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    …………………………………………………………….. 8 Farce Definition: Light humorous play‚ exciting laughter through exaggerated‚ improbable situations. Usually contains low comedy: fighting‚ horseplay‚ trickery‚ drunkenness. Elaborate: A not super serious kind of a satire‚ but it has a playful light on it. Exemplify: "No Shutdown on Government ‘Selfies’" When we had our Government shutdown‚ many government offices were shut down due to lack of approval on the government programs budget for the upcoming fiscal year

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    Justin Barney Psy 41 Professor Strahan Funny in Farsi Analysis The focus of this paper is an analysis of the book Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas using concepts from the Lives Across Cultures textbook. Ten concepts are identified and defined from Chapter readings. Following definitions‚ examples from the novel of these concepts are shown. Ethnocentrism is defined as the tendency to judge other people and cultures by the standards of one’s own culture and to believe that the behavior

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    Specifically‚ it is satire that has played a uniquely powerful role in our society‚ and continues to do so today. In modernity it is programs such as The Colbert Report‚ and The Daily Show that dominate the sociopolitical satire of contemporary popular culture. These shows present the news of the day to the American populace (skewed toward a young demographic) with a focus on the irony of certain sociopolitical issues. However‚ even before television and the arrival of mass media‚ satire has been the

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    Title: "Painfully funny" “Oh‚ anu pang inaantay natin?” A fat man asked. “Ang pagpayat mo di ka ba naiinip?” Vice Ganda replied. This is just one of the lines of Vice Ganda in his movie‚ Praybeyt Benjamin. Jokes are sort of “in demand” these days. Many people want to hear a joke or two that’ll make them laugh once in a while. But what are jokes? Oxford English Dictionary states that jokes are something said or done to stimulate laughter or amusement which can also be

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    Huck Finn Notes Satire -Think: Scary Movie‚ SNL‚ National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation‚ Weird Al Yanknovic‚ Supersize Me‚ Saved‚ Mean Girls - In satire‚ human or individual vices‚ abuses‚ or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule‚ derision‚ irony‚ etc.‚ with the intent to bring about changes/improvements. -Although satire is usually meant to be funny‚ the purpose of satire is not primarily Humor; instead‚ it is an attack on something of which the author disapproved‚ using the

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    philippine studies Ateneo de Manila University • Loyola Heights‚ Quezon City • 1108 Philippines Satire in Carlos Bulosan’s The Laughter of My Father Delfin Tolentino Philippine Studies vol. 34‚ no. 4(1986) 452–461 Copyright © Ateneo de Manila University Philippine Studies is published by the Ateneo de Manila University. Contents may not be copied or sent via email or other means to multiple sites and posted to a listserv without the copyright holder’s written permission. Users may download

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    Hostel life is not without its disadvantages. The rich students get sufficient money from their parents and therefore spend lavishly. The poor boarders also urge their parents to increase their monthly allowance and spend their hard earned money on luxuries. The company of the rich also makes them pick up their bad habits. They start smoking. Some of them take to intoxicants and thereby ruin themselves. Another great defect in hostel life is the mismanagement on the part of the warden. The food

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    IT’S THE BUTCHER! An old woman was lonely. She decided to get a pet. She didn’t have much money so she went to a second hand pet shop. She saw many animals: a three legged cat‚ a dog without a tail‚ fish that could only swim backwards and a beautiful bird that could only say one thing‚ “Who is it?”. She decided to buy the bird. She bought a cage for her bird and went home. She put the bird by the door and went downtown to do some shopping. While she was gone‚ a man knocked on the door

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    the comedy in Great Expectations and Gulliver’s Travels at times. Irony is a common comedic element seen in all three works. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels is commonly known as a satire‚ therefore it uses improbable irony as a tool. The misfortune‚ ridiculousness and contradict of Gulliver’s adventures is funny. For instance‚ he‚ an almighty human‚ was tied down and restrained by people the size of his finger. In Twelfth Night irony is also used. For example‚ Olivia fell in love with the woman

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    Satire: The Exposure of Southern Life Mark Twain wrote the renowned nineteenth century novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a humorist‚ with intentions solely entertain the reader. Although the author warns at the start of the book‚ “persons attempting to find a moral in this narrative will be banished”‚ he submerses the reader into Southern society to evaluate their values (Notice). Satirists seek to find motives behind people’s actions and by dramatizing the contrast between

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