Perspectives

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    For the cartoon I chose The perspective on "What She Wore".  And I chose the essay" Has Male Bashing Gone Too Far?"  Both essay and cartoon come from chapter 6 called "perspectives on gender" in the Contemporary reader.  They both relate to the chapter title by explaining gender issues.  In the cartoon The male is judging  house speaker Pelosi on the way she looks and what she is dressed in while in the essay it's males that get bashed instead of the women.  The essay talks about how men feel being bashed on television.  and how it effects a society as a whole.  Both cartoon and essay   are good examples of what its like in the real world.  I feel That if no one judged anyone like this there wouldn't be as many problems.
      The second cartoon I chose is "The new American Family" and the essay I chose was "Numbers Drop for the Married-With- Children"  Both cartoon and essay came from chapter 9 called" Domestic Affairs: The Family in Flux".  The cartoon shows a family who is all broken up and is trying to introduce themselves as a family.  One child is from the mother another child is from the father and then the third one is from both.  The cartoon is trying to show that now a days its very rare that you actually have families that aren't split up.  Which comes to the essay I chose called "Numbers Drop for Married-With-Children".  This essay talks about how more and more people are staying together because of their children.

In my opinion I found the cartoons more effective in the book than the essay's.  The essay's were good examples I just found the cartoon's easier to respond to because they got down to the main point instead of the essay's that pick a certain topic.
The cartoon I chose that came from the internet is about a family who is now doing everything on the computer.  For example, the dad shows he's spending time with his son by talking to him on the computer and the mom says shes making a family dinner but really she's using the computer to make a dinner.  The whole point of this cartoon I think is that the author was trying to say that technology pretty much runs everyones lives.  people cant be a family anymore because they dont know how to.  I feel this cartoon kind of means the same as the other family cartoon but not in the exact same ways. 

 

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