Humour is a commonly used technique in English literature; it is put into practice by speeches and various pieces of writing‚ from poetry to prose. Humour is used to convey an idea or underlying message or to simply amuse the reader. Mad as Hell is a multi-award winning Australian comedy news television program hosted by Shaun Micallef which has gained traction over the last few years. Mad as Hell is well known for being able to incorporate various humour techniques such as understatement‚ allusion
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The second article is Johnathan O’Hara’s Late 19th Century administrative reform in America: re-articulating Hamiltonian thought. In this piece he offers a different explanation for how change came to fruition in the Progressive Era. O’Hara offers a look at the Progressive Era through the ideas of America’s executive administrations. The author argues that the rise of industrialism imposed a new set of demands from the executive branch that spurred a new self-awareness on the administrative elite
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Paper Topic 1: Ireland‚ England and Swift. Early in the 18th century turmoil began to brew in Ireland. A series of rulings in the British house of Parliament took more and more control out of the hands of the Irish. Britain passed laws and instituted practices that were highly lucrative to it self yet immensely damaging to the people of its colonies (Colley 213). A number of political and intellectual figures began to speak out on the atrocities enacted upon the people of their homelands. Countless
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What kind of academy can be called scientific when they try and turn poop into food or extract sunlight from cucumbers. In Gulliver’s Travels‚ by Jonathan Swift‚ Gulliver visits this academy while traveling around the world meeting many different peoples and places. Swift uses satire to criticize different features of eighteenth century England‚ including the royal academy and partisan politics‚ by using different symbols and illusions on all of the islands showing all of the negative aspects of
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land (brief history of Ireland). In 1720 Swift wrote a small article that mixed sarcasm and satire to make a call to arms for the people of Ireland. Swifts occasional writing from this period demonstrates the skill it takes to suggest
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Satirical View of the Old South Marcus O’Mard 3/11/97 Elaborate uses of race‚ unprecedented statements about the role of religion and an overall mockery of the society of the old south serve as a method of conveying Mark Twain’s opinion of society. In his dandy riverboat adventure The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain attacks the traditions of slavery‚ racism‚ and the accepted traditions of the old south. He helped expose the hypocrisies
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you’re on the phone with your girlfriend‚ shes upset. shes going off about something that you said ’cuz she doesn’t‚ get your humor like i do... i’m in the room‚ it’s a typical tuesday night i’m listening to the kind of music she doesn’t like and she’ll never know your story like i do but she wears short skirts i wear t-shirts she’s cheer captain and i’m on the bleachers dreaming about the day when you wake up and find what you’re looking for has been here the whole time if you could
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What makes Julie Taymor’s theatrical theory unique? It is the idea that you can take the simple act of storytelling and heighten its basic concept‚ that will in turn‚ leave the audience in awe. Understandably‚ we associate the idea of ‘storytelling’ with things like‚ folktales‚ campfires‚ and children’s bedtime story books. But when we really evaluate the content of theatrical performances‚ can it not be interpreted to be the telling of a story with dramatic quality? Julie Taymor molds our traditional
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The song “Red” by Taylor Swift includes many literary devices to convey a highly strong message. The most important literary devices the artist uses are personification‚ symbolism and hyperbole. Primarily‚ the artist uses personification to show the problem encountered in her life. Personification is the attributes of human traits‚ emotion and form applied to something nonhuman. It is used to give writing life‚ and relate ideas and objects to humans‚ which is more effective to convey the author’s
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complaining about in the world today‚ most people are reluctant to complain. However‚ when problems are not confronted‚ they cannot be solved. In their respective essays‚ Jonathan Swift and William F. Buckley‚ Jr. discuss the idea that a society that is apathetic toward its problems cannot advance. In the satire "A Modest Proposal‚" Swift mockingly suggests a "modest" solution to improve the economy and address starvation in Ireland in 1729 because at the time‚ the government had not done anything to solve
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