Laughter College Essays Samples For Students

Laughter is the best medicine

Laughter is an aspect of human behavior that is controlled by the brain and assists humans in clarifying their social interaction motives. It also offers an emotional setting to conversations. It is used as an indicator of belonging to a group by showing acceptance as well as positive relationships with other people. Laughter is at times viewed as contagious whereby an individual’s laughter tends to stimulate other individuals as a sign of a positive reaction. Laughter, which is among the commonest expressional behavior of humorous experience, entails a characteristic respiratory-vocal pattern of behavior with characteristic psycho-physiological correlation (Ruch & Ekman, 2001). Cognitively, laughter ...

Humor provokes laughter. Most people from all backgrounds have a sense of humor since they can experience laughter. The extent to which one finds something to be humorous mainly depends on their culture, level of maturity, intelligence and educational background. There are other forms of humor that appeal to adults such as satire since they can only be humorous when the audience understands the context. Humor is, therefore, relative from one individual to another. People who do not seem to have self- interest seem to interest people, who see their actions as humorous.
People easily relate to humor since ...

Abstract.

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems (SCADA) are a subset of Industrial Control Systems (ICS), and they are used to automate the control and monitoring of processes and sets of processes. Such processes include industrial production lines, power grids, rail switching and other critical infrastructure. Traditionally, these systems were isolated and thus secure from cyber-attacks. However, modernization has led to increased complexity, interconnectivity, and digitization. In this regard, today's SCADA systems need to communicate and transfer data from one site to another via communication networks that are at times public e.g. The internet. This development has created security vulnerabilities for ...

Introduction of the Books

Men in the Sun
Ghassan Kanafani (1936-1972) was a Palestinian story writer and was deeply involved in politics, during the Arab-Israeli in 1948 war he and his family were expatriate to the part of Palestine.In 1952 during his education from Damascus, he was again deported to Kuwait because of his association with the Movement of Arab Nationalists.He was leading the Arab Nationalist movement and during his leadership he worked hard for the independence of Palestine. Due to getting exile for so many times he was confronted with many problems because of not certain proof of citizenship. On July 18, ...

Anger is Heat

This is something that makes us angry or something that makes our blood boil. If there is something that makes a person angry, it burns him up and angry feeling, which slowly develops into something more powerful, can be described as a slow burn. A person who is angry is described as breathing fire, ablaze, hot under the collar, or frazzled. An angry person can also be described as boiling, heated, steaming ears, steaming mad, or steamed-up.

My hypothesis over this conceptual metaphor is confirmed based on my observations on people’s characteristics, as well.

Life is a Game
Relating life to the game is something that tells us that our lives go through different obstacles just like how ...

The Reconciliation of Opposites

We should not forget that Not Without Laughter is, above all things, a bildungsroman (Schultz, p.44), and Hughes presents its protagonist, Sandy, growing up and developing, and slowly beginning to make sense of American society, of himself and of what he wants to do in life. As Sandy matures he is faced with various choices about how to live his life, and he becomes acutely aware of certain oppositions in the novel. Furthermore, Hughes himself presents further oppositions almost all of which stem from the racist society in which Sandy lives or, if they occur within the African American community ...

Langston Hughes poetry and social activist

Langston Hughes was an American social Jazz Poet, novelist and an activist who used American language, religion, music, slang to educate the globe about the lifestyles of American people at the times of Harlem Renaissance. The main theme that trolled in his poems were the social problems of the blacks who lived in low earning settings (Carl, 2004). Much of critique targeted the prejudices and the divisions that were common in the people of color within the community of the blacks. The poems were activist in nature as they dealt with how to be oneself issues and encouraged the ...

Symphony

Their voices are like bells, ringing out through the air in a clarion call of frantic joy. The air is silken and warm around me, caressing me with gentle tendrils of wind, as soft as a child’s hands. The grass is smooth, velvet, the pure green of an emerald held up to the light, and it smells of fresh mornings, and new growing things. The children play, moving in free strides of careless abandon, their small hands wrapping around the monkey bars, the chains of the swings as they push themselves skyward. The sun is bright, and as warm as ...

Chris McCandless, a.k.a Alex Supertramp, was a unique soul who wanted to become one with nature. One could call it an awaking of sorts, a call to nature. It is a difficult notion to understand, let alone experience. In addition, it can be dangerous to those who really do not know the realities of what it takes to survive out alone in the wild. What does it mean to live a pure life in nature? In April of 1992, Chris took advantage of an opportunity like no other and decided to fulfill his dream of freedom and survival in the Alaskan wilderness. Jon ...

Introduction

As a documentation of my personal experience, I got moved so much with anecdotes. Still, in the same line with my class work, I got to have a good experience with anecdotes. Therefore, it became my first choice when the teacher asked us to write about our personal experiences. The subject was within the context of the discussion. Furthermore, one can only get to have a feeling of an anecdote using the five senses. That is, the sense of touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste, through all these senses, I was able to in culminating my most interesting anecdote. ...

The administration of norms in the society is commonly met with a varied degree of acceptance, and certain behaviors might create a jilt among the members of the society. In the view of social norms, folkways are normally easy to violate and does not bear serious sanctions compared to the mores (Helbing, 2012). In the case of the experiment, I opted to violate norms and the test the social behavior of wearing my cloth backward and walking to a wedding.

Wearing cloth backwards and trouser inside-out

The societal reaction to certain folkways is amazing. The social experiments are aimed at providing evidence for the human ...

Chapter 3

Study Questions
Why do we want to look and be consistent in most situations?
This is because consistency is considered a good personality trait. It is associated with intellectual and personal strength.

Why do we find even rigid, stubborn consistency desirable in many situations?

This is because it prevents people from having to think or reason on their own, which can be tiring.
3. Which four factors cause a commitment to affect a person's self-image and
consequent future action?

These are if the commitment is effortful, public, active, and viewed as internally

motivated.

What makes written commitments so effective?

This because they seem more tangible and permanent.
5. What is the relationship between the compliance tactic of low-balling and the term

"growing its own legs"?

Once a compliance professional is able to get another ...

Giancarlo had a couple of hours in the country and he went to visit some of his relatives. His face shone with sweat, his eyes glowed with sadness and fatigue, his long hair covered his ears and his black beard continued to grow. He greeted all with affection, but he didn’t seem excited. Actually, he does not speak much whenever he arrives. As reality was checking in on him, anxiety of an uncertain future and imminent tragedy overtook his ideas and encouragement.

That first night, Giancarlo had to share a room with his carnival-giant-figure of a cousin. It is important ...

Lessons in Laughter: Autobiography of a Deaf Actor tells the story of Bernard Bragg, a deaf person who became a world-renowned performer and artist despite his disability. Growing up in New York City during the Great Depression to deaf, working-class parents, Bragg’s story is told through a series of stories and anecdotes about his life as a child, his experiences at the New York School of the Deaf, and more. After graduating from Gallaudet University, he started entering the world of theater, particularly as a result of working with Marcel Marceau, one of the most famous French mimes of all time. Working his way ...

1.0 Introduction
The study of human development remains widely varied and complex, thus giving rise to many debates, controversies and issues. As each developmental theory tries to explain a limited area of development, the end result is a wide range of competing theoretical views leading to a major controversial issue of continuity vs. discontinuity. At the core of the controversy is whether human development is solely and evenly continuous or it consists of age-specific stages. The proponents, for instance the environmental or behavioral theorists, of the continuous model believe that development is a linear increase in abilities and competences that is smooth ...

Chabon’s “The God of Dark Laughter” is an unusual story with an interesting theme. The use of first person allows readers to become close to the narrator and want to keep reading. However, the author’s choice of methods through which to deliver information to the reader are a little too obvious. Although the theme and premise of the story are good, the writing does not do them justice.
“The God of Dark Laughter” is a short story centred around coulrophobia, which is an irrational fear or dislike of clowns. Very early on in the narrative, we learn that a ...

It is a well-known fact that the linguistic heritage of J. Swift is characterized by vivid satirical orientation. In literary and aesthetic categorization, satire is considered to be an integral part of the more general comic category which is understood as a special form of relations to the reality. In this case, satire is not only a kind of comic, but also the specific means of artistic reproduction of reality revealing it as something distorted, incoherent, internally untenable through the comic, ridiculed, accusatory images. Satire creates an image of high conditionality, and is achieved by means of exaggeration, sharpening, ...

Critical Infrastructure Risks and Vulnerability

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) consists of control systems deployed to monitor and offer surveillance of critical equipment with manufacturing or industrial sites. Such industrial components are the critical infrastructures whose collapse due to interferences is adverse to entire sectors of the economy. Examples of such infrastructures include telecommunications, water, transport, gas and waste control. The SCADA systems collect and interpret instant information for monitoring and control of the systems. The processed data is then continuously reviewed by the administrators
SCADA systems in the USA are prone to threats by outsiders from different locations around the globe (Igure, ...

The Future of Food

Every Tuesday morning people would always be seen trekking towards the direction of the sunrise with their bags and some with cartons. To a visitor in the village, he or she would be confused and would think that the usual long line of people was going closer to the sun just to stare at its beauty. In the village, every morning the sun would always be seen up in the sky with beautiful horizon before it turns wild. None would be seen wasting time in the way as every footpath was marked in the same direction. Other paths in ...

Introduction

A sitcom is short for a situational comedy. It is a genre in film that involves a comedy performance where recurring characters in the show play out funny storylines. The main element of a sitcom is that it happens in a common environment such as a home or a school or workplace involving relatable characters. Sitcoms are tailored to depict everyday life situations in a humorous way to entertain the audience. When sitcoms were first introduced they were presented over the radio, but today they are predominantly on television. Most of the sitcoms are recorded in front of a ...

The popular American show The Colbert Report is considered a crucial satire encounter in recent years. Watching the news satire and late-night talk show on Comedy Central triggered extra interest in satire and how it is employed in contemporary American society to communicate current issues of interest. Focusing on Stephen Colbert, its fictional anchorman, the show mainly satirized political programs driven by conservative personalities. Appreciation of this show as a satire and parody encounter is used as a point of departure for this construction, which explores how satire works in a socio-political setting as that presented by the show.
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It was sometime at the beginning of the 21st century when my family experienced a complete downturn financially. I was about to enter my adolescence period, and I just didn’t understand why everything had to change just because we had less money. I was still attending my classes, and I still had my toys and gadgets, so why did everyone had to tell me it was not time to buy new toys and gadgets? For me, the world is still revolving like the way it used to—one that is filled with joy, laughter, adventures, and lots of ...

Summary Feedback

<Institution>
1) Nonverbal behavior & attending behavior

Most of the nonverbal and attending behaviors of the counselor were good. She established and maintained eye-contact with the client. At the same time, her voice was clear, and her facial expressions showed that she was listening to the client. She also did not make any unnecessary or annoying movement during the session. However, her posture seemed to be too relaxed, leaning a bit backwards. A little improvement with her posture may be necessary.

Professionalism

 Did the counselor introduce him/herself and describe the purpose of the session?
The counselor introduced herself and provided ...

Summary Feedback

<Institution>
1) Nonverbal behavior & attending behavior

Overall, the nonverbal behavior and attending behavior of the counselor are good. He was able to maintain eye-contact and serious tone. His facial expression also reflected a sense of calmness and attentiveness. In addition, he was just sitting still without unnecessary movement.
2)  Professionalism

 Did the counselor introduce him/herself and describe the purpose of the session?

Yes. The counselor introduced himself at the beginning of the counseling session, and he also explained its purpose.

 Did the counselor display nervous laughter and/or talk over the client?

No. The counselor seemed professional and he did not display nervous laughter and/or talk over the client.

 Did the counselor spontaneously (meaning the client did not use the language first) use

inappropriate or unprofessional language?
No. The counselor never used any unprofessional language during ...

Dada: From Disgust to Spontaneity

“If all of a sudden your head begins to crackle with laughter, if you find all your ideas useless and ridiculous, know that it is Dada beginning to speak to you” (Hentea 161). We may define this passage to be rather symptomatic: it conveys a state of mind of people (mainly, related to art in a broad sense, and that means someone who reflects) before and during World War I. How could the massacre run up to such an extent? This acute feeling of absurd constituted the dadaist agenda. Switzerland was a neutral country at that time and many ...

Question One: Six Universally Acclaimed Values

While the world is comprised of different people with various customs and practices, there are certain things that cut across all the people of the world irrespective of their political, cultural or religious affiliation. Put differently, such things are termed as being universal as they transcend boundaries, culture and nationality. This section of this article will highlight six values that are almost universal. They are values that have almost attained the status of a norm in most parts of the world. Any departure from these values will most likely be frowned upon by any person, irrespective of the part of ...

Courtship is a major element of many romantic movies. It is the exciting, fun and optimistic period of dating before a couple move on to a more serious commitment like marriage or other form of domestic partnership. It is a time when two people are deciding if they have a future together, and is more formal than casual dating, with an ultimate goal of marriage. (Jackson & Braboy) From a sociological perspective, courtship has been systematically studied since the 1940’s, with noticeable changes in the language, style, rituals and activities that constitute courtship (Sprecher & Regen). New theories about courtship norms developed in the 1980s. Sociologists ...

Introduction

This essay has the objective of providing an argument that contemporary pop culture is composed of aspects of carnivalesque, which can establish a gap for social and cultural opposition and misdemeanor. Nevertheless, it is important to make a note of how it is limited to modernity. This essay will outline the confines as well as the elements of carnival Middles Ages from Bakhtin’s cultural theory view and the main transformations in society since Renaissance. Authors such as Francois Rabelais and Mary Russo will be used to expound on the theories of carnivalesque, celebration of the lower body, ‘grotesque body’ and ...

Someone must turn the hourglass over!

For somehow the grains of sand gently slide
through the tiny space.

Someone must watch the grains of sand.

And someone must see the gap that remains
As the young sand drops and nothingness remains
Until the glass is turned over once more;
Till life and love begin once more.
The old grains of sand, now newly replaced,
Can rest in peace, dream and hope
That someone is still turning the hourglass.
-- Roberta Israeloff.
Having walked the earth for roughly seventeen years, I have been able to create a rich palimpsest of experiences. Some recent, and conspicuous ...

The aim of this essay is to present you with the comparison and contrast of two specific poems. The poems which will be presented in this essay are ‘Dreamers’ written by Siegfried Sassoon and ‘Before Action’ written by Lieutenant William Noel Hodgson.
Both poems are considered to belong to the group of those poems which were written within the socio-historical context, which was created during and after the World War I (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918). The aim of this essay is to present you with the analysis of the thematic core of each poem, the literary ...

Consumer psychology is a study that deals with the activities that are directly involved in consumer buying decisions, such as motivations, thoughts, attitudes, needs, motives, wants, desires, and emotions. Consumer psychology employs theoretical psychological approaches to understand, describe, predict, and influence consumers. Consumer psychologists draw upon psychological domains, such as social, cognitive, and developmental domains to explain consumer responses. Consumer psychology is used to help organizations improve business performance, educate and help consumers make better buying decisions, and influences public policy. It is mostly used by consumer and motivation researchers and advertisers. Yoon and Tinkham (2013) did research on the ...

The venue I have chosen for this assignment is a local Starbucks Coffee shop.

Peace and calmness at Starbucks
Peace and calmness characterizes the entire establishment. There is absolutely no kind of disruptive noise. The laughter and chatter sounds of the store’s enthusiastic customers blend in with the blue’s background music that hovers around the shop’s atmosphere. The level of the music volume is moderated to be convenient for everybody. As I walk in, I feel a cold chilling wind blows in from the door closing behind me. I walk across the shop searching for a booth and I notice the exposed brick walls and the custom mural that creates a very ...

Racism has been embedded in the American culture for the longest time possible. People of color and those deemed not to show the white people facial features, have been marginalized in the society. Looking back at the history of America where the government enacted the Chinese Exclusion Act. This Act meant that the Chinese had to be put in reserves so as to keep them away from becoming US citizens (Fisher and Shane 2). This act of segregation illustrates how the white race have oppressed other races for over 200 years. This paper will look at how institutional racism ...

Stress is very much part of life and it seems that there is nothing much I can do about it. There are bills to settle, mounting assignments to finish, part-time jobs to complete, family responsibilities to attend to, and friends to hang out with. Although it seems like there is just simply too much things to do comes the realization that I am more in control of my life. Understanding this fact is the first step to stress management. Dealing with stress is all about taking control of my emotions, my thoughts, and the way I handle my problems.
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A URL is sometimes compared to a phone number in modern business, but in reality, a URL is much more important than a phone number for a business. A short, easy-to-remember URL can be an excellent tool for marketing for a business; however, a poorly-thought-out or too-long URL can be devastating for the Internet presence of a business. Although most businesspeople recognize the importance of the Internet and the importance of maintaining a good Internet presence in the business world today, some are still struggling with implementing good business practices in the virtual world. Choosing a good URL for a business’s website is nearly as important as choosing ...

Poe’s theory major statement pertaining his work is considered to be “The Poetic Principle.” He first delivered it in the 1848 in Rhodes Island when he was giving a lecture on it. This presentation was reported to have drawn an audience of two thousand people. It later took two years for the lecture to be printed on paper and where he never saws the prints as he had died the year before. In his theory, he read and briefly summerized or rather discussed a few poems by other writers. It also included several statements where he restated the purpose of ...

1) Morris Braverman was a 39-year old social worker with a very serious and repressed demeanor. He gave the impression of being “intelligent and concerned” but with “enormous over control” as he went through the experiment, shocking the ‘learner’ up to the maximum voltage (Milgram 53). As he kept pushing the buttons, he started laughing, very softly at first but increasing in intensity until his laughter became very loud and disruptive. He asked the ‘experimenter’ if he had to continue to follow these instructions and was told that he had no choice, the experiment must be completed, even while the victim ...

The poem Woodticks written by Joy Kogawa describes the Canadian citizens’ harassment towards the Japanese Canadians. It also enlightens the influence of the ill treatment of the Canadian Authorities that the poetess and her family went through during the World War II. The poem illustrates the racial and cultural discrimination with phrases, such as “taunted gibberish”, “crowded me off the path of the mountain” that are disturbing. The impact of the poem on the reader enforces him to think about the diverse aspects of the way people are interconnected to their fate and become accountable for the powerless and ...

In Korean films, the term shinpa pertains to second-class melodramas. Shinpa originated in Japan and the shinpa casts headed by Im Sung-ku, Kim Do-san and Lee Ki-se created versions of Japanese plays. These shinpa casts started film making in colonial Korea with kino-dramas which combined stage plays with filmed scenes (Lee 37). Japanese melodramas led Koreans to find out Korean cultural emotions. The genre became widespread that in the 1980s it was nearly impossible to come across a director who did not make any shinpa-style melodramas. Other genres of Korean films also used melodrama and also applied the pattern of ...

In the novel The Stone of Laughter, the point where the identity of the author as a woman is represented is captured in the first person narrations about the character of women. In these instances, the author uses the first person plural point of view to include herself with the women folk. At this point the author draws a line between the essential differences between men and the women in the fictional society. Men are revealed as naturally given to struggle and conflict because they are compelled by circumstances to take sides in the events of conflicts (Barakat 45). The question ...

Italo Calvino’s novel, The Path to the Nest of Spiders is essentially a coming of age story and the reader is presented with the life and times of various characters but most notably, the character of Pin. This is the novel’s central theme: the idea of a young boy struggling to find his place in the world – a scenario which is made all the more complicated by the backdrop of World War Two. Despite this, the novel has some fairy tale-like elements which bring it away from the increasingly popular at the time neo-realism style but helps to add the ...