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Poste rhas pink printed on white paper with a 3x2 comic strip. Top left has a figure''s face with "How Should / One Approach / A Problem?" Top center has a frog with "A Frog In / A Well / Says". Top right shows the frog in the well eating a fly and saying "The Sky Is No / Bigger Than The / Mouth Of The Well." Bottom right shows the well with a meadow and sky in the background and the text "That Is Untrue / For The Sky Is Not / Just The Size Of / The Mouth Of The / Well." Bottom center shows a smiling sun with "It Is True That / A Part Of The / Sky Is The SAize / Of The Mouth Of / The Well." Bottom right shows a fist with "One Should / See The Whole / As Well As / The Parts."

"The frog in the shallow well" is a Chinese folk fable about how perceptions can limit actions. In this cartoon, Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong uses that fable to encourage critical thinking. The Santa Barbara Media Task Force was an activist organization serving the UC Santa Barbara community. The lightning bolt logo evokes the one used by the Weather Underground, which split a rainbow. [LMC]