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    clear-cut comedies and tragedies‚ while others are more ambiguous. The Merchant of Venice is a play that falls under the latter type‚ and it has been hotly contested whether this literary work should be classified a comedy or a tragedy. However‚ since the majority of the characters received a happy ending‚ the abundance of comic relief scenes and characters‚ and lightheartedness of the plot relative to other Shakespearean works leads me to conclude that The Merchant of Venice is indeed a comedy.

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    the sheer charisma and policies that the people of America were magnetized to. In the time of Reagan’s presidency‚ he became incredibly popular with the people for a variety of reasons from his good looks to the way he speaks. Reagan lives up to the appraise by considered as one of the most influential presidents in America’s history‚ but how did he get so popular? What might have made him more relatable to the American masses is that in his childhood‚ he grew up in the “normal” American life. He

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    how exactly can Friday have any connection to medieval comedy when pertaining to Craig? Looking what medieval comedy is‚ Friday fits the definition. The conceptual definition for medieval comedy is the spiritual journey from despair to joy written in common language. The film’s dialogue is written entirely in the vernacular of that community. Much slang and racial terms are used throughout the film. An important component of medieval comedy is that of the pilgrimage‚ a journey of renewal. Once Craig

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    The genre that this particular episode of Parks and Recreation; Gryzzlbox falls into the comedy genre. It states how character quirks highlight craziness of everyday situations. The type of comedy that this specifically belongs to is nonetheless; Put Down comedy is mostly what this episode has; which states how characters exercise power over the character in a humorous way. Put down comedy is seen throughout this particular episode for example Leslie Knope trashes the person that is claimed “never

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    that first talent show‚ I have been hooked. I performed comedy routines twice a year for the rest of elementary school and in annual shows for 6th and 7th grade. I put a lot of time and energy into making it seem unrehearsed and loved hearing the audience laugh. While scripted comedy routines are quite different from the daily jokes that I tell my family and friends‚ to me‚ they both serve the same purpose. Whether it be a scripted comedy routine in front of an audience‚ a funny story that I tell

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    In William Shakespeare’s play The Comedy of Errors‚ Shakespeare writes a play which incorporates both comedy and tragedy. The play is about two sets of twins‚ Antipholus and Dromio of Ephesus and Antipholus and Dromio of Syracuse. They were separated at birth due to a shipwreck when they were still infants. Antipholus and Dromio of Syracuse visit the island of Ephesus‚ unaware that this is where their long lost twins reside. As the play progresses‚ there is a series of error and confusion which occur

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    Dante’s The Divine Comedy‚ we are educated of diverse ways to relate to life through Hell‚ Purgatory and Paradise. This voyage Dante takes his readers on is one of uncertainty‚ ambivalence and inconstancy‚ as if we are touring an encyclopedia to increase this circle of knowledge. Realizing that moral truths are put into place to help us choose right from wrong‚ one’s journey has to hit a low point before the personal journey will get better. While reading The Divine Comedy I: Hell‚ Dante exclaims

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    Comedy and its Subgenres in Step Brothers Comedy is defined as “a work that is designed in some way to provoke laughter or humour on the part of the viewer” (Geoff King‚ Film Comedy‚ p.3). Adam McKay’s 2008 film‚ Step Brothers‚ starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly definitely fits these criteria‚ and therefore is a comedy itself. Another criteria of comedy is that the worlds in which they take place are much less serious than is the real realm of existence. In Step Brothers‚ this non-seriousness

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    the most important Italian author and one of the two or three most influential writers in Western literature. When Dante wrote the Divine Comedy between 1307 and 1321‚ nearly all European literature was written in Latin‚ which meant that it could only be read by the highly educated‚ representing‚ at most‚ a small percent of the population.   The Divine Comedy was the first significant literary work to be written in the “vernacular”‚ the language of the people‚ giving it an exponentially larger audience

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    his personal motives. The state of Germany after the war made it easy for an extremist like Hitler to become extremely powerful. The situation in Germany that allowed Hitler to become popular was mainly the extreme reparations that the Treaty of Versailles required Germany to face after WW1. Germany’s economy was completely

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