Cartoon Cartoons

A scientific study was conducted on how children would react when supervised violent behavior. From the magazine Scientific America, Greg Toppo elaborated in his article, “Do Video Games Inspire Violent Behavior?”, the serious behavior children can start to interfere in when watching an adult figure make rational violent outbursts. Psychologist Albert Bandura, from Stanford University, conducted an experimental study along with many of his colleagues. His assistants gathered 72 preschoolers into…

identity is when people begin to believe that they are female or male and feel their femininity or masculinity (The Effect of Cartoon Movies on Children 's Gender Development). How individuals behave is socially enforced and valued. We inherit our gender roles mostly from our households and the structure we are raised around whether it is done consciously or not (The Effect of Cartoon Movies on Children 's Gender Development). It is important to first understand how gender identities are…

Alexander H. Stephens was born on February 11, 1812. His parents died while he was fourteen, so he went to live with his uncle General Aaron Greer. He then graduated from Franklin University now known as Georgia University and went on to become politician starting his career in Whig party. Alexander cornerstone speech was followed by the secession of the state of Georgia form the Union. The cornerstone speech marks one of the reason for secession. During the time he gave “Cornerstone Speech” he…

Every year, there is a new controversial state law resulting in a nationwide backlash. As of March 23, 2016, North Carolina officially joined the reign of states that include laws that tear the population apart. In the past year, the United States has made significant progress in the fight for LGBT equality. Over the summer, we watched as the Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges allowed same-sex couples in all 50 states to get legally married, and while the long-lasting battle for the…

situations: he is condemned as a traitor by his people on the reservation, his best friend hates him for leaving, and his grandmother, sister, and his father’s best friend pass away in a short period of time. Throughout all these tragedies, Junior draws cartoons and uses comedy as a way to express his emotions. Junior reacts to the majority of situations with humour, whether it be his hydrocephalic brain, his…

It happens all the time. You’ll see the perfect house and perfect family, laughing, talking and the aurora of happiness. That’s on the silver screen though, not real life. Yes, money can buy a phone, computer, T.V. and sometimes even fame. Is that true happiness though? Is it that time you laughed so hard your stomach started to hurt, cried because a loved one that made you so happy and now they’re gone forever or just having that smile because it was just a good day. Did money buy that joke or…

In 1961, Albert Bandura, Dorothea Ross, and Sheila Ross focused on a child’s ability to model aggressive actions. Prior to this, studies had shown that incidental learning takes place when an adult to a child demonstrates behaviors. No studies until 1961 had been done that tested whether behavior could transfer to settings where the model was no longer present (Bandura, Ross, & Ross, 1961). His experiments with preschool children are used to focus on the negative outcomes of using aggressive…

(Bagley). This cartoon represents the prejudices that arise in social circumstances. Although the Feminist speaker is not harming anyone, people felt so strongly against her opinions that she received death threats. Therefore, in at least some people’s eyes, the feminist speaker is socially dead. However, the artist further depicts the difference in gender prejudices as well. With the woman seeing the death threats and the man only seeing the exist on the feminist speaker, the cartoon reveals a…

The cartoon depicts a market economic system. It highlights the key factors which can influence the entire economic system of a country. The “chop” represents the resources required for the different enterprises (represented by the people seated at the table) to compete. The cartoon also shows that there are limited resources and that each enterprise has to work fast, and smart to succeed. It also highlights the fact that even though all the enterprises are given an equal chance, some are at a…

Before the American Revolution really kicked off, all the colonists from different social classes had to become angry. This soon happened as the majority of the people, including the middle class, became increasingly displeased about the mounting taxation, giving rise to the popular phrase, “no taxation without representation,” coined by Jonathan Mayhew. Mayhew was a minister in Boston, Massachusetts, who like Washington and many other notable figures, greatly opposed the Stamp Act. In a fashion…