ABC's family sitcom Speechless follows JJ DiMeo, a teenage boy with cerebral palsy, and his family as they navigate a new school and deal with coming of age issues between the three children. The central family consists of JJ's brother and sister, Ray and Dylan, his parents, Jimmy and Maya, and eventually his aide, Kenneth. Speechless's representations of disability have gone over well with large audiences, and the show draws praise from non-disabled critics and from critics within the disability community. Although the show avoids a certain extent of politically radical stances, it does a number of things that destabilize harmful misconceptions and question both societal and institutional norms. Speechless does not fully situate itself as …show more content…
Of course, the show also manages zany subplots where Ray can't get girls and Dylan comes up with schemes, but a large part of the comedy gets the audience to laugh with the disability perspective against what is commonly touted as an acceptable way to behave. In the first episode, JJ's new classmates and teacher greet him with a standing ovation before nominating him for class president. We as the audience are asked to laugh at this overt display of performative decency, as well as the principal's excitement about their arrival that has led her to make the school carnival "inclusivity" themed. Rather than seeing the perspective of the cheering audience as JJ strategically uses the offer of class president nomination as a distraction to help his brother, they are asked to think about how silly they might look applauding for someone they barely know. JJ makes the same performative example of the "charity case" stereotype, and like the radical crip performers Sandahl references, "embraces it parodically by hyperbolizing"
In her essay “On Being a Cripple”, Nancy Mairs presents her audience with an honest inside view of her life and perspective as a cripple, a word she openly uses to define herself. She brings her world to us by discussing a wide variety of things including language, family, and humor, and how these all relate to her life. Through various stories and insights, she allows her readers to gain an understanding and acceptance of people with disabilities. She examines the public’s view of the disabled, as well as the views they have of themselves, and compares them to her own. She makes it clear that she is not to be defined solely by her disability. In discussing honestly her views, as well as
Throughout chapters 10, 11, and 12 I learned a lot of new information such as, bleed, display, and trade papers. First off, bleed advertising is printed matter that runs over the edges of a margin. This is important because it’s used to gain attention while still using all the space available. Statistics show that bleed advertisements are actually read 10-15 percent more than normal text advertisements. Also, another benefit is that it usually has no extra charges when using bleed advertisements, and even if it does, it’s still cheaper than most large advertisements.
Satire and irony are both used in the literary world in many different ways such as parodies. Satire is a literary work that ridicules its subjects through the use of techniques such as exaggeration, reversal, incongruity. Irony is the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally means the opposite, typically for humorous effect. There’s two types of irony which are: verbal irony and dramatic irony. Verbal irony is when something that is said is supposed to mean the opposite. Dramatic irony is when the reader or audience understands more the events of the story than the character in the story.
Do you like to read sports book, then this is your book, well this book is filled with action, drama and tons of problems and sports events.
Popular television shows aids to heavily influence American audiences, perpetuating, and problematic ideas about homosexuality. Not all mainstream media adheres to traditional social ideas. South Park uses satire to deconstruct heteronormative views on homosexuality. Therefore, homosexuality is accepted more widespread through use of mainstream media.
Have you ever witnessed something that was so absurd yet convincingly real? If you have, the Onion, a satirical news organization, may help recreate that feeling with some of their videos and articles. Published in 2011 on the Onion’s website and on YouTube, the video “College Basketball Star Heroically Overcomes Tragic Rape He Committed” satirizes how lightly people who commit rape are punished, and their crime even forgotten about. The video, employs the use of clever satire to convince the audience unfamiliar with the Onion that the report is real, while having implicit meanings and messages about rape culture in the United States. While the video still speaks
drugstore or a wine bar. How warm and fuzzy does it feel when the barista sees you coming and has your drink ready to go for you? Or you can vent to your favorite bartender about your difficult day? You’ll probably even meet the other regulars and maybe develop a whole new, exciting friend circle outside of work.
Stella Young has lived with a disability all of her life, but has never let that stand in her way. While speaking at a TED conference in 2014 Young wanted to address an issue that most individuals overlook. This issue is about people with disabilities and the struggle they face every day to feel equal and part of a social norm. Stella speaks from experience and tries to make her audience see a new perspective of how individuals look at others with disabilities. Stella makes it clear that most individuals see people with disabilities as an inspiration which is widely propagated. In order for her audience to understand this view she shows a series of images to appeal both to logos and pathos. Stella wanted to show that we view these images logically
The article Emotional Obama Tearfully Thanks Trump For Granting Him Citizenship is satirizing how Donald Trump is most concerned about confirming everyone's citizenship in America; he determines this by racially profiling people. Anyone would want to satirize Donald Trump because he is extremely rude, his rules are obscured, and he is tremendously insulting. In the satire that was created it talks about how Obama wanted to thank Donald Trump for confirming his citizenship in America.
The topic we decided to cover was a topic that may not be perceived as an issue to some but to us we see it as an issue. This is of course “Safe Space” and how it is viewed bipartisanly which was exemplified when the left wing college student comes across the conservative Trump supporter. We chose this topic because within the past year or so we have all come to the realization that we believe many left wing stereotypical millennial college students believe that they have it all figured out because they’re going to an expensive college, and their professors spit out biased statistics at them. To quote political commentator Tomi Lahren, we believe that many of these students are “Snowflakes”. This is describing them as soft, weak and vulnerable
In September of 2012, 16 year old Canadian teen Amanda Todd was on an online video chat. In the chat, she was asked by a stranger to flash her chest, which she did. She only thought that the people in the chat would see it, but little did she know someone captured the image and held onto it. This person threatened Amanda with sending the picture to her friends. Soon enough, he actually did.
I always seem to fall for boys named after angels and saints. You were one of the best and worst things to ever happen to me. I remember being an infant of a third grader when you first sat next to me in class. I ate peanut butter every day at snack time and one day you told me you were allergic when my meek hand offered some to you in the back row of the Catholic school classroom, but you avoided telling me sooner because you saw the joy it brought to my juvenile face. I catch myself laughing at the immature jokes of the boys who sit next to me and sometimes think that you would say something like that. You are still rather immature it seems. Very immature indeed.
Satire is a specific classification of writing that occasionally makes utilization of realistic and performing expressions with the aim of scorning society into self-change. With social criticism being its fundamental objective, it uses dark sarcasm as its primary device to get the point across. Satire impacts people to reconsider themselves so as to alter senseless thoughts and behaviors. Different techniques are utilized in delivering the satirical impact, those of which use wit as their primary weapon. These methodologies mix the acing of matching unimportant and authentic matters as one joke, demonstrating compliment yet meaning the contrary to show ambiguity, and asking rhetorical questions. Moreover, the creator may downplay an issue keeping in mind the end goal to move the group of audience towards the genuine significance of the theme, antagonistically; distortion is utilized to bring down the effect of an issue to its lesser quality. Aggregately, these procedures are practiced to draw out the human follies and vices in society. In Molière 's Tartuffe and Jonathan Swift 's article A Modest Proposal, both diagonally condemn and criticize human conduct and the discernment we have towards others. Through a comedian conveyance, these creators offer an understanding past the apparently self-evident, and expect to enhance this flawed custom of one sidedness as opposed to disposing of it.
Freedom of speech is one of the most important rights that an American possesses. Satire should not be censored until it crosses the line into hate speech. Hate speech is aggressive and negative language directed towards a group of people due to something such as race, religion, or culture. Kuruvilla details recent issues with hate speech by writing, “recent prosecutions include a white supremacist convicted of sending a threatening anti-Semitic tweet to a lawmaker.” Hate speech, unfortunately, is not a rare occurrence. It is seen on social media, such as Twitter, and anti-Islamic hate in particular has become a recent issue. It is important to understand where satire ends and where hateful speech begins.
In general, hubris is defined as having excessive pride or overconfidence, which can eventually lead to a downfall. In the past, Greeks described hubris as direct defiance of the gods wishes, however, the meaning of hubris has developed over time. Today, hubris is seen more as having a lack of humility or blind arrogance that leads an individual to believe that they are above typical human limitations, essentially godlike. One such individual that exhibits this ill-appealing quality is the current president of the United States, Donald Trump. Over the last couple of years, and since beginning his term in office, President Trump has displayed excessive pride, arrogance, and self-confidence through his political rallies, press conferences, demeaning tweets, and much more. Unlike the leaders before him, our president is simply “…a real estate developer known for golf courses, casinos, and a Moscow beauty pageant; he’s a gambler with other people’s money who exhibits poor judgment” (Blake, “Trump Sharing Highly Classified Information with Russia Shows His Extreme Hubris”). Examining President Trump’s decisions and the examples of hubris presented in Sophocles’ “Oedipus Tyrannus”, Andrew George’s “The Epic of Gilgamesh: the Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian” and the “Holy Bible: New International Version”, shows that his hubristic character will result in a tragic end for him and the entire nation alike.