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    There are many forms of expression inside of everybody; however the most common form is laughter. The sound of laughter can be heard all around the worlds every second‚ it helps us relieve stress and makes us feel better about ourselves. Comedy movies play such an important role in helping us laugh. There are many forms of movies out there today. In spite of the recent incline in action and horror movies today‚ comedy movies has always been my number one choice because it gives people an

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    The Humor of Mo Yan

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    Mo Yan as Humorist Alexander C. Y. Huang These days I can point out an Audi‚ a Mercedes‚ a BMW‚ and a Toyota; I also know all about U.S. space shuttles and Soviet aircraft carriers. But at the time‚ I was a donkey‚ a 1958 donkey. This strange object‚ with its four rubber wheels‚ was clearly faster than me‚ at least on level ground. Allow me to repeat Mo Yan’s comment: A goat can scale a tree‚ a donkey is a good climber. — Mo Yan‚ Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (2006) 32 ı W orld Literature

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    Vonnegut prescribes laughter for all things‚ for without laughter life would seem a lot more painful. “Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be‚ to protect yourself‚” states Vonnegut (129.) To go on and live life you need to be able to laugh at your mistakes‚ just as to continue believing in a political system you need to be able to laugh at its faults. He also believes that at some point humor becomes less of a shield against the harsh truth of life and politics. He says‚ “Finally

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    Health Benefits of Humor

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    Andrew J. Nicholson 1‚581 words English 102: Section 33 December 3‚ 2013 Essay #3 HUMOR AND ITS RELATION TO A HEALTHIER LIFE Ever since I can remember‚ I have always enjoyed to make myself and others laugh. Humor has always played an important role in my life as it was key in helping me develop my personality and outlook on life through childhood. What I did not

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    Humor's Role in Society

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    December 5‚ 2012 A Joke Is A Serious Thing Alain de Botton is reasonable in his theory that humorists are capable of mentioning societal problems an/or solutions through comedy‚ “serving a vital function in society.” Humorists can expose their messages indirectly because they are not entitled to invade social matters in serious situations‚ and are therefore understood and accepted. According to Rory Bremner‚ a humorist must be “brave‚ but not foolish.” If a humorist does so‚ their point will

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    Nickle and Dimed

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    Humor is a very Powerful Language Humor can light up any situation if you use it at the right time it can make an experience more interesting. When you have a more positive attitude towards something it can make almost any situation better. Barbara Ehrenreich uses a lot of humor when she wrote Nickel and Dimed even though it was covering the economic difficulties in America and how people are just barely getting by she manages to use humor to lighten up her story and to engage the reader. People

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    People come and go in our life. The most important thing is that they all influence you‚ either with a big effect or in a small way. Even if they are come in our life only for a short period of time‚ things they say‚ and things they do can make a big difference. These effects can lead you to take other turns in your life‚ choose different ways and make you think in sundry way. In my life there are few people who I can say influenced my life. One of them is my grandmother. She was a very energetic

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    The story is a really good story confusing but humorous. At first‚ as you go reading‚ the story gives you a different idea of what is going to happen in it. Muni‚ the Indian village‚ wasn’t a wealthy man but he had his cattle to live on‚ but as it cattle went dying he was just left with 2 goats. He didn’t have much money‚ he was always asking for credit to the shop man and was always inventing lies to get the credit (the lies he came up with were funny). What confuses me more is when the foreigner

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    Julia Lambert

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    Julia Lambert is the main character of Maugham’s novel “Theatre”. She is an independent woman‚ in whom the sense of humor‚ the ability to judge people and to understand the circumstances are combined with being an adventurer.She is a beautiful woman‚ more or less a careful mother‚ a rather good wife and a brilliant actress. In fact Julia is a sensitive idealistic nature and is always searching for perfection in herself and in others. She was really a born actress and it was an understood thing

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    Humor in Cantebury Tlaes

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    Drake Landry Professor Harshbarger C and E Fall Humanities December 6‚ 2012 Superiority Theory of Humor in The Selected Canterbury Tales Many times when people joke‚ the joke is making fun of another person. It many times gives a certain person a feeling of superiority over another. There are some people that argue that our laughter is much of the time based on the fact that we are feeling as though we are better than other people. Morreal describes this phenomenon as the superiority

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