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influence blood pressure and the other type can negatively influence blood pressure. A more detailed comparison will now be made between beneficial and harmful humour. Harmful humour can be sarcastic or aggressive, e.g., “Madame, I’d like to drink to your beauty…So you can imagine how hard up I am for a drink!” (Groucho Marx) Harmful humour can also be self-deprecating (ingratiating oneself), e.g., “My father had an ulcer for a long time, but he finally got rid of it…I left home.” (Alan Feiman)…

What we think of as the romantic comedy genre was birthed in conjunction with the advent of sound on film. A subset of comedy, the romantic comedy has been through quite the evolution from its beginnings in the 1930s to the present day shaping our culture, I would argue, more than any other genre. While these two films, It Happened One Night and Harold and Maude, are staggeringly different in their formulas, one being classical and one being of the modernist period, they are thematically linked,…

If you were a sports fan in Hartford the day of my birth you had probably traveled to Dell Rapids the night before to see the West Central Boys basketball team. The Trojans, who defeated the Quarriers 76-68, were lead by Tucker Hansen, who had 23 points (“West Central 76, Dell Rapids 68” 4C). Also from around the Sioux Empire the police were searching for the driver of a truck that hit a pedestrian. The driver of truck hit a man from behind on 31st Street North and between Cliff and Van Eps…

Family is a word that can provoke many feelings in the majority of humans; those feelings range from utter pride and happiness to utter despair. For me, it’s a mixture of pride and curiosity. I’m always eager to learn more about my family and ancestors. Knowing about our backgrounds, and where we came from, gives us a strong sense of identity, which is an important and valuable trait to have. If we don’t have a sense of who we are and where we came from, then we can’t function as individuals…

“I don’t think of kids as a lower form of the human species.”-John Hughes. The films of the late John Hughes culminated the influence of a generation in comedy, while marking an advent of cinematic ingenuity during the 1980’s. Selling jokes and working in the offices of National Lampoon Magazine, Hughes arrived on-screen in his early 30’s. Ushering in a series of teen hits such as, Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), and Pretty in Pink (1986),…

What is exercise? Exercise is an action that can move your body energetically in order to get in shape and to remain healthy. Exercise is also defined as physical activities such as jogging, walking, lifting weight and so forth. In this day and age of information and technology, people from all walks of life in especial the majority of adolescents and teenagers are hustle and bustle on concentrated playing their mobile devices such as smartphone, tablet and laptop have brought about them…

GYPSY ROSE: A Concise Biography Who is Gypsy Rose? Gypsy Rose Lee was an American burlesque entertainer, stripper, and vedette who was famed for her striptease act. She was born Rose Louise Hovick on January 8, 1911, and passed away the next day, on April 26, 1970. Her autobiography, which she wrote in 1957, was adapted into the theatrical musical Gypsy in 1959. She was also a performer, screenwriter, and playwright. Gypsy Rose’s Early Life Exploration Childhood and Upbringing Rose Louise…

Albert Bermel argues in his book Farce: A History from Aristophanes to Woody Allen, “Lysistrata is a farce … It also incorporates – as do most of Aristophanes plays – a fantasy. The prospects of Greek women in the age of Socrates getting together with the wives of the enemy and putting an end to warfare seems wishful, if not unbelievable”…

Inwood Walking Survey Geography Inwood is a neighborhood that is at the most northern point of the borough of Manhattan. It consists primarily of apartment buildings, with a wide variety of mom and pop business stores. The neighborhood is full of hills and mountainous areas and bordered by two bodies of water; The Harlem River to the north and east, and the Hudson River on the west, which places most of the neighborhood in hurricane evacuation Zone 2 (“Hurricane Evacuation Zone Finder”, 2016).…

relatives of the elephants are now extinct. Between 26 and 12 million years ago there were about 350 distinct species of elephants now only two species remain. Those two species are African (Loxodonta africana) and Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus). (Allen, W. R. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences). Male African elephants are some of the largest terrestrial animals that have ever existed. Elephants are intelligent animals that coexist with us on this planet…