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    The Simpsons Satire

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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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    The Gangsterds Satire

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    If you’re a fan for graphic and twisty turn war films‚ Inglourious Basterds just may be your movie to go to. The film has a unique “stab you in the back” feel throughout. We experience an alternative ending of World War II as the war ends in a bizarre twist compared to what actually happened. The movie uses black humor. Meaning‚ we sense a little humor throughout all the tense and serious scenes the characters go through. As for gore‚ don’t worry‚ we see a lot of bloody and violent scenes. The film

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    Jackson’s “The Lottery‚” a “lottery” is a tradition which takes place each year where the whole town gathers and the man of the house takes a folded slip from a black box. Once each man has a slip‚ they are allowed to unfold the paper‚ the man with a dot on his paper would then have his whole family take part in the process. After the whole family had chosen a slip the person with the dot would be stoned to death. The title is misleading considering the literal meaning of lottery is a distribution

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    Satire Paper

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    Praise to Sandy When Hurricane Sandy hit the east coast many people were in shock and disbelief. They couldn’t believe that this hurricane was this powerful. People were frightened that destruction would happen like the destruction of Katrina when it hit the Gulf but this wasn’t that severe but in a little way it was better. People just simply thought that this hurricane would be major destruction and death. Sandy wasn’t your typical hurricane and when asking a New Jersey native Steve McKenzie

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    Teenager Satire

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    Teenagers in Charge Adults! Who really needs them? I mean seriously‚ they are way over populated. Besides they are dumb‚ they don’t know anything! A great proposal has come to my attention. Why not‚ perhaps‚ throw out all the adults from any sort of power. They will be below us. They won’t be our parents‚ they won’t be able to tell us what to do in our home or even in work. We shall take over all of their work‚ property‚ vehicles‚ money‚ finances‚ and of course‚ seniority. First‚ we will

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    A Satire on Love

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    What Does Love Got To Do With It Love is a very complex emotion. People everywhere search for it‚ but some never find love. It is a very coveted thing. Many are willing to do whatever it takes in order to obtain it. In the end‚ love is said to bring true happiness. If finding love really brings true happiness‚ it sounds like a lot of unhappiness to get through. Let us take a moment to examine love with this thing we call "love". The search for love makes people do crazy things. Think of all

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    satire essay

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    Due to government budget cuts schools were told not to teach multiplication. “We have looked at cutting other things but this saved us the most money out of all we looked at.” chief of budgeting in Washington D.C. said. This is said to save over 7 billon dollars in the budget a year. Do you believe it? Some schools are complaining that we need to cut something else‚ but you see this saves the most money and what ever can save the most money the government is going to cut that. “Multiplication

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    School Satire

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    Welcome to High School‚ where we look after your kids! After they walk through the school doors‚ they will ecstatically be immersed in a long string of senseless invectives from both strangers and friends- just a wonderful way to start off the day! Public schools are often scheduled so that they make sure students are most sleep-deprived and least attentive. This helps students with unlocking their subconscious mind and learning with it. It has been shown that people learn more when their brains

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    Satire On Gmo

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    GMO’s- genetically modified organisms. “In the United States alone‚ GMOs make up about 70-80% of the foods we consume. Most foods that contain GMOs are processed foods.” Gmo’s are in everything we eat. Everytime you look in your pantry or fridge you see foods that have been genetically modified to change the appearance‚ size‚ and taste. In order to genetically modify something it has to be changed by chemicals that are unhealthy and damaging to our body. 70-80% is too high. New laws should be made

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    Abortion Satire

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    Six thirty in the morning‚ time to wake up. Half an hour later time to go to school. Seven thirty classes begin. After eight busy hours‚ from class to class and a lot of work‚ it is finally time to go home. Then at three it is lunch time‚ two hours later soccer class. At eight pm soccer class is over and it is homework time. Busy day. We all have busy lives. But when we free our schedules a bit we get time to stop and think. This is exactly what I did before I started writing. Stop and think.

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