This essay, which was written in the 1940’s, begins by describing the fate of most actors. However, this essay focuses on one actress who did not share the same fate as most thespians. That actress is Ellen Terry. In addition to being a talented actress Terry was a talented writer, despite the fact that she did not acknowledge this. Her writings included descriptions of Henry Irving’s Hamlet, her autobiography, and many letters.
True humor is supposed to be used as way to make people look at situation from a different perspective and to laugh about it. An example of this is from the reading “SantaLand Diaries” where David realized that life was not going as expected. He is thirty –three years old and applying for an elf job. He tries to imagine a whole new world where he is able succeed and accomplish his dreams within three weeks of being in New York. In the reading he says “I’m trying to look on the bright side” he is using this imaginative world to help him get through a really tough time within his life.
In the story Nature you can tell it is based on transcendentalism. “In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough and at what period soever of life is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth.” (Emerson, p. 367) In Nature, it thought that nature makes you feel young and well. You should be sure to just look and listen next time you are in the nature or just anywhere outside.
The Impact of Humor As Leo Rosten, an American humorist and author states, “Humor is the affectionate communication of insight” Humor is an intelligent way to enforce an argument to your audience. With the employment of humor, the authors are able to persuade their readers into understanding, and sometimes agreeing with their opinions. Humor allows authors to have the insight about their topic thus, giving the author credibility and zealousness. In Laura Fraser's essay, “Why I Stopped Being a Vegetarian”, she employs the element of humor to strengthen her essay in a myriad of ways.
In Jenny Aleen's essay "The Trouble With Nature" humor is utilized in order to inform the reader that nature does what it wants even though people may think their having a perceful week in nature. The two paragraphs inform the reader about the writer's purpose because she starts by talking about how people want to enjoy getting away from the city and going to live in nature for a while. " A lot of people who live in the city like tio visit the country to get close to nature " (Allen 1). She goes on to talk about how once you get into the nature life you instantly start to regret it.
The Korean War happened in 1950-1953 when North Korea held a surprise attack on South Korea. North Korea was hoping to capture Seoul, South Korea’s capital, as quickly as possible. The United Nations secretary general Trygve Lie called this war the “war against the United Nations.” The UN went to help South Korea after they had called and asked for help.
In Jenny Allen's essay "The Trouble With Nature" humor is utilized in order to entertain and show that when you go into nature, nature comes to you. Jenny Allen uses humor throughout the article to entertain the sophisticated workers of New York by using irony and quick laughable remarks. "manicured-looking nails, like the too-long nails of the bank teller who counted out your cash yesterday" (Allen 11). This is ironic and kind of funny actually because she compares the racoon to a bank teller, but in cartoons they are usually depicted as the robbers with their black colored fur around their eyes. Also, she uses a lot of poop and vomit jokes.
In Fahrenheit 451, Clarisse explains, “‘The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies’”(Bradbury 20). This shows that not many people in this society get out much and that it is not normal to go on hikes and experience nature’s beauty. In fact, they are either driving so fast that all they see are colored blurs (6), or too busy watching the parlor walls to ever go outside. The fact that even a psychiatrist is so intrigued with why she enjoys nature must make Clarisse feel as if there is something wrong with her. What she wants is to be outside and explore and watch the sky and the trees and the birds, while the society she lives in would rather watch the parlor walls with their ‘families,’ and the very thought of nature is obsolete to them.
A short version of the book is that a big group of kids got stranded on an island with no food or materials so they decided to find their own food and materials. The kids found a pig and killed it and then started a fire with piggy's glasses to cook the pig. Later through the story the boys turned on each other and separated into 2 groups one had a lot of people the other had 2 people. After they stole the fire and everything else from ralph they killed piggy and then chased rough to kill him also. Then the navy came and found all the boys.
By taking away the seriousness out of these topics through humor, allows readers to take their focus away from the negativity to
“One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest” is a film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the novel by Ken Kesey. The Film was released in 1975. It is the story of a convicted man, trying to outsmart the American legal system by playing mentally ill. The film starts at the beginning when the main character, Randle McMurphy, enters the mental institution. It won 6 Golden Globes as well as 5 Oscars and many other nominations.
By the time the settlers first made it in America, the relationship between man and nature is the central part of being an American. In “A Brief History of Nature and the American Consciousness” by Joshua Johns, he speaks of the New World and how European settlers chose to ruin the wilderness in order to achieve a comfortable life. Utilizing the images “View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm” (normally referred to as “The Oxbow”), painted in eighteen thirty six by Thomas Cole; “American Progress”, composed in eighteen seventy two by John Gast. Lastly the picture that was taken in the year nineteen fifty by William Garrett. The Americans vision of the New World has changed over time. Going from fear of the barbaric wild, next optimism, then with the feeling of regret.
“Tale From the Jungle: Margaret Mead”, youtube videos, which was introduced by Professor Ana, humanities professor, are a six long clip video documentaries of the first anthropology’s discoveries ever brought to public, the Samoan civilization. This ‘Samoan civilization’ anthropology discovery was discovered by Mead Margaret, an American female anthropologist, and later by Derek Freeman, an Australian anthologist. According to Mead Margaret, an American female anthropologist, she believes that humans are influenced by nurture. On the other side, Derek Freeman, an Australian anthologist, opposes Mead Margaret’s idea. He believes that humans are influenced by nature.
The Perversion of Nature In modern day, families across the globe consume potentially harmful genetically modified products, with little to no knowledge of the effects they may have on a person's health (Bailey 4). The uninformed society will then go on to pass down the negative affects of these GMOs to children and pets (Bailey 1). Society relies on cheap, yet damaging, “frankenfood” leading corporations have created (Cummins 1). Poor regulation and greed of mankind has brought upon a devastating future for posterity (Cummins 2).
At the same time, nature as a teacher teaches man to accept all the changes in life. It also motivates man. In the world of literature nature plays a very role to set the mood of the text. The creative artist uses nature to reveal both comic and tragic aspects of human life. Nature itself acts as one the most dominating characters in text which exercises its powerful impression upon the character.
