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Outline for Paper on Jackson’s “The Lottery”

Hutchinson never protests the against the injustice of human sacrifice, but rather that the selection her family was not fair. A....

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

The use of irony by Burgess in his novel is the focus of this paper consisting of five pages and includes the impact of dramatic a...

Social Criticism and Irony in Plays by Anton Chekhov and Henrik Ibsen

In five pages this paper discusses how in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and in Ibsen's Ghosts the playwrights are able to convey so...

Defining Irony

and its complexities. If everything were taken at face value - that is on a very literal level - then language would be extremely...

Humor Used in the Works of Flannery O'Connor

most interesting works in this regard. "Revelation" forces us to accept humanity with all of its glories and all of its faults. ...

Uses of Humor in Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit and Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson

pasta bars thats ferr shurr. To "that stone that Dante used to sit on" watching Beatrice pass by to get a piece of chestnut cake...

Therapeutic Uses of Laughter and Humor

that this may not be far from the truth (Provine, 2000). There are clearly two parts to the view of laughter as a therapeutic t...

Comparing Lysistrata by Aristophanes and Tartuffe by Moliere the Uses of Humor

terms to refer to exaggeration and understatement within the realm of comedy. As far as I can determine, both Moliere and Aristoph...

Humor used in Persuasion

smoker has two different cognitions, which may include the idea that he smokes, as well as the idea that smoking leads to cancer (...

Teaching Racism, Historical Context and Irony Using Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

to read and teach to students, especially in the younger grades. Fishkin believes that to fully understand the work, students must...

Using Irony in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper discusses the novel's structure in terms of the influence of irony in its reinforcement. There are no ot...

Every Man in His Humor and Every Man Out of His Humor by Ben Jonson

In ten pages this research paper analyzed the life and two works of celebrated Shakespearean era playwright Ben Jonson. There are...

Humor in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne / Humor Through Characterization and Contrast

In six pages this paper examines how humor is employed for contrast and in characterization in the 4 stories 'Mrs. Bullfrog,' 'Mr....

Hamlet's Comedy Provides Relief

remark that Laertes and Ophelia had been discussing Hamlet, Polonius starts into a long dissertation on Ophelias lack of experienc...

Angela Carter's 'The Werewolf' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'Hop Frog'

These two stories are contrasted and compared in seven pages in terms of how the protagonists' emotionally appeal to the reader al...

Humor and Television Commercials

In six pages this paper examines how humor is used in TV commercials' advertising strategies. Four sources are cited in the bibli...

Business, Education, Health Care, and Humor

In three pages this paper examines how each of these areas can benefit by the use of humor. There are no bibliographic sources us...

Uses of Humor in The Crying Lot of 49 by Thomas Pynchon and White Noise by Don DeLillo

In thirteen pages this paper examines how American culture, specifically, the American Dream, is critiqued using humor in each of ...

Advertising and Celebrities

In six pages the argument is presented that using celebrities in product advertising does not provide the advantages it previously...

Elements of Screwball Film Comedy

legacy of screwball comedy. Both Ninotchka and Roman Holiday encompass themes that are more sophisticated than the typical screwb...

Persuasion Through Humor

Material in a Persuasive Sermon, it was hypothesized that humor has two important roles in speechmaking: persuasion and increasing...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and Humor

to show his countrymen that fame and success had not spoiled him. This would further endear him to them and cement his status as ...

Absurdity and Existentialism in Adams' Hitch Hiker's Guide

arise out of unexpected and irrational contradictions faced by the main characters on virtually every page. The absurdity is not j...

Family Guy, Analysis of Humor

for humor (Brent 17). The episode entitled "Chick Cancer" aired on November 26, 2006. Stewie, the precocious baby who speaks in th...

Article Review on Global Marketing

There are many pitfalls with global marketing. One is that words, phases, gestures, humor, and other issues do not translate very ...

Assessment of an IT Web Site

include a jobs section as well as a section containing white papers across a large number of different areas such as SOX complianc...

Literature Review for Use in a Project on Leadership in Kuwait

or values. It is by understanding leadership and its influences that the way leadership may be encouraged and developed in the con...

Planning and the External Environment

met. To consider the way planning takes place at all levels the process itself and the approaches can be examined. Mintzberg (et...

Dramatic Irony - Examples from Theater

Before the particular works are examined, however, it can be useful to attempt a brief examination of the concept of irony in lite...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

This essay describes how Austen uses characterization and irony in a manner that causes contemporary readers to identify with the ...