Kermit The Frog Research Paper

Youth can be ridiculed because of posts on social media. According to the article “Could you Become a Mean Meme?” by Kristin Lewis, a girl named Ashley VanPevenage was turned into a meme that had cruel comments about her skin. The meme originated as a post on social media. This goes to show that anything one posts could be used as a cruel joke by others, as many believe they appear anonymous online. The same article says that “your less than stellar moments can be captured and preserved online.” When someone could see one of these “less than stellar moments,” they could post a cruel or ridiculing comment about it, as once again many feel a sense of anonymity and feel freedom to do so. So, indeed, anything one would post could be mocked.

These are mostly used to express emotions or experiences, but some racist and anti-Semitic versions have spread virally on Facebook and Twitter.

In “The Most Embarrassing Viral or Meme,” I also put effort on analyzing by showing reasons that I am not an intended audience of “Average Homeboy.” Therefore, the readers can clearly understand the message conveyed by my analysis.

1942 – March 9, 2016. He spent 74 years on this earth. He had become a respected and

One example of this is the meme posted in the group chat that says, “when the mexican [sic] kid hangs himself in the school bathroom” and has a picture of the words “piñata time.” This is very clearly inappropriate and offensive on a few different levels, relying on the shock value of the suicide joke and the national stereotype of Mexicans using piñatas. But the fatal flaw of this meme is the lack of any attempt at humor besides shock humor, which is extremely difficult to pull off and usually only works if it’s used in conjunction with another more standard joke. I believe that offensive humor isn’t inherently wrong or inappropriate, as long as it’s actually humorous. To provide an example of offensive humor that still manages to be funny, I point to the movie Blazing Saddles, which is widely regarded as one of the funniest comedies ever, despite numerous racial jokes. It manages to pull this off successfully by making sure that in addition to the shock humor, there’s more traditional jokes. The lack of this in the memes in the group chat is their fatal flaw.

His family said in an announcement: "We celebrate in the phenomenal life he was favored to live, and we feel thankful and favored to have been cherished by such an astounding person."

Matt Furie, the creator of Pepe the Frog, addressed, "It’s completely insane that Pepe has been labeled a symbol of hate, and that racists and anti-Semites are using a once peaceful frog-dude from my comic book as an icon of hate" (Dicker) after the Anti-Defamation League declared the meme to be a hate symbol, highlighting one of the most prevalent issues today -- ethnic discrimination. Pepe the frog, a meme, is an indicator of the culture in today’s internet-driven society. Memes consist of funny pictures with witty captions, designed to amuse viewers by telling a joke or mentioning a relatable circumstance. That someone would use a meme to dehumanize- demoralize through deprivation of human qualities, personality, or spirit (“Dehumanization”)- an entire group of people based on something as arbitrary as skin color is an indicator of how serious and widespread this issue is. Ethnic discrimination is a dehumanizing act; when individuals or groups are treated as inferior

stayed in contact with his criminal life(“Alcatraz”). Then he was sent to Alcatraz and spent about

Memes, like everything else, begin with an idea. While every meme is an idea, not all ideas are memes. Memes are now not only created for entertainment but for both the creation and viral recognition of society’s opinions. Memes are made up of both collective and individual identities.

Then later in his career he got traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates. He spent the rest of his career with that club. During the off season he brought emergency supplies to places in need. During one offseason he died in a plane crash while going to Nicaragua because they had an earthquake to bring supplies to those in need. He died December 31, 1972.

Social media has gained major popularity for memes. A meme is a humorous image along with text that is spread rapidly by Internet users. A meme can be about anything such as, Cam Newton crying like a baby during the Super Bowl, politics, or Steve Harvey announcing the wrong winner

In the passage "Are you being Watched?" by Jane Porter, the article describes and explains the main advantages and disadvantages of using social media. People use tracking technology to track your search history and use it against you. There are ways to be safe on the internet, what not to do, and how to prevent your information getting leaked out into the social world. There will always be ways to be safe on social media while you're online. In the Article, "Can you be a mean meme?"

In the article “Makes a Meme Instead: A Concise History of Internet Memes” by Linda K. Börzsei she speaks about the influences of memes in modern society from a technological, sociological and cultural viewpoint. She also speaks about how impactful memes are in understanding the world of digital media that's used so widely around the world. She discusses the multiple genres of memes such as the All your base are belong to us, Little Fatty, Advice Animals, and The Rage Comics. She further explained the crucial role photoshopping people to different images is. She gives an example of a mad that photoshopped himself as if he took a picture right before the collapse of the World Trades Center on September 11, 2001 (pg.13).

As I read the story of “Kermit and the Keyboard” I began to think of the learning processes that he engages himself in as he tries to accomplish learning task as it relates to playing the keyboard. In this story three cognitive theories can be recognized, analyzed and they are all believed to produce different learning outcomes. These three theories are the Cognitive Information-Processing Theory, The Piaget’s Theory of Development as it relates to learning and lastly, The Interactional Theories of Cognitive Development. Each one of these theories presents itself in the manner in which Kermit develops a strategy for learning how to play the keyboard.

The majority of these memes intertextually linked Putin to more popular internet memes (Figure 4). One meme put the backward hat of “Scumbag Steve,” with the text “I Don’t Like Meme//So I outlaw them.” Another showed “Rare Pepe,” an image of a frog used to mock the claims of “rare” web images, distributing memes from inside a trench coat. Borrowing from the larger ethos of the memes, these iterations argue an effort to regulate discourse on the internet is fruitless as the restrictions will anger users, who would view Putin as a “scumbag” and promote further circulation – evidenced by Pepe promising a new black-market. Even the previously circulating Putin-based meme “Give that Man a Cookie” joined the commentary, proclaiming, “Give that meme-maker life imprisonment.” This iteration highlights that Putin’s very nature is authoritarian, as his first response to criticism is imprisonment, framing the anti-meme clarification as another example of the non-democratic reality of Russian