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    Satire on Cheerleading

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    three years ago‚ the cheerleading squad won the award for having the highest percentage of honor students out of the entire fall sports participants. This shows that cheerleaders are actually quite the intellectuals. On my cheerleading squad‚ only 3 people out of 18 have dyed blonde hair‚ and I can only thing of one slut (shh). Lastly‚ cheerleaders wear their skirts short to allow them to be at the peak of their flexibility. With longer skirts many cheerleaders wouldn’t be able to pull their leg up

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    Procrastinate Satire

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    getting up and doing it right away overall I think I have overcome procrastination so far. What helped be successful on facing procrastination is actually wanting on doing it and there’s not wanting to get in trouble. Procrastination is what drives people from their work‚ study‚ and even determination. Focus is what is needed in everyday lives‚ and though it is tempting to "delay" what is needed to be done‚ no excuse is worth it so instead of just “delaying it” just do

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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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    Football Satire

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    Women During The NFL Season It is that time of year again; the NFL is kicking off another season. Millions of men are ready to get settled in their favorite chair and spend each Sunday afternoon in their underpants‚ watching hours upon hours of NFL games and highlights. It is also time for wives and girlfriends to meticulously plan and carry out sexual affairs‚ mostly with foreign men who have little or no interest in American football. Sally lives in downtown Pittsburgh and her husband is

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    Satire In Tartuffe

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    Moliere’s neoclassic comedy‚ Tartuffe‚ is a prime example of his expertise in the comedic technique. The plot is one that keeps the reader or viewer interested and aware. It begins with Madame Pernell visiting her son’s house and reprimanding all of them but their boarder‚ Tartuffe. She believes Tartuffe is a man of astounding character. The members of the house‚ however‚ disagree and say that Tartuffe is deceitful and a fraud. After Madam Pernell leaves‚ Dorine and Cleante‚ the maid and the brother-in-law

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    way they read assigned novels; by not actually reading it but by looking at someone else’s notes on it. The literary element of satire uses irony‚ sarcasm‚ parody‚ hyperbole‚ or other methods of ridicule and humor that criticizes‚ but also attempts to improve human institutions or human follies. In this article‚ the use of situational irony is used to support the satire by making it appear as if the character‚ Grace Weaver‚ has actually read the book but in reality has not. The way that Weaver reacts

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    a distant relation‚ is said to have remarked "Cousin Swift‚ you will never be a poet." Between 1696 and 1699 Swift composed most of his first great work‚ A Tale of a Tub‚ a prose satire on the religious extremes represented by Roman Catholicism and Calvinism‚ and in 1697 he wrote The Battle of the Books‚ a satire defending Temple’s conservative but besieged position in the contemporary literary controversy as to whether the works of the "Ancients" — the great authors of classical antiquity — were

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    Use Of Satire In Candide

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    As depicted in his novel Candide‚ a French satire written in the eighteenth-century‚ Voltaire stood as an indisputably witty writer. Throughout Candide‚ Voltaire targeted philosophical optimism‚ war‚ and religion: what he considered to be the ills of the world. His primary purpose in writing Candide was to oppose the philosophical theory of optimism. This anger towards optimism primarily arose as a consequence of the 1755 earthquake in Lisbon. He felt a deep compassion for the thousands of victims

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    The Gangsterds Satire

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    like a typical World War II movie. But‚ the reason why the Inglourious Basterds appeals to me is simply because it is different from the typical World War II and war movies. In most war movies‚ the “good” guys are portrayed as heroic and glorious people. Their goal is to defeat the enemy in order to maintain peace. However‚ in this film the “heroes” are brutal killers and show no mercy to their enemies‚ the Nazis: intent on scalping all of their victims and leaving barely any survivors. The film

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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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