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American Humor of the Early 20th Century

In five pages this research paper examines the social changes that occurred in America during the early portion of the 20th centur...

'Grace Under Fire' A TV Comedy Consideration

In three pages the aggressive, superiority, and cognitive humor theories are applied to this ABC television sitcom. There is one ...

Can Computers Lie?

The Human Brain Descartes argued that the mind is an entirely separate substance from the body because he can "think" of...

Teaching Defensive Skills in Coaching

With the emphasis on scoring and offense, teaching defensive skills can be one of the more difficult tasks of a coach. This paper ...

Lautreamont, Apollinaire and Black Humor

idea of cooking his shoe, which he proceeds to each with the gusto that would befit a culinary masterpiece. Chaplins mastery of p...

Puns in the Plays of William Shakespeare

In eighteen pages this paper discusses how Shakespeare's puns evoke irony, humor, and eroticism in The Taming of the Shrew, As You...

Laughter as Therapy

In eight pages this paper discusses the psychological and physical therapeutic value of laughter and humor. Nine sources are cite...

The Comedy Team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello

In this paper consisting of eight pages this comedy duo's contributions to American humor is explored. There are four bibliograph...

Characteristics of John Donne's Poetry

In five pages this paper discusses the poetry of John Donne in a consideration of their various characteristics including the blen...

Bernard & Krieger/Knowledge & Power

removed, "the phenomena will no longer appear" (Bernard 55). As this illustrates, Bernards goal in his research was integrate the ...

Thoreau/Nature Essays

imposed boundaries. He asks, "What sort of a country is that where the huckleberry fields are private property? When I pass such f...

Serious Humor in the Plays of Aristophanes

In a paper consisting of nine pages the seriousness of Aristophanes' comedies 'The Birds' and 'The Clouds' is considered. Seven s...

Erma Bombeck's Humor

In six pages the career and stylistic changes of humorist Erma Bombeck are considered. Seven sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Robert Frost's Irony and Humor

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Frost humorously employs irony in his poems 'The Secret Sits,' 'A Cloud Shadow,' 'Mending Wall...

Love, Life, and Humor in The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer

In six pages this report considers the characters, their relationships, and how they are portrayed humorously and satirically by C...

Literature, Humor, and Morality

In four pages this paper discusses how morality is humorously depicted in Goldoni's Servant of Two Masters, Machiavelli's Madragol...

Depression Humor

Comedy was even more important during the Great Depression than at most other times in history, when entertainment was most people...

The Relationship Between Orthography And Pronunciation In L1 And L2 Phonology

their newly acquired L2 phonological system (Thompson et al, 2007). The multiplicity of languages spoken across the globe ...

Understanding Paranoid Schizophrenia Through "A Beautiful Mind"

- to reach intellectual successes even those of sound minds have difficulty achieving. That Nash realizes such tremendous accompl...

Dementia

emotional (limbic) memories are affected, and the last group of memories to be affected as the "motor or more reptilian memories,"...

Total Quality Management And Quality By Inspection/Process Control

activity is an integral component to the organizations overall industry presence. If quality is not monitored in an ongoing and p...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

The Role of Troponin in Skeletal Muscle Contraction

This 8 page paper discusses the function and structure of the regulatory substance known as Troponin C. There are several variants...

Public Cemeteries

as an aspect of the sacred in secular life, this discussion will indicate how sociologists feel that the concept of the sacred fun...

Group Process/Nursing

(2003) gives the example of an nurse assigned to a busy intensive care unit (ICU) began experiencing clear signs of traumatic stre...

Function of Economic/Political Factors in Pre-Colonial Asia

This 5 page paper looks at the systems that were in place and changed by the colonisation of Asia. The paper considers the role th...

Defintions Functions Managers Leaders

Many scholars suggest that it is difficult to actually define leadership and it is also difficult to distinguish between leadershi...

The Brain's Role in Cognitive Functioning

is comprised of pre-motor and motor areas (Johnson, 2009). The motor area has nerve cells that help ones movements and the pre-mot...

Maintaining Balance with Form and Function in Physiology

glands because they are more vascular and have no ducts. The hormones that they produce are stored in their vacuoles or granules ...

Relationship of Ethics and Management Functions

explained that controlling has no relationship to authoritarian leadership styles, it is about controlling things such as resource...