Caricature CartoonA caricature uses exaggeration of some characteristics as it is a funny drawing for a person or a thing to produce a comic .

A funny drawing in a newspaper or magazine ORA set of drawings that tell a funny story, especially in a newspaper or magazine

• Cartoons as a Teaching Tool • learning more enjoyable.• Transfer society’s culture• Develop children knowledge

• 10-years old girl opinion: children who watch cartoon tend to have better senses of humor, vocabulary, and overall social skills.

• 10-yeasrs old girl opinion: you don't have homework time, which results in bad grades, and of course stress 1(Waste time). And it's like smoking 2(Cartoon addiction) .

• (3)Violence is funny: Three major effects of Violence are :

- less sensitive to the pain - do not fear violence - become aggressive or use

harmful actions towards others. • (4)False sense of reality

English FrenchDubbing Doublage

 Most of dubbed cartoon films have negative impact on children, because they do not reflect reality and Arab values , as these films reflect the culture & the values of the country produced it. (A study by the Arab Council for Childhood and Development)

Studies results:

cartoons with comedic elements were more violent than cartoons without comedic elements. (Haynes 1978)

Another study : At least one violent act was present in

each of the 74 animated films analyzed in the study.

(Yokota and Thompson 2000, Cartoon violence and aggression in youth)

Final study : The most indirectly aggressive Disney films were 1-Aladdin (20 acts per hour), 2- Cinderella (19.17 acts per hour), and 3-Pinocchio (18.35 acts per hour) . (Sarah M. Coyne & Emily Whitehead 2008, “Indirect Aggression in Animated Disney Films” )

- International cartoon character.- Is a Mouse with fictional animated character.- The series were 2D American cartoon short films. - The series were centering on a never-ending conflicts

between the mouse and another character and battles often involved comic violence.

- The plots of each short episode usually center on the other character's numerous attempts to capture the mouse, and the mess and destruction then happened.

- Egyptian cartoon character- The boy with a kind and adventurous spirit.- He has pet with him in the series.- The character ends up in all kinds of

predicaments(Dilemma), yet good always triumphs over evil in the story line.

- The series were broadcast on Arabic TV stations during Ramadan.

- The opening and closing songs are by famed Egyptian singer Mohammed Mounir.

References• BAKKAR: USING CARTOONS TO REACH EGYPTIAN CHILDREN WITH

ENVIRONMENTAL MESSAGES , Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2:133–146, 2003, Copyright © Taylor & Francis Inc.

• Cartoon violence and aggression in youth, Steven J. Kirsh , Department of Psychology, SUNY-Geneseo, Geneseo, NY 14454, United States, Available online 28 November 2005, sciencedirect.

• Indirect Aggression in Animated Disney Films, Sarah M. Coyne & Emily Whitehead, Article first published online: 9 JUL 2008, International Communication Association

• The media and the literacies: media literacy, information literacy, digital literacy, by: Tibor Koltay , Szent István University, Jászberény, Hungary, 2011, sage.

• http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/tcom/faculty/ha/tcom103fall2004/gp9/• Longman dictionary.• http://en.wikipedia.org• http://wiki.answers.com/Q/

What_are_the_advantages_and_disadvantages_of_watching_cartoons• http://indianblogger.com/effect-of-media-violence-on-children/