a blurb from Obama saying "Thought you might like this!".
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Now if you look and observe the two kids playing a game that requires the knife in the first boy’s hands you could get a sense that Bingham wanted to suggest it takes very little skill requirement to run as a candidate, that anyone who knew how to run could run and possibly win. The last figure Bingham used was the gentleman who looks as if he’s in complete despair, he probably voted for the “non-popular” candidate, which in this case was the artist himself, and got beaten up by the crowd that favored Bingham over the other candidate.
Clinton uses logos to support her ideas on how to run the country. Logos is the appeal of using logic to assist a statement
Perhaps one of the most notable devices used is Logos, Obama does not speak of the state of the nation without calling out numbers and statistics of the positive effects that recent decisions have had in creating better conditions for the country. In order to get his audience to believe that the change is happening and that the United States have improved greatly the President starts by presenting the results. A few minutes in he begins to speak of how after years of “grueling recession” their businesses have created “over six million new jobs”. He states how now they buy more “American cars” than in the last five years and “less foreign oil” than in the last twenty. After showcasing his proof that the problems that some of the problems that existed before have been eradicated Obama then proceeds ...
In, “The Lie Factory” by Jill Lepore, she examines what attracts a voter to a candidate. “You can put on a fight (‘he likes a good hot battle, with no punches pulled’), or you can put on a show (‘he likes the movies; he likes mysteries; he likes fireworks and parades’): ‘So if you can’t fight, PUT ON A SHOW! And if you put on a good show, Mr. and Mrs. America will turn out to see it.” (Whitaker qtd. in Lepore) In the case of Trump, he combines both fighting and showmanship to create a dangerously alluring combination. The more ostentatious he can be, the more support he earns. Every hateful remark, every verbal jab is given media coverage, until Trump is spoken and known by everyone, becoming an almost mythical figure. He repeats the same mantra, everyone is bad, and I am the victim. I am rich so I will make you rich. I will make America great again. Every day, there is a new more vicious and personal attack, yet he has desensitized us to the point in which we no longer abhor such comments, but instead laugh, and find comedy and entertainment.To some, even acceptance and
It is very common among the United States’ political sphere to rely heavily on T.V. commercials during election season; this is after all the most effective way to spread a message to millions of voters in order to gain their support. The presidential election of 2008 was not the exception; candidates and interest groups spent 2.6 billion dollars on advertising that year from which 2 billion were used exclusively for broadcast television (Seelye 2008.) Although the effectiveness of these advertisements is relatively small compared to the money spent on them (Liasson 2012), it is important for American voters to think critically about the information and arguments presented by these ads. An analysis of the rhetoric in four of the political campaign commercials of the 2008 presidential election reveals the different informal fallacies utilized to gain support for one of the candidates or misguide the public about the opposing candidate.
Good morning Miss. Pimm and boys today I’m going to talk to you about the Gold rush at Ballarat and how it has shaped Australia to how it is today.
Zora Neale Hurston, author of the Gilded Six Bits, has a very unique writing style. The artistry in her story makes it a pleasant, easy read for any audience. The title suggests the story is based around money; but rather if one were to dig deeper the reality of the story is being told around the playfulness of money. Character disposition, an idealistic dialect, and the ability to work past an issue all work together to prove that Joe and Missie May’s lives are not strictly revolved around money.
Popular culture also plays a role in why Americans do not trust politicians. Late-night television shows use politicians in their comedy skits, where their mistakes are punch lines for comedians. A study produced by Jody Baumgartner and Jonathan Morris found that people who view late-night television shows have a more negative view of candidates, (Medvic p. 5). In particular, people who view The Daily Show have drastically less faith in the electoral process, (Medvic p. 5). Russell Peterson argues that these jokes as “implicitly anti-democratic” because they declare the entire system as fraudulent, (Medvic p. 5).
California, the place to turn cant’s into cans and dreams into plans. The same situation and scenarios apply to today and even over one hundred and sixty five years ago. Then and now are not so different, people are thriving or failing from the land of plenty, supplying themselves with knowledge, wealth, or skill to either spread their wings and take flight or crash and burn. Each state in the United States of America has a correlating nickname to either why it’s famous or an explanation of its history. California’s state name is The Golden State, and going all the way back to 1849 is why this was such an influential time for California and all of America. This is the period of the Gold Rush. Reasons why this event was so impeccable, to the development of California, are the years leading up to the discovery, the first findings, the journey, and so much more.
The United States (US) has always had some amount of political division, and this has become much more visible over the years. Much of the American public appears to genuinely believe that the Republicans and Democrats are fundamentally different and that these differences are near unreconcilable. Such beliefs were brutally apparent during the 2016 US Presidential Election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Despite this being the commonality, there are some outliers, some of which suggest that this division is nothing more than a façade. Illustrating his belief that the entire system is a fraudulent sham, Ben Garrison (the Rogue Cartoonist) draws an entity of truly massive proportions, marching onward as ever before whilst crushing people underfoot. Garrison uses a variety of symbolic images, including the enormous figure, the people on the ground, and the large megaphone to represent his perspective on the American political system.
"Jason's Gold" by Will Hobbs has several adventure story elements throughout chapters one and two proving that it is an adventure story. A piece of evidence that proves Jason's Gold is an adventure story is that the main character is up for an adventure. The following shows that Jason will do anything to get to the Klondike Gold Rush. "Jason Hawthorn was desperate to get in on it. After four days of riding the rails he'd reached Minot, North Dakota where he found himself in extremely cramped quarters. Jason was sharing a boxcar with hundreds of bags of flour headed for the Klondike trade in Seattle and two men who looked like blown-in-the-glass-hobos." (Hobbs 7) This shows that Jason was taking a risk to be part of history. This novel
Since sugar contains an addictive sweet flavor and a lot of energy needed for the human, its usage has been increasing since before the industrialization of sugar production. Furthermore, an anthropologist, Sidney W. Mintz, wrote a book called Sweetness and Power describing the journey of making sugar a necessity for almost everyone in the world. As a result, according to Mintz’ book and other researches, after the discovery of sugar by the Europeans in the Middle Ages, the sugar consumers had expanded from only the elites of England then became a necessity for everyone, including the working class.
Adam Smith wrote in his masterpiece, the wealth of nations, “It is the necessary, though very slow and gradual consequence of a certain propensity in human nature which has in view no such extensive utility; the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another” (Smith, 2005). This propensity in human nature led to the development of currency – a medium of exchange accepted by a community of people. For centuries, gold and silver were used around the world as currency; in 1834 the United States, formerly on a bimetallic standard, converted to a gold de facto standard. This policy made it so the dollar was backed by gold at a ratio of $20.67 per ounce. The Gold standard was used until August 15, 1971 when President Richard Nixon