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    values, where economic growth and prosperity is equated with the success of a society. It has several comparisons to the realistic one we live in everyday. Huxley describes this part of his vision as being a “consumer society,” which evidently was satire of the society he was living in and the one that still exists today. In which people buy all they can and keep buying useless consumer items: nice clothes, food, and drugs. People indulge in these items and become so happy that they lose and choose

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    The Simpsons Satire

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    Simpsons family decide to visit a collectibles shop, where they meet the store dealer, John. The family and John become friendly, leading to Homer wanting to invite him and his wife for dinner next time. However, Marge eventually tells Homer that John is gay; Homer is completely shocked and instantaneously, his attitude and demeanor changes toward John. The hyper-irony behind this episode is a reflection of the way American society is portrayed; through the television show, the depiction of homosexuality

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    Molly Ivan was an author and political commentator, who was recognized for her ability to use satire and irony to discuss serious topics and messages. In Molly Ivan’s essay, “Is Texas America,” she ponders about unsuccessfully trying to “…explode the myths about Texas” during her journalist career (Ivan 782). Although Ivan discussed Texas as a massive and diverse state, and how the true Texas stereotype cannot be generalized and summed up into one area or type of Texan. However throughout her article

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    to fight; neither of the two families attempt to make peace or solve things rationally between them. The reader can see that these “civilized” families are nothing but blood-thirsty men that only desire to kill one another. These chapters serve as satire to American civilization in the sense that the society that makes up civilization does not always depict civilized decorum. However the uncivilized manner of society can be traced back to the roots of human nature, which Twain also satirizes. Twain

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    falls under third-wave feminism. Third-wave feminists focus on the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and social class. Gay talks about all of these issues in her book, calling upon her own experiences as a Haitian-American to explore the intersectionality between growing up a woman and growing up biracially in America. More than anything else in her book, Gay focuses on her imperfections as a human being that cause her to interpret feminism differently from anyone else. “We don’t all have

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    Screw you guys, I’m going home Ever since 1997, South Park has revolutionized the cable TV scene as a profane and obscene program that isn’t afraid to mock religious, political, and cultural topics and not get away with at least offending somebody. Throughout its twelve seasons, some of the most prominent events in pop culture have suffered the wrath of ridicule from the show’s creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, and succeeded in making millions of Americans laugh until they cry. The creative

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    Tommy Starling is a homosexual male Pawley’s Island, South Carolina. Tommy is happily married to his husband and they raising two children, ages 4 and 11. However, Starling reports his family is “constantly under the microscope” because contemporary society rejects the notion of two fathers raising two children. An anonymous person even said that their kids should be taken from them and that the parents should be hanged because of their sexuality. Their city even featured them in a publication making

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    In the sixties there were several legal changes, which gave women a stronger position in marriage. The Married women’s property act in 1964 made sure that all women would get half the money they saved from housekeeping, in 1967, the matrimonial acts gave husband and wife exactly the same right of occupation in a family home. Best

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    theme today, though which particular characterizes makes someone privileged continues to change over time. In Jonathan Swift’s essay “A Modest Proposal,” Swift uses the elements of satire to ridicule Irish oppressors, specifically the Catholics and the rich. LITERARY ANALYSIS One of the most commonly used elements of satire is irony, which Swift uses freely to show the monetary and religious

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    The Wife Of Bath

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    of a husband for, “…in our bed he was so fresh and gay….Heaven knows whenever he wanted it- my belle chose-, thought he had beaten me in every bone…”(272) Even though her final husband had beaten her, because he was good in bed with her she felt she loved him the best of them all (272). Clearly, The Wife of Bath valued three things in her marriages, sex, power, and money. In her tale we find that power is an important role to women in marriage. A knight, after raping a women is spared by a queen

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