Blog #2

When I found this picture I was very shocked that someone would actually compose a picture like this. In the classic cartoon Tom and Jerry, the cat Tom is always trying to catch the mouse Jerry; however Jerry is just too sneaky for him and always gets away. The one thing I never thought about is what Tom would do to Jerry if he ever caught him. I never did figure out that answer but in this very graphic picture James Cauty and his 15 year old son Harry did come up with an answer. They portrayed that if it ever did happen Tom would kill Jerry. But, how could this happen because it’s a children’s cartoon, and in cartoons nobody is supposed to get injured or let alone killed. The reason James Cauty and his son created this picture with the idea to come up with a disruptive body of new work. They hijacked popular cartoon characters and liberated animations, to violent, shocking and entertaining ends, all of which will be part of their own specialist cartoon art gift shop.
This picture is supposed to shock the viewer so they can take in to account how violent cartoons really are. They tell children that no real harm can ever come from these cartoons but what if tom ever did catch tom what would really happen? Many cartoons have different means and this one just shows that even the smallest person can outsmart the biggest one. This cartoon was intended for the viewers to take a second thought in what they let their children watch on children because even if no real harm is being done that doesn’t mean that it will not affect young children.

Blog #1

Approaching various aspects of the world seems very interesting to me because there are so many different types of things throughout the world. Since my major is social work I enjoy learning about all the different customs of people also I would like to learn how children get treated in various aspects. With America being one of the largest nations, and all the different backgrounds that make up the population there are many different customs and beliefs to know. An example is how females are treated throughout the world; some are required to get married at a young age and start a family. However in America a female must be eighteen years old, but in some cases she can be sixteen.
Also another important thing is how children are seen through a public eye whether it’s through commercials, movies, books or music. Often children can play both a negative or positive position throughout their roles. In music such as hip hop or rap, artists reminisce about their own childhoods how they had a very hard upbringing with a mother who worked hard and a father that was not really there. Many of them turned to negative things in order to help their mothers providing food or paying bills. In movies children sometimes play the tradition child one who listens to their parents and just wants to do children things. However there are some movies that portray children who are completely opposite and never listen to their parents.

Monique Bingham