Careless Tendencies : Comedic Tragedies

States have choices in the means by which to promote community well-being, protect public safety and curb the drug trade. Over the last two decades, the choice was imprisonment. Prison is, of course, a legitimate criminal sanction, but it should be used as a last resort – i.e. used only for serious crimes -- and the length of the sentence should be commensurate with the conduct and culpability of the offender. Unfortunately, too many states have opted instead for sentencing policies that mandate long sentences even for nonviolent, low-level drug offenders. In her article, Patrice Gaines, the author of Laughing in the Dark: from Colored girl to woman of a color-A journey from prison to power, argues that it is necessary to provide restorative

Addie was 9 years old she was very pretty with blue eyes and dark brown hair. She had one brother named jack and he shared her physical features. Addie had two very loving and fun parents and although she was not rich her family was always happy. Addie's life, for the most part, was perfect, she had many friends and toys, but the thing that made addie different from the other kids at school is that she had cancer at six years old. But It had gone away because of early treatment. But two months ago cancer came back deadlier than ever.Addie was given a little over a year to live And the family didn't know what to do. Willing to put up a great fight. This came as a big shock to the family. But they were determined to beat cancer. But it involved

No belief or idea is as important to me as humor. To quote Henry Drummond from Inherit the Wind, “When you lose your power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.” Having humor is having perspective, and in doing so allows people to find truth and nuance in an otherwise black-and-white situation. Humor allows me to personally detach from a scenario and analyze it from a bird’s eye view, giving me the edge to understand what others cannot. Apart from seeking truth from humor and identifying the absurd, humor brings people together, whether it be in times of conflict or indifference. Humor is why shows like Last Week Tonight and The Daily Show thrive in times of political divisiveness, poking fun at the absurdities in politics and getting

The story Don Quixote is a burlesque, mock epic of the romances of chivalry, in which Cervantes teaches the reader the truth by creating laughter that ridicules. Through the protagonist, he succeeds in satirizing Spain’s obsession with the noble knights as being absurdly old fashioned. The dynamics of the comedy in this story are simple, Don Quixote believes the romances he has read and strives to live them out, and it is his actions and the situations that he finds himself in during his adventures that make the reader laugh. We can define comedy as something that entertains the reader and that makes us want to laugh out loud and Cervantes succeeds in doing this through his use of

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

Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown- Donna M Goldstein

Television News, Spoofs, Talk Shows, TV Documentaries, Soap Operas, Situational Comedies (Sitcoms), etc. are the types of genres telecasted on the television. Situational Comedies are one of the influential television genre for viewers throughout the world. Going back to 90’s in year 1994 first time American television channel NBC aired one of the Sitcom called ‘F.R.I.E.N.D.S.’ The hit show lasted ten years, spanning two decades, creating a significant impact on American culture, which continuously be seen today through elements including language, music, and style. It is fascinating to explore how a simple TV sitcom can inspire such language in its audience lives by creating such phrases, bizarre songs, and iconic hairstyles. The

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde uses thoughtful laughter to satirize the Victorian Era. In the Victorian Era, marriage is seen as a way to improve an individual’s social standing rather than a commitment of love. Lady Bracknell interviews Jack to see if his wealth and housing will improve Gwendolen’s social standing. The Victorian Era’s high regard for wealth is satirized as Lady Bracknell’s opinion of Cecily immediately changes as she finds out Cecily is wealthy. Jack and Algernon lie about their identities in order to marry Gwendolen and Cecily.

The strength of this light-hearted script is the concept of a gay US President and the idea that he tries to hide the information from his public. It’s a great set up for conflict, tension, comedy, drama, and character development.

Irving Wardle first mentioned the term “Comedy of Menace” (Wardle 39) who borrowed it from the title of David Campton's play The Lunatic View: A Comedy of Menace in 1958. (Campton's title Comedy of Menace is a humorous play-on-words resulted from comedy of manners). This term describes a play which draws a realistic image while creating a connotation of intrigue and confusion, though the dramatists were employing a prestidigitation trick. Susan Hollis Merritt points out that in "Comedy of Menace" Wardle "first applies this label to Pinter's work … describ[ing] Pinter as one of 'several playwrights who have been tentatively lumped together as the "non-naturalists" or "abstractionists" (Merritt 225). His article "Comedy of Menace," Merritt

When I first received my driver’s license, I did not have a car of my own. Then, my father surprised me with a used Jeep, but there was one problem: it was a stick shirt, or manual, and I had no clue how to drive it. My father offered to teach me how to change gears and use the clutch, which must have taken a lot of patience. I would drive around parking lots or down my long driveway every day until I felt comfortable driving on the roads. After some crying and stalling in the middle of parking lots with people sometimes behind me, I eventually learned that all it took was practice. It took me about a month until I was able to drive without having my father in the passenger seat, and now I am glad that I have acquired this new skill because

You can’t stop flying unless you’re crazy; you cannot not stop flying if you’re sane; and the only people who want to fly are crazy. This absurd logic, hilarious at first, is the root of Catch-22, and is but one such absurd joke among many in the book. In Catch-22, Joseph Heller employs comedy to illustrate how initially comical characteristics can, when pulled to the extremes, lead people to enact cruelties.

Many questions arise from this scenario. 1) Eighteen days without food or fresh water would have meant they all would have been dead, assuming that this ship was in salt water. 2) How did anyone know that they killed the fourth member? Unless one of those left on the raft said something it would have been easy to attribute his lack of presence due to the fact they were unable to locate him in the storm. 3) Was the crewmember that was killed injured in away that might have cause him to be the victim that was sacrificed. Did he volunteer as tribute?

In The Human Comedy children are treated as if they were discipline and the adults were the mentors. William Saroyan deciphers this when Homer Macauley is lectured on how to do his job by Mr.Gorgan, “O.K. But don’t kill yourself. Get there swiftly but don’t go too fast. Be polite to everybody-take your hat off in elevators and above all things don’t lose a telegram.”(18) The children in the book are not ignored but respected as if they were adults themselves. They are helped and given advices by many adults, as Homer was by his mother, “I shall be in the parlor waiting for you every night. But you needn’t come in and talk to me unless you wish to do so. I shall understand.”(34) The relationship between the adults and children are shown

The Restoration Era (1660-1700) in England apparently implies the restoring of the monarchy with King Charles IIto the throne no sooner the Commonwealth dissolved. This period brought a conspicuously renewed English lifestyle and literature with the comedy of manner as the dominant form, pioneered by William Congreve with his play ‘The Way of the World’ as the finest of the comedies of manner ever crafted by his contemporaries,although it had certain influence of Moliere’s old comedy ‘Les Preciuses Ridicules.’ The comedy of manner aimed to ridicule the manner, adultery, convention and intricacies of the upper class society. Congreve’s much applauded literature ‘The Way of the World’ is purely the comedy of manner, that paints the lifestyle