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There is a difference between being sad and being unhappy. Being sad is a temporary state. But being unhappy is like a tree. It grows over the course of time and becomes big and massive. As Barney Stinson quotes, you can “..always stop being sad and be awesome instead”. But the same might not be the case with being Unhappy. There are certain habits that might define an unhappy person. In this article, let us look at What are those habits? Do these apply to you? If so how to fix them. You’re…

Both protagonists are orphans who, perhaps unconsciously, seek familial ties, and in order to attain that dream of wife and family, each man is willing to place himself in the arms of a scheming woman. Gimpel denies his own doubts about Elka’s fidelity when she blocks his access to their bed, but then births a child soon after their wedding. “How can you make such a fool,” [Gimpel] said [to Elka], “of one who should be the lord and master?” (Singer 280). But the counsel of a learned villager…

Hollywood Goes to School Qiana M Fleming SOW412 SPRING 2018 INTRODUCTION This is a movie review based on a high school student named "Lucas" that had a nit for learning. He was an honor student and overachiever. However, Lucas was dealing with grave emotional disturbances and thoughts. During his academic tenure he developed a few different relationships including one with a young lady named "Becca". He envied his teachers and traumatized his mentor because he did not receive an A…

Honky takes the serious issue of racism and shines a light on certain aspects by using comedy and satire as tools to support and help illustrate topics discussed on stage. My focus of this paper will be on two actors that I believe personify comedy and seriousness the most in this production, Sam Richardson as Dr. Driscoll and Judd Johnson as Thomas Hodge. Richardson and Johnson both focused heavily in these two categories in Mikell Pinkley’s production of Honky, but Richardson’s comedic take on…

Also comedy have a several types Farce, Romantic Comedy, Satirical Comedy, Sentimental comedy, Black comedy, Comedy of humours and Comedy of manners. The Farce is a form of low comedy, whose intention is to provoke simple mirth in the form of roars of laughter (and not smiles); it uses exaggerated physical action, character and absurd situation, with improbable events, a complex plot, with events rapidly succeeding one another, pushing character and dialogue into the background. The origins of…

London’s Victorian burlesque featured in the 1830s and 40s blended the use of humor and the female body to entertain their audiences. It showed cladly dressed women dancing to songs rewritten with a comedic twist while revealing what was underneath their clothes and flirted with the audience. ‘it involved transgressive comedy and songs, but the primary attraction of burlesque was sex . . in the form of ribald humor and immodestly dressed women.’ (Kenrick, n.d.). Burlesque performers sort to pick…

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie, by David Lubar is a humorous book about a teenage boy named Scott Hudson who is entering high school. Scott is the youngest son in the Hudson family. The genre of this book is young adult fiction. The time period that the story takes place appears to be recent but we don’t know for sure. During this book Scott Hudson faces the same things that any teenager would face during any time period . On the first day of school Scott was smacked on the head while riding the…

Have you ever noticed something that seemed ridiculous or petty but everyone never said anything bad about it? Well, that is exactly how Oscar Wilde felt about the Victorian upper class. In the play “The Importance of Being Earnest”, Oscar Wilde uses the characters to portray how he viewed the Victorian upper class. Wilde satirizes the Victorian upper class by using understatements about serious matters, bringing attention to the comedic behaviors of the characters, and portraying the humourous…

In the passage from Act II “The Importance of Being Ernest” by Oscar Wilde, Wilde uses many sources of humor to show the comical way in which Ernest and Cecily meet for the very first time. Starting with a confusing engagement and ending with a phony name, this encounter took a different turn than expected as it developed. The first source of humor used in “The Importance of Being Ernest” is when Cecily has announced to Ernest, also known as Algernon, that they are engaged. Ernest has never met…

Synopsis The Dead Poets Society is a story that revolves around a group of boys who were attending a prestigious boys school together. Set in the 1950s, the parents and school culture were seen to be autocratic, where parents often dictated the lives of their children and leave them with no say. The story mainly unfolds from the perspectives of two students, Todd Anderson and Neil Perry, who are roommates. In the story, the students found inspiration from their English teacher, Mr. Keating, who…