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    search of the heroine which was Ann Whitefield. On the end Jack contritely lets himself to be capture in marriage by Ann leading recognizing that she herself was the powerful tool of the “life force”, since the continuation and so the luck of the human race lies in the end in her and other women’s capacity. The play’s nonrealistic third act, the “Don Juan in Hell” dream scene, was spoken theatre at it was most operatic and was often make independently as a part…

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    instantly make someone happy and possibly make one’s day better. A person may have a different perspective on life and may think something is not funny but someone else with a whole different perspective and may be laughing like a madman. Although comedy is used for humorous reasons, there is usually a person negatively affected from the humor. There could be a possibility where a humorous situation ends up causing a person to be offended. Eliza from Pygmalion was treated like an object and…

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    Taylor Levant FMS 508 Defying the Odds: The Defiant Ones and Interracial Buddy Films Audiences have long been fascinated with interracial buddy films. From comedy to sci-fi, moviegoers love the opposites attract chemistry that these on screen homosocial relationships spark, as well as the stories they tell about men and the times in which they live. Though interracial films are commonplace today, the genre didn’t even exist until The Defiant Ones was released in 1958. Directed by Stanley…

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    What is humor? Humor can be someone or something that is funny. What is funny can depend on someone’s sense of humor. Humor can be offensive at times by hurting one’s religion, race, sex, and other things to laugh at the expense of others. Despite that there are many television programs and cartoons that make funs of people being in a certain kind of group. Has society fallen so low that we like to hurt each other’s feelings? Bottom line is there are many different types of humor like flavors of…

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    For instance, in ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’, the overarching theme of incomprehensibility and absurdity is explored through the coin-flipping scenes and throughout the play. In the opening scene, when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern flip a coin, it lands heads-up eighty-five times consecutively. Even then, although Guildenstern is ‘well alive to the oddity of it’, he attempts to make sense of the strange phenomenon, applying the mathematical law of probability to the problem and speculating…

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    Satirical Anti-Trump Representation in the Sitcom Will and Grace Mini Episode and Season 9 Episode 1 As the TV satire become popular in the 21st century, humor is utilized to problematize phenomenon in humans’ lives (Gray et al.: 2009). Will and Grace is one of great American sitcoms using elements of satire to make the audience laugh. Having a unique storyline of friendship between a gay lawyer, Will, and a straight architect named Grace captivated the audience attention among mainstream…

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    The original hypothesis stated that men were depicted as humorous in North American sitcoms. The primary research that was conducted also concluded that men were more humorous than women in North American sitcoms. Men were seen making humorous jokes, references and gestures throughout the shows. However, there were many women making these humorous acts as well, but not many when being compared to men. This persuades society to believe that men should be humorous, even more than women.…

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    Tartuffe is a theatrical production that is written and was first produced by Molière in 1664. It follows the story of a Parisian by the name of Orgon who happens to be the patriarch of a wealthy and influential family whose world is turned upside down when he decides to shelter a stranger by the name of Tartuffe. The events begin to unravel after Lady Pernelle who is Orgon’s mother chastises him for the sinfulness and depravity of his household; claiming no one recognizes the piety and holiness…

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    Annotated Bibliography: The Importance of Being Earnest Reinert, Otto. "Satiric Strategy in the Importance of Being Earnest." College English 18.1 (1956): 14-18. National Council of Teachers of English. JSTOR, Oct. 1956. Web. 5 July 2015. The main idea in this analysis of Wilde’s satire is to prove that Wilde does not just use satire for the sake of having his play being called a “farce,” rather he uses satirical strategy to enhance the experience of the play and how it differs from “normal”…

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