Humour

The short story “Harrison Bergeron is a satire that criticizes and exaggerates a potential shift in society towards egalitarianism and levelling. Satire is holding views, traditions and thoughts to scrutiny through ridicule, irony, exaggeration or humour. The author, Kurt Vonnegut, scoffs the growing tendency to think that capitalism and freedom are wrong (unjust) and that the solution is absolute equality. Satire is generally used with the intent of mocking, shaming or outwitting cultural or…

“the sight of two men kissing fuels the kind of anti-gay bullying that haunts countless gay and lesbian school children.” Snickers intentions in making this commercial were obviously not malicious, but to capture the attention of consumers through humour. Alice Nathanson, a Masterfoods spokeswoman, admits that, “humor is highly subjective… some people may have found the ad offensive. Clearly that was not our intent.” In this case, the advertisements political component was completely accidental,…

should still be equality for everyone. She promotes real equality by not degrading men nor women while still acknowledging the differences between the genders. This reference to makeup and shopping is also a tool to keep the listeners engaged through humour. She does however break away from a lot of the previously preconceived ideas about femininity and masculinity, “Teach your students to see that vulnerability is…

Gender stereotyping should be stopped because it is insulting to both men and women. There are a few theories why it should be stopped. Firstly, advertisements uses humour as a way to achieve success. Gender stereotyping happens in advertising as it attracts more viewers, therefore more revenue earned. In advertisements, usually woman is portray as very tender, nurturing and warm-hearted. But actually in reality, there…

Erich Maria Remarque was a German-born author. Born in 1898, Remarque was one of the many young men conscripted into the German Army in World War I. During his service he would be injured by shrapnel, sending him to recover at an army hospital for the remainder of the war. Following the war, he would work in many different careers such as a stonecutter, teacher, editor, journalist and librarian before he pursued his love for writing full time. As an author, he would write and published several…

arrest of the teenager. His by the book captain (with the book in this case being a dictionary) informs Cristi that his job is to enforce the law, not make decisions based on his feelings. On the face of it this scene, executed with subtle deadpan humour, is seemingly only dealing with nothing more than the pedantry of the language police and chain of command bureaucracy. For a post-communist country living in the slowly diminishing shadow of its past stained with the brutality of a…

purposes ranging from the alleviation of toothaches, to the treatment of malaria, ague, or the Black Plague. The four homuours were the amount of bodily fluids that are in someone’s body. There are four different sectors that can divide the four humours, each one being a body fluid. There is blood, yellow bile, black bile or melancholy, and phlegm, each of these fluids causes some type of bodily change. Blood causes somebody to be very kind and generous, an all around good person in general.…

This was because Semmelweis’s observations were against the medical assumptions at that time. The dominant theory of diseases was an imbalance of “four humours” in the body, a theory known as dyscrasia, for which the only treatment was bloodletting, along with the common idea that diseases are transmitted in the form of “bad air” (Ataman,Vatanoglu-Lutz,Yildirim, n.d.). which also caused for him to be dismissed…

blanket except for the sacks they carry to fill with soot. They’re made to shimmy up chimney shafts stark naked, covering themselves in the grime and sometimes even injuring themselves or contracting infections as they clean. In a cruel gesture of humour, the Master Sweep in charge of the children for the day would sometimes light fires beneath them in the fireplace to get them to work faster. Many children died unnecessarily doing this job that we simply use actual tools for now. It was a…

The Legend of Bagger Vance is an allegorical movie about golf but it is not a sports movie in the conventional sense. The film is adapted by director Robert Redford from the novel by Steven Pressfield and is told more in the fashion of a fable about life, the universe and everything. In a nutshell, Bagger Vance tells the tale of Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon), a rising golf star in Savannah, Georgia, who went to World War I and came back with something broken inside. He spends most of the 1920s…