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Friedrich Willhelm (F.W.) Murnau’s The Last Laugh (1924) holds a special place within silent film (Bordwell 2016). It is the film that made Murnau popular with American audiences, and in turn, its success lead him to move to Hollywood and eventually make masterpieces (not to say that The Last Laugh itself isn’t a masterpiece), such as Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927). Both films evoke the surreality of life, but unlike the celebratory Sunrise¸ The Last Laugh laments life’s predestined nature. Murnau

The films Rear Window, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and The Last Laugh, directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, both feature protagonists going through change, for better or for worse. Rear Window features L.B. ‘Jeff’ Jefferies, a professional photographer who is stuck in his wheelchair, in his apartment, because of an accident he had while on the job. The Last Laugh features a hotel doorman that gets demoted to a lesser job, who then undergoes a psychological change. Both films use elements of mise-en-scene

H The Man Who Laughs is a timeless novel centered around the horrific deeds of the Comprachicos during the 17th century. Written while in exile, Victor Hugo's work calls attention to the social injustices of the working class of the time and the opposing sides of human nature that still hold true today. The radically different sides of human nature exhibited in this novel compare moral goodness and inclinations towards evil found in humanity. Hugo begins his piece with preliminary chapters explaining

Feminism has a long political history developing from women’s movements that sought to shake the certainties of a complacent patriarchal society through the call for social, economic and political reform, into a philosophical theory. An insight into the key moments of the history of French feminism through the identification of its philosophical and theoretical underpinnings may offer a comprehensive understanding of the French feminist thought that started as a “leaderless and structurless… collection

Muslims Do Laugh What makes up a good joke? Sure, it probably needs to be relatable, and have a good punch line, but what makes a really good joke stand out? In the article “What Makes Muslims Laugh”, by Maz Jobrani, Maz comes across a few startling discoveries about the differences in comedy between the United States and countries in the Middle East. Maz Jobrani first started touring the Middle East in 2007 with a tour called the “Axis of Evil Comedy”. Once he began touring he found out a major

Hélène Cixous coined the term écriture feminine in her essay ‘‘The Laugh of the Medusa’’. Cixous invites women to write in order to make a change and break free from phallocentrism. She points out that women should embrace their bodies and resist the patriarchal idea that women’s bodies are monstrous and also encourages women to explore and to take advantage of everything that makes them different from men. Cixous argues that there is a feminine way of writing and women can find a way to unveil

Seventh grade, a time of adolescence, an awkward period in which we start growing from a kid to a young adult, in which the mature person hasn’t kicked in yet. A period in time to try new things and it was my first year of running track. One reason I decided to join was because I had a passion for sports (mostly basketball), and my best friends convinced me join the team and if I didn’t I would probably be hanging out by myself after school. Three of my best friends consisted of Dekembae but we called

woman's voice. Her work fills those voids, gaps and silences that have never been articulated in literature. They were the silences of the black women which got their voices in her fiction to make it a feminine discourse. Helene Ciaos in her book The Laugh of The Medusa writes, If woman has always functioned "within" the discourse of man, a signifier that has always referred back to the opposite signifier which annihilates its specific energy and

this show would come on the hour before my family’s dinner time. My mom and dad knew that it was my ritual to watch this show before dinner. There are many feelings and situations I can relate to and many emotions experienced even if there wasn’t a laugh track. Another interesting feeling, I felt watching Home Improvement for this assignment, is how I see the similarities of Tim Allen’s current show, Last Man Standing. (WORD COUNT—Must be at least 75 words, not including the question: 136) (2)

Introduction Ever since written language became pervasive in human civilization, “literacy” became defined as the ability to interpret a series of squiggles as letters with meaning. Now, as language and modes of communication are evolving, so are the definitions of literacy. Media messages are rapidly assimilating into culture at unprecedented rates, with lasting effects. The makes it just as necessary for people to understand how to interpret media messages as it is for them how to know to read