CaRtOoNs!!
The cartoon I chose to use is the above one which depicts a blind man who is essentially making his point in saying that being blind isn’t all that bad. In fact, he is essentially taking the stereotyping of blind people (which is for example a blind person selling pencils on a street corner) and with saying I am not blind, I have just seen enough, the point he is trying to get across is that he doesn’t have to see all the negativity in the world around him.
I can relate this to my husband and as he puts it his career as a blind person. He has been blind since he was 18 years old, right after high school graduation. So many people felt pity for him and were sad for all that he would not see the rest of his life. I would be made to be a liar if I said my husband wasn’t sad or angry, because he was, but as he has gotten older he has come to find it truly a blessing to be blind. As depicted with the cartoon above, my husband could say “I have just seen enough.” He had 18 years of vision and has memories locked away in his mind, for which he is grateful, but when people feel sorry for him at times (myself included sometimes) he says he is so thankful he does not have to see the way the world has changed for example in the way girls dress these days thus preventing temptation from luring him in its grip. He has “seen enough”. Eighteen years and he is thankful. If he could ever see again, would he want to? His response would most likely be ‘only to see my family around me’.
Website used
http://jokesprank.com/blog/funny-jokes/blind-jokes-blind-humor-funny-blind-jokes-blind-cartoons.html
Anne Meyer
CRE101-29485
Cartoon pages 191-192
The humor in this cartoon is that the lady who is reading the newspaper headline certain that since she is “saving” that the writer of the newspaper headline article must be completely wrong about Americans. When in fact both parties are correct with what they are stating to be their truth, but with different meanings behind “saving”.
The humor relies on a problem with connotation. The headline uses the word saving as does the lady reading the headline. But, thought they both use the same word, they are implying two totally different concepts. The headline is referring to Americans not saving enough money (such as in an account) and the woman’s use of the term “saving” is referencing her getting a bargain at her shoe store. Both parties are using the same word, but with two different uses and/or meanings in the context of this cartoon.
ANNE MEYER
CRE101-29485
ANALYZING A CARTOON
The cartoon I chose to analyze for this assignment can be found at the web link listed below. In this cartoon, a hospital is depicted and the cartoon takes place in the operating room. I personally found this cartoon ironic as we just had Halloween and my husband dressed up as a blind ophthalmologist! He said to me, “wonder why the hospitals would frown on a blind surgeon?” He said this jokingly, of course, but with the skyrocketing levels of malpractice suits today, are some of the surgeons truly blinder than my husband? This cartoon is making fun of the situation at hand (operation) by making the surgeons blind and using all the incorrect surgical instruments, and I am sure plenty will get a laugh out of this cartoon, as I did. But when you really think about it, sometimes we as patients really feel our doctors, whether a surgeon or not, is “blind” to the issues at hand?
SOURCE: http://www.toonpool.com/cartoons/Blind%20hospitals_55591
I can relate this to my husband and as he puts it his career as a blind person. He has been blind since he was 18 years old, right after high school graduation. So many people felt pity for him and were sad for all that he would not see the rest of his life. I would be made to be a liar if I said my husband wasn’t sad or angry, because he was, but as he has gotten older he has come to find it truly a blessing to be blind. As depicted with the cartoon above, my husband could say “I have just seen enough.” He had 18 years of vision and has memories locked away in his mind, for which he is grateful, but when people feel sorry for him at times (myself included sometimes) he says he is so thankful he does not have to see the way the world has changed for example in the way girls dress these days thus preventing temptation from luring him in its grip. He has “seen enough”. Eighteen years and he is thankful. If he could ever see again, would he want to? His response would most likely be ‘only to see my family around me’.
Website used
http://jokesprank.com/blog/funny-jokes/blind-jokes-blind-humor-funny-blind-jokes-blind-cartoons.html
Anne Meyer
CRE101-29485
Cartoon pages 191-192
The humor in this cartoon is that the lady who is reading the newspaper headline certain that since she is “saving” that the writer of the newspaper headline article must be completely wrong about Americans. When in fact both parties are correct with what they are stating to be their truth, but with different meanings behind “saving”.
The humor relies on a problem with connotation. The headline uses the word saving as does the lady reading the headline. But, thought they both use the same word, they are implying two totally different concepts. The headline is referring to Americans not saving enough money (such as in an account) and the woman’s use of the term “saving” is referencing her getting a bargain at her shoe store. Both parties are using the same word, but with two different uses and/or meanings in the context of this cartoon.
ANNE MEYER
CRE101-29485
ANALYZING A CARTOON
The cartoon I chose to analyze for this assignment can be found at the web link listed below. In this cartoon, a hospital is depicted and the cartoon takes place in the operating room. I personally found this cartoon ironic as we just had Halloween and my husband dressed up as a blind ophthalmologist! He said to me, “wonder why the hospitals would frown on a blind surgeon?” He said this jokingly, of course, but with the skyrocketing levels of malpractice suits today, are some of the surgeons truly blinder than my husband? This cartoon is making fun of the situation at hand (operation) by making the surgeons blind and using all the incorrect surgical instruments, and I am sure plenty will get a laugh out of this cartoon, as I did. But when you really think about it, sometimes we as patients really feel our doctors, whether a surgeon or not, is “blind” to the issues at hand?
SOURCE: http://www.toonpool.com/cartoons/Blind%20hospitals_55591
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ANNE MEYER
CRE101-29485
WEEK 9 – PHOTO ANALYZING
The photo I am choosing to analyze for this assignment can be found at the link listed below. In this photo, you are seeing a young person “reading”. Unlike how you and I visually read, the blind read by using their fingers in a print called Braille. Unfortunately, so many items available for us to read are not made available for the blind. My husband, thankfully chose to learn to read Braille which enables him to still read books, the Bible, etc., but he is not able to read everything such as instructions on meals, the guide on the TV, the bills, thus, this is where my work comes in. I am the eyes for my husband to enable him to be “self sufficient”, and by this I mean, once I read say cooking instructions to him, he memorizes them for future reference. For a blind person, limitations are set, and though there are ways out there for the blind to access computers, etc, something as simple for us like reading a card that came in the mail isn’t so for the blind. Braille is wonderful, but limitations still are there.
CRE101-29485
WEEK 9 – PHOTO ANALYZING
The photo I am choosing to analyze for this assignment can be found at the link listed below. In this photo, you are seeing a young person “reading”. Unlike how you and I visually read, the blind read by using their fingers in a print called Braille. Unfortunately, so many items available for us to read are not made available for the blind. My husband, thankfully chose to learn to read Braille which enables him to still read books, the Bible, etc., but he is not able to read everything such as instructions on meals, the guide on the TV, the bills, thus, this is where my work comes in. I am the eyes for my husband to enable him to be “self sufficient”, and by this I mean, once I read say cooking instructions to him, he memorizes them for future reference. For a blind person, limitations are set, and though there are ways out there for the blind to access computers, etc, something as simple for us like reading a card that came in the mail isn’t so for the blind. Braille is wonderful, but limitations still are there.
_ http://www.inmagine.com/is098r4sy/is098r7oq-photo