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    Jerry Seinfeld: A Comedy

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    "Go down (to a retirement community) to visit your parents, end up in a hot tub with your father and three or four really old men. That's a perfect way to meet elderly people: half-naked, sitting in tubs of hot, bubbling water. They get out, they look like an ad for gravity." This is just one of the many jokes written by the widely known comedian: Jerry Seinfeld. He started out by making his friends laugh, hit a few hardships around the way, but in the end he made it to the top. His father inspired him to be a comedian by saying “He was always making people laugh.” Seinfeld stated to study the techniques of comedians who appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. There was a time that he made his friend laugh so hard that he sprayed a mouthful of…

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    Jerry Seinfeld Jerry Seinfeld is a comedian, actor, writer, and director. He was born April 29th 1954 in Brooklyn New York. He grew up listening to his dad tell jokes he heard in WWII and repeated them amongst friends. While telling jokes he realized how much his friends and family enjoyed them. That’s when he first fell in love with comedy. After high school he went to college at Queens College, City University of New York. There he was in little productions and comedy skits. He graduated…

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    just read and study instead of going around the neighborhood instead of going with me?“ “I like Halloween. It’s fascinating isn't it, Jerry?“ Tom asked. “It sure is!“ Jerry exclaims. Then, they kept talking until… “Hey, where are we?“ Brandon says. “I don't know, but I see a house nearby. We can ask for directions,“ Tom told them. They rushed to the front porch of the house. “It…

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    Objects: A Short Story

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    Two weeks passed and it happened again. The urge to go into the room was so strong that I couldn’t ignore the feeling. The rug had an object under it. The object was still as the old man grabbed a chair, lifted it up, and slammed it right on the object with all of his strength. The object was still there. The old man kicked it and hurt his foot and screamed, “Dang, that thing is hard.” It felt like he just kicked a piece of metal. The old man told the object, “You want be tough, oh I’ll show you…

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    The brilliantly written Rear Window has drawn many insights from the analysis of the perception of the human mind and the hidden realism of everyday life. Set in the 1950 's we meet an active Photographer known as Jeff, that has been confined to his wheelchair because of a broken leg, which only always him move from his bed to the window. In doing this he notices the daily routine of his surrounding neighbors from their rear window. Nevertheless, the Rear Window was not only introduced as a…

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    Wakefield

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    1) In the story “Wakefield” by Hawthorne is based on this character name Wakefield “The man under pretence of going a journey took lodgings in the next street to his own house, and there, unheard of by his wife or friends, and without the shadow of self-banishment, dwelt upwards of twenty years”(1). Wakefield does indeed sound like an oddly uninteresting character however Hawthorne makes it clear that Wakefield is a painfully normal guy. Because Hawthorne shows that Wakefield is a normal guy…

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    All Souls’ Morning All Souls’ Morning by Eamon Grennan is a melancholy poem, reflecting on love and the bonds of different relationships such as man and his wife, or a person and their dog, but tempering that by exploring the themes through the bitter sweet memory of deceased loved ones. The poem encompasses ideas about the routine nature of life, using the cyclical structure of the poem as a physical representation of the many cycles of life, the poem beginning in a warmer, domestic scene…

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    IRU #1 Method Element: In the short story, “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood, an element that is important to the story is exact repetition. At the end of the short story, it states, “The only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die. John and Mary die. John and Mary die” (F. 291). This demonstrates that Atwood was trying to convey that no matter what happens in life, death is always inevitable. The story is a life lesson to tell readers to make the most of their precious…

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    In the story of a very old man with wings An old guy basically falls out of the sky and a woman and husband kind of use his wings as a thought that he will be bring them good luck and fortune. The wife and husband tie him up in there chicken coop and charge the townspeople to see this new attraction. I believe the people in the story did not want to believe maybe this could be an angel because then they would have to think about maybe my life is a whole lie and there really are angels and it…

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    Life’s events can cause us to change our priorities. For instance, if you were diagnosed with cancer, it can change your life physically and mentally. It changes how you look at life now knowing that one day, you will no longer walk on the Earth, unless there was a cure. In the short story, Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket, Tom had many priorities in which changed at the end. In the beginning of the story, Tom has to make a decision on whether to go to the movies with his wife or stay at home…

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