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    Hyperbole In The Onion

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    In this press release from The Onion, the author uses humor to satirizes the method by which products are marketed to consumers with the use of hyperbole. The use of nonexistent words, supposedly satisfied customers, and hyperbole serves the purpose of mocking product advertisement. The author(s) of the article brilliantly construct even more unlikely and mocking dialogue to establish the satiric mood of the Magna Soles shoe inserts. The official website advertises the "healing power of crystals

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    The debate between privacy and the surveillance of private citizens has been quite a huge and controversial topic that has arisen in recent years. In terms of understanding how exactly it came to be such a controversial topic, first a person should be able to understand exactly what it means to have the surveillance of private citizens,why it has been said to be a good idea for a better and safe society and the different terms that come up when one talks about the topic of surveilling private citizens

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    Criticize The Onion

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    anything to gain the attention and respect of a new customer. Advertising plays a big role in helping companies achieve these goals. The onion, a satirical website, released a mock press release that satirizes easily fooled customers through humor and meticulous mocking, in order to expose the phony marketing strategies companies use to allure customers. The onion takes the time to ridicule both sides of the advertising spectrum such as the consumers and advertisers. In the article, the doctors

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    Onion Satire

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    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

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    The Onion Satire

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    In the mock press release from The Onion, the author satirically mocks how products are marketed to consumers. Playing on the stereotype of gullible consumers ready to believe anything they hear about a product is true, the author creates a parody of typical medical commercials. The author combines many satirical strategies and adds in humorous moments in order to critique ad campaigns that use false claims and the ignorant customers that buy from them. In the article, the writer lays on a false

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    The Onion Satire

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    Do workers or websites ever overdue there sells pitch and try to over elaborate what their product is? An article from The Onion shows just this as a sole insert shoe company uses a lot of dramatic irony and they like to use many big words when describing their product to make every aspect of the sole insert to seem more important than it really is. Every company goes throughout selling in a different way but the company MagnaSoles try to act like they made some dramatic life change and how scientifically

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    Is Like An Onion?

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    This case is like an onion. There are many layers and at the center of this onion, was the person responsible for the leak. If we assume the outer layer was Chairman of the Board, Patricia Dunn, then from the information we have been given, we cannot know for certain, that she knew how the inner layers were going about acquiring the information and getting to the center. The number of layers is uncertain but from what we have read of the case, there were top executives, directors, lawyers and

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    Satire In The Onion

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    aim of satire is to point out the negative aspect of a person or a group. Satire has been run from years in our society through various means like electronic medias. At any certain point any new joke may cause a lot of trouble. In recent year ‘The Onion’, an American Digital company received one of the heating moment through out country when they published a joke on twitter account stating 9-year-old actress Quvenzhané Wallis a cunt. Amid the 2008 presidential election campaign, The New Yorker started

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    The Onion Satire

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    whether it is by a billboard, an online article, promotion by a celebrity, or even a commercial on TV. Many in the advertising and market industries use strong rhetoric to lure people into buying a product or service. The MagnaSoles article from “The Onion” however , exposes the loopholes in a satirical manner for those who may not be aware of the constant marketing battle. The mock press release first uses false authority to help trap potential customers. Many companies use this tactic. The piece

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    Calamansi and Onion

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    CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE Foot odor is a disease which is scientifically known as bromhidrosis- sweaty and smelly feet. While neither painful nor contagious, foot odor causes unmitigated social suffering to those who are burdened with it.  Under normal conditions each of your feet produces half a pint of sweat by means by means of some 20,000 sweat glands.  In most people, this perspiration evaporates.  In people with bromhidrosis, however , more sweat is produced, and it doesn’t evaporate

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