Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Sam vs Obama


Analyze the following cartoon.



What do you think it says about the United States, what does it say about yourself?

18 comments:

  1. Seeing as Obama was trying to get Uncle Sam to change his energy source, but at the end Uncle Sam gets into his car (gasoline), is ironic. To me this means that the United States knows and means to change, but still ends up doing the same thing, or in this case using the same energy source. Personally, I'm not sure what it means about myself. Maybe the same as the United States. I mean well but it's just to hard to do it that way, so instead I do what I already know.

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  2. what dose it say about the united states it say's that we americans don't care about our goverment that we just waste fuel and palut our earth by not using natural resorces like solar energey or walking instead we use cars and and waste oil that we can save .. it says about our selfs that we abuse our power and we dont take care even if they tell us we refuse to lesion.

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  3. I think this cartoon says that the U.S. knows what were doing is wrong and we do want to change for the better however i think we lack the resources or enthusiasm to do so. However, my personal opioion is that America is too selfish and greedy to actually stand up and do anything. America consume's way more of the world's natural resources, than contributes. America did not turn out to be the beautiful place our four farthers had imagined.

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  4. What it says about the United States is that the U.S. has been having problems with the economy and global warming and Obama is trying to fix it. My personal opinion is that we need to stop taking advantage with what we have and contribute with the cost before it’s too late.

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  5. ithink this cartoon relates the changes that our country wants to make but we don't exactly how to get started making those changes.In my opinion it says that we don't have the adequate education to sart with those changes or that we lack a lot to learn in order to get started to make the changes correctly.

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  6. What It Says About The Unites Satates Says That,The United Sates Are So Use To Oil That We Cant Find Other Resources.My Opinion On What It Sys ABout Ourself Is That We Use What Is Useful For Us Since We Only Use Gas And Not Anything Else.

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  7. In my opinion i think that the picture is trying to say that the united states knows were doing wrong by getting oil from other places and including fighting for it. why cant we find other ways? We can find others ways of using gasoline or even inventing ways to move a car. honestly i dont know what it means im just saying my opinion.

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  8. What this political cartoon says about the United States is that Americans can't find any other resources but oil. We are so used to it and how its beneficial to us but we never stop to think the harm that is doing to our planet. The picture is showing how Obama is trying to stop Uncle Sam and tell him to chill with the oil but Uncle Sam is so used to it he doesn't try to do anything about it.

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  9. the catoon just says what one of the issues with power source. how obama wants change but change just involves doing more damage just as shown in the cartoon they want change an drive away only causin more damage. it shows how americas problems cannot be solved so easily do to the average american need of transportation and other resources

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  10. The cartoon illustrates how the president sees what the United States needs to change, but the U.S doesn’t. In the cartoon, Obama tells Uncle Sam that he is addicted to oil and tries leading him the other way but Uncle Sam still goes to his gasoline burning car. For myself, I think it shows how we are dependent on the certain energy sources to get us by.

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  11. In my opinion, the cartoon shows two things about the United States, our stubbornness and blindness. The president is trying to get the nation to follow him towards more efficient energy sources because of the damage it is doing, but the people do not see what the president does. They continue burning up the resources and ignoring the obvious. Even with electric cars being made people would rather buy high priced gas guzzlers.
    Being my age there isn’t much I can do; even if I could it would take more than one person to turn this situation around.

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  12. The cartoon shows how our president realizes whats wrong with our economy and how we really need to make a change. But us as a whole dont see a problem with whats happening. In the cartoon the prestident is trying to get uncle sam to shift to a new source of energy that is more efficent and less harmful to the economy, but he sticks with his old ways and goes for the ozone killing gasoline powered car. We need to make a change if we want to fix our economy and the world.

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  13. President Obama is trying to help Uncle Sam (America) from his addiction to oil.Just like always America does what it does best, says that they want to do something but never take the action for it and ignore the bigger picture. This cartoon also implies that if the younger generation keeps doing the same well never get out of this "Addiction".

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  14. In my opinion I see that Obama wants to make the United States better and of course we want to also but we don't do anything about it. We continue to waste and waste when there are better things out there but we just don't care. We need to open our eyes and make this country better by helping the environment and also saving ourselves from the harmful side effects mother nature can bring to us

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  15. This cartoon is showing how the president wants to change how we get our energy sources but with uncle Sam he just wants to use the car and just use what ever

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  16. the cartoon just shows that Obama knows what needs to be changed and the U.S. does too, but the U.S. just doesnt know how to apporach it. The U.S. wants to change and Obama knows how to help but the U.S. still does the same. I think that even though i know how and what to change i still dont because of my comfort zone. No one likes to be moved from their comfort zone.

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  17. The cartoon shows that Obama is trying to make a change. But the US is soo concentraded on oil and becoming richer and richer we forgot about other resources our planet has to offer. Not only should we focus on trying to make our planet a better place but to make a change:)

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  18. Obama wants to go more green but sam contradicts the envirnmental needs by still finding comfort in a vehicle that burns fossil fuels. It describes us cause even though we advocate to go green, we still have our customs of using our cars, taking the bus or by air plane, all is what needs to be changed and the people hold the power to do so but they wont do it cause of their comfort to a vehicle and what not.

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