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Aaron Sorkin's Commencement speech Aaron Sorkin a Syracuse graduate, gave a very inspiring commencement speech for the graduates and the families of the graduates at Syracuse University on May 13th 2012. In the speech, the main topic was overcoming failures everywhere in life. He talks about his struggles when he was a student at Syracuse and all the battles he fought then. Earlier in his life he battled a drug addiction with cocaine: Sorkin said in his speech he didn't think he could write…

everyday life” (O’Quin and Aronoff, 355). Comedy in television is a crucial role in the everyday community when it comes to not only discussing debatable topics, but diffusing them as well. Television uses humor through many different ways including jokes, skits, and embarrassing occasions. In numerous different shows like Family…

common as well, they express controversial messages through their use of humor. De Botton’s argument is valid when he believes that humorists can convey messages or ideas that are often unconventional or not so easily swallowed, when presented within a joke. Often times, especially nowadays with the ever growing amount of political turmoil, people get into arguments when trying to express their viewpoints. On shows like Saturday Night Live, comedians can do this without major conflict. They…

I’m a dead man. Humorless, forever somber, what I was supposed to be my entire life. But you know that, they all know that. The papers, the news, I’m dead world! But I wasn’t always dead, and I wasn’t always alive either. Ah yes, my first baby steps, one small step for man, one giant leap to comedy gold. Ha ha, you can keep that Armstrong, both of you. That stuff’s way too powerful. But yeah, I’m a comedian, or at least I was until my bones manifested into the meaningless microphone I’m…

such as race. Comedian Russell Peters executes the use of these topics with grace, thus affecting the broad demographic of opinionated audiences on the topic of race. Most importantly, comedians of this expertise are replacing snide hate with sly jokes. Dr. Q had to contain self-control in the face of prejudice…

Have you ever thought of having a book character as a friend? The Outsiders has a variety of different characters with many different characteristics. The book The Outsiders is a book that has a focus that is mainly on the characters and who they are. The characters can range anywhere from best friend ever to arch nemesis. In this essay, arch nemesis will not stand for frenemy, but somebody that you would like to exterminate from the world. Having Ponyboy as a friend, Two-Bit as a frenemy, and…

people to judge each other because of their accents. I believe she has a great point. How can we judge someone with an accent when what they are saying should be more important. In todays society it is so sad how we take it upon ourselves to laugh and joke at someones accent. Majority of the people in the world take Mexicans and Black people to be igonorant but uses this term smart with the white people. Do we judge people by accents becuase we think we are more stable in our use of language?…

Work My best job is working at St Luke’s Hospital because there are so many nice people you come across during work. I been proud of working at St Luke’s hospital because of the nice, outgoing, and friendly faces you meet and no one ever judges you. My worst job was working at St Anne’s Nursing Home that was my real first job at the age 17. It was a bad job because of the management was very disrespectful and didn’t treat their employees as a worker. I only volunteer one time and it was when I…

strengths and the weaknesses of Bragg’s speech to learn from the good techniques he applied and to understand the weaknesses. The introduction was very good; he made the audience laugh from the beginning and seemed very comfortable doing it. Thus, the joke as an attention getter was definitely a great idea.…

One of the other optical illusions that a comedy film-maker could take advantage of is foreshortening. Since the brain assumes something that something such as the end of a pencil is actually a full pencil with the rest of its length behind it, the mind creates the illusion that the object recedes into the background in its full length rather than being as short as the eyes actually see it. Film-makers could use this to create a situation where once again both the main character and the audience…