Week 6 Reading Response: Visual Arguments

In Mike Lester’s cartoon, It’s GOT to be the shoes, I think he is saying that the Supreme Court Decision is ridicules. I would agree that some admission practices are very unfair. In Dennis Draughton’s cartoon, Supreme Irony, I don’t really understand it and to be honest, I don’t care to. Mike Thompson’s cartoon, Daniel Lives on Detroit’s Eastside, he is assuming an audience that is familiar with Detroit. We have to assume it’s a ghetto situation. He also seems to say that the only blacks live in the ghettos. I also found out that Calvin College that we wrote about last week is an all black college. Isn’t that reverse discrimination? Signe Wilkinson’s cartoon, Admissions, is an argument, I believe, about money and social status. Money and sports seem to get first choice, and then they fill the minority quota. Everyone else, regardless of grades or intent, or whatever other prerequisite, gets shoved aside. The minority gets blamed because they don’t have anyone to stand up for them. Dean Camp’s “Pricey” seems to argue the money issue as well. I think that Signe Wilkinson’s cartoon is the most effective because the more prestigious colleges in the lower forty eight states operate in this manner. It’s unfortunate but it is reality. It also seems like these same prestigious colleges have very successful sports teams. Why is that? Don’t have to think too hard on that one do we? To me, I think the least successful cartoon is “Supreme Irony” because as I said earlier, I don’t really get it.