English Paper
Halim Iskandar
625080001
Tarumangara University
2009
Cartoons and its influence on society
Preface
Who doesn’t know cartoon. It is with no doubt that everyone has known and at least watch cartoon once in their lifetime. As a child, every Sunday morning I wake up especially early to watch Sunday morning cartoons on the television. From Doraemon, Power Ranger, Ninja Hattori and many more. The cartoon world has indirectly changed my perception of the world and undoubtedly moulds me as an individual. It makes me live in a world if imagination. I can’t imagine what would be of me right now if I wasn’t exposed to those cartoons.
It is through this that the author wants to investigate and deliver cartoon and its impact on the society. This paper is compiled to give readers explanatory prelude to the world of cartoons and its major impact on the society as a precise matter. Each topic discusses both influential aspects of its substancial background reviews supported by facts derived from observations and case study.
It is hoped that through this paper, one will associate cartoon as a positive source of learning and through cartoons, one will get a better understanding of the world. The author would also want to thank those who actually help and contributed to this paper; Miss Tanti for choosing the topic and her assistance, my brother Hakim for being a prior subject of study, other subjects who became an object of study. Thank you all for without you guys, this paper would never come to.
Table of contents
Introduction
Typical weekday morning and you were watching your favorite cartoons. But were you being influenced in a positive or negative manner? And how is that affecting you today? Looking at who we are today it’s almost hard to believe that the cartoons we watched as young children don’t have some type of influence on who we are as adults.
Based on this I’ve decided to look at two of the main cartoons the audience is...