Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Explanation of Calvin and Hobbes cartoon


Hi!

One remark: Calvin is the boy and Hobbes is a toy tiger, Hobbes doesn't appear in this story.

A girl is surprised because Calvin sells lemonade to 15 dollars a glass.Calvin tells him that he is based on the law of supply and demand.

But Calvin demand a big annual salary , a big profit and
Calvin does not care about the health of their consumers. The girl goes home and Calvin says that the girl is a anti-business person who ruin the economy.After Calvin says to his mother: I need to be subsidized.

Calvin plays with the word "demand", "demand" has got two meanings:
1. A noun with economic meaning.
2.And a verb.

Conclusion: you can not do business if you haven't got lower prices. This don't create supply and if there is not supply, there is not demand.

2 comments:

Paqui Pérez Fons said...

Hello Juan Carlos,

These are my remarks (not "anotations". This word doesn´t exist in English) about your post:

- Calvin is the boy, but Hobbes is not the girl. Hobbes is a toy Calvin has: a tiger. Calvin imagines that Hobbes is alive and speaks to him and plays with him. Hobbes appears in many Calvin and Hobbes´ cartoons, but not always. In this cartoon Hobbes doesn´t appear. So, please correct this.

- Don´t write anything in Spanish.

- You haven´t included the joke of the cartoon: it´s a play on words with the word "demand". It has two senses: as a noun, it has an economic meaning, but as a verb, its meaning is different.

- You have to review the conclusion as well. Remember what we learned about how market economy really works.

There are also some grammar and spelling mistakes. I´m looking forward to your classmates´ corrections.

Please, correct what I have pointed

I´ve moved the picture to the center and I´ve enlarged it, so everybody can see it better.

Bye!

Paqui Pérez Fons said...

Hello again, Juan Carlos. I´ve seen that you have corrected some contents, but you haven´t corrected the conclusion of the cartoon. Review how market economy really works. It hasn´t to do only with the law of supply and demand. Review what subsidies are and write the correct conclusion.

Your classmates haven´t corrected the grammar and spelling mistakes. I´ll wait a little bit more.

Come on, where have all the correctors gone?