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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Humor Shakespeare uses many ways to portray humor and make his plays a success because of it. He created a careful mix of love with humor to create a success called "A Midsummer Night’s Dream." The focus of this paper is to describe how Shakespeare uses humor in his play. One way that Shakespeare uses humor in this play is by using plain humor that need not be interpreted in any way. He did this by creating the artisans. The artisans‚ obviously are not intelligent

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    Project Specific Purpose Statement: I want my classmates to learn that humor is a necessary quality to have at work in order to make it through the day sanely. I also want them to understand the down sides of humor in the workplace and how it can effect your productivity. Introduction: > Attention Grabber: Make everyone laugh purposely at the same time to relieve any stresses or tensions. >Explain the benefits of humor in our everyday life -Stress relief -Boost Moral -Bring people together

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    Final Essay There is more than one way to get a point across in the movies. Movies based on actual events‚ movies made using actual facts but not always about true events‚ documentary films and those films that use humor or satire to get their point across. I think the three films that I chose fall into the last category. The first film (released in 1953) is Stalag 17‚ a film about American prisoners of war being held in a German prison camp. This film seems

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    Running head: HUMOR AND ITS EFFECTS ON ANXIETY DISORDERS 1 Humor and Its Effects on Anxiety Disorders The University of Vermont Abstract The purpose of this study was to evaluate humor as an alternative treatment for anxiety disorders. The hypothesis was that the

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    Humor makes life vibrant

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    Humor makes life vibrant Humor is filled up with life‚ we can get it every day from all kinds of ways and it makes life vibrant. Without humor life will be taken the shine off and turns to be a boring and reduplicate thing. So we need humor‚ we need it when we feel sad‚ we need it even when we are happy. People from different countries have different kind of humor‚ which the different means different style different way to express and base on different kind of culture‚ even sometimes we may

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    Sherman Alexie Uses Humor

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    Alexie uses humor--or his characters use humor-to reveal injustice‚ protect selfesteem‚heal wounds‚ and create bonds. Alexie’s sophisticated use of humor unsettles conventional ways of thinking and compels re-evaluation and growth‚ which ultimately allows Indian characters to connect to their heritage in novel ways and forces non-Indian readers to reconsider simplistic generalizations. Alexie’s cross-cultural humor alternately engages readers--creating positive connections between individuals

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    Humor from Mark Twain to Now Laughter is the first thing that a newborn child does when they are born into the world. From the beginning‚ they know how to laugh from ear to ear. The expression of joy through laughter is a force to be reckoned with. The natural response to humor is to come close to it and the opposite can be said for pain. It is one of the best remedies for things such as physical and emotional pain as well as help maintain a healthy relationship with friends and family. It is such

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    Humor is often used as an escape‚ a way for people to cope. It’s a way to connect with others and get along on this more intimate level. Humor is apart of our language as a way to lightheartedly show how we feel. More importantly it brings us together. It’s like a beaming light in a shadow of darkness‚ and it never goes unnoticed. Humorists can say things that others cannot‚ and get away with it too. Humor is not only found in obvious jokes‚ but in the very basic things in life. I catch myself laughing

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    still somehow makes it interesting. The interest in The Martian is sometimes found in the author himself‚ but it is also widely found in the relatable humor and dramatic imagery both of which help the book seem more realistic. The author‚ Andy Weir‚ had a many great opportunities in where he grew up‚ including a possible NASA Center. Weir was

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    Humor is not a tool that can be used limitlessly as there are certain societal boundaries that prohibit jokes from exceeding levels of acceptable humor. This kind of prohibition is known as a taboo. In unit five of Alison Ross’s textbook‚ The Language of Humour‚ Ross discusses on these common taboos: sex‚ excreta‚ death‚ and religion while also explaining how jokes sometimes break taboos‚ but at the same time keep limits to where these jokes are accepted by society. The topic of sex and excreta

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