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    The title of the text I chose is “The Bath”. This text is a short story written by Raymond Carver‚ a re-known short stories writer from 1962-1986 in Americas’ history. Concerning the author message about “The Bath”‚ we are reading a story of a young boy called Scotty who was about to turn eight year on Monday that he was hit by a car while walking with his friend to school. The story is dominated by mute communication between personalities; bath was used as the means of relieve for affected parents

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    between amusement and critique is a central dynamic of successful satire‚ as it is through humour that the satire may censure its target‚ prompting the respondent to revaluate their own perspective with that of the satirist. Through his hyperbolic depiction of the nepotism inherent in the diplomatic posting system in The Ambassador‚ Sitch’s series The Hollowmen reveals the malleability of political values. Sitch furthers his satire of such political expediency through his ironic depiction of the policy

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    | Problem:|Solution:|Benefits of Solution:| People always talk about the innocent lives of human beings and animals being killed/diseased/injured while everybody seems blinded towards fruits‚ vegetables‚ and plants when the same things happen to them! The lives of these harmless organisms are never considered while we chow down on salads and apples! The lives of the innocent must be protected!|The solution is simple‚ banning the consumption and destruction of all vegetables‚ fruits‚ and plants

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    In this comic‚ the satirist is trying to persuade President Obama. The cartoon’s has the Obama quote “I’m confident there is a middle ground here on which to base a compromise” to depict how Obama thinks it’s possible to find a middle ground in Congress. This cartoon relates to our in-class discussion of the legislation creation process is‚ and how hard is to get bills passed when neither party wants to negotiate. It’s telling him to stand up against the Republican Party. The message of the cartoon

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    Art Critique of Café Terrace At Night Café Terrace at night is an oil canvass painting by the famous Dutch Artist Vincent Van Gogh. In the Painting‚ Van Gogh depicts the exterior of a side walk café on a starry night. We also see many people wandering on the streets or sitting on the terrace of the café. In the corner‚ we see a tree looming over the cobbled street. As it is taken place at night‚ we see that both of the buildings are illuminated. We also see a horse and a carriage

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    Kim Kardashian On the Issues For the first time since the brave Hilary Clinton‚ we have another woman running for president. Ladies and gentlemen‚ Kim Kardashian. Kardashian has plenty of prior accomplishments she has already made including things like her families reality TV show which has lasted eight seasons with three spinoff shows. Kardashian and her other two sisters also have their own chain of stores named “DASH” which have three locations‚ the first in Los Angeles‚ the second in Miami

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    The Purpose of Satire In most of the Franklin’s biography Franklin utilizes the humor and creates satires in order to help the public review certain norms in their society. Franklin employs humor as tact to point out the flaws in the obvious of certain policies‚ ideas‚ and concepts. For Franklin‚ his spec writings often point out issues he sees in the norms by describing them to the extremes. Humor is a gentle technique to get people or followers to certain ideas‚ activities or to look deeper

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    Horace’s Satires Writing satires established Quintus Horatius Flaccus‚ poet and philosopher‚ as the quintessential free thinker during the time of Augustus (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus). Horace’s satires‚ apparently humorous‚ tackle social issues in such a way that his said satires have remained of interest from when it was first published to modern day. The reason I refer to Horace’s satires being apparently humorous is that I find it difficult to detect the humour. British humour

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    Satire is a sort of glass‚ wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own” (Swift). Jonathan Swift‚ a satirical writer during the eighteenth century‚ made an excellent metaphor revealing that satire is written in such a way that the author exposes only what they want the reader to know. This same metaphor reigns true even today in modern satirical writing within the structure‚ tone‚ and what the writings are used for; dependent upon the point of view‚ I personally choose

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    Chemistry of Bath Bombs

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    Chemistry of Bath Bombs Date: 16th May 2014 Introduction – When sodium bicarbonate and citric acid mix in water they dissolve‚ the sodium bicarbonate reacts with the citric acid to form sodium citrate and carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide then bubbles out as a gas‚ which makes the bath bomb break up‚ in this experiment 3 tests will be conducted in order to find the correct ratio of bicarbonate soda and citric acid to create the

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