Hung Ngo Professor: Vasilka Maslanka English 122 03 August‚ 2013 Metawriting Throughout this 8-week semester‚ I have been learning how to write argumentative essays using the provided articles as well as the ones I find on my own to help support my arguments. I like how the first three papers are designed as a step by step teaching tool. For example‚ paper one teaches me how to read and summarize the articles and to give a short response to each article. This is very helpful‚ because without
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Screw you guys‚ I’m going home Ever since 1997‚ South Park has revolutionized the cable TV scene as a profane and obscene program that isn’t afraid to mock religious‚ political‚ and cultural topics and not get away with at least offending somebody. Throughout its twelve seasons‚ some of the most prominent events in pop culture have suffered the wrath of ridicule from the show’s creators‚ Matt Stone and Trey Parker‚ and succeeded in making millions of Americans laugh until they cry. The creative
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far-fetched story satirizing the optimism promoted by the philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment. Voltaire uses satire as a means of pointing out injustice‚ cruelty and bigotry that is commonly found in the human society. Although the tale seems light and comical‚ Voltaire has more serious intentions behind the laughable plot line. Candide can therefore be classified as a satire because it combines humor and wit to bring about a change in society’s view on matters such as religion‚ war‚ and the
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brushes with death are humorous‚ but Swift also uses them to reinforce a major focus of this section: just as Lilliputian affairs are ridiculous because of their smallness‚ human pretensions are ridiculous as well. Swift’s second major target for satire appears when Gulliver tries to show the Brobdingnagian king the greatness of England; he succeeds only in showing its corruption. While English civilization is more complex and more technologically advanced than Brobdingnag‚ a large portion of the
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Praise to the one an only god Allah‚ the creator of everything‚ peace will be upon his followers‚ Americans my message is for you‚ listen close if you want to avoid another incident like the one that happened 11 years ago. Today I talk to you on the same day of the death of Osama Bin Laden the leader of al-Qaeda‚ this is because me Ayman al-Zawahiri one of Osama Bin Laden Senior Officials have decided to take he’s place and to lead al-Qaeda for the search of freedom and to make the world of acknowledge
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A school board has come under attack by the religious organization‚ Christians Against Sex‚ CAS‚ for its approach to dealing with the high rate of pregnancies in the district. In their board meeting of February 15th 2010 it was noted that 20 students had become pregnant and had to leave school to have babies. This included students in grades 9 through 12. Board member Marcia Helmsley lamented the loss of family values by the introduction of Planned Parenthood’s advocacy of birth control and abortion
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Satire is used by cartoon artists to voice their own opinions on the issues and matters that we as Australians are faced with. A big genre includes Refugees and asylum seeker issues and problems. An example of this is an artwork by an artist living in a Refugee Camp. There is a clear difference between the baby that is in a detention centre and a baby that has freedom. This is done through binary opposites – for every positive there is a negative. An example of this is the baby on the left who only
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Speaking With Satire Lord Bryon once said‚ “Fools are my theme‚ let satire be my song”. A satire is a literary composition‚ in verse or prose‚ in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn‚ derision‚or ridicule (dic.com). A well recognized satire is George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Orwell wrote this allegorical novella in England when the wartime alliance with the Soviet Union was at its height and Stalin was held in highest esteem in Britain both among the people and government. George
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In one of his most famous novels‚ Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens creates several character based on humor. However‚ Dickens’ acerbic wit has a more serious agenda floating just below the surface of the text. In fact‚ Dickens’ wonderfully ridiculous characters serve as metaphorical commentaries of life in England during the 19th century. One of these characters is Mr. Pumblechook‚ who embodies the obsessive yearn of individuals in Victorian England for social improvement. His numerous and comical
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A French satire The first utopia mentioned in Candide is Westphalia‚ a region in Germany. The roads of Westphalia are known to be wet and muddy and definetly not the utopia that is described by Pangloss‚ a philosopher who lives in a castle located in Westphalia and who also has a theory that everything happens for a reason or in other words philosophical optimism. Those living in his castle are without a dobut staying in the best castle of the whole world or at least that is how is perceived by
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