I saw The Apprentice once‚ many years ago. I didn’t like it. I felt it was everything that was wrong with modern culture and the media in general. I vowed never to watch it again‚ and assumed everyone else would feel similarly. They did not. Jump to the present day‚ and The Apprentice is still as popular as ever‚ going by the fact that my Twitter feed mentions nothing else whenever it is on. I try to follow intelligent‚ liberal‚ clear-thinking people. So why do they all get sucked in to The Apprentice
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when a character is the butt of a joke. ‘Good Luck‚ Charlie’‚ for example‚ is a live-action children’s show that‚ in its final episode‚ had Charlie’s parents separately meet two different women who claimed to be Charlie’s friend‚ Taylor’s‚ mom. They argued over the name of Taylor’s mother until it was revealed she had two mothers in a same-sex relationship. Charlie’s father commented with “Oh‚ Taylor has two moms‚” and the laugh track made him the butt of the joke for being slow‚ rather than the same-sex
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identify both races and cultures that I strived to maintain‚ but it created a monstrous dilemma. Suddenly I was split between two identities. They played a furious tug of war game over my mind‚ and my heart was torn between the two. My friends would joke that I wasn’t a true Asian whenever I failed to receive a high grade‚ and I forced myself to laugh along despite how internally conflicted I was. My cousin claimed that I was not proud to be Asian because I wanted to lighten my hair when I was ten
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meme of a homeless man. The text on the meme says that “Homeless people are lucky that they never have to clean their house.” Many questions come to surface after reading the text‚ which include‚ “Who would say such a thing?” “Why would someone make a joke of an issue so severe?” or “What makes this image comical?” The conclusion that became visible was that some privileged people are self-centered‚ and in being self-centered‚ they unintentionally knock down those who are already beneath them. With the
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The Cure for Horrible Bosses In the recent film comedy Horrible Bosses‚ three truly dreadful managers make their employees’ lives miserable. The first is a cruel executive who dangles a promotion in front of a subordinate as bait‚ only to snatch it away once his stupid demands have been met. The second is a mean cokehead who inherits the family business from his kindly deceased father. The third is an orthodontist who sexually harasses her assistant‚ threatening to tell his fiancée that it’s his
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Jim Crow laws are a complex yet derogatory system of laws and customs designed to segregate those who pertain to differing races‚ thus depriving American citizens of the most fundamental of civil rights. Even the name itself provides a view of the sheer amount of discrimination these laws evoke - they were “named after a popular 19th century minstrel song that stereotyped African Americans” (rise and fall of Jim Crow PBS). The fact that the name itself comes from a cruelly comedic song designed
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was so quiet Percival heard his own shallow breathing. Even the most serious of meetings rarely started out this somber. And more that the silence was the thick presence of worry in the air. Council members sat erect‚ and even Gwaine did not crack jokes. With no need to call for quiet‚ Arthur started right in. “Men‚ we leave for Abertawe not at first light‚ but at dusk. If we ride hard‚ we can meet Odin’s army at the shore and be in position by sunrise. Rest for now‚ say your goodbyes and prepare
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The act of being self-destructive does not just come to be. It occurs slowly and takes hold in individuals to varying degrees‚ contingent upon how ‘cold’ they are‚ and by their level of self-absorption and conceited desires. A combination of these characteristics can be discerned in each of the protagonists from the literary forms I studied. Each character is self-destructive‚ but the consequences of their actions and the number of people they hurt tends to magnify depending on how many of these
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Pain leads to growth (Thesis Statement) In the Olive Ann Burns novel Cold Sassy Tree‚ Will Tweedy grows from a somewhat thoughtless fourteen-year-old boy to a more mature and compassionate person. (SO 1) Initially‚ Will acts in a capricious manner‚ often hurting people without really understanding the effect of his actions. (SO 2) However‚ when Will encounters some hurtful experiences and grows from them‚ he starts to see situations from a new perspective. (SO 3) Subsequently‚ Will evolves
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Tom is angry because he gradually realizes that Gatsby and Daisy are having an affair. With this knowledge‚ Tom verbally attacks Gatsby after he tells him to leave Daisy alone. As a result‚ Gatsby changes his tone by having a quiet response to a loud‚ feverish response and is prompted to reveal the ongoing affair between him and Daisy. Gatsby affirms to Tom that Daisy never loved him and the only reason their marriage existed was because of his infirm financial state at the time and she was tired
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