College admissions scandal
It's being called the biggest college admissions scam ever. Fifty people -- including rich parents, famous actresses, college prep officials and coaches -- are accused in a federal indictment of participating in a scheme to get students into top-notch colleges. Here's how the scam allegedly worked: Parents paid a college prep organization to take tests on students' behalf or correct their answers. The organization also bribed college coaches to get the students into desired schools as recruited athletes, even if they didn't play sports, prosecutors said.
Satirical cartoons as a propaganda tool
I think we have sufficiently established how satire can help to make people aware of societal and political flaws. Today, however, we are going to switch it up and put the satire in the hands of the government and politicians, in this case the military and Walt Disney.
To begin, please watch the following
documentary produced by the US government
in World War II.
blitz wolf
ASSIGNMENT: respond to the following prompt in approximately 150 words.
Please send along by midnight tonight, in order to
receive full credit.
1. Incorporating your knowledge of US history,
what was the purpose of the film? Make sure to
reference specific scenes and techniques.
Review of satirical techniques
- 1. parody-a piece of writing, music, etc.,
- imitates the style of someone or
- something else in an amusing way
- 2. burlesque
3. exaggeration- to think of or describe
something as larger or greater than it
really is - 4 juxtaposition-the act of placing two
- things next to each other
- 5. analogy- that if two or more things agree
- with one another in some respects they will
- probably agree in others
- 6. comparison-the act of looking at
- things to see how they are similar or
- different
- 7. double entendre- ambiguity of
- meaning arising from language that
- lends itself to more than one
- interpretation
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