Predictions of the Future

1)  A bit over 50 years ago, the TV show the Jetsons premiered about a family living in the year 2062, and this was essentially a show that predicted what the future would be like.

• Robots
• TV watches (AppleWatch)
• TV
• Flatscreen TVs

2) Wishlist of things I want in the future:

• A car that I don't have to drive, a car that can be given directions and reach the destination on it's own. That'd save SO many people from car wrecks, and drunk driving. Plus road trips would be so much easier because driving all night is no issue.

3)Most of what the Jetsons predicted would be happening by the year 2062 has in fact become a reality. Some of the technology predicted in the 60s isn't yet possible to be made.

4) The trend I see is that the Jetsons predicted small inventions that created a futuristic world. Most of these include something to do with television or or telephones

5) I see a future similar to the world we live in now but with higher developed technology and I see technology being used more frequently in schools

6) how much control do we have over the future? as individuals? as groups? Government? 

If we aren't who/what is?

I believe that as individuals we have the power to create something that can change the future, I don't think that specific groups or governments can "control" anything about the future. they can design things to help direct the path of the future, but nothing is certain.

Eddie Aikau Documentary Analysis

1. I believe that this story was entitled "Hawaiian, the Legend of Eddie Aikau" because Eddie really was a true Hawaiian, he was very connected with his family and loved the culture of his ancestors, and he tried to keep that passion alive through the medium of surfing.
2. The angle of this film is that Eddie fought  to preserve the culture of his family and ancestors alive through surfing.
3. The content of this documentary is shaped by ESPN by their serious focus on Eddie's surfing career. ESPN was expecting it's audience to want to see action and sports, and that why so much was taken away from other aspects of his life.
4. If it had been made by the standpoint of PBS or the History channel, it would have been much less of a focus on his surfing career so much as his other accomplishments that made him a legend


6. If I were a documentarian focusing on Roosevelt's play in American Imperialism following McKinley's assassination in 1901. He had already had a heavy hand when McKinley was president, but progress was made under Roosevelt. If I were tasked with filming a documentary, it would be about that progress and how it got the US where it is today.

How do you analyze a political cartoon?

What I  already know about analyzing political cartoons:

These cartoons are usually filled with literary devices such as symbols, metaphors, and irony

Looking for these things in the cartoons will make them easier to understand. Sarcasm typically seems to be a theme in political cartoons, and generally the angle of the cartoons in disapproving of the political matter being expressed.  If you don't understand the event being referenced in the cartoon, then you won't understand what the cartoon is trying to communicate to you (the audience).

What I didn't know/ What I learned: 

Exaggeration is often a very large part of political cartoons, and labels are given to things so the audience knows exactly what the cartoonist is discussing.

Going forward:

As I continue analyzing political cartoons, the following will be by analysis process:

1. Look at the illustration as a whole
2. Look a little bit closer at the individual parts of the cartoon.
3. Find devices that carry the cartoonist's message
4. hypothesize what the image is about and what the author's angle is

Cartoon 1:



This is a cartoon depicting 3 children holding hands and the American flag. The caption reads "Hurrah for the fourth of July! We're coming in on independence day celebrations, too."
The cartoonist is making a negative statement on the US "adopting" territories.

Cartoon 2:

Uncle Sam is opening the gate to the Philippines for other countries to come in and stay.

Cartoon 3:



Uncle Sam not knowing that to do with the Philippine islands.



I analyzed each of these cartoons by using the process I wrote earlier in my post which seemed to be useful, because I was able to understand the cartoons rather easily.

Sources:

Guide to analysis

Phrenology Observation Research

Today I did some observations on my classmates about how they researched an artifact. I first did my own observations of the object from a distance, I ask my own questions so I knew how I to prompt the group. They each took a different approach to their initial google search, one person searched the artist, another the title and the author, and my last group member searched the artist, title, and the company that produces the replicas.
The group immediately separated what is true and fake about the information on the bust. For example, different parts of the brain do in fact have specific functions, however the diagram on the bust is completely inaccurate.



this is similar to the bust we examined today