An Account Of The Game Of Joke Essay

“Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candle stick.”(Europe) Such a catchy rhyme, wouldn’t you say? You think to yourself, jumping over candle sticks, what’s the point? This simple nursery rhyme has a very different meaning than someone would expect. It’s about Black Jack, the English pirate. He was well known for always escaping from the authorities in the 16th century. Hence the line “Jack be nimble”. Also the “jumping over a candle stick” line is believed to be related the old English game candle stick jumping. Candle stick jumping was originally a sport of jumping over fires. But was deemed far too dangerous and then was outlawed. It was sonly replaced with the far less dangerous sport of candlestick jumping. Other than those two things there is not much they can go on because the rhyme is so short (Alchin).

The short story, “Greedy Choke Puppy” by Nalo Hopkinson, is about the story of Grandmother and her granddaughter who are the soucouyant. The soucouyant is the monster of the myth of Caribbean who is night witch and blood sucker. In the “Greedy Choke Puppy”, author uses the literary elements of irony, foreshadowing, and allusion to support the development of the theme of greed because these elements help to explain that soucouyants’ greed makes soucouyants to throw their morality away.

4. The author suggests that in England, William Byrd was something of a gadabout, whereas in

Lacrosse’s origins go back to the eastern Woodlands Indians and some Plains Indians, evidence has been found in what is now Canada dating back to as early as the 17th century. It had many names because many tribes played it, in Onondaga it was dehuntshigwa'es which meant men hit a rounded object, in Eastern Cherokee it was da-nah-wah'uwsdi which meant little war, Tewaarathon was how you said it in Mohawk Language, and

Lacrosse has origins dating back to the 17th century. It has links to the eastern woodlands and plain indian tribes which are now located in parts of Canada. It was originally called stickball. In the past it was played with a woodstick. It was later re-invented by the european immigrants in north america, which has since become the current game we know today. It is now played with metal shafts with a plastic head that has mesh on it and a solid rubber ball.

 Joseph Heller's narration, dialogue, and characterization in Catch-22 all create a unique perspective of war and our society's bureaucracy. The satire, sarcasm, irony, and general absurdity of the novel provide a view of the irrationality of man's behavior. The horror that is portrayed in Catch-22 is intensified by the humorous way in which it is portrayed. Distortion and exaggeration highlight the characters and scenario while magnifying the confusion. Parallel structure and repetition serve to reinforce the novel's themes.

Curling was passed through a few countries before it got to the United States. Curling is a sport that came a long way. Curling started when farmers slid channel stones across ice. When farmers started curling they slid stones on frozen marshes. Curling was started in Scotland. Scotland immagrants brought curling to the United States. Curling was added to the olympics in 1924. When the olympics were in Chamonix, France. The country that holds the most gold medals is Switerland.

Early in the book, we witness see how Maniac shows perseverance by cleverly untying the Cobble’s Knot. In Chapter 19 Maniac decides to take on the challenge of untying a flagpole knot, the size of a volleyball,

Research Question: How does His Girl Friday stay within the bounds of the Hays Code while challenging the culture of censorship in United States?

The domestic implications of the kettle are not lost but suggest a new meaning for Graham’s life back home, that he faultily champions as peaceful normalcy. The association of the screaming “clot of blood” with the kettle, sheds light on the innate violence in Graham’s engineering career and puts into question his definition of “normal,” a term he uses to describe his life pre-Moeller. He is not only abnormal, but he is a complicit participant in the bloodshed of war, and consequently, inside Banat and Moeller’s realm of deviancy, that he names the “strange land with death for its frontiers” (160).

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Ricky was a young adult from New Ankara and was not very smart. He suffers short-term memory loss Ever since he stuck a fork in an electrical outlet, his memory loss is trying to be cured and he has trouble learning simple things like simple addition. He diverted teaching himself math and decided to learn the alphabet because he needed to be literate if he wanted to survive. Every day, he allotted a certain amount of letters in the alphabet to learn. Originally, the information inflexed back and he was starting to remember grammar and the laws of English. However, one day, his mother never came home to help him with his alphabet lessons. After working his ways through the intricate streets of New Ankara, he found out that his mother went to work only to give them the note that she left New Ankara because she was going insane because of her son. Ricky was saddened, but went home and continued the lessons without her. He kept the note and a photo of her as a memorial.

The esteemed Lord Thornton Yearley or as the newspapers call him, “The Noble Sportsman”, is a highly competitive man in his fifties, with numerous achievements in fishing, shooting and show-jumping.

However flip and casual his observations may have been, their credence (in this light) cannot be denied. The act of parody had very nearly become his denouemont, an all too-shocking reality, as well as History. As such, The classical tradition had left his mark for the ages.

In order to increase their marketability, publishers would play on the “Scottish” stereotypes which included tartanry, bagpipes and the idea of Scots being brutes. This stereotype has been argued to have come from how the English view highlanders. Matthew Gelbart argues that “The Gaelic-speaking Scots seemed to outsiders a Sectarian and ungovernable group, still ruled by feudal and barbaric clan allegiances, and both impenetrable both linguistically and geographically.” (Gelbart, 2007, p. 29) This arguably caused the people of Scotland to become spectacles to outsiders. In attempt to increase their profits, publishers of eighteenth century Scotland channelled these stereotypes into what they could sell off as “Scottish” music to outsiders. Henry Playford is a prime example of this. Playford published his Collection of Original Scots tunes (Full of Highland Humours) for the Violin: Being the First of this Kind yet Printed in 1700. The use of “Highland” in the title would have arguably been an attempt from Playford to make this collection appealing to the English market as it has been argued that the tunes in this collection did not originate in the Highlands at all. (Gelbart, 2007) From this, it is evident that “Scottish” music of the eighteenth century was a reflection of Scottish stereotypes which were perpetuated by publishers for their own gain.