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 * //Brian Roam and Nathan Scott//

__The Gilded Age__**

This cartoon depicts how Cornelius Vanderbilt and Andrew Carnegie had a monopoly over the railroad system in the U.S. The octopus represents the monopoly they had over the railroads, while its eyes represent the two men. Through the "eyes" of their monopoly, they are taking hold of their victims by forcing them to ride trains on their railroads.



This photo describes the work hours that J.P. Morgan forces children to work in his company. The children work 11 hours a day, which is an unreasonable amount of time, and Morgan takes all of their profits. This shows how selfish J.P. Morgan was with his company, not giving any credit to the poor children helping him to make all this money.



This picture shows how dirty New York City was and how Boss Tweed was causing it to become corrupt. The streets are filled with trash showing how unsanitary the city is. Also, Boss Tweed is welcoming a cholera victim from Asia, showing that he is allowing a cholera epidemic to start in the city.

This cartoon represents the monopoly John D. Rockefeller had over the standard oil industry. The crown and robe show his power over the industry. The different railroads shown on his crown are all the ones that use his oil, showing how everyone buys oil from him.

This cartoon shows how rich Andrew Carnegie was from his steel industry in America. The picture portrays him in a Scottish outfit throwing money out into various piles of money. The piles of money are labeled for different sections of Scotland, which shows that Andrew Carnegie was willingly giving money away to his homeland because he had so much money to spend.

This cartoon shows how the Sherman Antitrust Act came to be. The ship on the right, //Monopoly//, is destroying the ship in the middle, //Competition//, representing the fact that monopolies have all control, causing their competition to have no chance of success. However, on the far left, Uncle Sam is standing on top of Fort Legislation firing a tiny cannon, which shows how the Legislation is making the Sherman Antitrust Act to slowly chip away at the monopolies' great power.


 * __Current Day__**

In this cartoon, two polar bears are swimming through the ocean with the sun beating down on them. The polar bear on the left is saying "Happy Earth Day" to the other bear, while the other bear is telling him to just shut up and swim. This cartoon is ironic because Earth Day is supposed to celebrate keeping the earth healthy, whereas the reason why the polar bears are swimming is because global warming caused the ice to melt from underneath them.

This cartoon shows two young adults, one graduating from college and the other going off to war. The caption above this cartoon says, “I figure it's easier to find a war than a job these days." This caption is talking about the position our country is in, since we are in the middle of a war and our economy is in a recession. Many of the jobs that were present in America were taken away when our economy started to fall because it was too hard for people to pay as much as they were for some positons, making it harder for anyone to find a job now. Thereore, it would be easier to find a position in a war because of the war going on in the Middle East.



This cartoon shows how people are wasting both money and natural resources all over our planet. On the left side, three different people are complaining about how people are wasting money "beyond their means." In response to this, the person at the bottom left is angry because they think the whole world has gone mad with wasting money and resources. Then, the man using the bulldozer on the right is saying "Whole?" in response to the angry person because he is taking chunks away from the Earth due to the "Human Over Consumption of Natural Resources," which represents how much we are wasting the world's natural resources. = =