Discussion

8509Week 1 Discussion
Discussion Topic

By the due date assigned, compose a two- or three-paragraph response in which you analyze the photograph below. Answer the following questions in your analysis:

Identify the scene or situation depicted.
Identify each figure in the photo.
What details of scene or person(s) carry significance?
How does the photograph make you feel?
What is the purpose of the image?
Peer Responses

By the end of the week, comment on at least two of your classmates’ submissions. Your replies to classmates should extend their analysis and draw comparisons or contrasts with your own analysis of the image.

Figure 1: In this July 3, 2017 photo provided by Jolene Jackinsky, former U.S. President Barack Obama holds Jackinsky’s 6-month-old baby girl while posing for a selfie with the pair at a waiting area

Figure 1: In this July 3, 2017 photo provided by Jolene Jackinsky, former U.S. President Barack Obama holds Jackinsky’s 6-month-old baby girl while posing for a selfie with the pair at a waiting area at Anchorage International Airport, in Anchorage, Alaska.

Source: Jolene Jackinsky, AP

Reference

Jackinsky, J. (2017, July 3). In this July 3, 2017 photo provided by Jolene Jackinsky, former U.S. President Barack Obama holds Jackinsky’s 6-month-old baby girl while posing for a selfie with the pair at a waiting area at Anchorage International Airport, in Anchorage, Alaska. Jackinsky said Obama walked up to her and asked, “Who is this pretty girl?” [Photograph]. https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/7c613de52d34b13b03b02a1f64806ff26364e665/c=21-0-518-888/local/-/media/2017/07/08/USATODAY/USATODAY/636351093371981752-AP-OBAMA-ALASKA-AIRPORT-STOP-92232503.JPG?width=580&height=1031&fit=crop

Week 1 Project
Discussion Topic
Task: Reply to this topic
Overdue – July 18 at 11:59 PM
By the due date assigned, compose a two- or three-paragraph response in which you analyze the political cartoon below.

Prompt
In two or three paragraphs, answer the following questions as you analyze the cartoon:

• What scene is depicted? Identify the situation.
• Identify each of the figures in the cartoon. Are they current politicians, figures from history or literature, the “person in the street,” or symbolic representations?
• Who speaks the lines in the cartoon?
• What is the cartoon’s general subject? What is the point of the cartoon, the claim of the cartoonist?

Peer Responses
By the end of the week, comment on at least two of your classmates’ submissions. Your replies to classmates should extend their analysis and draw comparisons or contrasts with your own analysis of the image.

© 2012 Jim Morin/Morintoons Syndicate. Reprinted with permission.

References:
Morin, Jim. (2012). Mars Landing [Cartoon]. The Miami Herald. https://www.centralmaine.com/2012/08/09/todays-editorial-cartoon-mars-landing-armed-and-dangerous/