Political Cartoon Essay

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Andrew Jackson Political Cartoon Steven Breen was born April 26, 1970 in Los Angeles, California and is a nationally syndicated cartoonist. He won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1998 and 2009. He graduated from Huntington Beach High School in 1988 and attended the University of California, Riverside, where he earned a bachelor's degree in political science. Steve Breen is fast developing a reputation for provocative political cartoons that have captured the attention of some of the nation's premier publications. His cartoons regularly appear in The New York Times, USA Today, Newsweek and US News and World Report. The first cartoon that stands out in my mind is his cartoon depicting migrant workers in a field, slouched over picking what it looks like to be berries. The third man is carrying a large box and on his shirt that says, “undocumented”. The caption at the top reads, HARDWORKING, the cartoon to the right shows and older gentlemen leaning back in his chair, arms folded behind his head, and legs up on a desk that says U.S, he is also holding and immigration reform paper. The caption reads NOT SO MUCH. The tone in which Mr. Breen takes is very profound. The cartoon showing the immigrant workers, shows them working very hard with their heads down (like they have been through this before). The other shows a white man relaxing and allowing the workers to stay in the fields. This depicts the type of treatment of immigrant’s sense the late 1800 to the early 1900. It shines light on “Big Business” and the way they take advantage of humble, hardworking immigrants. This relates to the readings in the Rawls and Bean in many ways. From the beginning of the gold rush in California till even today business owners have been taking advantage of immigrant workers and the government does nothing. The Rawls and Bean book illustrates how workers were made to work many
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