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    Train your cat: http://www.yogakitty.com/ The Yogakitty.com was truly hysterical and quite obviously a farce comedy site. It was quite amusing to see the videos in different languages. It made me smile and brought a giggle to my day. I’m glad this was on the list of sites to research. I did not do much digging into the validity of Yogakitty.com as this was…

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    On The Scarlet Letter

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    He mentions that Hester is Hawthorne’s Abel, in reference to Cain and Abel, and how “it becomes a farce” (Lawrence). Although Abel is the victim in the biblical story, Hawthorne portrays Hester as Abel, even though she is the real sinner of The Scarlet Letter. Lawrence reveals how Hawthorne constantly victimizes Hester, in spite of her sin. Hester makes…

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    affective. Medicine and surgery has significantly improved in the past several centuries, which has caused deaths by disease to decrease and life span to increase. Unlike doctors in modern times, physician in the 1600s, like the ones in Moliere’s farce, did not have advanced technology and research in medicine. Because of this, doctors in that time frequently guessed diseases and treatments, which was not healthy. In The Imaginary Invalid, medical care was futile because doctors lacked…

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    The man shackled and his mouth is sealed shut with a padlock. This indicates that The Six Acts has dishonoured his right to free speech as it prohibited meetings of more than 50 people. This is further enhanced by the message ‘free discussion- a farce.’ The man is standing upon the Magna Carta and Bill of Rights. These documents ensure the rights of English citizens. However, the message in this cartoon is that this no longer applies due to The Six Acts. Moreover, there is an axe labelled ‘Law…

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    passed 6th grade, or a family like the Clampett’s that didn’t know a pool was a pool and not a cement pond. Some jokes and scenes are relatable however it was never more than a few giggles. I think if this were to air today, viewers would see it as a farce. The situation is unrelatable and realistic by today’s…

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    and how he Killed her is a play with a social message around a girl named Alyssa Long, a girl who is presumed raped and killed by a mysterious figure named Felix Amaya. The audience however is made aware during the play’s plot that this death is a farce created by Alyssa’s brother Connor and her friend Bianca. The rest of the play deals with both Alyssa and Felix’s sobering interactions and also the twisted social reality in which Alyssa’s friends attempt to deal with the loss of Alyssa online…

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    teaching them how to fire weapons. Therefore taking the mystique away and replacing it with boredom, He emphasizes that, as a preventative measure learning how to shoot the weapons is integral and should become part of the school curriculum, this is a farce and should be disregarded. The real question is, “Are Guns a necessary evil?” It makes no sense to implement them into school curriculum. In Canada there are strict policies regarding handguns. The constitution in the US blatantly states…

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    The Dark Ages Dbq

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    believed that to make men and women equal, women has to have the same education as a man does. “The most perfect education, in my opinion, is… to enables individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render [her] independent. In fact, it is a farce [joke] to call any being virtuous [worthy] whose [skills] do not result from the exercise of [her] own reason.” Mary Wollstonecraft is a powerful and independent that fought for women's rights. The philosophers mentioned were wise, bold, and…

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    also emphasizes acquiescence to illusory peace. Secondly, when Ui exalts his plan, expecting to expand his control to the America, people down the stage laugh loudly. At this point, people in Party Time become audiences of the play, deriding this farce. Brecht names his story “the RESISTIBLE rise of Arturo Ui”, but in the story, people don’t really resist his scheme, instead, they comply with atrocities for their short-term benefits. Also in Party Time, those hypocrites advocate harmony yet act…

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    Disney is a Farce Childhood is innocence. Young children with their impressionable minds are shaped by what they’re exposed to as they grow up. It is movies like Pocahontas and Aladdin that are incredibly misleading and set poor foundations for children to build their knowledge upon because of the raging number of historical inaccuracies littering the plots of the fairytales. Some of the inaccuracies were blatant stupidity, like having Ratcliffe planting the flag of the United Kingdom in 1607,…

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