“You can 't debate satire. Either you get it or you don 't.”(Michael Moore). Satire is a piece of writing that takes a serious problem or a plan that someone of power has been purposed and using irony, sarcasm, and ridicule to talk about a serious issue. Satire is mainly used to address a social issue and get people to start talking about the issue. Syria refugees are fleeing their country and President Obama is accepting ten thousand of them in America over the next year; however, Donald Trump, a politician who is running for president of the United States, disagrees with Obama and has made it clear that if he is elected as president he will put all al Muslims, even Muslims born in America, in a database for the government to track them and
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One such example, is when Ali starts talking about an eight step plan on how the ID may work and with the completion of each step, the card holder would receive a set amount of points the last step in his plan is “Memorize every single lyric to every single Taylor Swift song ever. (Automatic 10,000 points)”(Ali, paragraph 16) he did this to make a reference to music in modern today all while adding a joke about how most “modern” Americans are at the end of his plan. He also states a new plan that Trump could use, claiming he could do a Hunger Games style and says “We could “Hunger Games” this situation and host a “Last Moderate Muslim Standing” — an annual competition where 50 moderate Muslims are chosen, one from each state, to fight to the death until only one remains. This proposal will most likely be endorsed by at least 31 governors who have promised to reject Syrian refugees. While it’s true none of the dozen or so refugees (out of about 785,000 who have come since Sept. 11, 2001) arrested or removed from the United States due to terrorism concerns were Syrian, you can never be too safe, we understand.”(Ali, paragraph 17-18). Referencing a movie that the reader could picture while also stating two facts about governors in states
One such example, is when Ali starts talking about an eight step plan on how the ID may work and with the completion of each step, the card holder would receive a set amount of points the last step in his plan is “Memorize every single lyric to every single Taylor Swift song ever. (Automatic 10,000 points)”(Ali, paragraph 16) he did this to make a reference to music in modern today all while adding a joke about how most “modern” Americans are at the end of his plan. He also states a new plan that Trump could use, claiming he could do a Hunger Games style and says “We could “Hunger Games” this situation and host a “Last Moderate Muslim Standing” — an annual competition where 50 moderate Muslims are chosen, one from each state, to fight to the death until only one remains. This proposal will most likely be endorsed by at least 31 governors who have promised to reject Syrian refugees. While it’s true none of the dozen or so refugees (out of about 785,000 who have come since Sept. 11, 2001) arrested or removed from the United States due to terrorism concerns were Syrian, you can never be too safe, we understand.”(Ali, paragraph 17-18). Referencing a movie that the reader could picture while also stating two facts about governors in states