I firstly want to thank you for this opportunity to speak on behalf of my peers‚ and represent the high school students of this state. I recognise the importance of choosing the right material to be studied‚ and am honoured to put forward my recommendation for new material today. Summer Heights High is a satirical show created by Chris Lilley. What is it about you may ask? Well‚ it is a show which follows three main characters‚ Jonah Takalua - an Islander troublemaker‚ Ja’mie King - a private school
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Gregson. The kids at school call me Mr.G‚ which is one of the sort of an abbreviation some of the more popular teachers get.” The face squirmer of a TV show is a funny/sad office style mockumentary outlining a year in the life of a typical Australian high school. Chris Lilley‚ who is the creator of the hot mockumentary is a wildly talented writer/ actor that loves making viewers cheeks hurt‚ while he is busy submerging himself into three characters so incredibly different it is hard to believe their
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Good Morning my name is Sam Wockner and today I will be analysing and expressing my thoughts on the show Summer Heights High. INTRODUCTION: Summer Heights High is a show based on a public school education using both the positives and negatives in all forms of comedy. The show is based around three individual and extremely unique characters: Jonah Takalua‚ an early developed Year 8 student with very little intelligence or consideration due to the way he has been raised. He uses the fact that he
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Summer Heights High explores what happens over one school term in an “average” Australian high school in a mock form of a documentary. Media reports say some parts of the community where offended by the gags that draw upon drugs deaths and Down syndrome children. Chris Lilley brings to life Jonah Takalua‚ a rebel schoolboy from Tonga with the odds stacked against him‚ Mr. G‚ an ego-driven Drama teacher and Ja’mie King‚ a posh private schoolgirl on a student exchange‚ set to make a name for her-self
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filming Summer Height’s High‚ and We Can Be Heroes. Although Lilley’s mockumentaries partakes of both the pleasures of humour and the moral confidence of social critique‚ Lilley utilises another device in the critical arsenal of satire. Perhaps we might tamper this slightly by saying that‚ whether Lilley was irritating to promote humour‚ it’s impossible to escape the suspicion that its intent‚ illustrates a biased underlying attitude or belief about teens. In writing Summer Height’s High‚ Lilley
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EssaySatire Essay Latham Ned ‘Successful satirists achieve a balance between amusement and criticism.’ Discuss. The balance 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
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Satire How to Succeed in School Being a high school student with a fair amount of experience and observation in the field of achieving good grades with minimal effort‚ I should like to bestow upon current and future high school students some advice that may lead to their success. Before doing so‚ I would like to make clear that I do not necessarily endorse these methods. It is just observed that the application of these methods is shown to have worked with some of the most highly ranked high
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Yearly Satire Essay: Satire is typically intended to be comical although its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism‚ using wit as a weapon and as a tool to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society. In particular it aims to expose its audience to the nature of the political atmosphere by exploring the trivial and self-serving nature of governmental objectives. Rob Sitch’s television programme The Hollowmen ironically depicts the shallow values of contemporary
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Satire Essay By: Ethan Pham Cars are a fantastic invention. They make our lives more carefree by getting us from place to place quickly while abolishing the need for legs altogether. Instead of walking that 3 blocks to McDonalds‚ why not drive there? You get there faster and you can eat sooner. Driving has a lot of benefits. But driving also takes a lot of fuel‚ and everyone knows that fuel for cars isn’t the cheapest of resources. The gasoline that keeps your car running is supplied
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Analyse the ways in which satire can engage and provoke its audience Satire aims to expose to its audience the shortcomings of humanity through an assemblage of wit and mockery; it provides momentum for change and reform through ridicule. Robert Sitch’s television program ‘The Hollowmen’ seeks to expose the nepotistic and often superficial nature of Australian politics through the use of political satire‚ showing us that Australian politics is “inherently without values or moral grounding’ (Louise
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