Death from laughter

Shivering from the chilly autumn wind, I waited by the public bathroom, anticipating our monthly Chicago rendezvous. This month Katy and I agreed to meet at the Lincoln Park Zoo. After several not-so-clandestine glances at the main entrance, I finally spotted her infamous bright orange beanie bobbing its way through the crowd toward me. I waved and caught her eye, and she smiled at my little "freeze" dance. Katy--always the jester--began to grotesquely limp her way to me. At her atrocious…

“I’m probably going to hate her.” My hushed voice spoke to the person beside me. The Dorothy braids and long legs shifted slowly across the locker room. “I hate you!” Two years later and it was two AM. The smell of honey, vanilla extract, and butter wafted through my kitchen at 2 am as the Dorothy braids struggled to watch me attempt to whisk the mixture. “She’s probably a prep.” My eyes lightly pierced her pink blouse. “Gross.” “You’re going to let me borrow that.” POW! was printed across…

wind. I took deep breaths in order to focus and lower my heart rate, which raced faster than Usain Bolt, but it grew increasingly difficult as time went on. 'Why ARE people so mean today? Why go on miserably like this?' I yearned to go home, away from this dungeon inside myself. In and out, in and out, in and, "Set! Come on move faster. This is ridiculous," Mr. Kline shouted, piercing through the quiet noise around me. That WAS it. Each diminutive sense bombarded my ears. The directors…

Smiling is universal and contagious (Stevenson, 2012). It only takes seven seconds to judge a person (Pitts, 2013), but because the action of smiling resides in the cingulate cortex of the brain, if someone smiles the automatic response is to smile back unless the reflex is resisted (Stevenson, 2012). What if the immediate response is to frown because of the disgusting state of the smile? Teeth are an important part of a smile but if they are yellow and dirty, a person's life will be associated…

situation will make me be stronger so that if I met any awkward moment, I will adjust my attitude and move on. In the book, Sandra Cisneros wrote about Esperanza, her family is from Mexico, which means is different from the white people live in USA, and the city that they are living, Chicago. They are outcasts, they are isolated from people. They can only live in poor areas and live in poor houses. People look down at them. I haven’t been discriminated. The feeling of being discriminated must be…

very intimidating. Other students had told me that if you didn’t sit right, talk right, and have perfect grammar that she would tear me apart and fail me. Of course that all turned out to be a lie and she ended up being one of my favorite teachers from high school, but at that point I didn’t know that. Since I was so intimidated by her I wanted to write a paper that would blow her away so that I could get on her good side so she wouldn’t tear me apart and fail me. The topic of the paper she…

I smile, "no. But, I am going in the bedroom." I look at Colton and he 's staring at me like I 'm a fresh piece of meat. I smile and walk into the bedroom. I hear the couch creek and footsteps down the hallway. Before I lay down Colton picks me up from behind and spins me around. I laugh, "put me down." "Magic word?" "Please?" He kisses my cheek, "it 's actually sugar, but I 'll put you down because I know you 'll get pissed." I laugh, "how would I know that the 'magic word ' is sugar?"…

for me, Sandra has the unique ability to turn me into a ten year old when she gets me laughing. I end up with giggles that lead to snorts and snorts leading to leaky eyes. Sometimes the leaking hits my bladder too. A good laugh goes a long way, and laughter with a person who thinks I deserve the world goes even…

She’s no celebrity, but she certainly catches my attention. On her head is her scarce, grey hair that she combs forward with her fingernails. Slightly below, she wears stylish brown glasses, but one of her eyelids is shut for some medical reason. From living in Indiana the majority of her life, her skin is paler than most of us southerners. Her clothing style is vibrant and festive. She never misses a chance to wear her favorite color blue or holiday designs. Also, due to her double knee…

Bergson covering everything from we laugh as a release mechanism to we laugh out of superiority. Sigmund Freud’s theory over humor serves the purpose to explain why we laugh at the times we do. In Freud’s theory he explains laughter as a release mechanism to let go of tension you may have. In his theory he describes how when a joke is being told tension builds up behind a cathexis and when the punchline is reached and the cathexis is lifted, the energy is released as laughter. Freud also makes…