Why Does Anjelah Johnson Use Humor

In Roxane Gay’s essay, “Some Jokes are Funnier,” she states an experience she once had of witnessing a rape joke and the dilemma around rape jokes in general. Her main argument, however, is that rape jokes are not funny as it can yield to multiple consequences. For example, Gay stated that rape jokes remind women of their social standing as being unequal to men because their “bodies and reproductive freedom are open to legislation and public discourse” and, as a result, become centers of comedic relief. She further elaborates her argument by examining the issue of rape and humor. Gay believes humor is subjective while the concept of rape should not even be subjective. Because of people thinking that rape is subjective, they began to distort

Comedy is continuously being censored, particularly on college campuses resulting in a massive feud whether college students are too PG or comedians are just being sensitive and uptight. To adjust the balance between college students and comedians, it is important to review research on comedy’s potential contribution to society, as well as society’s contribution to comedy. I reviewed online articles that give my paper in inside on college students or society in general, response towards the issue of college campuses being too PC for comedians. Additionally, I researched on the potential way comedy can reframe Society making comedy be an educational tool. Through my research, I have drawn that comedy can be reshaped in multiple ways to either benefit

“If the police showed up she would have to drop me and pretend I wasn’t hers, like I was a bag of weed”(28). Humor like this in Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime, produces easier to absorb content since his memoir is full with hard to swallow concepts. The story he shares follows him, a half black and half white child, growing up in South Africa during apartheid. For this reason Trevor was quite literally born a crime. He writes about the struggles he had to face growing up with his mother side of the family, the black side. Although the odds were against him the day he was born, he is able to accomplish many things thanks to the help from his mother who would literally take a bullet for her children. Although many writers use dark humor to tell

In the article How to Tame a Wild Tongue written by Gloria Anzaldua covers a real life story that Gloria lived. She was born into a Mexican home in the United States during the 1970s. She was looked down upon by her peers due to the fact that she spoke Spanish. When she was in school they got her in trouble because she spoke Spanish in one of her classes. Gloria also never knew that Spanish words were not all male dominant, they also applied to females. The biggest struggle for Gloria was that she often used both English and Spanish when she would talk to her peers. While some argue that she was in the wrong, I believe that she has a right to keep in touch with her roots because nobody should be ashamed of where they come from.

In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” Gloria Anzaldua discloses her true feelings about societal and cultural imbalances encountered by minorities by successfully utilizing pathos. Based on historical context, Gloria Anzaldua was raised in the 1940s in the south where racial discrimination was more prevalent than in most parts of the United States. She reveals that Latin Americans, in spite of their distinct languages, are coerced to forgo their heritage and conform to Anglo society. Language, which is taken for granted here in the United States, is fervently cherished by Anzaldua, expressing “I am my language” (39).

CLEVER “I will leave you with one last piece of advice, which is: If you’ve got it, flaunt it. And if you don’t got it? Flaunt it. ’Cause what are we even doing here if we’re not flaunting it?”

I could not agree more! I believe that the reason why Black stand-up comedians make jokes about people of their own race is because in the world of comedy, finding ways to relate to their own people means that they are thriving, especially when Black people in their audience have great sense of humors. From Bert Williams (also known as "Blackface") to Eddie Murphy and from Richard Pryor to Dave Chappelle...each one of them laughed with their audience, not at them. The same goes for Hispanic comedians such as George Lopez, Cheech Marin, Carlos Mencia and Angela Johnson. Bert Williams was one of the first Black comedians; his intent was to educate his predominantly white audience on his experiences as a Black man through comedy. He

In Jenny Allen's essay "The Trouble With Nature" humor is utilized in order to entertain her audience and inform them of the dangers of seeking to get closer to nature. The author seeks to in form her audience of the essay's purpose in the first paragraph and then reafirms her point in the final two paragraphs. Jenny Allen informs the reader of her purpose by using humor in the first paragraph. "They find that they needn't go outdoors to get closer to nature.

In Jenny Allen's essay " The Trouble With Nature" humor is utilized in order to conver that people say they want to get closer to nature when Nature somethings that is always around and you cant get away from it. The writer uses a lot of humor is this essay by cmparing things of nature to things outside of nature. For example, when talking about bats she says " there is a black thing hanging from the kitchen ceiling. It is the exact same size and shape of a charcoal briquette, and you woner what a charcoal briquette is doing up there" ( Allen 3 ).

In Jenny Allen's essay "The Trouble With Nature" humor is utilized in order to entertain through the use of tones, such as sarcasm, and silly imagery.

Goldberg utilizes various humor techniques in order to captivate the audiences’ attention. Using both black humor and vulgar in her vignette of the drunk addict, Goldberg reinforces the idea that the stereotype cannot be anything more than meets the eye. However, she destroys that

Humor can go a long way in an essay about one's past experiences. It can help relay a point across while keeping the reader interested in the story. It can help everything flow together and keep the mood of the story light and airy. In Kellie Young's essay, the undercurrent, humor is consistent throughout the essay. The main source of humor involves stories about her mother and how she pokes fun at how her mom was always overprotective. Different types of humor such as hyperboles, realistic images and ironic situations are used and it adds to the overall essay and helps get the point across. Even though her mom badgers her with what she feels is right for Young, her words stick with her and it helps guide her throughout her life.

In academic writing for this semester had the primary focus to identify and explain humor theories. In class, we would have power point that introduced new humor theories and go in depth about how each literary term would go back to humor. When writing, I not only keep the prompt in my mind, but also humor theory. The progress I have made with my reading skills in terms of identifying main idea, major support, and minor support is by separating them a part. For example, when identify a main idea, it is usually the first or last sentence of a paragraph as well as the author giving supporting information to the main idea. This also gives the reader the knowledge of where the major support sentences are since it sheds light upon the main idea.

When reading Anzaldua's essay, I could not help thinking how ridiculous it is for someone to be prejudged based solely on the language they speak. She states "If a person, Chicana or Latina, has a low estimation of my native tongue, she also has a low estimation of me." This is not how things should work. Stereotypes control too much of our perceptions of "different" people. Knowing that people rely on stereotypes to judge unfamiliar people, I do not believe that it is wrong to change our language to fit into another situation. If we change our methods of speech, then we are more likely to be heard and have our ideas appreciated. In the movie "Educating Rita," Rita is a hair dresser who speaks the working-class dialect in Britain. Upon enrolling in a university, she realizes that she is very out of place and tries on many different identities and languages to fit in. Although no one ever comes out and ridicules her for speaking the way she does, there is always the pressure looming over her to conform to the rest of the students in their way of speaking. Rita was doing what she had to do to fit in. If she was to go her own route and continue talking the same that she did when she entered the college, she would not have many friends and her peers would not take her seriously. But she does change to a certain degree to fit into the student mold, and her social life benefits as a result.

I believe the author's’ main purpose is to humor his audience. He describes his experience in French class, like when everyone had to state what they liked and they would all be saying random things cause it's only what they knew. Also like how he compared his first day at French class to his first day of kindergarten and said how even after all this time he has not got used to it. There does seem to be one underlying hidden purpose the Author wanted to drill into our brain however. To never give up if you want something. Even after all the butterflies in his stomach from his first day, from being told by his teacher that she hated him, and even with not liking his neighbored with being criticized by his butcher and concierge on top of never being helped at stores. The author never quits though, and you can see his reward and how much bliss he gets when he finally starts to understand French at the end. So while it can be shown as the author wants to humor his audience he also wants to send us messages of encouragement to never quit.