Spam: Monty Python's Flying Entertainment

Materialism is a grievous ailment that many Americans suffer from as a result of America’s grand consumer culture. While materialism is indeed associated with negative connotations, commodities have different cultural influences on certain social groups. For example, a commodity well known to the Asian-American community is Spam. In the 2011 article, “The End of Spam Shame: On Class, Colonialism, and Canned Meat”, Sylvie Kim reminisces over the shame she had for her love of Spam. She draws in connections between Spam and American imperialism to demonstrate to her fellow Asian Americans that they should not be ashamed of their love for Spam as it represents their identity. While a history professor of Wisconson-Madison,

deception that these two, ironically, realize they were lying to themselves, and that they do, in fact, love each other, showing that deception can overcome the opposition men and women have for one another.

The article, “The End of Spam Shame: On Class, Colonialism, and Canned Meat” by Sylvie Kim originally appeared in Hyphen Magazine in 2011. In the article, the author discusses how consuming Spam has influenced her life, and in light of her experience she claims that people should not be ashamed of their culture. To her audience who face the same dilemma as herself, she urges them to take a firm stance on their culture, and not be bullied by the cultural critics. In addition, the article suggests that suspending ethnocentrism is key to understanding the cultures that flourish beyond the boundaries of one’s nation. Moreover, the author’s personal experience of the subject matter, and the way she presents her argument with sufficient examples and support make her argument extremely cogent.

Medieval literature is involved in the school classroom for a very long time. Medieval literature is very important and even though it's old it offers many interesting stories and life lessons. There are many medieval literature works- Beowulf, the author tales, and more. The film of Monty Python and the holy grail combines all the medieval literature and satirises them all. The Monty Python film mocks and satirizes a lot of the important themes in the medieval literature. Among the many themes it satirizes, the theme of Chivalric Code and Knightly Behavior is the most prevalent. Many themes are repeated over and over again and it is easy to draw conclusions from what we read in class to the movie. Through this essay I will show these examples.

In our daily lives advertisement are seen all around is. We see them on billboards and on our phone. This is how must things get known to people .In M.T. Anderson’s young adult novel Feed, Anderson uses satire to criticize how things are advertised in order to warn readers about how advertising manipulates them into doing things.

Trolling is the new title that has been given to harassment that takes place on the Internet. A common example of trolling would be sending provocative messages via a communications platform for the pure entertainment of the sender, which then has a harmful effect on the recipient. There are different types of trolling; messages sent to harm others for the sender’s gratification are called ‘flame trolls’, and those to entertain others for their gratification have been given the title ‘kudos trolls’ (Bishop 2012a, 2012b). Where these actions have the resource to legal remedies they are called ‘electronic message faults’ and where the message fails to constitute an offence ‘electronic message freedoms’, and there is quite rightly nothing to

Doing laundry, studying, eating, knowing how to manage time, being social, dealing with bad choices, and so many others are all things we have to deal with when going off to college for the first time (Pennock Title). Some of these are simple everyday things that come natural to us, like breathing, but some can be much more difficult than others. One that is rather trying is finding time to get your laundry done. Often times it’s not finding the time to do your laundry, but the resources to do so. I don’t mean if a machine is available or not, but if a machine is working or not. Having problems with machine functionality seems to be a common trend when it comes to university life.

This African term is defined as rapping or fast pace speaking. This can involve rhyming patterns or jokingly clowning or making fun of one another. This is where America gets the term “Roasting” from and many know it as verbal battle between individuals mostly for entertainment and fun.

In 2014, the Canadian government finalized rules under Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) to reduce the "harmful effects" that "spam" has on Canadian citizens and businesses. The CRTC uses enforcement mechanisms such as "undertaking" and "notices of violation" to ensure that companies comply with the new rules. Basically, major corporations have to assure the CRTC that they are complying with the law and regulations (CRTC, 2015). However, if they do not, the offending company will receive a notice and may pay a financial penalty for repeated abuse. Since 2015 over 26 companies have received notices from the CRTC. These regulations fall under the CRTC's Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations (CRTC, 2012).

As I think back at the past three years I’ve been in the Navy so far, I can’t help but laugh at every dilemma I’ve been involved in and how they came about. My military career isn’t this patriotic story of me finding my purpose in life by defending my country and overcoming the physical and mental obstacles that came along. It’s this living satire of the idiotic things Sailors do to get by, and the childish, but humorous, ways we get punished. I think what really feeds the humor in this satire is my obliviousness to my surroundings and the rules laid out for me.

For instance, the speaker goes ranting about an aristocrat who defames poets, and he threatens the aristocrat by saying that he has a "revenge made in his name" (Jonson). Many twitter fights are similar to this. Tweeters tweet about other people or things that they are frustrated about, and then it goes back and forth, thus starting a twitter fight. One of the biggest twitter fights happened between the rapper Meek Mill and Drake in which Meek Mill tries to slander Drake by accusing him of "not writing his own raps" (Ramirez). Drake responds to this accusation by composing a song in which he casts aspersions on Meek Mill.

style: “We actually wanted to give it a very rich feel, we didn’t want it to be too lit.

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

“Hows California you blaster? I live in France being a mime it's amazing and I make tons of money too! Whats its like working with your hands all day you shovel? If you want a way out of that their dumb “American dream” you can come to my place in France and show you what it's like being a mime. Honestly I'm kind of lonely up here being a mime much better with a partner and I’ve been wondering if you would like to come here you don’t have to just saying.

Imagine a vast concert hall filled with people. The audience excitedly clamor in anticipation for the main star of this event. The event they paid so much money for, cleared up time in their schedule for, spent time getting to the event for. As the lights dim, the spotlight shines on the center stage. Then an average person emerges on the stage with a thousand eyes’ on him. He only has with a microphone in his hand. Just a typical person, with a normal gait and normal sense of fashion. However, after speaking a few words in the microphone, the crowd bursts into a cacophony of laughter. No matter how ordinary or extraordinary the person, entertainment through humor is universal. Utilizing humor, an extensive language of amusement, to open perspectives and challenge what is conceived right or wrong can be impactful- if done correctly. Dave Sedaris accomplishes that goal when he uses humor to illustrate his dilemma because of his identity. Despite being an accomplished successful comedian, author, radio show host, certain people look down at him as just a homosexual freak. Rather than gravely addressing his opposition, Sedaris utilizes a jovial yet relatable anecdote called “Chicken in a Henhouse”. Incorporating ideas from Ardian Bardon’s “The Philosophy of Humor”, specifically, the three theories of humor: superiority theory, incongruity theory and relief theory, Sedaris argues that the American public stereotypes homosexuals as pedophiles and ,as a result, they feel