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The most pressing issue our world is facing today is social inequality. Social inequality includes issues of gender, race, and sexuality. It is the most pressing issue because it negatively impacts countries economically, it negatively impacts individuals physically and mentally, and it ignores the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It’s important to realize that inequality can and is ruining the economy, it is unable to grow and affecting everyone. The disturbance of the economy was…

is a hazard to Huck’s safety. For this reason he meets Jim and if hadn’t met Jim none of the rest of the story would’ve happened. As a consequence Huck is thrown into his next life changing event when he decides that he is done with his childish jokes on Jim. “ "What do dey stan' for? I'se gwyne to tell you. When I got all wore out wid work, en wid de callin' for you... my heart…

speech when you reference Morgan Spurlock, it was difficult for me to relate him to your overall message as I did not know who he was or if your phrase “the great American Philosopher” was a joke. I suggest that next time you leave a longer pause after a joke for people like me who need an extra second for the joke to “click”. This will help me to stay focused on your speech and not try to decipher what the rest of the audience was laughing at. All things considered, by the end of your speech,…

Clive Staples Lewis, the British poet, once wrote, “For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.”(Lewis, 125). Otherwise stated, one who aims to destroy another’s life will eventually destroy his or her own life in the undertaking. In “ The Cask of Amontillado”, Edgar Allan Poe is a tale of terror between the two main characters Montresor and Fortunato. Montresor describes the days leading up to and the aftermath of his revenge…

Any human feels certain emotions when trying things for the first time: fear, anxiety, excitement, and happiness just to name a few. Now, for a moment, consider the idea that whatever you are trying feels those same exact emotions, just towards you. How would that make you feel? Would it help ease whatever stress you are feeling, or would it make you even more excited to try it? The story Schools First Day of School is a story about overcoming deep fears by looking through the lens of the feared…

Chaucer’s, "The Miller's Tale", unfolds when a drunk Miller, Robin, interrupts the Host to tell his own tale about a carpenter. Opening after the Knight’s Tale, The Miller’s Prologue and Tale is told in Third Person (Limited Omniscient) and explores several themes such as, Love, Sex, and Deceit. This tale is comprised into two sections: a prologue, then proceeds to the tale. In the Prologue, the pilgrims have just heard and been entertained by, “The Knights Tale”, a love story. Afterwards, the…

women do find jokes about their bodies funny and are very much interested in “dick and fart” jokes. Within Lawson’s text she states, “...(W)hen the doctor is stitching your vagina back up (for real, child-free people: Stitching. Your. Vagina. Up). I don’t know why they don’t throw in some cosmetic surgery while they are down there, to make it look cuter” (Lawson 152). Lawson actively defies the restrictive notion that women cannot find humor in their bodily functions by creating jokes that…

Elham Shoghi Professor Sean Wilkinson English 100 3 September 2017 What’s So Funny? Imagine you had a very hard day. You are so exhausted and frustrated from all the work and everything else that went wrong at the same time. Sometimes you feel like the universe is playing a game with you and put you under a lot of responsibilities simultaneously. To escape, for even just a few minutes, you turn on your device and read or watch something funny. After some time, you have to go back to your real…

portrayal of Cosby’s character and whether the societal verdict was decided before the trial even begins which is set for June 5, 2017 (Ellis, 2016). Literature Review The man who started it all: Hannibal Buress It hailed as the wild and unsettling joke heard around the world! As a part of his comedic standup, comedian Hannibal Buress blasted Bill Cosby for what he described as the “smuggest old black man public persona” in a Philadelphia club on October 16, 2014. He stated: “Thirteen? And…

The show I picked to that included the four stock characters was the Simpsons.To begin with, you have Homer Simpson who is Manducus. He is the one who is always hatching up a plan or scheme usually involving his family to participate. For the most part, he speaks his mind, is quick to confront, and always speaks his mind. Beyond being those this just stated, he is also incredibly impulsive and impatient. Generally he rushes to take action not thinking about consequences or what he is getting…