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    In Thuli Gamedze’s “He ‘Sees Black People’. So Where Am I?” I found myself asking many questions‚ for example‚ who is he? Who am I? Am I black? What is black? Are black people his to be seen? Most importantly I started questioning my being and how I exist within the realm of ‘blackness’. This is where I discovered my inner passion and what would be the central theme of all my works‚ and especially those within Surplus/Scarcity. Olivier Valsecchi’s “Time of War” revealed the beauty within simplicity

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    Humor makes life vibrant

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    Humor makes life vibrant Humor is filled up with life‚ we can get it every day from all kinds of ways and it makes life vibrant. Without humor life will be taken the shine off and turns to be a boring and reduplicate thing. So we need humor‚ we need it when we feel sad‚ we need it even when we are happy. People from different countries have different kind of humor‚ which the different means different style different way to express and base on different kind of culture‚ even sometimes we may

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    Religion and Sexual Humor

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    Religion and Sexual Humor The Decameron by Boccaccio was written to be appealing to both social classes‚ the lower and the higher. It was very successful considering that it was written about religion and sex. With it being focused around the two subjects‚ Boccaccio was able to reach out to both social classes easily. Boccaccio’s humor in religion and sex can be seen throughout his stories. More specifically‚ it is shown in the introduction‚ the story Ciapelletto‚ and the monk and abbot story.

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    Various Types of Humor

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    While both David Sedaris and Dave Barry use various types of humor‚ such as hyperbole and sarcasm‚ in their essays‚ one is commenting and criticizing on ironic situations people can relate to and the other shows how to turn uncomfortable situations around. In the essay “Me Talk Pretty One Day” Sedaris uses hyperbole to add humor in his essay‚ “Her rabbity mouth huffed for breath‚ as though the appropriate comeback were stitched somewhere alongside the zipper of her slacks‚ “(pg 12). He also uses

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    Eye and Vitreous Humor

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    the DNA and last but not least read the DNA From the toxicology lab‚ what is vitreous humor? Why do forensic scientists use it? Vitreous humor is the clear fluid inside the eye that gives the eye its shape. They use this to confirm results from the blood or urine ‚ but if the drug is present in any of these fluids it should be present in all three. From the survey in the toxicology lab‚ would you be a good candidate to work in this area of forensic science? Why or why not? I don’t think I would

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    my father’s skin tone was that of a black man. They also tended to favor my mother’s eldest daughter because her father wasn’t an African-American. As a child growing up I experienced both positive and negative feedback for my skin color. But I must say that it was about 85% positive when not in the presence of my mother’s mother. Note I don’t say grandmother because she was hardly ever a grandmother toward s me‚ just because my skin color was that of a black girl‚ while my cousins were mostly fair

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    John's Gospel Humor

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    below the surface of the text resonate with signals from below the surface of the text‚ allowing the gospel to say more than it otherwise might seem to be saying. Since the gospel’s humor constitutes a form of commentary that is by saying definition implicit‚ our task is to make some of the humorous explicit‚ and to consider how the humorous elements function and how they relate to the gospel’s message.” It is not very important about John’s gospel date because “one of the points urged by those

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    that use humor or satire to get their point across. I think the three films that I chose fall into the last category. The first film (released in 1953) is Stalag 17‚ a film about American prisoners of war being held in a German prison camp. This film seems to follow the typical war movie theme‚ group unity for a common cause and no single hero. The movie stars William Holden who as Sergeant Sefton‚ a wheeler-dealer who doesn ’t hesitate to trade with the guards and who has acquired goods and privileges

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    Atsushi Nakamichi 9/26/12 Having people from different cultures living in the same country is good(or not good) for the country. Having people from different cultures living in the same country is good for the country. Each country and person has own culture‚ so every people is different. However‚ we can get new things such as‚ culture‚ language‚ and food from them. It will be good for our country. The first thing is language. In Japan‚ we speak Japanese. Nowadays‚ it is changing. Some

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    Finding Humor in Grendel

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    obvious drama and suffering that he story’s main character‚ Grendel‚ goes through John Gardner finds a way to put comedy into his work. Gardner‚ however‚ very rarely uses this comedy as a form of comic relief to lighten the story‚ if anything this humor makes the story even darker by highlighting the ignorance of mankind and a nihilist’s outlook on life. Men’s lack of intelligence is apparent from Grendel’s first encounter with men. Though in some ways sad‚ when the men have Grendel’s unconscious

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