Satire
ANDREA MARTINEZ
Putin-Ray Parody
The artist uses the famous Ray Charles and his famous song "Georgia on My Mind" as his inspiration for this cartoon. Ray Charles was a famous singer from the 1950's; he was known for soul music and his fusions of music genres. This allusion of the life of Ray Charles ridicules Russian President Vladimir Putin and his ideas on the addition of the Crimean Peninsula to Russia. Russia's taking over of the Crimean Peninsula was executed with what seemed to be without resistance hence the part of his song "No response you find when I invade Ukraine." This cartoon was created with the intent to stir up action and create interest in the subject of Russia's current affairs.
The Juvenalian Lounge
Anyone interested in going to college has many options when the time comes around, but in recent years colleges aim to obtain only a certain diversity of certain ethnic students. This cartoon illuminates the issue of unfair practices among these institutions. Many issues, like those in the illustration of same-sex marriage and racial admissions discrimination, in the United States exist because of corrupt human beings and institutions. The lectures that are available contradict each other and would make their audience confused.
Irony of The Classroom Situation
In this cartoon, the studying children are representative of what is expected from the No Child Left Behind Act, and the young lady admiring the interests outside the window represents all creativeness and enjoyment that schools have been told to get rid of because of this act. The classroom contains brainwashed students and should only contain students like the young girl- happy. Law demanded educational systems have greatly changed school curriculum. This ironic situation is created by state regulated curriculum and what is not included of the curriculum. Everything that isn't included in the curriculum of school systems is all the things visible outside.
Farce Fishes
The impossible situation of Obama swimming with talking fish is a comedic situation because the fish joke about Obama being a "clownfish." Obama is being laughed at because of Obamacare's unsuccessful outcome. Obamacare was intended to create jobs and give health insurance to every person that needed it. He continues to tell everyone about the help, even though the help is useless. This political cartoon makes fun of his attempt to create a useful health care act.