Well to me this picture is portraying all the things that are being weighed on Obama. It's like Obama has to clean up Bush's mess and people are forgetting that he is only human and yes he is the president and he has to do his job. Many people are just waiting for Obama to screw just to say he shouldn't have won but even if he does screw up it won't be as worse of a job compared to what Bush did. The picture has the world on Obama's shoulder along with the extra problems and of course it's weighing him down. On the other hand though the country needs to give him time to do his job...im pretty sure he knows what he is doing!
The cartoon depicting the financial system uses ethos to evoke anger and frustration out of the reader because the cartoon is right in saying that basically every situation is a lose lose situation, the little guy always gets stepped on. The fact that this explanation is occurring in a man's dream is showing that Americans are concerned about this problem and think about it constantly.
The cartoon is portraying that President Obama has significant amount of weight on his shoulders. However, I would also like to draw attention to how President Obama is depicted in those cartoons. He is depicted as small and weak. He is struggling to hold up the world. Which I think demonstrates how our media today is so yellow. The media today looks at everything through yellow eyes, just as President Obama is depicted as weak, instead of strong and capable of handling these problems. I would also like to call attention to how President Obama is depicted in the cartoon to be carrying the "weight of the world" on his shoulders. It signifies two things. One it signifies how this economic depression has spread beyond our borders and to the world. It also represents how many other countries are dependent on the United States to succeed. So if the United States is struggling they will struggle too.
Atlas was a mythological man that was bound to hold the earth upright as his duty to all of man and gods, never receiving a break. By comparing Obama to such a man who never takes a break, the images illustrate how much the American people have put onto the president's shoulder, and that all eyes are upon him. This outlook on the president is very truthful when it comes to representing the majority of people. If anything goes wrong in the DOW or someone loses their house it becomes Obama's problem and he must fix it. This outlook can only be tolerated for so long before the man that was elected will be shaped to a tired, stressed and unproductive leader.
whoa zahraa slow your roll. put one at a time :) haha just kidding.
the last cartoon creates a sense of pathos because it displays the financial status we're in. the cartoon shows the companies as hogs that gobble up the american money, waste it on a whim, make it fail and wait for the government to step in and clean their mess up like pigs do in the stables. they're loud, disgusting, filthy, greedy and they never clean up their own mess. the man in the cartoon woke up with a start saying "whoa! that's not suppposed to happen!" becuase he knows where all his tax money is going, he knows he's never going to get it back.
The first cartoon depicts the great expectations that will follow Obama during his presidency. Considering his campaign was based so much on hope, people see him as a shining beacon of light that will get us through these dark times. However, that does not mean that American citizens will not be quick to criticize. We all have to remember that Obama inherited eight years worth of mistakes that he has to solve. Something the American public needs to realize is that he is human, and he will make mistakes. The problem for Obama is that he has such little room for error that one small mistake can trigger an even worse situation that our current one. The first two cartoons show him as struggling beneath all of this weight, struggling, but still standing. The financial cartoon demonstrates ethos considering how the dream of wall street returning the taxpayer's money is nothing but a dream. It does seem that in a moral society wall street would give back once it has recovered, but sadly that will not happen.
To me these cartoons depict how the media has built up so much trust from the public that Obama will easily solve all our problems when in reality it could be to much for him to handle. So the pressure is high on him because if he succeeds it will be expected, but if he fails, it will be even worse than it would have been.
to go along with what lacey said about atlas, the first two visuals depict obama as something of an atlas, who was forced to hold the world on his shoulders. this allusion sets up a pathos image with a struggling obama underneath a heavy eye in one picture, and under a heavy weighted world in the other, so that maybe whoever sees it might feel sorry for obama. the eye is a very good representation and symbol of the world watching obama as he makes a miraculous attempt to clean up all of the filth, represented by the weights on the world in the second picture, that has contaminated our world in the recent times.
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Well to me this picture is portraying all the things that are being weighed on Obama. It's like Obama has to clean up Bush's mess and people are forgetting that he is only human and yes he is the president and he has to do his job. Many people are just waiting for Obama to screw just to say he shouldn't have won but even if he does screw up it won't be as worse of a job compared to what Bush did. The picture has the world on Obama's shoulder along with the extra problems and of course it's weighing him down. On the other hand though the country needs to give him time to do his job...im pretty sure he knows what he is doing!
The cartoon depicting the financial system uses ethos to evoke anger and frustration out of the reader because the cartoon is right in saying that basically every situation is a lose lose situation, the little guy always gets stepped on. The fact that this explanation is occurring in a man's dream is showing that Americans are concerned about this problem and think about it constantly.
The cartoon is portraying that President Obama has significant amount of weight on his shoulders. However, I would also like to draw attention to how President Obama is depicted in those cartoons. He is depicted as small and weak. He is struggling to hold up the world. Which I think demonstrates how our media today is so yellow. The media today looks at everything through yellow eyes, just as President Obama is depicted as weak, instead of strong and capable of handling these problems.
I would also like to call attention to how President Obama is depicted in the cartoon to be carrying the "weight of the world" on his shoulders. It signifies two things. One it signifies how this economic depression has spread beyond our borders and to the world. It also represents how many other countries are dependent on the United States to succeed. So if the United States is struggling they will struggle too.
Atlas was a mythological man that was bound to hold the earth upright as his duty to all of man and gods, never receiving a break. By comparing Obama to such a man who never takes a break, the images illustrate how much the American people have put onto the president's shoulder, and that all eyes are upon him. This outlook on the president is very truthful when it comes to representing the majority of people. If anything goes wrong in the DOW or someone loses their house it becomes Obama's problem and he must fix it. This outlook can only be tolerated for so long before the man that was elected will be shaped to a tired, stressed and unproductive leader.
whoa zahraa slow your roll. put one at a time :) haha just kidding.
the last cartoon creates a sense of pathos because it displays the financial status we're in. the cartoon shows the companies as hogs that gobble up the american money, waste it on a whim, make it fail and wait for the government to step in and clean their mess up like pigs do in the stables. they're loud, disgusting, filthy, greedy and they never clean up their own mess.
the man in the cartoon woke up with a start saying "whoa! that's not suppposed to happen!" becuase he knows where all his tax money is going, he knows he's never going to get it back.
The first cartoon depicts the great expectations that will follow Obama during his presidency. Considering his campaign was based so much on hope, people see him as a shining beacon of light that will get us through these dark times. However, that does not mean that American citizens will not be quick to criticize. We all have to remember that Obama inherited eight years worth of mistakes that he has to solve. Something the American public needs to realize is that he is human, and he will make mistakes. The problem for Obama is that he has such little room for error that one small mistake can trigger an even worse situation that our current one. The first two cartoons show him as struggling beneath all of this weight, struggling, but still standing. The financial cartoon demonstrates ethos considering how the dream of wall street returning the taxpayer's money is nothing but a dream. It does seem that in a moral society wall street would give back once it has recovered, but sadly that will not happen.
To me these cartoons depict how the media has built up so much trust from the public that Obama will easily solve all our problems when in reality it could be to much for him to handle. So the pressure is high on him because if he succeeds it will be expected, but if he fails, it will be even worse than it would have been.
to go along with what lacey said about atlas, the first two visuals depict obama as something of an atlas, who was forced to hold the world on his shoulders.
this allusion sets up a pathos image with a struggling obama underneath a heavy eye in one picture, and under a heavy weighted world in the other, so that maybe whoever sees it might feel sorry for obama.
the eye is a very good representation and symbol of the world watching obama as he makes a miraculous attempt to clean up all of the filth, represented by the weights on the world in the second picture, that has contaminated our world in the recent times.
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