Practical joke

with his civilized upbringing. This inferiority complex functions as an instigator of violence. Pranks are often seemingly harmless, but they can easily be taken too far. In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, young Huck plays a practical joke on Jim, his friend and the runaway slave,…

president. The book’s “off the record” content offers an exclusive look into Lynden B. Johnson’s life. The book discloses an unfiltered version of the former president and shows him in his true light. Cormier writes about everything from Johnson’s practical jokes on his staff to his altercations in Vietnam, giving the book a wide variety of tones. My favorite part of the book is the author’s commentary. Cormier, whose perspective the book is written in, informs the reader about anecdotal facts,…

his campaign is just a joke and that Hillary will sweep him in the final election. We, however, underestimated the power of his marketing strategy. It has even been stated by John Barker, the president and chief idea officer at independent advertising shop Barker, that “whether by instinct or design, Donald Trump is without a doubt the most modern and sophisticated marketer of the Republican candidates” (Stein 2016). Despite having no political background and no practical policies for the…

Charles Corbyn was a quiet man. He had no real friends. Never in his life did he feel any need to have interpersonal relationships. Neither did the people around him, for a reason Charles Corbyn had never thought about. It was not because he was unattractive or unlikable. In fact he was a man of very gentle disposition and quite handsome. He had the body of a worker but carried himself as one of high import. Tonight he had decided to go to the pub for his supper. He grabbed his outer coat and…

Written. Sent. Notified. You open your phone to Yik-Yak and started scrolling through the feed: memes, jokes, and personal ads. You like a few posts just as you scroll past your name. Without considering anything else, your hands begin to shake. With panicked breaths, you slowly start to scroll back up- forcing your finger to span the smallest area possible. Suddenly, there it is in text- attacking your character and reputation- all in 160 characters. Tapped and posted like it is no big deal.…

The elderly in TV have been sparse and few in between due to incorrect stereotypes that have been put upon them. In more recent years, some of the aged have started coming forward and demanding more respect, and more major roles in the television industry. People like Dick Van Dyke, Lily Tomlin, and Jane Fonda who have in their later years fought for and were given the roles that the elderly truly deserve as shown by the articles we read in class about them. One woman who did not even reach…

not sexualized throughout the film, maybe a few references but it’s not throughout the whole series. She is not put in the film as an object merely for the male to gaze upon. Even in Alien 3 when she is at the prison, no males really make any sexual jokes towards her and they end up looking up to her. Also in the first two films, when she strips down to go into the sleeping chamber there is no sexual feeling to it, it really is just meant to symbolize her vulnerability. Alien was one of the…

François-Marie Arouet, later known by the name Voltaire, wrote Candide. A variety of disasters influenced Voltaire to write Candide. These disasters included an earthquake in Lisbon in 1755 and the execution of an English Admiral named John Byng (Voltaire 8). Voltaire made these disasters central topics in the plot of Candide. He included an assortment of other historically relevant events in the novel as well. There are several main themes in the novel, including optimism, religious hypocrisy,…

that cover houses with lights, wreaths, and tacky Santa Clauses. It seems nowadays everyone decorates for the holiday season, even universities Greek life. One night last year during holiday season, a member of Alpha Delta Pi decided to play a practical joke on the fraternity boys who were trying to be festive. A group of girls decided to sneak out late, and steal a Christmas reef. A harmless prank that was supposed to be nothing more than funny. Not everyone saw it as an innocent stunt, which…

Is Ghostbusters (2016) a racist, sexist movie? While researching the topic of social responsibilities of popular culture creators, I found the ongoing backlash against the rebooted movie Ghostbusters (2016) a vivid example. Long before the official Ghostbusters trailers were released, controversies against its casting, storytelling and production had already been heated on social media. Bringing together two sources in this essay, an review article by John Nolte and the official poster of…