Nothing like a political cartoon to bring a truth about our world into sharp relief. This particular analytic beauty provides some insight into the current strands of news--March Madness brackets time (entertainment) with the potential tragic and definitely disturbing disappearance of a Malaysian jumbo jet--flight 370. When you begin to see bets being placed on competing theories of disappearance, you may also be seeing a line being crossed--the line of information becoming mere entertainment.
The KIAROS--or the supreme moment--is the rhetorical situation: we have a missing jumbo jet, an entire world looking for it, and the advent of March Madness basketball tournaments. This cartoon works mainly on the relevance of our ignorance of what actually happened to the airplane and our nation's obsession with entertainment in the form of sports and bracket building (President Obama even fill these out).
Your analysis of the cartoon resulted in our connecting the above to our good buddy, Ole' Blind Ed.
Make sure that you know your words for tomorrow's quiz, and make sure that you have filled out your charts on blind vs. sight (due tomorrow).
Please, seize the kiaros and get this done! Happy first day of Spring!!!
The KIAROS--or the supreme moment--is the rhetorical situation: we have a missing jumbo jet, an entire world looking for it, and the advent of March Madness basketball tournaments. This cartoon works mainly on the relevance of our ignorance of what actually happened to the airplane and our nation's obsession with entertainment in the form of sports and bracket building (President Obama even fill these out).
Your analysis of the cartoon resulted in our connecting the above to our good buddy, Ole' Blind Ed.
Make sure that you know your words for tomorrow's quiz, and make sure that you have filled out your charts on blind vs. sight (due tomorrow).
Please, seize the kiaros and get this done! Happy first day of Spring!!!