Advertising

• http://webserve.govst.edu/users/ghrank/Advertising/Pitch/how_to_analyze_ads.htm
  How to Analyze Ads
• http://www.adage.com/century/
  Advertising Age's collection of ads over the past 100 years
• http://www.adbusters.org/home
  Adbusters home page featuring spoof ads and serious commentary
• http://www.pBS.org/30secondcandidate/
  PBS's "30-second Candidate" including "Tricks of the Trade" for TV ads
• http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/pol_ads.html
  University of Iowa's links to political advertising including QuickTime movies
  
  

Speeches

• http://www.americanrhetoric.com/index.htm
  American Rhetoric site with speeches on video, audio, and printed
• http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/
  A large archive of historical speeches
• http://www.norfacad.pvt.k12.va.us/speech/Org.htm
  How to organize a persuasive speech

Editorial Cartooning & Satire

• http://www.virtualsalt.com/satire.htm
  The Purpose and Method of Satire (a paper)
• http://www2.truman.edu/parker/research/cartoons.html
  History of political cartooning
• http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/speech/arts/topic.aspx?topic=parody_satire
  The Firt Amendment Center's legal explanation of why parody and satire are protected speech
• http://cagle.slate.msn.com/
  Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index!
• http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/herblock/cartoon.html
  Herblock's History: 70 years of cartoons from the famous Washington Post cartoonist, Herbert Block
• http://www.unitedfeatures.com/ufs/EDITOONS.html
  United Media's syndicated cartoonists
• http://www.cartoonweb.com/
  A roundup from around the world
• http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/04/utility/main542708.shtml
  CBS News' syndicated cartoonists
• http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/Frame.htm
  A site dedicated to the WWII political cartoons of Dr. Seuss
• http://www.bendib.com/
  A wonderful collection of cartoons by North African artist Khalil Bendib
• http://politicalhumor.about.com/
  Political Humor: Jokes Satire and Political Cartoons (this is very funny stuff!)

Visual Persuasion

• http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article80.html
  The Power of Images: Creating the Myths of Our Time
• http://nuovo.com/southern-images/analyses.html
  Basic Strategies in Reading Photographs
• http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/index.html
  PBS's "American Photography: A Century of Images"
• http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion_home.html
  A great resource of images, including American propaganda poster of WWII
• http://www.medialit.org/
  The Center for Media Literacy

Resources

• http://www.kamous.com/translator/s.asp?l=1653
  Dictionary of symbolism
• http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/
  and http://www.answers.com/topic/logical-fallacy-2.
  Comprehensive guides to logical fallacies
• http://www.seussville.com/university/reasoning/
  Test your power of reasoning with Dr. Seuss
• http://www.iep.utm.edu/g/greekphi.htm
  Information on the Greek philosophers
• http://advertising.utexas.edu/research/law/catholic.html
  The Vatican's take on advertising