Essays on Caricatures

Thomas Nast

Thomas Nast was born in Germany in 1840, and he moved to the United States at the age of six. Initially he used to do illustrations to support his family that was going through acute financial crisis. Nast started his work as an illustrator when he was 15. At that time he was working as an illustrator for a magazine called Leslie’s Weekly New. His earning was $4 a week. In the year1862, during Civil War, he took a job of a war reporter in Harper’s Weekly Magazine.

Thomas Nast stereotypes the Irish as

unmixable in America's melting pot. 1889 For reporting the ...

The documentary film Ethnic Notions was a film that was used to show stereotypes against African Americans in the 1820s. The documentary featured caricatures that made people of the African descent seem unequal to the rest of humanity. This mentality sunk in the mentality of Americans and it almost became a normal routine to mistreat African Americans. The caricatures displayed Africans in various forms of submissiveness. They were portrayed to be loyal employees, careless in the way they conducted their lives, smiling idiots, brutal savages who did not have a shred of decency, and could not rise from their stature. In the ...

Introduction

Creating a cover page design for a book is not an easy task. According to Forster (2012, p. 1), the cover design of the book determines how people will perceive its content. In other words, it is the first thing the people will look at in order to judge the content of the book. Being such, the cover page of a book is the common dictating factor of whether the book will have high sales or not. As a writer and publisher of a book, therefore, one must always step into the shoes of the readers and imagine what will the latter feel or ...