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Chris Lilley's Summer Heights High is a highly controversial mockumentary that showcases 3 different over exaggerated characters. One of them is Jonah Takalua, a stereotypical Tongan delinquent. Many have praised his work, saying that it is a clever use of satire to convey important criticisms of today's society. However after learning about satire myself throughout this unit I have determined that Summer Heights High is an unsuitable and highly ineffective show for teaching satire in secondary school

“Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.” Comedian Steve Martin said those words in his book Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life. Chris Rock is a perfect example of a comedian that mixes jokes with social commentary that can and will make some people uncomfortable. His style is crass in your face jokes about sensitive subjects that will make you squirm in your seats one minute and then laugh uncontrollably. Rocks’ 1996 Comedy special on HBO Bring the

stories for different reasons; a best selling author may write his story to sell books. While a parent tells a story to set their child straight, others simply want the thrill of telling tales of their adventurous life. For The Tao Jones ,or TJ, in Chris Crutcher's Whale Talk, the most impactful story he will hear and tell is his own. Someone might not solely tell their own story but, are also able to tell the story of those around them. Superficially, TJ’s story is one of brutal negativity and oppression

The Nightmare Before Christmas begins in a small town, better known as Halloweentown. Here, they have a “Pumpkin King,” who is the ruler/ most significant role model to everyone, and his name is Jack Skellington. Jack begins to feel bored of the same holiday they have every year, Halloween, and he soon stumbles upon trees that are embellished with carved symbols for each holiday. He is intrigued by the door that has a bright green Christmas tree on it adorned with small ornaments and baubles. He

The film “The Pursuit Of Happyness”, directed by Gabriele Muccino in 2006, depicted a responsible and hardworking salesman Chris Gardner struggles for life and try his best to improve the quality of his family environment. In spite of facing various difficulties, Gardner never gives up and he manages to pull through in sense of determination and finally obtained his “ happiness” in his life. After watching the movie, I agree on the point that one must ready to sacrifice and works really hard in order

Challenges a Person Faces as a Professional Poker Player Are you a poker player? Have you been playing poker for more than a year now? Planning to take up poker as a career? Then, you should first meet some poker pros who have been playing poker professionally for more than 5 years. Thinking why? Because professional poker may seem as an easy career option but it is exponentially harder than it looks. It Involves Only Math To become a winning poker pro, you have to work more on your mathematical

It was the time my sister and I first got forced on the boat and away from our family in Africa. Three white men put chains around our legs and arms mostly dragging us across the dry sand, leaving cuts on our bare feet and ankles. The ship ride was a long 5 months from Cape Town, Africa to New Orleans, Louisiana. On the ship we were occasionally fed, possibly once a day if we were lucky. If we wanted water, we would have to scoop pales of seawater and filter is as much as we could at the time, and

TED is a nonprofit organization that seeks to spread ideas in a range of topics via short web-based talks. These talks are performed in front of a live audience where the speakers are from a wide range of disciplines and career fields. This particular form of spoken discourse is considered part of a discourse genre and therefore, it is expected that those who speak, share at least in part, some commonalities in the area of how they spread their ideas, as is customarily associated with a TED Talk

of the 140 profane words, including the “F” word 17 times and the “N” word used repeatedly. There are sexual content ,drug use ,suicide ,violence ,and reference to smoking. As said by Debry Bryk in her article called “Remove the book whale talk by Chris Crutcher from the curriculum” she says “this is for 12 and up to read, but if it were a movie it would be rated R 17 and

What is artifice? And why is it known as “the most essential skill” by Chris Hedges from an excerpt from Empire of Illusion. Artifice is a clever trick to deceive others like what many politicians used going from the past until nowadays. Because the Americans love to have good reputation, most politicians that have the ability to do so as Chris Hedges’s argues “the most essential skill...is atifice” proves to be true. To begin with, Hedges states that politicians nowadays do not need to have the