Name: Maya Shavit Date: 11/2/16 HR: 6B
Paradise With a Price
I always do this! Always. Every day. 5:00 am. My stomach growls. I know better than to wake up my mom by now. Yesterday, she said if I wake her up at 5:00 one more time she’s not taking me to the party. So I have to be extra quiet tiptoeing out of my bed, getting dressed, and avoiding the creaky spots down the stairs. I have to be sure not to leave the refrigerator open to long or else it will make a beeping noise. But is there anything good to eat? No. So it’s up to me to get some cereal. The first day of summer and I’m starving, my stomach grumbling like a grumpy stranger. My mom always says “Just go back to sleep!” but procrastination is never good. Time is money. Or in my case, less stress. So cereal it is. I can’t do anything productive after that so I guess I should just go back to sleep.
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I can’t sleep! How am I supposed to sleep when I have my first party of the summer in 5 hours? I start my usual day dream for the day. I know my daydreams are a long shot, but at least it distracts me long enough to get through the tedious morning. Bing! Bing! Is it 9:00 already? No more waiting! I leap into my parents room without a second thought.
“Come on! Come on!” I shout. Why are my parents so slow? “The party starts in one hour! It takes like 15 minutes to get there but there may be traffic so we should go in 30
From this quote alone it is apparent that Moore structured Bowling For Columbine in a way that would rally the people of America behind tighter gun control. It’s because of this that it becomes even more apparent that Bowling For Columbine was structured in away to provoke emotion and from that promotes the idea that many of its scenes were structured. This is the clearest indication of Moore’s influence as a filmmaker with in the documentary. However although probably the biggest ethical issues, he certainly raises debate with his lack of empathy when interviewing people.
American Idiot, arguably Green Day’s most famous album, is one of the best example of and the most well-known musical protest of George W Bush. The album marked a milestone for Green Day, the benchmark where they became a political band. In the earlier albums, Armstrong wrote about anxiety, relationships, panic attacks, etc., looking inwards as a muse. However, in American Idiot, Armstrong does a complete 180, writing about politics and the “alienation and anger he felt during the presidency of George W Bush” (Orange). The album was meant to be provocative, to incite a response out of the public. Armstrong states that by being so political, it felt like we “tapped into the culture a bit” (purple). Before American Idiot, Green Day’s “social
During Russia’s transition to communism in the early 20th century, conflict and unease permeated every part of life. Nothing was stable and very little of what the Bolsheviks had fought for had come to fruition by the time the USSR disbanded in 1991. The “classless society”, which was to work together for the prosperity of everyone, never became a reality. In the end, the majority of Russia’s 20th century was an utter failure on a grand scale. However, there were many amazing products of the system do to the great importance of education in Russian culture. Priceless novels were written, timeless movies were made, and great scientific endeavors were realized despite the rigid control placed upon Russian persons by the government. In fact, some of the most memorable written works of the time were written protests to the creativity-stifling situation many writers found themselves in. Because of the danger to their lives should the wrong people be upset by their writings, Yevgeny Zamyatin and Mikhail Bulgakov wrote their most popular, Soviet-life condemning novels under the guise of satire. Even though they’re satirizing the same subject, in both We and The Master and Margarita respectively, they take very different paths to do so.
Analyse the passage (John the Savage in the hospital); discern presentation of satire and how it is wrought.
In the case Bosse v. Brinker Restaurant Corporation, from Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, outlines a court case between two teenagers Bosse and Griffin who were injured in a car crash after a Chili’s patron followed the teens out after they dodged their tab. This case primarily focuses on whether or not this patron, who remained unidentified after fleeing the scene once the teens crashed into a brick wall, was an agent of Chili’s restaurant. The article noted that the man who chased after the teens, in no way identified with the restaurant: “The patron’s car was unmarked; it bore no Chili’s insignia. He wore civilian clothing and no uniform or other insignia of employment at Chili’s.” The only interaction other than the chase he had with the
Mad Magazine, The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live. In our society, satire is among the most prevalent of comedic forms. This was not always true, for before the 18th century, satire was not a fully developed form. Satire, however, rose out of necessity; writers and artists needed a way to ambiguously criticize their governments, their churches, and their aristocrats. By the 18th century, satire was hugely popular. Satire as an art form has its roots in the classics, especially in the Roman Horace's Satires. Satire as it was originally proposed was a form of literature using sarcasm, irony, and wit, to bring about a change in society, but in the eighteenth century Voltaire, Jonathan Swift and William Hogarth expanded satire to include politics, as well as art. The political climate of the time was one of tension. Any criticism of government would bring harsh punishments, sometimes exile or death. In order to voice opinions without fear of punishment, malcontented writers turned to Satire. Voltaire's Candide and Swift's Modest Proposal are two examples of this new genre. By creating a fictional world modeled after the world he hated, Voltaire was able to attack scientists, and theologians with impunity. Jonathan Swift created many fictional worlds in his great work, Gulliver's Travels, where he constantly drew parallels to the English government.
In the opening to his book entitled, "What is Goth?" Aurelio “Voltaire” Hernandez explains: "To the mundane, Goths are weird, black-clad freaks who are obsessed with death; they are sad all of the time, have no sense of humor, and are potentially homicidal" (p. 2). Despite the outcry for equality from this subculture, many Americans fall prey to this stereotype because of the many negative connotations from the media. The Columbine High School massacre, the Dawson College shooting and the murder of Pamela Vitale by Scott Dyleski are but a few of the ways the media has misled the public into thinking the Gothic subculture, as a whole, was responsible for these atrocities. In each case, it was proven soon afterward that the people responsible were not a part of the Gothic community, but rather mislabeled by ignorant media reporters.
Dystopian literature highlights social flaws perceived by the composer and questions the basis for contemporary social practice. Unlike utopian fiction, which is rarely more than speculation regarding a self-perceived ideal, dystopian works call upon their audience to consider inadequacies present in their own society. Works such as Ursula LeGuin’s short story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Eoin Colfer’s children’s novel The Supernaturalist and the 2006 film V for Vendetta directed by James McTeigue address such issues as human rights abuse, totalitarianism and mass consumerism through the medium of the dystopian genre, and in doing so embody the principal components of dystopian literature: The enforced acceptance of an imperfection as an ideal, the questioning of social practice, and the revelation of the imperfection and the consequences thereof.
Satire is the most powerful democratical weapon in the arsenal of modern media. Sophia McClennen, the author of America According to Colbert: Satire as Public Pedagogy, describes it as the modern form of public pedagogy, as it helps to educate the masses about current issues (73). In fact, ”a Pew Research Center for the People & the Press survey in 2004 found that 61 percent of people under the age of thirty got some of their political 'news' from late-night comedy shows” (McClennen 73). This statistic shows how influential satirical shows such as The Colbert Report or South Park can be. Satire invites critical self introspection from us in a way that no other media can. It also acts as an unbiased mirror that reflects the mirror image of the flaws of our society. This beautiful process, when unhindered and uncensored, is the epitome of western freedom of speech, which is the single most significant right that deserves to be cherished and defended.
John Marwood Cleese, an English actor, comedian, writer and film producer said, “If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth”. The point he brings up is the ideology of satire. Satire, by definition, is a technique utilized by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society. This can be done by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule ("Satire - Definition and Examples", para.1). Often times, the humor used opens the audiences’ minds to the underlying problem that the writer is trying to reveal. By examining the purpose and methods of satire, dissecting literary works, and displaying examples in the media, satire is shown to be a valuable tool.
Satire can be found everywhere in our daily lives, from our drives on errands, to commercials on television, or things we read, it comes in all different forms and serves a purpose of exposing wrongs in a comical way. Satire is the use of comedy with a judgemental attitude or “the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc” (“Satire”). Its purpose serves as a way for authors to expose the flaws they see in the world around them on topics they feel passionate about. There are few suggested ways of determining and analyzing the purpose of the satire being read or watched. Some of those questions are; Determine the subject of the satire, what is it trying to talk about? Then, what is the underlying message, what does the author want you to rethink? Look for the different uses of irony and type of satire. Is it Juvenalian or Horatian? Different types of satire is found everywhere our lives without noticing. Sarcasm and irony can be found in almost situations we encounter daily. Our daily lives are full of growth in all areas of life, and satire is one of the mostly increasingly used subjects that is growing through all media, whether it is through literature, videos or social media.
11:09 p.m. -It isn't any night out of the ordinary. It's basically the same as every other Sunday night. The parties are all over, all the students are back and I know, most, like myself are wishing they hadn't gone out that night when homework was calling their name or wished they had come in earlier last night when their eyes were heavy, but their friends had convinced them otherwise. This is a lesson in procrastination. Mere hours are left before our first class begins, yet the televisions are still glowing, the stereos are still blasting an incessant flow of music at obnoxious levels and people are still streaming by my open door. Girls giggle as they talk of Johnny or Alex or Jimmy or what's his name and every couple minutes I catch the tail end of a meaningless conversation that distracts me from whatever it is I'm trying to accomplish.
As a member of the parody genre, Documentary Now! and the episode “Gentle and Soft” in particular, inherently employs a more overt intertextuality than what is most commonly at play in televisual texts, because the foundation of this genre is in the humor created by references to other texts, genres, events, or people. This blatant intertextuality also exists in the integration of the program’s creators in the televisual landscape and in the program’s adjacent industries, primarily, the music industry. Thus, intertextuality is the basis of the text’s structural categorization as a parody and the cultural and intertextual knowledge that viewers have affect the ways that they consume the text and what meanings they receive from it. As such,
as a message that “when different groups oppose each other against the Registration Act (as the allegory of the PATRIOT Act), they lose their focus on what is the most important thing: fighting against terrorism” (Millar; Veloso and Bateman). Finally, Travis Langley’s analysis adds to the discussion by saying, “To think that one might beat someone else into seeing one’s rationale is itself an irrational expectation. At Civil War’s end, Captain America sees this as well.” Langley’s analysis shows us that no matter how hard Captain America fights he won’t be able to change the opinion of Iron Man or the American public. By building off of these critics work, this analysis examines the confrontations between Captain America and the characters
Satire is defined as “the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues” (Oxford). The best satirical writers can make the readers believe that an idea is “logical and practical.” This is seen in great abundance in Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World. Through his writing, Huxley uses satire to effectively point out the flaws of society at the time. Even though Brave New World was written in 1931, the satirical points Huxley makes are still relevant in today’s world.