Prank call

With words such as “thee,” “thy,” and “thine,” it is clear that language plays a significant role in society during the Shakespearean era. While prose is usually spoken by those of the lower class, poetry is the language that only the well-educated posses. Those who are better educated, and thus speak in poetry, have more benefits than those who speak in prose. The afterward effects of Sly’s interchange between prose and poetry, Grumio’s usage of prose, and Tranio’s poetic language depict the…

rants on and on about the illegitimacy of Dr. Talc’s medieval history class. He calls Talc a “total ass” for his incompetence of British medieval history knowledge (Toole 128). Strangely, Ignatius does not sign the letter with his true name, but rather his chooses to hide behind his pen name of Zorro. Ignatius’s peculiarity is shown impeccably with his interaction with Dr. Talc because it shows his audacity to prank people by sending raging letters signed by odd names. In a later scene in the…

Hamlet notices that Ophelia is working in conjunction with her father and he calls her on saying…

was hesitant to tell Huck the story of why he left the widow’s residence, but when he does tell the truth he asks Huck to promise not to expose him. Huck responds by saying, “I said I wouldn’t, and I’ll stick to it. Honest injun, I will. People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum- but that don’t make no difference. I ain’t a-going to tell, and I ain’t a-going back there, anyways”(43). I can relate to this because one of my very close friends entrusted me with a…

” If the story was narrated through one of the townspeople that committed the act they would call it justice. Therefore, how has Huck overcome this way of thinking? The simple answer is parenting. When Huck had no one to turn to he turned to himself. Some would say that Jim became Huck’s role model/ father figure, but this just is not the case. To illustrate this point, when Huck played a childish prank on Jim, it was not Jim that made him take responsibility for his actions, but instead himself…

the weird kids who nobody talked to or liked. They were not the popular ones and they were targets for bullying (en.m.wikipedia.org). The students who usually bullied them were the athletes. The athletes thought that it was cool to bully kids and call them names. The news reporters came and asked the survivors why they thought Dylan and Eric shot up the school. Nobody could tell them why. The news said that it was not just a shooting at all, it was a bombing on a massive scale…

There are many subjects that throughout time have been considered, “taboo.” That was until Mark Twain wrote Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In this novel, twain writes about many of these subjects that would have never been included in literature before. He approaches the topics of slavery, child abuse, Southern hypocrisy, and racism, all while satirizing them. Twain is attempting to portray these ideals to his reader, but keep it comical by including the satire along with it. Many even say that…

entertain himself by pulling pranks and getting in trouble at school. His parents would never get mad until he went to high school. In high school Steve experimented with LSD and marijuana. Which is when his father started to get mad. During that time, Steve started to realize that he had a passion for electronics and technical design. Steve Wozniak was a computer technician who met Steve through a mutual friend in a garage. Later they would tell their stories of all the pranks they both pulled.…

The TV show The Big Bang Theory has spent years as one of the top sitcoms in the United States, capitalizing on jokes about nerd culture and friendships between social outcasts. A group of scientists in California navigate their social lives, romantic lives, and professional lives with many difficulties backed by a constant laugh track. One of these characters, however, stands out as particularly even in a show based on people who are different from societal norms. Rajesh “Raj” Koothrappali…

didn’t I do what she told me to do? why did I take her stuff even when she asked me not to? This is all my fault. Your brother gets home. The boy that never cries, he’s now in his room, mad at himself – he caused your death. All those times he’d played pranks on you. He’s punching holes in his wall, turning over things, he doesn’t know how to deal with the fact that you’re…