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Fotoshop by Adobe: Society's Perception of Beauty

             In the advertisement, “Fotoshop by Adobe”, the promoters of the verisimilitude product are trying to sell to the consumers and audience a better way to enhance people’s appearances. The...

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Reflection on South Park: Best Friends Forever

     In South Park's "Best Friends Forever" episode, many issues were made across, but the primary concern emphasized was whether it is morally right to allow life support. Such was done by satirizing...

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Juvenal

Juvenal was a Roman poet who wrote at least 16 poems that covered numerous topics about Rome, its society, its politics, and more. These poems satirized much of the corruption of Rome. His anger that...

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Horace Vs. Juvenal

Golden LinesJuvenal"Why then, it is harder not to be writing satires""For who Could endure this monstrous city, however callous at heart, And swallow his wrath?""Honesty's praised, but honest men...

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Chris Crutcher Experience Take Away's

     When Chris Crutcher spoke to us, I was overwhelmed greatly with his knowledge, advice, lessons, etc. As an avid blogger, Chris said that whatever he had a strong opinion on a topic, he would blog...

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Juvenal's Satire I vs. Swift's A Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift     After reading two of these interesting satire writing pieces, I have to say Swift's "A Modest Proposal" was more relevant to me in many ways than Juvenal's "Satire  I". And although...

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Pastiche Mindmap

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Pastiche Reflection

    For the past two weeks, we worked on creating a pastiche draft of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"and throughout the process, I have learnt a lot. Brainstorming ideas for it allowed me to think...

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Failure To Satirize or Lack of Humor Understanding?

     Just a few months ago, The Onion announced Kim Jong Un, North Korea's Supreme Leader as the  "Sexiest Man Alive for 2012" in an article. Though, as many certainly, surely, and hands down agree...

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Reflection on Socratic Seminar on Chua

     From the informative socratic seminar I learned that satire can be easily conveyed from little to full extent, all decided by the writer. People got confused whether Chua's "a" was a satire...

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The Prince, A Satire

     After reading "The Prince" by Machiavelli and further reading and supplementing it with Garret Mattingly's "The Prince: Political Science or Political Satire?", I thought that "The Prince" was a...

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Bleacher Report Site Review

      Surfing through "Bleacher Report" is probably one of the easiest and more efficient way to get updates from your favorite sports teams and athletes. It gets constantly updated 24/7 with the...

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"Is it Satire?" Unit Reflection

Creating the Satire Rock Song website was a good experience. Though, as a class and team, we did run into many obstacles and got stuck often making the website, we were able to pull away at the end and...

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"Brazil" Opening Sequence Reflection

          After viewing the first about 5-10 minutes of the film, "Brazil", I couldn't take away much from it. There wasn't too much talking in the beginning and it was one of those movies where...

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"Brazil" Reflection

     After getting to watch more of the film, Brazil, I was able to understand much more of the plot and was able to answer confusing ideas that I had watching the film the previous class. Throughout...

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Philosophical Question

The government and military takes over the dystopian society in "Brazil". But before anything, they must've managed to reach the hierarchy somehow. I believe it started off with a clever individual who...

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Brazil Poster Assignment

After watching the film, Brazil, we, as a group, analyzed a topic that the film was satirizing. For my group, we analyzed individualism and how Terry Gilliam satirizes it in his film. In creating the...

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Boston Bombing, Yet Another Violent Tragedy

     Terrorism has become much more prevalent these past few years. Not only have gun shootings sparked, but bombings have occurred. Just today morning, a bombing at the Boston Marathon occurred,...

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Brave New World Blog Post Prompt 1

      "Brave New World", by Aldous Huxley, is a science and dystopian fictional novel that was published on 1932. It is about methods used like reproductive technology, operant conditioning, and...

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Satiric Ideas in Brave New World

          There are many ideas portrayed in Huxley's "Brave New World" that he seems to be satirizing. Apathy and morality was one big idea that I found was themed throughout the first few chapters. In...

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1984 and The Handsmaind's Tale

The expositions of 1984 and The Handsmaid's Tale were similar to that of Wall-E, in which they all portray a dystopian society with a totalitarian government controlling society. In 1984 there is no...

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