ARE AMERICANS SAFE?
1. Make a full description of what you can see.
2. Comment on the speech bubble.
3. What does this American woman embody?
4. What is the cartoonist's goal?
ANALYSER UN DOCUMENT ICONOGRAPHIQUE
MISSION 2: Look at documents 1 and 2 below and be ready to describe each of them.
- Collect visual elements and try to explain what they symbolize
- Now focus on the writing on each poster and explain what it refers to.
- What strikes you most in the composition of these documents? What do they have in common? What is their goal?
MISSION 3: Read and comment on the article: "God saves and Satan invests".
- What do you know about Sheperd Fairey? Make research (on the blog)
- Read and summarize Shepard Fairey’s point.
- Explain what the no-fly list means.
- Say whether Sheperd’s opinion is convincing?
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God Saves & Satan Invests (NRA) - Obey Giant
June 16, 2016 Gun control should ALWAYS be a topic of conversation in this country. Over 33,000 people per year lose their lives from guns, and I attribute this to an American gun culture that ...
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About Shepard Fairey Biography
Shepard Fairey Pictures Frank "" is a very famous graphic artist, muralist, and overall artist. He was born on February 15, 1970 in Charleston, South Carolina in the United States. In 1988, the ...
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MISSION 4: Watch the video below
Doc 3: Evan, Sandy Hook promise
Document 2: What is the 2nd Amendment?
Document 3: Learn about the NRA
Background information
Following a shootout at a school in Parkland, Florida (February 14, 2018), youth organized a movement and protests for increased gun control in the United States on March 24, 2018. These Parades were called March For Our Lives and brought together more than a million people. The most important took place in Washington DC and one of the spokespersons was Emma Gonzalez, a survivor of the Parkland killings.
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How Parkland Students Are Taking on Politicians in the Gun Control Battle
It's lunchtime on a Tuesday, and the kids are piling into a pizzeria booth in Coral Springs, Fla., to plot a revolution. "The adults know that we're cleaning up their mess," says Cameron Kasky, an ...
- Who’s the man in both pictures? What do you know about him?
- Watch the video “Carrying arms to fight against tyranny” and take notes.
- Focus on Ice-T’s body language. What mood is he in? (sad, determined, hesitant…)
- Do you think the guest is FOR or AGAINST the right to carry arms?
- Which of these words does he use to justify his point of view?
UNCONSTITUTIONAL / PROTECT YOURSELF / ANTI-GUNS / LEGAL
TRAINING TASK (150 words)
You work as a journalist for an American newspaper and you followed Ice-T’s interview on Guru-Murthy’s show. Write an article to report and summarize the star’s opinion about guns.
HOW TO..
Report someone else’s words :
- The journalist asked him if… = Le journaliste lui a demandé si…
- He answered that… = Il a répondu que…
- He argued that … = Il a soutenu que …
- He said that … = Il a dit que …
- He explained that … = Il a expliqué que …
- The journalist told the interviewee that… = Le journaliste a dit à l’invité que…
Background information
The shooting of Aurora (a suburban Denver town, hence the name of Denver Shooting) took place in a movie theater on the night of July 19 to 20, 2012. The gunman killed 12 people and wounded 70. The journalist mentions this event earlier in the interview.
Mission 1: Do research on Michael Murphy
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The anamorphic sculptures by artist Michael Murphy | Collater.al
Michael Murphy is an American artist known for his anamorphic sculptures and for the Perceptual Shift series of three-dimensional installations. Michael Murphy is an American artist who lives and ...
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Gun Country: A Map Of The USA Consisting Of 150 Toy Guns
Conceptual artist Michael Murphy recently created a controversial installation called Gun Country, which creates a map of the contiguous United States consisting of 150 toy guns. The plastic guns ...
https://www.boredpanda.com/gun-country-installation-usa-map-michael-murphy/
Gun Country, 2014
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1200 Black Ping Pong Balls Form a Deadly Assault Rifle
For one to truly appreciate this new installation by artist Michael Murphy, one must view it from a specific angle. Called , the sculptural work consists of a sea of 1,200 ping pong balls, painted ...
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Mission 3: Read about Andy Warhol’s painting entitled Gun and find out why Andy Warhol decided to paint this Gun?
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'Gun', Andy Warhol, 1981 | Tate
Medium Acrylic paint and silkscreen on 2 canvases Dimensions Support, each: 1782 x 2286 x 40 mm Collection ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland Death emerged as a distinctive theme ...
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