And in 1950, a young senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, seeking political gain, began a well-publicized campaign using smear tactics, bullying and innuendo to identify and purge …

2024年10月8日 · The cartoon "Fire!" depicts a man representing mass hysteria climbing a ladder to extinguish the torch of the Statue of Liberty, symbolizing the suppression of freedom. The …

2009年4月19日 · Since “Hysteria” is trying to squelch the fire, the cartoon shows that the mass panic concerning Communism that McCarthy helped create is a major threat to our freedom. It …

2014年9月28日 · Dunphy states in Satire’s Brew, political cartoons are “simple, bold, and unmistakable in their intent” (106), Herblock’s “Fire” encompasses theses exact details.

This political cartoon was created by Jim Morin. This cartoon was created to show the shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. The shooting took place in July 2012. Jim’s political …

Kathryn Harris 05.02 1."Fire!" - June 17, 1949 "Fire!" is a political cartoon that satirizes the increasing anxieties that plagued Americans and anticommunists during the Soviet Union's …

2013年4月3日 · This political cartoon is called "Fire!" and is written March 29, 1950 by Herblock. Without any background information at all, my interpretation of this political cartoon was …

From the stock market crash in 1929 through the new millennium beginning in the year 2000, editorial cartoonist Herb Block has chronicled the nation's political history, caricaturing twelve …

Some of the drawings are dated, but dozens of others—on subjects such as gun control, censorship, flag burning, racism, militarism, poverty, and political corruption—are as relevant …