Jokes

You walk into a humid gym. It reeks of chalk and feet. The music is playing and it seems like everyone is talking at once. You walk around the corner and parents are sitting in gray stands gossiping. You look straight ahead and see girls working out on different apparatuses. Coaches are explaining drills to some, and giving corrections to others. With so many people talking, you can't hear what the coaches are saying. You only see their lips moving as they talk to the kids. Girls are in suim suit

and factual, in fact, it may be filled with nonessential time consuming stories. In conclusion, these rhetorical devices may or may not be intertwined with comedy, sometimes a video is purely meant to be a joke, but other times, they are meant to have an underlying meaning underneath the jokes and

Every year, around 40,000 people commit suicide. Little did I know, one of those many people would be one of my best friends, Becca. The one thing I do know, is that she definitely didn’t deserve to through what she did. To say that we were close friends was an enormous understatement. I would trust her with my life. She told me everything, I told her everything. We talked about things like makeup, Gossip Girl, and Overwatch. We shared stories about the weird things that happen in our school. We

paragraphs of Hobbes’ passage, he discusses how people degrade those they dislike. He then explains how humans desire to rise above others so they feel superior, making his theory known as the superiority theory. Hobbes believes that by human nature, witty jokes does not always produce laughter; laughter can be evoked by misfortunes or obscenities. The essence of superiority then becomes apparent. Hobbes reveals laughter as hierarchical. Laughter is aroused when others have different intellectual or social

Family walks in and out of your life every day. Some families move on through the heartache and pain, and others hold on to that one somebody who has made a lasting impression on their life. Fifty-two years of my life I was gratefully blessed to have a very special person in my life. That special person was there for everything from birth, to now. Everyone has certain people in their lives that mean a lot to them, but it really takes a great person to be special to you. My life was always full

Violence is all around us, and sometimes it’s right in front of you. The violence in my life is in front of me. This violence isn’t physical, but instead verbal and through social media’s. The violence happens at my lunch table and online like Instagram or texting. I think violence is wrong and hurtful because it can make people cry or think badly of themselves. I have seen some of my friends cry, and I do my best to help them and tell them that the person being rude to them is insecure. The

with my Gran in a small suburban home in California. People always say I’m funny because I’m full of jokes. But I still run out of material pretty fast. So one November, when I had used my last joke on a kid across the street, I went to the search engine on my Gran’s old box computer and typed: ‘the best joke.’ Immediately, an ad came that said: Do you know jokes? Do you want to know the best joke in the world? Sign up and come to 422 Haha Lane on November sixteenth! There was a laughing emoji

Good evening everyone. My name is Quinn Stewart, and it is my honor to be speaking here as your President for the Scarborough High School Class of 2017. Before I move on with my speech, there are a few people that I would like to acknowledge. First, the staff members who poured their constant hours, dedication, and passion into making sure that we all ended up here today. Your persistence in our education made sure that whether on the couch or the classroom, that we all became better people over

The joke is humorous as tin foil and aluminium foil are two different things, therefore the joke is on Ed Byrne. An English audience would recognise the term ‘tin foil’. Sarah Thorne says humour can become ‘anti-social’, meaning the audience are left feeling ‘shocked rather than amused.’ (Thorne 2008: 508). If the geographical identity of the audience were American, the joke would not work as it’s discourteous to suggest ‘everyone’ dislikes

happens to be the setting of her poem “Back When All was Continuous Chuckles” ("Colette Inez." ). This narrative poem, tells a story about the speaker and her friend Doris riding the Beeline bus towards Hempstead, NY. They are laughing and making jokes. The humorous tone changes when the speaker brings up Doris’s mother having “the big C which no one said out loud (15)”. It can be assumed