Patience Monsignor Your Time Will Come: Cartoon Analysis

The Catholic Church during the early 16th Century was rooted throughout Europe. The Church influenced every country and its respective monarchs through the Church’s wealth and power. The Catholic Church placed a tight hold on the general populace with individuals who went against the Church being branded as heretics and excommunicated. The wealth and power of the Church eventually caused the quality of the clergy to deteriorate. Priests became corrupt and subjected to their physical desires. They frequented taverns, gambled and kept mistresses. The reputation of the clergy were horrid as the general populace was relieved that “their priest [kept] a mistress” because it “[secured] their wives from seduction” The knowledge of the clergy degenerated as well as they were no longer required to learn and teach the Holy Scriptures because the Church dictated their actions. The pinnacle of the Church’s corruption was the sale of indulgences. An indulgence was the “extra-sacramental remission of the temporal punishment” sold by priests as a temporary relief from sins. The indulgences were then sold to the general populace for money as the monetization of a priest’s services. Johannes Tetzel was a prominent preacher of indulgences who relied on the money from the sales to subsidize the rebuilding of St. Peter’s basilica in Rome. The corrupt sales did not go unnoticed as Martin Luther, in an effort to stop the corruption of the Church, posted the 95 Theses on the door of a Castle

Showing the church and government is holding the people down from prospering. This simple political cartoon displays the unfortunate but cold reality of

Gilbert Romme, the head of the calendar reform committee, stated that the Church was to blame for the rise of Louis XVI and that they were the source of royalty, which was believed to be “the source of [their] ills.” (Doc 1). Because of this, the general population began to draw away from the Church and was starting to be seen as a suppressive authority against their right of liberty. Another example comes from letters from a government official from Steenwerck, which talked about people celebrating the revolutionary festivals within an old church that still had old religious symbols hanging. The author found this insulting seeing that only images of crucifixes and confessionals were present instead of images or symbols of liberty, freedom, or equality (Doc 6).

Herblock's cartoon could be criticised for potential inaccuracies in his political cartoon, Transported. For example, claiming "war, poverty, and prejudice" are happening, but to what extent could it be true for the whole earth? Herblock uses logos in presenting commonly known facts, but this probably wouldn't stand up to more in depth analysis. Furthermore, although there was an element of entertainment to the actual moon landings, the men who performed these tasks faced extreme danger, from the moment they took off to the time they landed back at home. However, with his use of pathos, it is very hard to deny the truth of the cartoon. The cartoon has very strong pathos that get the message across to the reader. Earth focusing all of its attention

With newfound challenges of the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, and the increase in the Enlightenment’s rationalism and liberalism, an undermining of the Church began to set forth a new era and problems for the Church that they tried to come back from. Reorganizing at Trent set a new grim determination for the Church that catapulted their morale against ideas of modern culture. The last of these increasing troubles being the French Revolution, after which an immense religious revival manifested into the conversion of the elite in Europe, and extended their reach to every corner of the world, but mostly focusing on the moral problems taking place in the 19th century influenced by the Industrial Revolution. In the 20th century, the Church’s opposition to modernism came to an end when Pope John XXIII, with extreme boldness, turned its back on four centuries of extreme

The Age of Enlightenment saw many great changes in Western Europe. It was an age of reason and philosophes. During this age, changes the likes of which had not been seen since ancient times took place. Such change affected evert pore of Western European society. Many might argue that the Enlightenment really did not bring any real change, however, there exists and overwhelming amount of facts which prove, without question, that the spirit of the Enlightenment was one of change-specifically change which went against the previous teachings of the Catholic Church. Such change is apparent in the ideas, questions, and philosophies of the time, in the study of science, and throughout the monarchial system.

The political cartoon by Michael Ramirez shows three men with a lot of papers scattered across all over the floor. One of the men is on the floor with a hand over his heart and his tongue sticking out. It also seems that one of the men is also representing President Obama who is also saying “Good news! Heart attacks are covered under Obamacare”. He does this when he is just looking over the man that is having the heart attack. The other man says that “He saw his new insurance premiums.” It seems that the assumption is that the man that is on the floor is having a heart attack caused from seeing the recent increases in the prices for Obama care. By having Obama seem to be not affected by the man who had a heart attack shows him as someone that

American voters in 2016 or the audience of the cartoon. A cartoonist named JD Crowe produced the cartoon in Birmingham Alabama. It first appeared on a political cartoon website called cagle.com. The cartoon is neither conservative or liberal. It speaks to the Audience by reminding them of their civic duty as a citizen to vote.

Liberalism is wielded by countries as a tool to purse their gain and spread of knowledge. Liberalism has been promoted in, and sometimes imposed on, countries around the world, Sometimes liberal democratic countries have imposed liberalism for national interest, with to protect themselves from possible attack or to protect their economic interests. Sometimes liberalism is imposed for humanitarian reasons for the good of others. Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq, for example, is viewed by some people as being in our national interest and by others as humanitarian. Some oppose it and some see it as a just cause. When democratic elections are imposed on a country, they do not always bring equality or stability and can led

In her untitled 2015 cartoon published on cartoonstgroup.com, Lisa Benson created a cartoon, that features a team mascot , referrer and a football thats says 2015 Game Ball on it. The cartoon shows a “game ball” that appears to be over inflated. The referrer on the right of the “game ball” is checking the balls pressure and goes to say “I think the pressure is fine”. The team mascot who happens to be an Elephant wearing a red jersey, with white pants, and holding his helmet in his left hand. The mascot has an angered face that is intend for the referrer who is wearing a smirk upon his

The political cartoon shown here is strongly satirizing against the control of children’s education in Texas by the Board of Education. Through the Board’s selection of what is included in children’s learning material, Texas kids in schools become biased towards certain political views. The textbooks here all contain extreme conservative attitudes, such as disbelief in climate change with the title, “BRRRRR! Our chilly planet”, and emphasis on anglo-american christianity “saving the day” for a free-market capitalist economy. Ironically, the book “Numbers Lie (Just like liberals!)” is paired with a false math equation on the bottom left of the cartoon, as 2+2 does not equal 5. However, this is significant in the sense that textbooks which are

A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age illustrates the past corruption of the Catholic Church. At the time, the church controlled the intellectual, religious, and political mindsets of the world. Few people were literate during this time, the Catholic Church held a monopoly over its people, and the vast majority of citizens vehemently rejected any and all attempts at changing the way society operated. Because of these three things, the “Dark Ages” can be considered the darkest point in the history of Catholicism.

“Okay, so now you know that I'm a cartoonist. And I think I'm pretty good at it, too. But no matter how good I am, my cartoons will never take the place of food or money. I wish I could draw a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or a fist full of twenty dollar bills, and perform some magic trick and make it real. But I can't do that. Nobody can do that, not even the hungriest magician in the world”(7).

When giving an argument you would normally use words, but in some cases words cannot convey what you may feel. So an image could be better suited. Through images you can still argue ideas and persuade an audience as though you had used words. In Joe Haller’s cartoon it describes the current situation the globe has with energy and the effect it may have on individuals. The cartoon is viewed from left to right; it starts with an image of a nuclear power plant exploding!

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