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    That Was a Joke

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    That was a Joke “Crust of Bread Found‚ Nation thrilled by Discovery of Yeasty Morsel” During the Great Depression many did not have enough food. Money and work were scarce before Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced the first and second New Deal. During the Great Depression the poor were poorer and the rich were richer‚ which ties in the second article “Evil‚ Bloated Plutocrats Losing Favor with Some Americans” which depicts wealthy looking men in suits enjoying a banquet. “Another Impossible Huge

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    “Dissecting a joke is like dissecting a frog‚ few people are interested and the frog dies.” E.B White. Despite this‚ looking at humour and what we find amusing raises some interesting questions. Why do we find some jokes humorous and not others? What can we define as amusing? And what philosophical value does ‘humour’ have in our lives. This essay will be exploring the three main theories of humour and the important of humour in Nietzsche’s philosophy and life. The first of the main theories of

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    Old Joke

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    Old Joke by Alan Shapiro ALAN SHAPIRO Radiant child of Leto‚ farworking Lord Apollo‚ with lyre in hand and golden plectrum‚ you sang to the gods    on Mount Olympus almost as soon as you were born. You sang‚ and the Muses sang in answer‚ and together    your voices so delighted all your deathless elders that their perfect happiness was made more perfect still. What was it‚ though‚ that overwhelmed them‚ that suffused‚    astonished‚ even the endless ether? Was it the freshest

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    advertising all relate to the audience perception. Advertising humor needs to be well suited to its target audience. If they do not understand the joke‚ then the joke will be lost upon the audience. A sophisticated audience will understand your irony‚ satire‚ and puns‚ but a young audience may only understand slapstick comedy or a silly cartoon caricature. Inside jokes can be effective if the recipient understands that it was done for them‚ but nobody else will get it. Advertising humor has a relatively short

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    Tossed on Wedding Speech

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    know me‚ I am ____‚ brother and best-man of the groom ____. I want to start off by saying‚ there is a point of life when you experience the miracle of love. He experienced this love 25 years ago when he saw me for the first time (joke laugh for 5 sec. or‚ more) Jokes aside‚ I’ve been lucky enough to watch ____& ____’s relationship grow from the beginning. ___ has always been an amazing person but he is even more amazing when ___ is around. Both of them are Incredible couple and also incredible

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    ENGL101 Final May 15‚ 2012 Invention Conan O’Brien gave his commencement speech at Dartmouth in 2011‚ congratulating the graduating class and imparting a few words of wisdom.During his speech‚ he appealed mostly to pathos and ethos‚ being as this was a commencement speech‚ there wasn’t very much need to appeal to logos using stats or facts. He used pathos to appeal to the graduating students by telling about his falling out with NBC and how he came back to fame with his talk show on TBS. He

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    Can You Laugh at Death? What would you do if you found out you were dying of cancer? Would you able to make jokes and laugh it off as though it were nothing? Would your humor be a way of denying the truth? People use humor in different ways. In "The Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumor"‚ Sherman Alexie tells how one man tries to use humor to deny the reality of his terminal disease. He shows how humor can be taken too far. This story demonstrates how humor can destroy one part of your life as it

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    LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE Laughter‚ they say is the best medicine‚ When the mood is right you can laugh at anything. When you make up jokes‚ you laugh out loud‚ But‚ when you look at clowns you laugh amidst the crowd. When you laugh at home‚ you scream and shout‚ And if you do‚ you sure won’t pout. It’ll wake you up from sorrow and fear‚ And it will definitely give you a wonderful cheer. Laughing can cure you from any type of sickness‚ Don’t ever take it as a weakness. Laughing

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    A sense of humor can make a hard time easier to bear. It does not matter what type‚ from sarcasm to the everyday “knock-knock” joke‚ humor has always been a way that I have expressed emotion. Bad days are always going to be around‚ there is no way to change that‚ but Humor is always a way to make the saddest of people crack a smile. Laughter is a powerful path into peoples mind‚ and can relieve pain by forgetting and living in the moment. Pain can be caused by basically anything‚ death‚ bad grades

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    Case Study Dr. Pratik P. Surana Madhusudan‚ CEO of a small organization having only six employees out of which three are females in internet marketing and web solutions business in Pune could not have sound sleep last night. One email sent by Neeta‚ his one female employee at about 7.45PM when he was about leave the office shocked his conscience. At that time he was alone in the office. All employees had already left the office at 6.00 PM. Neeta left the office at about 11.30 AM on that day for various

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