In the first portion of this piece, you see that Obama is holding a document saying 'Debt Plan'. He mistakenly thinks that what he's holding is the U.S. SAT Scores, and is therefore saying that test scores are not class warfare. When he learns of his mistake however, he has to chance what he said. I believe that through this the author of this cartoon is implying that our debt plan is being used to wage class warfare and is pitting different sections of our society against one another.
The audience is every member of America, from the very poor, to the middle-class worker, to the wealthy of our nation. The cartoon shows that Obama, and perhaps to some extent our entire government, wishes to pit us against one another. Through the author exposing his point of view, he encourages all Americans to not be lured into such a trap and to stand united, or else divided we will fall.
The cartoon questions Obama or our government's ethos, to willingly turn their citizens against each other and let them devour one another. It uses pathos to raise feelings of outrage by implying that those that are supposed to defend us would do such things to us. I fail to see any logos, as the cartoon gives no supporting evidence for the allegation made.
When Obama says "It's not class warfare" he means the debt plan is not trying to bring tension between different social classes. Obama is trying to explain that the debt plan is not hard to understand, because its "just math." But then he looks at the SAT scores and sees that the scores are terrible. No one understands math, so he is says he rephrase the debt plan without using math.
I can see some pathos in this, because I feel bad for the confused and the uneducated people of America. Ethos is showed a little because of the 'SAT scores' paper, which has real statistics on it.
The audience is the people of America, including the ones affected by the SAT scores and those who are trying to understand the debt plan.
At first, I didn’t understand what the cartoon author was trying to portray. So, I had to look up what class welfare was. Class welfare is tension between members of different social classes. Obama was reading the Debt Plan, which he thought were the SAT scores. Based on the “SAT scores” he thought that the test scores were not class welfare. The author of this cartoon is showing that the debt plan is used to make different social classes go against each other.
This cartoon is showing the government’s ethos because he is basically trying to get America against each other. Also, I feel a sense of pathos because the author is trying to give us an emotional feel. He wants us to change what Obama is doing.
The cartoon is referring to how Obama's plan to get the country out of debt taxes the upper class citizens more than the lower class. He's saying the higher taxes have nothing to do with the social class, it's just the sheer fact that they make so much more money. The joke is made when the man hands Obama the U.S. SAT scores and he doesn't quite have the same policy as the debt plan. The cartoon appeals mostly to pathos because it provides a humorous depiction of Obama and his policies made to draw out your emotions. The intended audience is the United States population in general, everyone from lower class to upper class.
Recently Barack Obama unveiled his 'plan' to cut the national deficit by over 3 trillion dollars. Of course you can count on numerous discrepancies by the one and only G.O.P. Obama's deficit plan would consist of: Increased taxation, and an estimated 1 trillion dollars in saving from the return of our troops in Afghanistan. Obama hypothetically suggests that by increasing and imposing taxation up on upper class that it would even out class discrimination when it comes down to taxes themselves.
During his speech / unveiling of his debt reducing plan, Obama utters the words, "This is not class warfare, It's math", of course immediately this slur is open for ridicule, over speculation, It was a satirical magnet. In turn, this political cartoonist took advantage of the opportunity as he or she saw fit, and slipped factual irony into the equation. Although It was off topic it was effective none the least.
In my opinion the cartoonist objectively displayed the awful predicament we now reside in. Our students are in fact behind in the Mathematics on the global scale. According to numerous surveys, standardized and hypothetical tests, the results speak for themselves.
From what I interpreted this cartoon mostly appealed to Logo's, a direct out-pour of logical justified information. This cartoon stated the facts, and made the reader interpret based on the given information.
The intended audience for this article centralized around those old enough to understand how important education really is, and those able to have fore-sight enough to see how juxtaposing both education and success are in context to one another.
This cartoon is interesting to say the least, however it has been very difficult to decipher, mainly because I think the artist is trying to make multiple points. The artist depicts Obama giving a speech to the press who are attentively watching and listening to everything he says and does. He says, "This isn't class welfare. Its math." He makes the mistake of reading from the wrong page. Here the author is making the implication that the classes are pitted against each other, due to debt plans. Obama sees the SAT scores and realizes his mistake. He tries to correct his error, but there you see the media scribbling furiously to record this fatal leak. Here I feel the artist is taking a stab at two things: Our education system, and the debt plan's effects on society. It is no secret that our country has backtracked educationally. We used to be ranked number one in the world for our education system, but now we are falling far behind. This also reflects on how good or bad a job Obama is doing with our school systems. He has, after all, made multiple speeches and pushes towards a "better education" for all Americans. The other point is the social classes. The artist would appear to be appealing to pathos with a warning cry towards the divides appearing in society due to social class disputes. Their lack of education and knowledge will, ultimately, be their downfall, which is what the artist is warning against. In this sense the artist is appealing to logos and ethos. They are stating facts and building trust so that the viewers may understand and, hopefully, retaliate against this folly.
The cartoon is trying to make more of a statement not about Obama’s debt plan, but about the intelligence level of the general American public. When Obama says that his debt plan is not class warfare, it is simply math, he is trying to get across that anybody who can do simple math can understand that the goal of his plan is not to pit our social classes against each other. In the cartoon, one of his advisors brings him the latest SAT scores, and they show that many of our nation’s young people cannot do simple math! This presents a predicament to the president because he now must rephrase his question in order for the public to be able to understand his debt plan. At the very bottom of our cartoon, we see him going through the SAT scores and seeing that many Americans are also incapable of understanding simple logic or basic English. Because of this, Obama will not be able to get the point of his debt plan across because the citizens are too uneducated to understand that he is not trying to wage wars between people of different socioeconomic statuses.
The audience of the cartoon is every single American citizen. Everyone is affected when people are not capable of understanding how things work. The more educated people are, the better off a country is. We can see this through other countries as well as our own. Our people are scoring lower on tests, and our economy is getting worse, among other things. This fact is definitely an appeal to logos; we are getting the cold, hard facts thrown in our faces by this cartoonist: people in our country are becoming less intelligent, and we can show this through standardized logic test scores. It also has a high appeal to pathos. For the most part, this is through the emotion of anger: One either is asking, “Why are our people so stupid? I can work my butt off and get an education, why can’t everybody else?” or “Is that cartoonist calling me stupid!? Why, that little…”
To some people this may appear to be a cartoon about Obama’s debt plan, or class warfare, but in my opinion it is about an even greater issue: the capabilities of our country as a whole. If people in our country are not intelligent enough to keep the country moving, we have a problem, and not one that should be taken lightly by anybody.
The author has Obama telling a student that it isn't class warfare meaning that its not putting different classes in the direction that they will fight. The author is also showing how uneducated the US is by having Obama with the Debt Plan mistakenly thinking that it is the SAT scores, and if you look at the bottom of the cartoon you see that the author added "Basic logic? no...Basic English?no..." telling us that we have an apparently obvious lack in logic or common sense and grasp of the English language.
Pathos is highly present in this cartoon because it makes me feel bad for everyone who has little to no education. Also Ethos is applied because the SAT scored are the facts on just how uneducated the US really is.
In my opinion, I feel that this cartoon is directed mostly at the government. We have too many government officials that just are not as educated as they should be.
An appeal to Ethos would be the likeness of Obama, who has enough renown to be recognized easily. Pathos is appealed to by the recognition of the SAT, in the sense that a familiar and likely clear memory of the test is etched into the majority of US citizens. The targeted audience is the American public as a whole.
As I nonchalantly typed "class welfare" into dictionary.com, a somewhat humorous thought ran through my mind.I chuckled to myself, and let the thought simmer and saute through my mind just a little longer. Being a junior in high school, the extreme thought of SAT's even gives me the shivers. Obama has confused the debt plan, and states that its 'just math' and not rocket science. Anybody can figure it out, right? WRONG. Handed to him are the disappointing SAT scores, which of course ,are below average. He had made the mistake of talking too soon and then tries to quickly correct his error, though it's far too late and every little remark has been recorded.
Clearly taking a stab at pathos, we are left to feel like imbeciles. Uneducated and no where to go, American's are hitting an all time low. Which leads me to the targeted audience which would be America as a whole.
Obama is trying to speak to the american voters and people that are skeptical of his plan that it is basic, simple and logical, and that the plan is simple math, but then when Obama is shown the us SAT scores the author is trying to say that the US people are too unintelligent to understand the basic math. The author is trying to speak to the American people, almost insulting the people who are against his bill saying they are too stupid to understand it. The article appeals to ethos, because Obama is an easily recognizable person and generally well liked. I believe that making the people who have more money give it to the government means less jobs created by the wealthy. I believe we need to reform the tax code, not raise taxes on the job creaters.
This political cartoon is making fun of Obama saying this statement just like the Daily Show did. Obama said, "It's not class warfare, it's math." Obama saying this is supposed to calm Americans down by saying, "It's not class warfare, it's math." but in all honesty it's not. Americans as a whole are not great at math. The U.S. is ranked 24 out of 29 when it comes to math literacy. The audience is U.S. citizens. This cartoon is letting the U.S. know what's going on with the debt plan. I think that this cartoon appeals mainly to pathos. I think that it's drawing up the emotion of nervousness. If Obamas doesn't really know how to phrase his plan, how can we have faith that it's going to work? I also think that it appeals to ethos because it uses Obama who is a widely known character, and it uses the SAT which is a vastly known test. And on a side note, this is the second blog that I've had to redo my answer to because it got deleted when I clicked the "Post Comment" button. Could you please fix it if you know how? Thank you.
Barack Obama is addressing the public on the U.S. SAT scores when in reality he is suppose to be talking about the debt plan. He is saying that the SATs aren’t class warfare, but math. When it comes to his attention that he isn’t speaking about U.S. SAT scores he immediately tries to rescind his past words. I think this means that the debt plan is pinning people of different classes against one another, but that our government doesn’t want the general public to know this fact.
The audience is American citizens. The debt plan affects them in one way or another no matter what class they may belong to. Classes of citizens will fight each other unknowingly if they don’t stay informed on the issues as people can be taken advantage of if they don’t really know what is going on, but choose to go along with it anyway.
The cartoonist makes appeals to ethos and pathos. He appeals to ethos by standing on the side of the American citizens and warning them of the government’s plans for class warfare. He gains trust by standing with the common people rather than the government which wishes to take advantage of American citizens. He also appeals to pathos by trying to make his audience feel angry at being used by our government in this deceitful manner. No real facts are presented so there are no appeals to logos that are apparent to me.
The audience, I believe, are those that pay taxes, take the SATs, and got off to war. The appeals that are made are logos and pathos.
Logos is there because it talks about class warfare, the debt America has, and the SAT scores. I think that if they lower the debt and pay more attention in improving schools then there would be no need to worry about the SAT scores or the debt.
I believe that the audience of this cartoon is people taking the SAT test. Because most believe that their grading the SATs with what race you are. And Obama is stating that it isn't class warfare, but that it's math, basic logic or simple English. I think this appeal to pathos. Pathos because the SAT scores can be very emotional to some people. Some SAT scores depends what colleges will accept you. To get in the Air Force Academy, you have to score above or at their averages for the SAT or ACT. It also appeals to ethos because it is in our character to judge people based on what race they are and where they came from. It shouldn't matter where or what you are, because if you just study for the test and do well. Then you should be fine.
In the first portion of this piece, you see that Obama is holding a document saying 'Debt Plan'. He mistakenly thinks that what he's holding is the U.S. SAT Scores, and is therefore saying that test scores are not class warfare. When he learns of his mistake however, he has to chance what he said. I believe that through this the author of this cartoon is implying that our debt plan is being used to wage class warfare and is pitting different sections of our society against one another.
ReplyDeleteThe audience is every member of America, from the very poor, to the middle-class worker, to the wealthy of our nation. The cartoon shows that Obama, and perhaps to some extent our entire government, wishes to pit us against one another. Through the author exposing his point of view, he encourages all Americans to not be lured into such a trap and to stand united, or else divided we will fall.
The cartoon questions Obama or our government's ethos, to willingly turn their citizens against each other and let them devour one another. It uses pathos to raise feelings of outrage by implying that those that are supposed to defend us would do such things to us. I fail to see any logos, as the cartoon gives no supporting evidence for the allegation made.
When Obama says "It's not class warfare" he means the debt plan is not trying to bring tension between different social classes. Obama is trying to explain that the debt plan is not hard to understand, because its "just math." But then he looks at the SAT scores and sees that the scores are terrible. No one understands math, so he is says he rephrase the debt plan without using math.
ReplyDeleteI can see some pathos in this, because I feel bad for the confused and the uneducated people of America. Ethos is showed a little because of the 'SAT scores' paper, which has real statistics on it.
The audience is the people of America, including the ones affected by the SAT scores and those who are trying to understand the debt plan.
At first, I didn’t understand what the cartoon author was trying to portray. So, I had to look up what class welfare was. Class welfare is tension between members of different social classes. Obama was reading the Debt Plan, which he thought were the SAT scores. Based on the “SAT scores” he thought that the test scores were not class welfare. The author of this cartoon is showing that the debt plan is used to make different social classes go against each other.
ReplyDeleteThis cartoon is showing the government’s ethos because he is basically trying to get America against each other. Also, I feel a sense of pathos because the author is trying to give us an emotional feel. He wants us to change what Obama is doing.
The cartoon is referring to how Obama's plan to get the country out of debt taxes the upper class citizens more than the lower class. He's saying the higher taxes have nothing to do with the social class, it's just the sheer fact that they make so much more money. The joke is made when the man hands Obama the U.S. SAT scores and he doesn't quite have the same policy as the debt plan. The cartoon appeals mostly to pathos because it provides a humorous depiction of Obama and his policies made to draw out your emotions. The intended audience is the United States population in general, everyone from lower class to upper class.
ReplyDeleteRecently Barack Obama unveiled his 'plan' to cut the national deficit by over 3 trillion dollars. Of course you can count on numerous discrepancies by the one and only G.O.P. Obama's deficit plan would consist of: Increased taxation, and an estimated 1 trillion dollars in saving from the return of our troops in Afghanistan. Obama hypothetically suggests that by increasing and imposing taxation up on upper class that it would even out class discrimination when it comes down to taxes themselves.
ReplyDeleteDuring his speech / unveiling of his debt reducing plan, Obama utters the words, "This is not class warfare, It's math", of course immediately this slur is open for ridicule, over speculation, It was a satirical magnet. In turn, this political cartoonist took advantage of the opportunity as he or she saw fit, and slipped factual irony into the equation. Although It was off topic it was effective none the least.
In my opinion the cartoonist objectively displayed the awful predicament we now reside in. Our students are in fact behind in the Mathematics on the global scale. According to numerous surveys, standardized and hypothetical tests, the results speak for themselves.
From what I interpreted this cartoon mostly appealed to Logo's, a direct out-pour of logical justified information. This cartoon stated the facts, and made the reader interpret based on the given information.
The intended audience for this article centralized around those old enough to understand how important education really is, and those able to have fore-sight enough to see how juxtaposing both education and success are in context to one another.
This cartoon is interesting to say the least, however it has been very difficult to decipher, mainly because I think the artist is trying to make multiple points.
ReplyDeleteThe artist depicts Obama giving a speech to the press who are attentively watching and listening to everything he says and does. He says, "This isn't class welfare. Its math." He makes the mistake of reading from the wrong page. Here the author is making the implication that the classes are pitted against each other, due to debt plans. Obama sees the SAT scores and realizes his mistake. He tries to correct his error, but there you see the media scribbling furiously to record this fatal leak. Here I feel the artist is taking a stab at two things: Our education system, and the debt plan's effects on society.
It is no secret that our country has backtracked educationally. We used to be ranked number one in the world for our education system, but now we are falling far behind. This also reflects on how good or bad a job Obama is doing with our school systems. He has, after all, made multiple speeches and pushes towards a "better education" for all Americans. The other point is the social classes. The artist would appear to be appealing to pathos with a warning cry towards the divides appearing in society due to social class disputes. Their lack of education and knowledge will, ultimately, be their downfall, which is what the artist is warning against.
In this sense the artist is appealing to logos and ethos. They are stating facts and building trust so that the viewers may understand and, hopefully, retaliate against this folly.
The cartoon is trying to make more of a statement not about Obama’s debt plan, but about the intelligence level of the general American public. When Obama says that his debt plan is not class warfare, it is simply math, he is trying to get across that anybody who can do simple math can understand that the goal of his plan is not to pit our social classes against each other. In the cartoon, one of his advisors brings him the latest SAT scores, and they show that many of our nation’s young people cannot do simple math! This presents a predicament to the president because he now must rephrase his question in order for the public to be able to understand his debt plan. At the very bottom of our cartoon, we see him going through the SAT scores and seeing that many Americans are also incapable of understanding simple logic or basic English. Because of this, Obama will not be able to get the point of his debt plan across because the citizens are too uneducated to understand that he is not trying to wage wars between people of different socioeconomic statuses.
ReplyDeleteThe audience of the cartoon is every single American citizen. Everyone is affected when people are not capable of understanding how things work. The more educated people are, the better off a country is. We can see this through other countries as well as our own. Our people are scoring lower on tests, and our economy is getting worse, among other things. This fact is definitely an appeal to logos; we are getting the cold, hard facts thrown in our faces by this cartoonist: people in our country are becoming less intelligent, and we can show this through standardized logic test scores. It also has a high appeal to pathos. For the most part, this is through the emotion of anger: One either is asking, “Why are our people so stupid? I can work my butt off and get an education, why can’t everybody else?” or “Is that cartoonist calling me stupid!? Why, that little…”
To some people this may appear to be a cartoon about Obama’s debt plan, or class warfare, but in my opinion it is about an even greater issue: the capabilities of our country as a whole. If people in our country are not intelligent enough to keep the country moving, we have a problem, and not one that should be taken lightly by anybody.
The author has Obama telling a student that it isn't class warfare meaning that its not putting different classes in the direction that they will fight. The author is also showing how uneducated the US is by having Obama with the Debt Plan mistakenly thinking that it is the SAT scores, and if you look at the bottom of the cartoon you see that the author added "Basic logic? no...Basic English?no..." telling us that we have an apparently obvious lack in logic or common sense and grasp of the English language.
ReplyDeletePathos is highly present in this cartoon because it makes me feel bad for everyone who has little to no education. Also Ethos is applied because the SAT scored are the facts on just how uneducated the US really is.
In my opinion, I feel that this cartoon is directed mostly at the government. We have too many government officials that just are not as educated as they should be.
An appeal to Ethos would be the likeness of Obama, who has enough renown to be recognized easily.
ReplyDeletePathos is appealed to by the recognition of the SAT, in the sense that a familiar and likely clear memory of the test is etched into the majority of US citizens.
The targeted audience is the American public as a whole.
As I nonchalantly typed "class welfare" into dictionary.com, a somewhat humorous thought ran through my mind.I chuckled to myself, and let the thought simmer and saute through my mind just a little longer. Being a junior in high school, the extreme thought of SAT's even gives me the shivers. Obama has confused the debt plan, and states that its 'just math' and not rocket science. Anybody can figure it out, right? WRONG. Handed to him are the disappointing SAT scores, which of course ,are below average. He had made the mistake of talking too soon and then tries to quickly correct his error, though it's far too late and every little remark has been recorded.
ReplyDeleteClearly taking a stab at pathos, we are left to feel like imbeciles. Uneducated and no where to go, American's are hitting an all time low. Which leads me to the targeted audience which would be America as a whole.
Obama is trying to speak to the american voters and people that are skeptical of his plan that it is basic, simple and logical, and that the plan is simple math, but then when Obama is shown the us SAT scores the author is trying to say that the US people are too unintelligent to understand the basic math.
ReplyDeleteThe author is trying to speak to the American people, almost insulting the people who are against his bill saying they are too stupid to understand it. The article appeals to ethos, because Obama is an easily recognizable person and generally well liked. I believe that making the people who have more money give it to the government means less jobs created by the wealthy. I believe we need to reform the tax code, not raise taxes on the job creaters.
This political cartoon is making fun of Obama saying this statement just like the Daily Show did. Obama said, "It's not class warfare, it's math." Obama saying this is supposed to calm Americans down by saying, "It's not class warfare, it's math." but in all honesty it's not. Americans as a whole are not great at math. The U.S. is ranked 24 out of 29 when it comes to math literacy.
ReplyDeleteThe audience is U.S. citizens. This cartoon is letting the U.S. know what's going on with the debt plan.
I think that this cartoon appeals mainly to pathos. I think that it's drawing up the emotion of nervousness. If Obamas doesn't really know how to phrase his plan, how can we have faith that it's going to work? I also think that it appeals to ethos because it uses Obama who is a widely known character, and it uses the SAT which is a vastly known test. And on a side note, this is the second blog that I've had to redo my answer to because it got deleted when I clicked the "Post Comment" button. Could you please fix it if you know how? Thank you.
Barack Obama is addressing the public on the U.S. SAT scores when in reality he is suppose to be talking about the debt plan. He is saying that the SATs aren’t class warfare, but math. When it comes to his attention that he isn’t speaking about U.S. SAT scores he immediately tries to rescind his past words. I think this means that the debt plan is pinning people of different classes against one another, but that our government doesn’t want the general public to know this fact.
ReplyDeleteThe audience is American citizens. The debt plan affects them in one way or another no matter what class they may belong to. Classes of citizens will fight each other unknowingly if they don’t stay informed on the issues as people can be taken advantage of if they don’t really know what is going on, but choose to go along with it anyway.
The cartoonist makes appeals to ethos and pathos. He appeals to ethos by standing on the side of the American citizens and warning them of the government’s plans for class warfare. He gains trust by standing with the common people rather than the government which wishes to take advantage of American citizens. He also appeals to pathos by trying to make his audience feel angry at being used by our government in this deceitful manner. No real facts are presented so there are no appeals to logos that are apparent to me.
The audience, I believe, are those that pay taxes, take the SATs, and got off to war. The appeals that are made are logos and pathos.
ReplyDeleteLogos is there because it talks about class warfare, the debt America has, and the SAT scores. I think that if they lower the debt and pay more attention in improving schools then there would be no need to worry about the SAT scores or the debt.
I believe that the audience of this cartoon is people taking the SAT test. Because most believe that their grading the SATs with what race you are. And Obama is stating that it isn't class warfare, but that it's math, basic logic or simple English.
ReplyDeleteI think this appeal to pathos. Pathos because the SAT scores can be very emotional to some people. Some SAT scores depends what colleges will accept you. To get in the Air Force Academy, you have to score above or at their averages for the SAT or ACT. It also appeals to ethos because it is in our character to judge people based on what race they are and where they came from. It shouldn't matter where or what you are, because if you just study for the test and do well. Then you should be fine.