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Name: Anmarice RudolphDate: Graded AssignmentPolitical CartoonsScoreUse the information you recorded on the Cartoon Analysis activity sheet to complete this Graded Assignment document. Make sure you write your answers in complete sentences.(15 points)Cartoon 1What are the key elements (people, objects, labels, symbols, etc.) in the cartoon? What does each element represent?I see a car driving through a crowd of people and ramming into anyone in its way. The car represents the House Committee On Un-American Activities and the people represent anyone who the HUAC bullied to get communist suspects.What is the cartoon’s message? How does the cartoonist try to persuade the reader?The message is that the HUAC thinks it’s okay how many people they barrel through, bully, and disrupt because it’s all in the name of hunting for communists. The cartoonist is conveying how insensitive and ridiculous the HUAC is.Do you find the political cartoon persuasive? Why or Why not?Yes, I’d never heard of the HUAC before the cartoon and it certainly made me oppose them with the physical representation of them running people over and excusing it.Do you think any groups of people might be offended by the cartoon? What groups might be offended, and why?.Maybe members of the HUAC who excused their actions or didn’t see the problem when the outcome was supposedly worth it.  They’d be offended because the point of the cartoon was against them. (15 points)ScoreCartoon 2What are the key elements (people, objects, labels, symbols, etc.) in the cartoon? What does each element represent?A portly government official reprimands a woman for forgetting to stamp his order for a new typewriter ribbon with secret. The government official represents the entire government, the ‘secret’ label on the tissue box, phone book, and trashcan are present to further emphasize the point.What is the cartoon’s message? How does the cartoonist try to persuade the reader?The message is the utter ridiculousness of the governments’ excessive use of over classifying documents and information. The cartoonist is persuading the reader that our government is absurd when it comes to this matter and the ability to wield a secrecy stamp and what classifies needing a secrecy stamp should be severely limited.Do you find the political cartoon persuasive? Why or Why not?Yes, because it made me irritated with the government and their secret stamp-happy ways.Do you think any groups of people might be offended by the cartoon? What groups might be offended, and why?.Maybe government officials because they’ve probably justified each and every ludicrous secrecy stamp of theirs. They wouldn’t appreciate a cartoonist making a mockery of them, as I’m sure the majority wouldn’t.