Snoopy’s History • Snoopy was first debuted in the Sarah Holveck Peanuts (1950) comic strips as a typical looking beagle. He has also been seen HON 250 Spring 2021, Honors Program, California University of Pennsylvania on roughly 45 television specials and movies. April 5, 2021 • He is well-known for being amusing, smart, truehearted, bold, and lazy, true Evidence qualities of a beagle. • He is celebrated for encouraging fitness Conclusions across America and voting registration Snoopy plays a large part in culture awareness. and society. He is viewed as a • His character has been used to promote compassionate being who looks out different principles, such as NASA’s for the audiences’ well-being and missions. safety by promoting causes that • Bringing awareness to society and war, affect our day-to-day living. Snoopy daydreams of being the Flying Ace. Schulz being a drafted soldier, Fig 1. Snoopy as Flying Ace. “The Snoopy Show Preview.” empathized with American troops. Vulture. https://www.vulture.com/article/the-snoopy-show- apple-tv-review.html • He incorporated current events in the cartoons to inform the audience of Works Cited ongoing circumstances. Ungvarsky, Janine. “Snoopy.” Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2020. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType= sso&db=ers&AN=87322970&site=eds- live&scope=site. Ball, Blake Scott. “‘Snoopy Is the Hero in Vietnam:’ Research Question Ambivalence, Empathy, and Peanuts’ Vietnam War.” Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics & • What is Snoopy’s significance Culture, vol. 9, no. 1, June 2016, pp. 54-78. EBSCOhost,search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=tru today in society? e&AuthType=sso&db=edb&AN=118910714&site=eds- live&scope=site. • Snoopy has held an important Fig 3. Snoopy and Woodstock in space for impact on many cultures Fig 2. Snoopy’s Happy Dance. “Snoopy Teaching Woodstock the Happy Dance.” NASA. “Snoopy in Space.” NASA. globally. Snoopy remains Pinterest. https://www.nasa.gov/stem-ed- Acknowledgments resources/peanuts-and-nasa-snoopy-in- influencing culture and societies https://www.pinterest.com/pin/514325219929 Manderino Library 853733/ space.html around the world, being one of Mark Aune the most familiar cartoons.

Snoopy the Beagle Snoopy is a beagle. With the help of media, films, and books, beagles are acknowledged for their Fig. 4. Snoopy’s Development. companionship today. Given the fact “Snoopy through the Years.” Pinterest. they are social, intelligent, and determined creatures, they are used in media as a simple method of expressing these characteristics.