Young Renaissance Thinkers
The Young Renaissance Thinkers series was something I thought would be fun to create. The idea behind this, is how would those famous Renaissance philosophers views and ideas affected their lives as a young student. It takes the qualities, doctrines, ideas of the Renaissance Thinker, and puts them into a school setting. The cartoons portray how their views may have affected their childhood in a modern environment at a younger age. Hopefully, these cartoons will help students relate to these old dead guys better than reading about them in a textbook.
Young William Shakespeare
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The king of drama, William Shakespeare appears in the latest installment of Young Renaissance Thinkers with a trip to the guidance councilors office. He is referencing the drama that occurs to several of his most popular characters from various plays and sonnets as events that have happened at school. The guidance councilor suggests William right these problems down.
Larger version of this cartoon is available below. 
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Young Niccolo Machiavelli
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This picture is based on Niccolo Machiavelli's concept of "It's better to be feared than well liked". The outcome? Niccolo is eating his lunch by himself, quite contently I might add. Granted Machiavelli's philosophy from The Prince, is based on important qualities of a Leader or Ruler, and not a Jr.High student.
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Young Nicolaus Copernicus
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Nicolaus Copernicus is famous for finding the "Heliocentric Model" for the Solar System. This was the idea that the Earth was not the centre of the universe, but the sun was. In this cartoon, Nicolaus is disappointed for losing the Science Fair to someone who still believed that Earth was the centre of the universe. This cartoon symbolizes the frustration that an individual could have gone through when trying to change the mind of a society fairly set in their ways.
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Young Leonardo da vinci
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There will probably be multiple da Vinci cartoons coming up with him contributing so much to the Renaissance. This cartoon focuses on the original Renaissance Man's artistic side and his self portrait of himself. "The Original Selfie" is a take on the "Selfie" pictures that many people take and upload to their twitter and instagram accounts, however, back then...da Vinci was forced to draw his own.
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