The lasting influences of the classical world on other cultures across time are shown by analyzing the links between Greek Drama in the time of Aristophanes‚ on Shakespeare‚ and on a modern comic text of my choice. Through the use of humour devices‚ theatre conventions and by developing a show of understanding of the serious messages‚ the links between the three texts are shown and analyzed. Gods and goddesses were superior in the time of Aristophanes. This is very surprising in Aristophanes’
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Our text book is a vision of hope for the people going through the news of an apocalypse. In the first section of our textbook‚ “The World Before” examples of pop culture is used frequently. One piece that stands out is the profile: “A Plot Twist for Demi”. This is a piece that demonstrates how through all the hardships come good things. The reason is‚ in the profile‚ Demi has developed an internal struggle with herself and struggles to accept that she has a problem. However‚ in the end she realizes
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stereotypes and unconvincing plotline. In a sense‚ it may seem the wit of Shakespeare in “Twelfth Night” is lost in translation but the movie “She’s The Man” is adapted to suit the youth of the present day and the wit is rather transformed into humour mostly used by people of the present day. Wit‚ meaning “The talent or quality of using unexpected associations between contrasting or disparate words or ideas to make a clever humorous effect.” is only understood well when explained to us or when
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Practice Essay 1 Despite the comedy in Cosi‚ there is an underlying sadness to the play. ‘ Discuss’ Written through the experiences of the Vietnam War‚ Louis Nowra conveys ‘Cosi’ as a comedy in spite of the underlying of unhaplk in the play. The play [is] set in Melbourne in 1971 in a mental institution during a time of warfare and undergoing global political changes of the fears of communist expansion into the western world. Lewis Riley the protagonist and the director of Cosi fan tutte undergoes
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innermost layer on which‚ the image forms. The optic nerve starts from the retina. 3. The fluids filled in the chambers of eye ? • Aqueous humour – A watery fluid seen in the aqueous chamber [between cornea and lens] oozes from the blood. This fluid supplies nutrients and oxygen to cornea and lens. • Vitreous humour - A jelly like fluid filled with in the vitreous chamber [between lens and retina]‚ helps to maintain the shape of eyeball. 4. Differentiate between
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experiment‚ one of the obvious factors observed was that the eye contains a lot of fluids. One of the fluids is called Aqueous humour. It is mostly located between the cornea and the iris and pupil. This fluid helps maintain the shape of the eye as well as refract the light. Another liquidy substances in the eye is the vitreous humour. Unlike the aqueous humour‚ the vitreous humour is a jelly like substance. This jelly substance is clear‚ and it helps maintain the shape of the eye. It is located behind
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body needed to be treated as a whole and not just a series of parts. The theory of the four humours originated from the works of Aristotle. The idea of Humours is usually credited to Claudius Galen‚ a Greek physician of the second century A.D. But although he organized the idea more accessibly‚ he was probably not its creator. Centuries earlier‚ in the fourth century B.C.‚ Hippocrates wrote of the bodily humours in his Hippocratic Corpus. The physician believed that the body was made up of four
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The Happiest Refugee written by Anh Do portrays the life that he went through‚ through the positive and negative times. These significant moments have made Do who he is today‚ an internationally famous stand-up comedian. This essay will discuss the humour and moments of Ahn Do that has stood him in this position today. He has written about many times in his life were his world had changed for the better and the worse but two main parts that have been acknowledged is a pub scene and a McDonalds scene
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which focus on issues and current events in our society have become seemingly popular in today’s day and age. This maybe due to the four elements found in the programs. The four elements being: plots‚ characters‚ settings and the techniques in which humour is applied. These elements ease the program into achieving two possible purposes; firstly‚ to entertain its viewers; and secondly‚ to provide moral guidance to its viewers. A prime example of a sitcom that clearly displays these four elements is the
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film‚ Title – Castle; home figuratively castle‚ humble household cause humour‚ Genre – humorous‚ comedy‚ satire (mock/ ridicule something)‚ Kerrigans – main family‚ Working class family‚ Low budget film‚ Melbourne setting next to airport – house built on toxic landfill‚ beneath power lines‚ Events told by son Dale Kerrigan p.o.v‚ Australian culture/ identity‚ Made in 1997 Rob Sitch‚ Michael Caton father‚ Stephen Curry son‚ Humour: created by self-image of Australians – blue collar workers – concept
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