In your blog please analyze the above cartoon which was originally published in the New York Times on June 10, 1911.
As part of your analysis please address the following:
What are the main visual elements?
What issue is this political cartoon about?
What is the cartoonist’s opinion on this issue?
What evidence in the cartoon leads you to believe that the author feels this way?
What other techniques could the cartoonist have used to make this cartoon more persuasive?

The main visual elements of this cartoon would have to be the big man with the ribbon that says "capitalism", the man he is holding labeled "labor" and the bags of money below that say "profits from child labor". Obviously, this cartoon is about Capitalism, and how unfair it is. The big man seems to be shaking money out of the laborer, and then has bags and bags of money from child labor. The cartoonist doesn't seem to like the idea of capitalism, and makes it seem like the only people who benefit it are the owners of companies, not the workers. I think he also finds the factory owners greedy. I think this because of how he makes the man shaking the laborer so much larger, and how the man is shaking the laborer's money on the bags and bags of money he already has.

image from:http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/laborpress/images/Socialist Voice

Feedback

This week marks the mid-point of the first quarter. Please review your humanities goals for the quarter (posted on your BLOG) and evaluate how well you are meeting them at this point. Revise your goals if you need to.

My first goal was to keep up with my homework, and so far I've been doing well. I've had everything turned in on time, and finished everything else by the due date. I hope to keep this up throughout the year. My second goal was to really understand what we're learning in class, and again, I've been trying my best to do that. When I didn't understand something, I went home and researched it some more on my own time, which has really helped me in class. I also hope to keep this up as the year progresses.

Industrial Revolution Pros/Cons

One of our essential questions this quarter is: What is the “net effect” of the Industrial Revolution? To begin thinking about this question please begin to create a list of positives and negatives of the Industrial Revolution. Make sure you explain yourself well enough that a person not familiar with the IR would be able to understand your ideas from reading your post.


Pros

• In the beginning, more women and children were needed to work, so more people had jobs which meant more money.
• Industries began to boom, causing entire countries to become wealthier.
• When machines were introduced, products could be made more efficiently, for a cheaper price.
• Faster transportation, so goods could be transported quicker and goods could be solder faster.
  

Cons

• Because machines produced goods faster, more people lost their jobs.
• Children were forced to work, because of their small size, so they were forced to climb into machines, which was very dangerous.
• Countries became polluted due to excess use of coal.
• Destroyed arable land to make factories.