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    Family Guy Satire

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    Cartoon Wars South Park is an American animated television comedy series about four third grade schoolboys who live in the small‚ backward mountain town of South Park. The series was created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone‚ and has been aired by Comedy Central since 1997. The show is well known for its pop-culture parody‚ outrageous humor‚ and sardonic handling of current events. Family Guy is an American animated television series about a family in the fictional town of Quahog‚ Rhode Island. The

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    Shaun Of The Dead Satire

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    Skylar Ervin 10-6-07 Professor Renner Shaun of the Dead The film Shaun of the Dead is a British zombie flick filled with comedy‚ romance‚ and horror. It is an original piece‚ directed by Edgar Wright and co-star Simon Pegg‚ which uses irony throughout the entire movie. Many critics think of the movie as a British comedy but I believe it is much more than that. I believe the cast was appropriately chosen for this movie. The main character is Shaun‚ Simon Pegg‚ who’s an irresponsible young

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    Robot Apocalypse Satire

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    Intro. The robot apocalypse. It is going to happen soon and you need to be prepared to face the dangers involved and survive the apocalypse. However‚ not all robots would be life threatening. What people don’t appreciate‚ when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls‚ is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn’t manage it‚ and they’ve had a lifetime of practice

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    11. Chariot Racing – Are you a fan of NASCAR? It’s just like chariot racing‚ except you don’t get to ride in high-powered vehicles and get to wear cool racing suits. Instead‚ you race in a chariot‚ a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle that offered basically no form of protection. While it is indeed fun for spectators‚ drivers and horses risk suffering injuries and even death from getting tossed around‚ thrown out‚ or even trampled upon. If you got a problem with a long and healthy life‚ this sport is

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    Final Essay There is more than one way to get a point across in the movies. Movies based on actual events‚ movies made using actual facts but not always about true events‚ documentary films and those films 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

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    Animal Farm Satire Essay

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    fiction novel by George Orwell that parodied the events of the Russian revolution. the novel did this by imitating events of the Russian Revolution in the form of a fable‚ and using the animals to portray aspects of the revolution. While the story is satire‚ it has a clear allegory of being representing the greed and harshness of Soviet leaders‚ as well as the repercussions this had on the citizens and their communist government. Some examples of this are how the pigs use propaganda to control the animals

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    Global Warming Satire Global warming is becoming a huge problem in our world. Some people may say that there is no such thing as global warming‚ but just last week it was 70 degrees in November in Ohio. As the world slowly becomes warmer‚ the effects of global warming will soon be irreversible. Here we are enjoying the warm weather and going for an afternoon jog in our summer clothes‚ but the problem is that we aren’t afraid of what could happen to our own planet earth in the future. Also‚ this

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    Line 447-592 The Importance of Being Earnest was a satirical comedy written by Oscar Wilde with the express intention of highlighting the absurdity and‚ by modern standards‚ moral hypocrisy of the English upper classes in the late Victorian era. One of the ways in which this is done is through the characters perceived pragmatic approach to romance. In this essay I shall particularly focus on Lady Bracknell for I feel she is the most exaggerated manifestation of upper class values‚ and therefore provides

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    Satire How to Succeed in School Being a high school student with a fair amount of experience and observation in the field of achieving good grades with minimal effort‚ I should like to bestow upon current and future high school students some advice that may lead to their success. Before doing so‚ I would like to make clear that I do not necessarily endorse these methods. It is just observed that the application of these methods is shown to have worked with some of the most highly ranked high

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    Nasira Sharma’s Hunger is a satire on the socio economic condition that prevailed in Iran after the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79. The country’s fortunes surged but the masses suffered. The apparent prosperity of the nation with the ‘petroleum storehouse’ concealed the actual reality and the ordeals of the masses. In the beginning of the story we see that things are expensive but people were buying them anyway. Huge investments were supposed to generate more avenues for employment but it’s ironic

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