Laughter

“The human race has only one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. The moment it arises, all our hardness’s yield, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place”—Mark Twain. Reviews and observations show that creating a fun work environment is a hot topic among many big organizations. Thousands of these organizations are trying to use fun at workplace as a tool for motivation of their employees for greater productivity and job satisfaction. Various…

Only a few hours until midnight would drape over the town, the car abruptly braked causing Courtney to jump from her sleep. Wiping the foggy window, Courtney imagined the brown brick home bordered with flowers from the website photo, but she was staring at a snowy dark abandoned shack. The house was five minutes away from the town, she wanted a low profile while she was staying, but what worried her the most was how long she could stay hidden. Few weeks before, she planned it all out. Tomorrow…

psychological insight. The physical behaviour of his characters gets surfaced in their clownish physical behaviour. His aim is to purge the audience of the hardships of practical existence. His fans nicknamed him 'doc' because he relieves pain through laughter just as a doctor relieves pain through medicine. Born in 1927, Marvin Neil Simon was the son of a Jewish fabric salesman who found it hard to express love for his wife and children. He has experienced a somewhat shaky personal life, but he…

Aaron Scavuzzo Mrs. Marcakis Period 1 December 15, 2017 Laughter is the World’s greatest cure “So in sum, what are we? We are the creatures that know and know too much. That leaves us with such a burden again we have a choice, to laugh or cry.” ― Ray Bradbury. Ray Bradbury wrote Something Wicked This Way Comes in 1962. It is a dark fantasy about how a carnival operates on the fear of its customers. Many attractions at the carnival symbolized deeper meaning into how…

what have we morphed it into from what it was in the past? What road is it headed down as we speak? I believe that humor is far more than meets the eye. The static definition of humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. Is that actually what we use it for? I am inclined to deny that definition completely. While it is true that we sometimes use it in its most innocent form, we tend to change it into a weapon or barricade. How often do…

Wisconsin Dells “Are you crazy” said jovee as her eyebrows bunched “You're going to go down one of them ? “Yes I am and dad will too” I say back with laughter. “Macy...Macy…...Macy” dad said very annoyed because I was not paying attention. “Do you want to go down the red or blue slide?” I replayed “blue it looks faster.” Looking up at the slides I was getting more and more excited, I was ready. Dad and I started climbing the many flights of stairs. Getting more excited every step we take we…

“Rummy”, she would yell, all of us laughed until our insides hurt. My mom looked at me with shock. “How can a she beat us at Rummy?”, mom would say over the sound of laughter. I always looked forward to the nights spent at Grannys. She was a firecracker that loved cards. Oh, if you went to Wendover without her you were in for an ear full. You'd never guess by looking at her that she loved to gamble. Looks are deceitful though, her snow white hair and fragile skin did not accurately depict her…

If laughter is defined as “to not be bothered by something,” why would someone who has been damned laugh (Merriam Webster)? It seems preposterous that damnation could be something so easily shaken off. However, Anthem, or rather the society that is shown in it, has a misconception of what damnation is. What is something that should exile a person to be damned if he or she lives to be his or her happiest person, and who would be bothered by being damned if that simply meant that one could more…

Humor is inevitable, it is around us every day and few people take the time to consider why we laugh. Darwin had theorizes about the social role of laughter, making suggestions that certain vocal expressions most often linked to internal emotional states may also function as a way of influencing others. That is truly a fascinating theory to say because humor can be seen as a foundation to team building. The two professions we’ve been looking at are heavily dependent on their co-workers who act…

reader in a fun way. There are many different stories that do this by not even talking about it. Authors can do this by saying jokes all throughout a story and they don’t even mention their jokes. This is one of the best ways to make a story because laughter is one of the best feelings. One of the main things an author strives for is to make their readers feel some type of emotion by only reading words on paper. For example, three stories that successfully do this are Independence Day by Dave…