...Mundane Ways Gary Larson has brought laughter to many people by his popular long-running comic called The Far Side. In one of these cartoon series, the character names Crawley was told by his friends: “You cannot buy happiness”. However, “Mr. Crawley surmised that they just didn’t know where the store was” (Figure 1). Humorously, Mr. Crawley’s conclusion about the reason why his friends could never buy happiness may be comical and eccentric, but it conveys Larson’s message about a common and reflective argument in our life as he identifies people’s different aspects of happiness and ways to accomplish it. Is simply painted in black and white with captions at the bottom, the single rectangular panel makes it easier for the readers to recognize Larson’s typical painting style and his message throughout the comic. Looking at the panel, what impresses viewers at the first glance is the “Happiness” store with a remarkable, large signboard on the corner of a crowded street. On the pane of glass, there are several flyers for advertisement such as “Complete your life”. Besides, that store selling happiness is the place which Mr. Crawley’s friends – the characters in the comic did not know. Thus, they were unable to purchase happiness. The hilarious point is that “happiness” is an abstract, ungraspable definition; how come there is a store selling it? Nevertheless, according to Henri Bergson – the author of “Laughter: An essay on the meaning of the comic”, the comic has...
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...How to Live the Good Life, and How should a Person Go about doing So? [Author Name(s), First M. Last, Omit Titles and Degrees] [Institutional Affiliation(s)] Author Note [Include any grant/funding information and a complete correspondence address.] Abstract The topic of my research photo essay is “how to live the good life, and how should a person go about doing so?”. My main goal in doing this topic was to illustrate a guide to enjoying life and point out specific activities that one could accomplish after reading this essay. From laughter to a experiencing events with friends, to writing out a bucket list of things and activities to accomplish before life is over. These tips and suggestions should give you a better idea of what you can get out of life, if the good life is what you are looking for. Keywords: [Click here to add keywords.] How to Live the Good Life, and How should a Person Go about doing So? What comes to mind when you think of living the good life, late nights with old friends, discussing all the places you have visited, having a good laugh, smiling, looking back at some of the fails that you have experienced, and how you over came them. All of these are just a handful of examples of what living the good life is all about. As you read on, there will be more detailed examples of how to live the good life, and how one would go about it doing so. Friendship Friendship is important to the good life because having friends is a fulfilling in itself. One...
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...this one-paragraph narrative essay, Brand tells the story of her rejection by a potential employer—that her rejection is based on her race is the fact the story hinges upon; that she is willing to be exploited based on her gender is the essay’s central irony. Brand offers a narrative structure that allows the reader to empathize with the speaker—to experience an emotional response that reflects that of the speaker. She accomplishes this response by withholding information until a crucial moment, by varying sentence length and control to reflect emotions, and by repeating certain images throughout the essay. [Thesis statement] Brand opens her essay by outlining the series of events that lead her to seek employment at an office on Keele Street in Toronto. She recounts how she secures—by telephone—an interview for the following day; she then recounts her careful preparations for the interview and her arrival at the office on the day of the interview. Suddenly—and apparently inexplicably—she is told that the job no longer exists. Just as it dawns on the speaker that the reason she is unacceptable for the position is her race, it also dawns on the reader. Brand, with careful rhetorical manipulation of structure, mimics the speaker’s epiphany in the reader by withholding the information that the speaker is black. [Topic sentence] Indeed, the first mention of the speaker’s race comes after her rejection as she makes her escape and laughs “that laughter that Black people get, derisive...
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...authors because Dorothy Walters, who holds a PhD in English Literature, was so taken by her that she made the decision to complete a study of O’Connor’s fiction and publish a book about it about ten years after Flannery O’Connor’s early death at age thirty-nine. In her study, one of Walters’s observations was that in response to O’Connor’s use of humor the readers’ “initial reaction may be a superior grin at the spectacle of a world teeming with inanity. But, through our laughter, we are involved; and we are led to reflect upon the most serious questions touching the human experience” (25). This is precisely how Flannery O’Connor works her magic through her words. She pulls her readers in through her use of humor by involving them and then forcing them to confront the hard facts and flaws of themselves and their neighbors. Walters indicates that when O’Connor makes her readers scoff at one of her character’s flaws, such as Joy-Hulga’s unswerving pride in O’Connor’s short story “Good Country People,” our uneasy laughter is turned back on ourselves as we...
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... The most important point that author Russell Baker, made in his title essay, “On Becoming a Writer”, was he wanted to become a writer at the age of sixteen. He said, “that coming out of high school most sixteen year’s old didn’t think about becoming a writer”. But being a writer was the only thing he had interest in. In some obvious ways of thinking he perceived writing was done by the rich but, he considered writing not to be a job that you can make a good earning from. The notion of him becoming a writer was self-explanatory because, he already thought of himself as a writer where it gives him a sense of identity. Being that he was a skillful, and talented great writer. In his thoughts of becoming a writer he was unsure that could be a passion of his. It wasn’t until his third year that the possibility of becoming a writer took hold. By then he was bored with English, and everything associated with it. Why is that? He thought the English grammar was dull, and buffing because of the assignments he did. He felt his assignments turned out to be compositions. Meaning they was leaden with lackluster paragraphs that was not appealing to the teachers once they read them. Except for one teacher Mr. Fleagle, it was an essay that he read, “The Art of Eating Spaghetti.”, that he took interest in his essays. Mr. Fleagle was describe by Mr. Baker, as a teacher who was dull and didn’t have the ability to insight his classroom...
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...Masks “An Extravagance of Laughter" by Ralph Ellison exemplifies the trials and tribulations of a young black man struggling not only to be accepted by society but by himself as well. This essay is primarily concerned with questions of race and interaction between people of different races in different times and places. As Ellison travels from a community of apparent segregation (South) to the (North), he learns that distinctions between cultures are not as definite as they may seem. This idea of masking became a very important concept because of the transition between the north and south. There were a few examples in the story were people were hiding behind masks to either fit in, as well as people who did not hide behind the masks. Taunted by humiliation from releasing emotional laughter Ralph Ellison arrives at the finale of his essay in disbelief. He probably hadn't counted on one scene in a play changing his perspective of life. This scene enabled him to reach the conclusion of his exploration. He realized that the absurdity of human nature is all common. Everyone is just at least a little bit the same. Ellison battled with the concept of "masking" throughout the essay. Masking can best be defined as changing one's perspective from the inside out. Or as W. B. Yeats puts it so eloquently in the essay, "active virtue, as distinct from the passive acceptance of a current code, is the wearing of a mask" (268). The person wearing the mask is no longer a part of the original...
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...4. Jonathan Swift (1667—1745) the foremost prose satirist in the English language His Writing The Battle of Books (1704) A Tale of Tub (1704) the Drapier’s Letters (1724) Gulliver’s Travels (1726) A Modest Proposal (1729) Gulliver’s Travels a collection of tales tied together by Gulliver a novel a satire a travel book a children book an allegory Satire A common form of the 18th Century, basically the ridiculing of any objects through laughter which will soften the blow The Structure of Gulliver’s Travels Book I about Liliputians in Liliput, being morally trivial and full of pride. Book II about the giants in Brobdingnag in the sense of magnanimity & grandeur, goodness & decency. ※The first two books reflect the kind of political infighting that characterizes the early 18th century. Book III about pseudo-philosophers & scientists in Laputa. ※ contemporary scientists are held up to ridicule. Book IV about the country of the Houyhnhnms endowed with reason in the contrast with the Yahoos, beasts in the shape of men. ※ Horses are endowed with reason, unlike the depraved all-too-human Yahoos, but reason is clearly not the only thing that matters in life. As a political & social satire actually a biting work of political and social satire parodying popular travelogues of his day in creating this story of travels to imaginary foreign lands. satirizing the political events in England and Ireland in his day, English values and institutions...
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...us all how he related himself from the quotes that are in this book. Chris carved in to a piece of wood that was discovered on the bus at the scene of chris' death, that Jack London is KING, and also used a passage from White Fang (9). The passage chris read says, Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness-a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen- hearted Northland Wild (JACK LONDON, White Fang) (9). Chris related to this passage because it described what his present surroundings were exactually like. The passage from Leo Tolstoy tittled “Family Happiness” was also found with Chris McCandless's remains (15). Chris related this passage whit how he felt toward his family, and how he wanted to find adventure, excitement, and danger, along with the chance to sacrifice himself for his love. He also found himself...
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...Personal Narrative Essay Title: “For Sale” Everyone knows that phrase: “The grass is always greener on the other side”. But as a child it was a hollow statement for me. Until the day I perceived it as my philosophy of survival. This story is of my purest memories following my relentless battles. Simplistic flashbacks of virtuous kids. Full of laughter and play with nothing to be feared except for the day’s end. All before the moment where the innocence was dissolved away by the acidic misfortunes of life. [a series of sentence fragments] To illustrate, the first setting in this world was in the town called “Ocala”. It was in South-central Florida, a place where nature thrived and creatures of all walks of life roamed. The most business we had there was a prison thirty miles away, and a Wal-Mart 30 miles further down the same road. So one would say it was pretty rural. Just a quaint ole town, where the trees outnumbered the people. My best friend Samantha and I loved the fact that we had mother-nature as our playground. Spending most of our waking moments playing in the open forests, we’d sneak around concocting strategic methods on how to collect lizards and insects, then place them in small decorated cages. Once we obtained our new pets, we would examine and befriend each one, always setting them free later. However, our nights were different, pictures were taken, video games were played and even dress up was included from time to time. Videogames helped enable our...
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...enable me to stay the whole afternoon without getting hungry. I eat all the peas, drink a lot of water, and spread the cone which once has been a part of a newspaper. The article says that Apple has just launched Iphone 6. The bell rings and I go back into my classroom. The teacher is talking ad nauseam about how to write an essay. I am having difficulty concentrating on her lecture because I am too tired and the peas and water give me terrible wind. My stomach grumbles and my friends laughed. But the teacher’s deprecating stare silence them. I just fart again and again, silently of course, and fan my face with my hands after every fart so that nobody will suspect me. The teacher is assigning a topic to us which we are to write about. I try to let out another silent one. Unfortunately, this one does not go out silently. It gives out a low-pitched whistle. Everybody turn to look at me doubling up with laughter. The teacher scolded them into silence. Then, she can no longer contain herself. She break into demented laughter. Flushed with embarrassment, I just stare down at my book wishing to drop dead then and there. Eventually, the laughter died down and the lecture continued. When the bell rings the English teacher goes out. I still dare not look up. The Math teacher come in. His voice drones on, but I cannot concentrate. My stomach rumbles every now and then, making my friends chuckles. My embarrassment has become an entertainment to my friends. Time drags...
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...1. Introduction: The event that shooked the world 2015 has started very tragic in France, but also in journalistic and political satire profession. On January 7th two armed men entered the famous political satire newsroom Charlie Hebdo in center of french capital and killed twelve people. Reason was simple drawings of prophet Muhammad A week later come another editorial which was sold in five million copies. The second example happened Ten years earlier in Denmark police avert attack on another newsrooom. At that time target was Jyllands Posten . In both cases, the authors have joked with the extremity of the Muslim faith, joking with the Prophet Muhammad. As is known, they (Muslims) appear his appear not even in the Koran. But what is actually political satire in this topic and why is important? Acording to Oxford dictonary political satire is the use of humor, irony, exaggetion or ridicule to expose and criticitze people stupidaty in the context political. Political satire is usually connected with social commentary. It is has been a spoken or written act of rebellion toward an individual or group; commentary on social issues or society. Political satire is allround us. It can be usually be found in popular culture like books, movies, web pages , cartoons, television shows, caricature, foto montages ect. One of good example of it is famous book Animal Farm by George Orwell, where author critisise political system and moral values begin to fail . On the other...
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...advertise a commercial product effectively. • Must be able to give the effect of being an endorser of a celebrity (celebrity income in a commercial). • Must be to relate brands, celebrities and consumers in the Philippines • Must be able to identify the risks involved and the celebrity arguments against celebrity advertising in the Philippines • Must be able to distinguish the impact of the brand endorsement by a celebrity on consumer behavior in the Philippines. References: • (2010, 12). Celebrity Endorsement. StudyMode.com. Retrieved 12, 2010, from http://www.studymode.com/essays/Celebrity-Endorsement-528003.html • http://www.studymode.com/subjects/impact-of-celebrity-endorsers-in-the-philippines-local-studies-page2.html • http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-celebrity-advertising.htm View Full Essay Join Now Please login to view the full essay... Essay's...
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...have always been a widely talked about subject. Each gender wonders what it would be like to be the other and experience things the way that the other would.” Communication is a big part of marriage” in an essay by Tannen (407)”. Without communication where would the world would be quiet. Men and women most likely will not ever understand each other and sometimes will not be able to love the person that loves them because of the communication. The relations between men and women are often times very complex, but they can also be simple. Understanding how anyone thinks and acts is difficult, even when that person is your spouse or loved one. We grow to believe that we know someone and it turns out that they are completely different. Tannen is her essay writes “men and women have different styles and expectations “(407). I have met a true friend and soul mate his name is Ed. He is more than my mentor is. He is my best friend. I disagree with Tannen on the different styles and expectations. I do not see anything different in Ed and I except he has show me laughter and smiles that are important in a relationship. He is always in a good mood, always has something pleasant to say, and no matter what be going on, he can get you to smile. Everywhere he is, there will be laughter, smiles, and happiness spreading out like some sort of delightful virus. He is always calm, patient, and even tempered when faced with people whom were less than pleasant to be around. I learned from watching...
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... He also had a lot of good memories and laughter that always seemed possible for him while he had a drink in his hand. He needed alcohol because that is when he found a world to cling to and a way of belonging. 2. He finds it difficult to go to parties because when he is around everybody who is drinking, he feels awkward, and he starts to feel sorry for himself. 3. He stopped drinking when he started to realize his drunk weekends started happening during the week and his years were now being measured in hangover. So he found it necessary to stop drinking to get his life back together. 4. He has a very determined personality. When he realized he was an alcoholic he was determined to stop drinking. Then after he stopped, he was even more determined to stay sober even if he wanted to drink. He said the urge to drink came from the animal that lived inside of him from paragraph 11. He knows that if he can keep the animal inside of him sober than he did what was best for him. Thesis-The writer is dealing with a serious issue that many people face involving alcoholism, and he learns how to keep the thirsty animal inside of him sober even though it is really hard for him to do. 1. The main idea of the essay is the essay is how difficult it can be to deal with alcoholism. Even though it was very difficult for him to become sober, he gets through it and he discusses it in paragraph 13 of the essay. 2. The causes of the essay is that he wants to become accepted so while...
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...Your Desires A Summery of “On Becoming a Writer” “On Becoming a Writer” is an essay by Russell Baker, who was born in Virginia in 1925. It is an excerpt taken from the Pulitzer Prize - winning memoir Growing Up. Baker shares his inspirational story and reminds students and young adults not to be afraid to explore their desires. The excerpt centers around the pivotal moment, when Baker explores his desires and realizes that he wants to be a writer. In the first part of the story, Baker describes how writing interested him, but there were so many other unattractive things about English. He talked about how boring Grammar was and that writing papers were like a chore and robotic. He even said that reading the classics were “deadening as chloroform” (Baker, 1982). Baker touches on a good point in this section. School, for a lot of students, ends up being dull and repetitious due to boring subject matter. When teachers put a little thought and effort into the subject matter and allow students to be creative, it can make subjects more appealing and help keep students interest. Baker then takes us to his junior year, with Mr. Feagles. Baker describes Mr. Feagles as a pristine, out of touch teacher, that was “prim to a fault” (Baker, 1982). For the first part of the year, Mr. Feagles class fails to spark any interest in Baker. That is, until Mr. Feagles gives the class an informal essay assignment. Baker, like a typical highs school student, procrastinates until...
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