Wednesday, March 2, 2011

political cartoon #1

RJ Matson - The St. Louis Post Dispatch -  - English -



        In this cartoon a guy is buying gas and he is wondering which would be cheaper to buy.  On the gas pump it says Egypt and Libya.  The gas pumps say Egypt and Libya because both of those places are in political wars. On the guys jacket it says USA.  The artist is trying to say that the only country in the Middle East that the United States carres about is which one will give us more oil.
        This cartoon are relative to the prices in the stock market, a subject we are on in class.  Not only do Americans need gasoline for transportation, but alot of big companies depend on oil to power their factories.  If companies have to pay more for gas, then their stock prices might go down because less people will buy gasoline.  This means that stock prices might go up and then people could make money buy buying stocks now and then selling them later.  The message influences readers because the guy who represents the USA looks like a senseless idiot who doesn't care what is happening around the room.  People see this guy and say "I don't want to be like that" and they start paying attention to whats happening, especially in the Middle East.

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