Gag

People with disabilities are attached with stigmas, such as being less intelligent or incapable in certain facets of life. Stereotypes are present in society, but it may be difficult to discuss and to further change or overcome them. However, humor can be used as a device to allow a serious topic to be more approachable by relying on preposterous situations. Through the use of dark humor in Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot, John Callahan breaks these stigmas and illustrates an outrageous…

Eldon Dedini was a talented cartoonist who had a very funny sense of humor. While some of his works referenced serious topics, he found a way to engage his audience with the lighter side of the issue. He had been known to say that, “the gag is the whole secret to cartooning.” It was his feeling that many people can draw, but that the joke is the importance to make the cartoon. Eldon Dedini was born in King City California June 29th 1921. His father was an Italian dairy farmer and a…

results in mental retardation. Another treatment for the disease is enzyme replacement therapy. In this procedure, rather than giving a patient new stem cell, the patient is administered the needed enzyme, alpha-L-iduronidase, for the breakdown of GAGs. However, hs method has been proven only to help with non neurological symptoms, especially with the pain caused by the disease. Fortunately for those suffering from Hurler’s syndrome, scientists are currently working on gene therapy for Hurler’s…

The gag rule was created to limit the debate on slavery, though once it was repealed in 1844, people began to once again talk about the issue of slavery. The abolitionism was a movement to end slavery, and the argument was founded on the Declaration of Independence…

agreed upon. Recently I ordered a bouquet of flowers in an ornate vase to be sent to one of my clients in order to show him my excitement to be working with his company. Unfortunately, my client received a plastic vase filled with dead flowers, a gag gift. My order seemed to have gotten replaced with someone else’s order. Despite calling Flowers Fast twice on two different occasions and explaining the situation, it has…

what could arguably be called the most offensive movie ever made! Director Mel Brooks released Blazing Saddles one of the top 10 funniest movies of all time. With many gags to keep the audience laughing, the downright neglect of political correctness of the film, and the deliberate anachronisms placed throughout the film.…

the issue regarding the expression strategy of CsRn1. Our results demonstrate that CsRn1 copies lacking frameshifting have arisen from the precedential counterparts with two overlapping ORFs by a single-nucleotide insertion at an upstream region of gag stop codon. The insertional event appeared to have occurred sporadically in multiple CsRn1 copies in the C. sinensis and O. viverrini genomes, although their evolutionary fate differed in the respective genomes. The newly evolving variant…

and visual gags with occasional intertitles explaining the situation became the centerpiece of attraction and entertainment. Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton were two legendary comedy filmmakers emerging from this era. Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights was a combination of Chaplin’s skills from previous movies. In this movie, he employs purely innocent jokes under the famous Tramp image. It actually works on multiple level because the audience is hooked into the point of action and the gags while…

Joshua Giddings and The Gag Rule Having a strong opinion is one thing, but it takes a large amount of courage to follow through and fight in what you believe in, even if it means to try and change a country for the better. Joshua Giddings was an American attorney, abolitionist, and politician who served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1838-1859. He was censured in Congress for violating the Gag rule, under which he defended slaves gaining their freedom. When someone is censured, it…

Many issues in the mid-1800s divided the country to a north and a south, but the main issue that divided the country was the difference stance that the north and the south had about slavery. The north wanted slavery to be nationally abolished because they believe that it is morally wrong to have slaves work in harsh conditions, not get paid at all or well enough to support your family, and slaves would take whites jobs in the factories since slaves are free labors most of the time. However,…