Case Study Assignment 1 May 19‚ 2013 Professor Nel Phil 340-40 Ethics in the Professions Case Study Assignment 1 The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart is usually informative‚ comical‚ and humorous. The late night satirical program is seemingly at the direction of Stewart‚ making his job one to be envied. The Daily Show draws its satire and comedy from a host of sources including politics‚ media‚ news stories‚ and often draws comedy from aspects of the show itself. Stewart has been the host of
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model for your satirical piece. After choosing the piece that your group will use as a “satirical model‚” make a list of the conventions you need to use in your satire. Decide whether your piece will be more Horatian or Juvenalian. Finally‚ identify your audience. To whom will you address your satire and why? What tone will be most appropriate for this audience and for your purpose? For Example: The satirical piece “Gambling in Schools” is the most appropriate model for a satirical piece over
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where various sellers differ in their marketing and writing approaches. While some ads for this record are listed under the “special interest” or “spoken word” categories‚ other ads list this jaw-dropping album as “comedy” to highlight its laughable advice of how wives should conduct themselves. In this specific case‚ sellers John Freyer and user name “solidviper.com” demonstrate two very different methods when describing and selling the same album.
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Spike Lee’s film Bamboozled (2000)‚ cinematically stages American mass entertainment’s history of discrimination with humiliating minstrel stereotypes which was first brought to film in 1915 by D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation. Blackface’ minstrelsy is a disturbing legacy that began as a tradition in the early 1800s on stage‚ with white actors using burnt corks to darken their skin and "allowing them to portray African-American slaves‚ usually as lazy‚ child-like providers of comic relief"
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Mark Twain is known widely as a satirical novel‚ but due to the satirical techniques Twain uses all throughout the book has caused it to become controversial on whether it should or should not be banned. Although Twain may appear to be racist in Huckleberry Finn‚ he actually wrote the book during the Reconstruction Era but based the book during Pre-Civil War to show the “good ole times” when the white southerners had slaves. Because Twain uses so many satirical techniques to help show readers that
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intent to insult. - Dramatic - All about access to information‚ when a reader or audience member knows more about the situation than a character in a book or play. Caricature – Exaggerate a thing or person’s flaws whether for comedy or deep satirical comment. Characterization (direct vs indirect) – Round – Flat – Static – Dynamic – Stock – Foil Literary Terms Hyperbole – An exaggeration (Hyperbole does not stay within the realm of what is plausible. (Outlandish exaggeration)
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assert criticisms of authority‚ using satire or overly-dramatic tales as vehicles for said criticisms. In a similar fashion‚ various literary analysts have asserted that Shakespeare’s exposure to Machiavelli’s The Prince‚ a unique text and supposedly satirical political treatise written while Machiavelli was imprisoned‚ shaped the characterization and styling found in Hamlet. The gravity of Machiavelli’s The Prince influenced Shakespeare‚ among other authors of the time‚ to assert his own criticism
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Why Does the Pardoner Admit that He is a Fraud? In Canterbury Tales‚ Geoffrey Chaucer presents a collection of tales which satirize religion‚ addictions‚ and other human vices. The Pardoner from “The Pardoner’s Tale” preaches against various sins such as lechery‚ gluttony‚ falsehood‚ and gambling. In the midst of his preaching‚ the pardoner explains his deceptive nature and admits that he is a fraudulent preacher. After admitting this‚ he proceeds to ask these people to buy his counterfeit relics
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What many people do not realize is that scatology is more abundant than they think. It is in books‚ music‚ movies and almost every other medium of communication or entertainment. It has worked its way into our language‚ and the traditional words associated with scatology have even evolved to have new or multiple implications. Another important detail about scatology which more people need to understand is that it is not‚ in most cases‚ used for the sake of mere obscenity. Of course‚ there are individuals
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Jonson and Sheridan present their moral message through various satirical techniques infused throughout ‘Volpone’ and ‘The School for Scandal’. Each emphasise the corrupt flaws in society in the current time frame in which they were written. Arguably Volpone’s representation of the greed in his dark sinister satire holds more relevance to a twenty-first century audience. He presents this society‚ dominated by avarice‚ through the satirical device of humour and irony to exploit the flaws in a ‘comedy
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