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    Awkward Research Paper

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    series that I entertained watching. Awkward was a MTV series that aired on July 19th 2011. Awkward is comedy series about an unpopular 15-year-old in which gains popularity after she had an accidental suicide attempt. After re watching this series to refresh this show has been given awards such as Teen Choice Award for Choice‚ TV Breakout Star Male‚ People’s Choice Award for Favorite Cable TV Comedy. After looking at the top 5 main characters my mind I was shocked at all the white people on the

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    Lucky Jim

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    campus‚ Jim meets Christine Callaghan and eventually steals her away from Bertrand Welch. Through Christine he meets her uncle Julius GoreUrquhart‚ a wealthy entrepreneur and critic who hires Jim as his personal secretary. Themes As in all good comedy‚ the theme of this book is the difference between appearance and truth‚ between illusion and reality. The theme plays itself out through the conventional concerns of romantic love. Jim is caught between the falsity of Margaret Peel and the freshness

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    Miguel Barvosa-Martinez ENGL 1301-192 Mooney Essay # 2 Final 2/22/13 Stage Fright I know‚ first hand‚ that being onstage about to perform in front of a big audience is not as many expect. I started doing stand-up comedy over two years ago. The first time ever being on stage‚ I felt nervous. I felt jittery my fingers were shaking‚ but it wasn’t as bad as having my body paralyzed from nervosity. Fear can bring your body some unexpected responses. I had those butterflies in my stomach‚ like

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    The Definition of Satire

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    and saw their faults magnified in a distorted reflection‚ they could see how ridiculous their behavior was and then correct that tendency in themselves. The tradition of satire continues today. Popular cartoons such as The Simpsons and televised comedies like The Daily Show make use of it in modern media. Conventionally‚ formal satire involves a direct‚ first-person-address‚ either to the audience or to a listener mentioned within the work. An example of formal satire is Alexander Pope’s Moral Essays

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    BOUNCERS BOUNCERS John Godber’s play‚ ‘BOUNCERS‚’ was written and performed in the year 1977 and captures the generalised stereotypes of a group of Bouncers‚ Girls and ‘Lagalads’ on a night out in the town. With only four members in the cast‚ Godber cleverly directs the performance to be comedic and easily understandable through the actors’ characterisation and clever use of lighting and set. The play takes you through a typical Friday night in town at a club called ‘asylum‚’ which creates

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    MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

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    Analysis Much Ado About Nothing opens in a liminal situation with a war that has just ended. The men enter a "golden world" in Messina where the women are already located. In this situation‚ people fail to take things seriously‚ causing the war of the wombs to soon turn into a war of words. Benedick and Beatrice are the main examples of male/female rivalry that converts into belligerent wordplay. The first act portrays all the characters as being very careful to observe social norms‚ especially

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    Although ‘Waiting for Godot’ is seen to be very depressing and contains many elements which may mark it as a tragedy‚ the four characters create a great deal of humour in their mannerisms and their behaviour. Beckett created the concept of ‘The Theatre of the Absurd’‚ a play on human emotions and character which may give off feelings of despair‚ yet also of humour simultaneously. Most of the time‚ the audience tends to laugh at the helplessness created by Vladimir and Estragon in the play‚ and the

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    Furthermore‚ it this unclearly structured plot line‚ littered with minor genre specific elements that facilitate both comedy and revenge tragedy characteristics and that make the overall genre of Cymbeline troublesome to identify. Some examples of these minor genre specific elements are revenge‚ murder and dead bodies‚ and disguises. First‚ the component of revenge is notably inactive to the point of near obscurity within this alleged revenge tragedy. The development of King Cymbeline sending Belarius

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    Brian Tallerico of rogerebert.com criticizes Deadpool for being exactly what it tries to be; a meta‚ spoof of a superhero movie with incredibly immature humor. Tallerico tries to make the argument that Deadpool is just another superhero movie with a basic origin story‚ but in reality‚ the comedic genius of Deadpool has sparked a new genre of superhero movies that we eventually saw again with Suicide Squad‚ which wasn’t as successful. It did prove‚ though‚ there is a demand for superhero movies that

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    success of Tom and Jerry is not simply they are funny but with a more complicated form and that is the combination of timing‚ animation‚ solid personality of the characters‚ sound effect and clear understanding of why physical human will never die as comedy god. They have very solid characteristics: Jerry‚ an innocent mouse and just want to survive though sometimes he lives in danger along with great fun; Tom‚ a stubborn‚ cocky cat who always want to catch Jerry and he is so determined that he never

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