Commentary: Lorna Sage‚ Bad Blood (2000) In the passage ‘Bad Blood’‚ Lorna Sage writes about her painful childhood memories and school life. It consists of three paragraphs. First paragraph touches upon the narrator’s past experience with school. The second paragraph explores the relationship between narrator and Gail. The last paragraph focuses mainly on Gail. Lorna starts off the passage with an effective opening‚ as the first sentence “So the playground was hell”. The conjunction used to start
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Hugvísindadeild Postmodernism and The Simpsons Intertextuality‚ Hyperreality and Critique of Metanarratives Ritgerð til B.A.-prófs Björn Erlingur Flóki Björnsson bjornfloki@gmail.com Kt. 110982-5779 Maí 2006 Abstract This essay offers a postmodernist reading of the popular television program The Simpsons‚ with special regard to the postmodern theories of intertexuality‚ hyperreality‚ and metanarratives. Before delving into The Simpsons‚ some major theoretical aspects of postmodernism in aesthetic
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The Simpsons: Laughing at Ourselves Jessica French Professor Jean Graybeal The Existential Imagination 16 October‚ 2003 Comedy gives no better an answer to existential question than any other form of art or literature. It does however‚ give such a familiar yet ironical response‚ that the relief attained is often more satisfying than other medium. Jerry Rannow states‚ “humor is necessary to life.”1 The Simpsons is for many‚ the quintessence of comedy and offers a wonderful philosophical study
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On Nietzsche and the Virtues of Being Bad‚ Mark T. Conard shows us why people believe Bart Simpson is similar to a philosophical theorist named Friedrich Nietzsche. Bart being the bad boy of the Simpson’s and Nietzsche being the bad boy of Philosophy. Conard says that Bart does not take on the chaos like Nietzsche says but he is just an empty being of bad actions. This argument is ridiculous; Bart Simpson is as creative as creative gets. In this chapter‚ Conard is first shows us how people consider
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The Simpsons are one of the longest running and most popular television shows. This popularity exists because "the Simpsons [have] always operated on two levels. On one level appealing to children as a fast paced cartoon and then for the older audiences for its wit and [satire]" (Batscha). Satire is the common thread with binds all of The Simpsons episodes. The writers show the absurdity in ordinary everyday situations including religion‚ politics and other social issues. This has been the leading
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The Simpsons The Simpsons does more than make us laugh. Do you agree or disagree? Long running animated comedy The Simpsons is known for making its audience laugh at the outrageous antics of its larger than life characters. However‚ The Simpsons does more than just make us laugh. It challenges us to think about issues we deal with on a daily basis such as morality‚ institutional power‚ and politics‚ giving us an avenue in which we can release tension we have built up over such issues through
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Hello I am called Bart Simpson and I was born on the 1st of January 2003‚ 10 years ago. I am currently 150cm tall however last year I was 140 cm tall. I keep a chart of my height on my wall because my mum and dad think it is a good idea and I also agree. I am a medium build and I like it because I am not a stand out in a crowd. My hair is short‚ yellow and spikey because I like it to be kept neat and tidy. As a person I believe that I am confident‚ funny and friendly because I am very popular however
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The OJ Simpson murder trial case is one of the most known famous court cases ever. With OJ being such a popular football star‚ when he was accused of murdering his ex-wife and her friend it blew up all over the media. The cases has been the largest publicized case in United States history. Everyone thought he was guilty for the murder because with all of the evidence it seemed that way‚ well the jury thought otherwise. All evidence pointed at OJ. All through out the investigations there was a
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Concerning the OJ Simpson case‚ I think everyone had a feeling he was guilty. It’s a shame because of flaws in the collection of evidence‚ a seemingly obvious murderer got away with it. As I followed the trial‚ even my 7 year old mind knew that he was guilty. It wasn’t until later that I found out why he was let off. I agree with James that there are other things that should be covered in the new but at the same time it’s the public’s attraction to the celebrity cases that generates so much
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case of football legend O.J. Simpson was one of the most outrageous media moments. This was all because of the killings of Simpson’s wife‚ Nicole Brown Simpson‚ and friend Ronald Goldman and it rapidly made the headlines of all the new channels‚ magazines‚ new papers and all social medias. On June 12‚ 1994‚ the bodies of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman were found stabbed to death outside of her condominium in Los Angeles. When evidence led police to suspect Simpson of the murder. Then he fled
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