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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found particularly thought provoking was Lady Macbeth. Initially‚ she is manipulative and dominant in her relationship with Macbeth and she goads him into committing regicide but by the end she is powerless‚ desolate and stricken with guilt. She is self-deceiving because she believes she is man like and she wants power at any cost‚ but she cannot cope emotionally and goes mad because of her guilt. It is the mixture of fragility and strength than makes Lady Macbeth unique and interesting‚ and her utter
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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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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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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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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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“Most people under the age of twenty-five get their news from shows like mine‚” Stephen Colbert stated on his former late night show The Colbert Report. His program‚ along with other popular Comedy Central news shows such as The Daily Show and The Nightly Show provide factual national and international current events‚ with entertaining satirical commentary. In Alain de Botton’s book‚ Status Anxiety‚ he claims that humorists are vital to society because they say things that others cannot and will
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An average of 9 out of 10 openly gay students has reported being harassed at school in the United States‚ with over half of those students hearing homophobic responses every day. These openly LGBT kids are bullied everyday‚ and most don’t have the courage to stand up‚ which causes those who are in the closet to reserve their identity and lose their voice. There are currently none to few at most openly LGBT students at Peirce school. Considering that there’s about 1‚000 students at Peirce‚ isn’t there
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I. Thesis statement: Like an open window‚ satire gives people a new perspective and vision on the things and issues they thought they knew well but others believe that it may be a destructive way to show and reveal every negativity about someone or something and neglect the bright side of things. II. Opponents think that the sarcastic way Bassem Youssef uses is a purpose to launch an attack or an onslaught using the wit weapon against certain authority or a certain person. A. Revealing the bad
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In Slaughterhouse Five‚ Vonnegut uses satire in the topics of war‚ aliens‚ fate and the reasons for life itself. In Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut‚ the author uses many literary devices to bring across his point including black humor‚ irony‚ wit and sarcasm. He mainly uses satire throughout the book. Satire is a literary device found in works of literature that uses irony and humor to mock social convention‚ another work of art‚ or anything its author thinks ridiculous to make a point. Vonnegut
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