Ezechias Francoeur January 19 Bailey Satire Lesson 13 an Introduction to Pygmalion 3-2-1 Reflection Sheet List three details you learned by reading Act 1 of Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw: | 1. I learned about phonetics‚ which is the science of speech and how it can be used to identify people of different nationalities.2. The flower girl whose name is Eliza is basically stereotyped into being a nothing for the rest of her life because of her speech.3. The character who plays the note taker
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Janine Renz Mr. Schmidt Honors English 11 Satire Nicki Minaj: Time Magazine’s Most Influential Person Current popular rappers and singers have often been criticized for the lack of substance in their lyrics and their absence of talent; it’s often been said that they have a bad influence on the teenagers who listen to their music. Nicki Minaj‚ a favorite in pop music today‚ has finally broken the chain of bad influences and auto tuned nonsense. She has been named Time Magazine’s Most Influential
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falls in love with a princess‚ fights a prince‚ and learns survival skills‚ all the while learning even more about himself. He realizes exactly what it means to be a good person‚ someone people can trust‚ as well as being comfortable in his own skin. Satire is the use of humour and with a critical attitude‚ irony‚ sarcasm‚ or ridicule for exposing or denouncing the frailties and faults of mankind’s activities and institutions such a folly‚ stupidity and vice. Shrek subverts fairy-tale traditions by making
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Katy Laverdiere Pd7 March 2‚ 2013 Satire: Vanity How does one measure beauty? Is it measured by the depth of an individual’s personality‚ or perhaps by the goodness of a person’s heart? Of course that would entail actually having to interact with someone longer than the casual glance and judge routine we have spent generations mastering. No matter how twisted‚ cracked‚ and deformed a person’s soul may be doesn’t matter‚ as long as they have enough cosmetics to cake on and can afford some minor
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Monty Python does an excellent job of mocking Medieval Literature‚ and criticizing it through various plot structures. We know that Monty Python is and satire and not a parody because parodies are not looking to destroy the artwork. The movie makes fun of Medieval Literature through themes such as knightly behavior‚ characteristics of a noble quest‚ and the role of women. These themes are satirized the most throughout the movie and this helps provide the audience with a basis of exaggeration in literature
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She is also described as being gap-toothed. Chaucer uses satire in this way by characterizing the Wife of Bath using paradoxical traits that represent a woman who would never be of a man’s desire. On the other hand‚ The Wife of Bath carries herself very well as she dresses up everywhere she goes‚ especially church
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Analysis of The Wonders of the Invisible World In this primary document‚ Cotton Mather‚ a Puritan theologian‚ writes about his fears of losing the entire country to the devil and his minions as the Christian religion‚ in his mind‚ is being slowly eradicated from the entire country due to witchcraft. In 1693 Cotton Mather wrote a literary piece called The Wonders of the Invisible World a year after questionable events in defense of the persecutions of those accused and convicted in Salem for witchcraft
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9/19/2011 INVISIBLE CHILDREN The film‚ Invisible Children‚ is about three young American men who travel to the Sudan to document a hidden holocaust that most people are unaware of. This hidden holocaust is fronted by a man named Joseph Kony. Joseph Kony is the leader of the LRA which stands for Lord’s Resistance Army. Kony has been kidnapping children and turning them into child soldiers for many years. Joseph Kony and the LRA have abducted over 50‚000 children from the ages of 5 to 12. As
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on his journey to Canterbury. They were the religious group‚ the upper class‚ and the middle working class. Chaucer wrote his tales in Middle English around the 1350’s. Chaucer had many people from each group go. He mostly wrote in a satiric tone. Satire is another word for sarcasm or irony. Irony is saying one thing while meaning another. He used both juvenilia and horashian. Juvenilia is harsh sarcasm. An example would be the friar. Horashian is soft or gentle sarcasm. The main nun would be a great
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Candide is a humorous‚ implausible account by Voltaire satirizing the optimism endorsed by the philosophers during the Age of Enlightenment. The story is of a young man’s adventures around the world‚ where he witnesses malicious human behavior and calamity. Throughout his travels‚ he abides to the teachings of his lecturer‚ Pangloss‚ believing that "all is for the best in this world‚" even though he visited and experienced torture time and time again. The Age of Enlightenment is a term applied
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