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    Due to government budget cuts schools were told not to teach multiplication. “We have looked at cutting other things but this saved us the most money out of all we looked at.” chief of budgeting in Washington D.C. said. This is said to save over 7 billon dollars in the budget a year. Do you believe it? Some schools are complaining that we need to cut something else‚ but you see this saves the most money and what ever can save the most money the government is going to cut that. “Multiplication

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    School Satire

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    Welcome to High School‚ where we look after your kids! After they walk through the school doors‚ they will ecstatically be immersed in a long string of senseless invectives from both strangers and friends- just a wonderful way to start off the day! Public schools are often scheduled so that they make sure students are most sleep-deprived and least attentive. This helps students with unlocking their subconscious mind and learning with it. It has been shown that people learn more when their brains

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    Satire On Gmo

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    GMO’s- genetically modified organisms. “In the United States alone‚ GMOs make up about 70-80% of the foods we consume. Most foods that contain GMOs are processed foods.” Gmo’s are in everything we eat. Everytime you look in your pantry or fridge you see foods that have been genetically modified to change the appearance‚ size‚ and taste. In order to genetically modify something it has to be changed by chemicals that are unhealthy and damaging to our body. 70-80% is too high. New laws should be made

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    Abortion Satire

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    Six thirty in the morning‚ time to wake up. Half an hour later time to go to school. Seven thirty classes begin. After eight busy hours‚ from class to class and a lot of work‚ it is finally time to go home. Then at three it is lunch time‚ two hours later soccer class. At eight pm soccer class is over and it is homework time. Busy day. We all have busy lives. But when we free our schedules a bit we get time to stop and think. This is exactly what I did before I started writing. Stop and think.

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    Pregnancy Satire

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    Aditya Dalal English II H‚ E-Block Mr. Wyatt February 9‚ 2012 Sixteen and Pregnant “The United States has the highest rates of teen pregnancy and births in the western industrialized world. Teen pregnancy costs the United States at least $7 billion annually” (“Teen Pregnancy”). Based on these statistics‚ high schoolers often enjoy unprotected sex. However‚ teenagers are not even close to being mature enough for the responsibility of raising a child. It is not an age issue‚ but a

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    Popular Satire

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    “Most people under the age of twenty-five get their news from shows like mine‚” Stephen Colbert stated on his former late night show The Colbert Report. His program‚ along with other popular Comedy Central news shows such as The Daily Show and The Nightly Show provide factual national and international current events‚ with entertaining satirical commentary. In Alain de Botton’s book‚ Status Anxiety‚ he claims that humorists are vital to society because they say things that others cannot and will

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    The Darth Vader within Why do we breathe? To stay alive of course. The main substance that we benefit from breathing is oxygen which is necessary for the body‚ the heart‚ the brain and the blood. Without enough oxygen‚ we don’t live long‚ hence the reason behind breathing! In general‚ everyone has a pet peeve‚ some people get irritated by wearing underwear; others get bothered by taking a shower; and‚ many other strange irritating quirks that may seem absolutely normal to one person but be extremely

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    Satire On Bullying

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    An average of 9 out of 10 openly gay students has reported being harassed at school in the United States‚ with over half of those students hearing homophobic responses every day. These openly LGBT kids are bullied everyday‚ and most don’t have the courage to stand up‚ which causes those who are in the closet to reserve their identity and lose their voice. There are currently none to few at most openly LGBT students at Peirce school. Considering that there’s about 1‚000 students at Peirce‚ isn’t there

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    Satire vs Politics

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    I. Thesis statement: Like an open window‚ satire gives people a new perspective and vision on the things and issues they thought they knew well but others believe that it may be a destructive way to show and reveal every negativity about someone or something and neglect the bright side of things. II. Opponents think that the sarcastic way Bassem Youssef uses is a purpose to launch an attack or an onslaught using the wit weapon against certain authority or a certain person. A. Revealing the bad

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    In Slaughterhouse Five‚ Vonnegut uses satire in the topics of war‚ aliens‚ fate and the reasons for life itself. In Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut‚ the author uses many literary devices to bring across his point including black humor‚ irony‚ wit and sarcasm. He mainly uses satire throughout the book. Satire is a literary device found in works of literature that uses irony and humor to mock social convention‚ another work of art‚ or anything its author thinks ridiculous to make a point. Vonnegut

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