Time to pull the plug on nuclear power!!!

• These words are being used to describe the political cartoon because in Japan there are nuclear chemicals that are polluting the air and something needs to be done to keep the people of Japan safe and healthy.
• In the cartoon, Japan's nuclear disaster is represented. I think the artist means that it is now time to help Japan reduce nuclear radiation levels so that the workers who work at the Fukushima plant may return back to work and the people who had to evacuate their homes can return.
• The action in the cartoon is a hand taking a plug that is getting its energy from a representation of the nuclear power plant and pulling it out of the socket wall.
• The message of the cartoon is that the United States will now get involoved with Japan and make certain efforts to help them overcome this tragedy, they/we have stood by long enough and we are in a huge debt to this country, we owe them. I think the ideological perspective that is represented by the by the cartoonist is imperialism because he thinks that we should help them although they are beyond our established geographical boundaries.
• This cartoon relates to a current political event because on March 16, 2011 after the storm a power plant began to leak and the nuclear radiation levels soared causing hazardous air around the plant and stopping work. It relates to our in class discussion because we have talked about how it will affect the economy since a lot of things are shipped from Japan to the United States.
• Satire and irony influence the topics covered in the cartoon because they used a white hand and they used an actual socket like its that simple to help them get out of this by pulling a plug and its not.