Essays on Humour

Research Plan

Research Question The research question to be answered in the research project is how language is used in the construction of workplace culture.

Research Site

The research site where the collection of data will be performed is The Brumbies. This is a local company that has operations running over a decade. It specializes in the production, processing and sale of horticultural products.

Ethical Issues

There is a desire to acquire in-depth information to answer the research question satisfactorily. The use of covert research enables the researcher to collect this information uninhibited by the distrust of the subjects and the partial disclosure of information. ...

The kids TV analysis is based on the cartoon programme “adventure time” which was aired on April 16th 2016. The code title for this episode thirty of season seven is “Lady Rainicorn of the Crystal Dimension”. The episode is set on T.V finding a hidden box which draws attention from Rainicorn. The episode is set in a green environment, showing the importance of conserving the nature. Children are made to realize the beauty that is created by the green environment. The plot is continuous and changes as the episode progresses. As the episode proceeds it is evident that the ...

The novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque explores the psychological and physical conditions of German soldiers fighting in the World War I, instead of focussing on heroism and military accomplishments. That is the primary distinction between the novel and its contemporaries. The novel tracks the life of Paul Baumer, as he joins the army together with his friends (Muller, Kropp and Kemmerick) at the urging of their school teacher Kantorek. While at the base, they meet Kat, an older soldier and a former shoe cobbler with whom they form a deep friendship and he ...

David Lindsay-Abaire is known for being the playwright behind the play ‘Good People.’ This is one that got a lot of publicity. The play was aired in a number of theaters including Noel Coward Theatre, Marine Theatre Company (which was where I saw the play) and Vermont Stage Company. The play can be characterized as a drama with a bit of comedy. This play mostly revolves around the life of Margaret, who was commonly referred to as Maggie (hard ‘g)’. Maggie has spent a significant part of her life in the South end of Boston or ‘Southie’ as most ...

Research assignment

Abstract The ambulance service needs recommendations on the characteristics and traits of potential volunteers. Previous research indicates that volunteers need to be risk-takers, emotionally stable and have the ability to get along with others. Recommendations were made to find suitable candidates with these traits through a group assessment to test group and individual risk, decision making, emotional intelligence through a psychological check and by finding a volunteer who fits the job search.

Introduction

Background information & outline of the problem: The ambulance service is a valuable service that helps the community access treatment when sick, involved in an accident or when ...

Executive Summary

Marketing concepts represent valuable resources that can support marketers in designing marketing strategies for their products. The case of Ted Baker retailer in Leeds indicates how marketing strategies, such as marketing mix, segmentation or differentiation can impact the performance of its product, Ted Baker Bowicon Large Bag. This reports analyses the marketing mix used for Ted Baker Bowicon Large Bag, with the purpose of identifying if the utilized blend of product, price, placement and promotion is suited for the examined product. Based on the identified marketing mix, the report further discusses the targeted segments and their compatibility with the ...

The article ‘The Impact of Violent Humour on Advertising Success: A Gender Perspective’ written by Kunal Swani, Marc Weinberger and Charles Gulas is a research article based on advertising. I found the article while searching for media related content and found it intriguing to write an analysis about it. The article is based on the content of advertising, which uses different techniques to attract the audience. Recently humour is mixed with violence to gain the attention of an audience and studies have been carried out to find out its effects on both genders. It is a research article, which also ...

Mr Bean has been a popular comedic character for a number of decades now and has succeeded in making millions of people laugh. The fundamental reason behind Mr Bean’s humour is that he is a child in a man’s body and consistently fails to get it right under a number of social situations. In this clip, we see Mr Bean attending a wedding: a solemn and traditional affair during which Mr Bean attempts to fit in and celebrate with the happy couple, but manages to get it entirely wrong. The actor who plays Mr Bean, Rowan Atkinson, is known for his physical brand of ...

Television can be regarded as the mirror image of the real world. It must be agreed that it captivates a broad range of audiences starting from the pre-schoolers to the retired old age individuals. And in order to maintain that fascination throughout it is required to keep on telecasting varieties of shows that will appeal the spectators of different levels. There are many popular shows that have been loved by the viewers and they were shown in television for many years. For pre-schoolers, the shows are created in such a way that appears very colourful to attract the kids as ...

Music has the miraculous touch of enlivening any moment or defining a character properly. The movie entitled Vicky Cristina Barcelona directed by Woody Allen incorporates such music which will draw one to the streets of Spain. This movie features Javier Bordem as Juan Antonio Gonzalo, who is a painter. Penelope Cruz as his ex-wife. Scarlett Johansson as Cristina and Rebecca Hall as Vicky, two American tourists. This movie portrays the various doubts and uncertainty that arises in our minds and illustrates its reaction in our lives. This movie is also rich in music and art, which embellishes this movie in a sumptuous ...

Introduction

Almost Maine is a wonderful heartfelt play by New York playwright John Cariani about the extraordinary tales of love that take place in the town of Almost, Maine. The assertion of this play is that all of these stories across the town take place at the stroke of 9:00 with the northern lights illuminating the slightly surreal, cold and northern night. John Cariani throws magical realism to the bittersweet love scenes in his play with original, sentimental and ultimately pleasant entertainment. Most of the characters in the play are eccentric, but all of them fit well into the small and ...

This paper discusses an episode (particularly episode 1 of season1) of the British TV series Downton Abbey. Downton Abbey is a period drama show which is set in the fictional Yorkshire country estate and follows the aristocratic lives of the residents living at Downton Abbey. Till date there are 5 seasons released in the UK each having 7 to 8 episodes. Each season can be viewed as a mini drama series. Structurally the series is quite similar to that of a drama presented in the theatre. There is a script (referred to as a screenplay as it is viewed on a TV screen) which ...

The Hong Kong martial arts films have evolved over time in terms of theme, plot and style. While some transformations in terms of themes have occurred in response to historical events pitying China and other countries across the globe, other transformations have occurred as a result of development technology. There have been significant changes in the style, colour, and music among other film settings. This essay looks into the generic characteristics and historical evolution of Hong Kong martial arts, action, and/or gangster/crime-thriller films in terms of theme, plot, and style. Three movies used as illustrations for this discussion include: Enter ...

How the teachers’ professional skills relate to the NAEYC standards for Early Childhood Professional Preparation

- Promoting Child Development and Learning According to Piaget, child development and learning involves understanding how children’s mind work and develop towards the understanding of their world. As a result, teachers apply their professional skills such as creation of environments that are supportive, respectful, healthy and challenging for each learner to promote children growth and development. In addition, teachers use their skills to understand children needs and characteristics. - Building Family and Community Relationships - Observing, Documenting, and assessing to support young children and community Under this standard, apply their skill with a backing from the ...

Audience:

Lang is very particular with the different definitions that he has given of different characteristics. His writing seems to have humour and yet shows the reality. Certainly people other than just students and teachers would be interested to read his write up. The characteristics are tactics that can be played anywhere and in any office.

Purpose:

I believe it was written to make us have a better understanding of things that happen around us in office and yet we at times do not get the hunch of it.

Voice and Tone:

His tone of humour and yet the seriousness of the topic is what ...

On my opinion, the best definition of the gender performance is the manner in which somebody reacts or implements its intended purpose. Males and females within society are expected to have certain gender role. Women are expected to be caregivers, motherly, thoughtful, loving and tender. Males must show less emotions than women do and be strong, confident and sturdy. These are, I suppose, traditional gender roles in our society. So, gender is a socially constructed idea and people generally follow it. In the film Frozen we can see pure examples of real male and female characters. Anna is a positive female ...

The Review of the Melancholy Play

Recently, I experienced a humorous play by Sarah Ruhl namely Melancholy Play. The set was played in Erie, PA with cast member culturally-oriented attires. The play represents societal perceptions and outlooks along the line of personal identification. The inner-being of the actors is outwardly reflected trough emotions, which introduces societal-labelling and understanding of one’s behaviour. The Melancholy play is a creation of two major parts with fourteen break-up scenes. The play revolves around presenting the humorous inner-emotions of actors, which dictates their behaviour. The paper reviews the play in relation to character presentation, style and overall communication to the audience. ...

Introduction:

Probably one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, Marcel Duchamp is famous for his vast quantity of works which remain some of the most sought after by collectors and museums alike. His style was intrinsically traditionalist in his beginnings and he rejected modernism very early in his career – he was known to have stated that he wanted to bring the visual aspect back to painting so that the end result pleases the eye. However he moved into Cubism and Dadaism in later years and changed his outlook to a more rigid and intense form of painting.

Influence of modernism

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The government of Canada policies such as family sponsorship, economic advantages, political alienation, educational opportunities, and a belief that there was a guaranteed freedom of faith and expression in Canada attracted the Muslim society to the country. Muslims are represented as educated and having professional skills. The objective of the film is to understand the Canadian Muslim cultural attitudes to the democratic values that matter to the native citizens of Canada. The focus is to test certain perspectives about how Muslim values and attitudes relate to the western culture. These perspectives include; systematic alienation from the United States based on conflicts ...

Use of satire to validate the story

Use of satire to validate the story

Introduction

Some stories seem to fictional but there is a deeper understanding and reflection of reality in those, represented through various characters and plots. ‘Moscow to the End of the Line’ is a similar pseudo-autobiographical prose poem written by Venedikt Erofeev which tells the story of an alcoholic cable-fitter who just got fired from his job. It is a hilarious story; the reader is kept entertained from the beginning till the end due to the ‘drunken’ narrator and his jokes. But it is in fact, a reflection of the social and political scenario in Soviet Union during ...

"Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun [or son] of York".

Richard III is an important play in the Shakespeare canon since it depicts the dangers of hubris and nemesis by leaders who are crazed with power. My reading and interpretation of the play is focused on the American Presidency which will feature a particular President as Richard III who will do his utmost to usurp power and will use every single method in the book to get to his goal. It is an interpretation based on the utter ruthlessness of a dictator who brooks no qualms about destroying the social order of the country to achieve his own selfish gain. ...

In the present generation, the workplace environment has changed greatly especially as regards the laws set in place to govern employee behaviour and relations. As opposed in the past, the law has been relaxed from the ideal situation that had eaten much into the personality of individuals to a more flexible and efficient working environment. This is evident from the way organizations have lately embraced the social and human aspects of their employees. As concerns human capital, the diversity in character, intelligence and behaviour of humans is now being appreciated as a factor that gives the organization a competitive advantage and a better ...

Assignment Number

2. Purpose Statement Living in the name of preconceived ideas is the essential in the late Victorian London, where things are not what they seem to be, but in the end they are: people, society, class, even love, they all hide under the mask of reputation and respect, lies and deceit, pride and prejudice, for expressing the essence of being yourself, as long as this satisfies and complies with what the society needs and desires. 3. Thesis Statement Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of being Earnest” mingles the social Moravians of the 19th century England with ...

Interpersonal Communication: self-reflection.

I consider myself to be a highly proficient communicator because I find it easy to talk to people; I don’t struggle to talk to strangers and I’m generally well-liked by my peers. I take this to mean that it’s because I can clearly communicate my ideas and opinions without being confrontational and misconstrued. I feel that this is an important life skill because it is so easy to irritate people by accident and it makes life infinitely easier if you can endear people to you. I am not a naturally confident person but I find I can confidently ...

English Literature

The play, The Importance of Being Earnest is amongst the most famous in the world of literature. It tells the tale of two young men, both of whom adopt of the moniker ‘Ernest’, in the pursuit of two young women. It is the original farcical tale which sees the two young men become ever-more embroiled in the lies and tales that they’ve spun. The play is heavy in themes which help to further the comical circumstances within which the plot unfolds. These themes include the satire of society and triviality within Victorian society.

Wilde is well known for ...

English Literature

The play, The Importance of Being Earnest is amongst the most famous in the world of literature. It tells the tale of two young men, both of whom adopt of the moniker ‘Ernest’, in the pursuit of two young women. It is the original farcical tale which sees the two young men become ever-more embroiled in the lies and tales that they’ve spun. The play is heavy in themes which help to further the comical circumstances within which the plot unfolds. These themes include the satire of society and triviality within Victorian society.

Wilde is well known for ...

Zachery Sniderman’s article, How to: Recover from a Social Media PR Disaster, makes for interesting and entertaining reading. He covers the varying types of mistakes that can be made on social media, along with possible ways of dealing with such mistakes. Overall, Sniderman covers the topic in suitable depth, but certain issues are skirted around.

Sniderman opens by enticing the reader into a situation to which most people can relate; almost everyone can remember a time when they have suddenly had the sinking realisation that they have made a bad mistake. The author then goes on to discuss such mistakes in the ...

Introduction:

The French and Indian war was a crucial one for the development of the United States as it forged a nation which was still in its early infancy. The crux of the matter lies in the fact that in Sheppard’s book she is out to prove that all wars in this period were due to empire building and the capacity to challenge Britain as a nation of empires. Empires Collide tells the tale of several Chippewa Indian families and the white families whom they marry or interact with. Because of the difference in cultures, religions and the way of life ...

Introduction

It is a million dollar question. What makes a good piece of literature? What makes a memorable piece of music? The question applies to every medium of art in factwhat makes the work of a human worth seeing, worth reading, listening, feeling or watching, studying. And the answer too is simple enough. Any work of art that conveys an idea in its purity and freshness no matter where the looking glass is aimed at, from whichever perspective, is worthy of note. Literature can transmit ideas from ages past, to demographics wide, mould itself into fashions and traditions and yet mean something different to ...

Writing Styles within Non Fiction

“Hogs Wild” by Ian Frazier and “Tentacles of Rage” by Lewis Lapham are both informative articles on their respective subject matters. However, their writing styles and choice of language differs greatly. While both are interesting, in essence, Frazier adopts a more comfortable, welcoming tone, which is likely to attract more readers. In “Hogs Wild,” Frazier discusses the rise in numbers of wild hogs in the U.S. The article is written in a conversational and accessible manner. From the first sentence, readers are provided with a decent introduction to the subject and are made to feel comfortable: “Of all the domesticated animals, ...

Executive Summary

It is good to observe business etiquette in the workplace due to several reasons. First of all observing email etiquette minimises the organisation’s liability. Refraining from the use of rude messages or replying messages in anger assists the individual not to use defamatory messages. Replying the message when calm prevents one from misrepresenting the company and the services it offers to the public and other companies. It also helps the company comply with the privacy laws. An organization should not expose confidential information or one’s email and contact addresses to strangers. It prevents unauthorized access to emails. ...

In organisations, morale is an important facet of productivity and overall office attitudes; if people are happy, they work harder, and more gets done as a result. The application of fun in a workplace environment may be an effective way to increase morale, as it leavens the tension and anxiety that comes across in such a high-stress environment as a workplace. In this essay, the positive effects, as well as potential pitfalls, of adding fun and humour to the workplace will be detailed. Despite the factors that can diminish productivity and the effectiveness of humour initiatives, the end result can be overall positive.

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Final Film Critique: American Psycho

The film, American Psycho (Harron, 2000) is based on the book of the same name, written by Bret Easton Ellis and is fundamentally preoccupied with the idea of wealth, sex and success as being significant drives behind human behaviour. Its central protagonist, Patrick Bateman is a mass-murdering psychopath whose actions are driven almost singularly by his desire to be the best: the richest, the most successful, the most popular and somewhat bizarrely, the man with the best business card. Set in 1980s New York, the film is a discussion of yuppie culture taken to its absolute extreme and is hugely successful ...

INTRODUCTION

The issue of humour has been studied by many individuals in the past; Martin et al. (2003) define humour as having four distinct dimensions: affiliative humour (engaging in humourous banter and jokes in order to create relationships with others), self-enhancing humour (maintaining a sense of humour about life regardless of negative events), aggressive humour (snark and sarcasm in order to ridicule others for one’s own narcissism), and self-defeating humour (self-disparagement in order to soften the blow of real potential ridicule). These theories are thought to provide a more comprehensive summary of the four most commonly found subtypes of humour, that ...

Final Film Critique: American Psycho

The 2000 film, American Psycho is based on the book of the same name, written by Bret Easton Ellis and is fundamentally preoccupied with the idea of wealth, sex and success as being significant drives behind human behaviour. Its central protagonist, Patrick Bateman is a mass-murdering psychopath whose actions are driven almost singularly by his desire to be the best: the richest, the most successful, the most popular and somewhat bizarrely, the man with the best business card. Set in 1980s New York, the film is a discussion of yuppie culture taken to its absolute extreme and is hugely successful in ...

Given the full title of this novel: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, the reader is lured into making an assumption that the novel will consist solely of a collection of letters, notes, postcards, diaries and meeting minutes but in reality, the novel is initially more preoccupied by the character of Boz trying to organise the papers before the narrative eventually gives way to an omniscient third-person narrator who forgets about the papers and prefers, instead, to focus on the current events. This is Dickens’ first novel and given the complexities of its narrative, it is possible to view ...

ABSTRACT

This paper gives an overview of three visual communication approaches and how they tend to communicate and transmits a message on a single problem, which is HIV/AIDS awareness. The paper is divided into two parts. The first part shows how each visual communication approach communicate and transmit messages on this particular issue. In this part the diagrammatic representation are provided. The second part of the paper deals with the overall reflection on how these three approaches work and which of the three is more effective. The approaches include Symbols and signs, Charts and graphs and Cartoons and illustrations.

INTRODUCTION

People experience the ...

One of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays is the playful and magical A Midsummer Night’s Dream. A play with fairies, young lovers and plenty of humour (largely at Bottom’s expense); this is one of Shakespeare’s most loved stories because of its clever, complicated plot and its entertaining characters. The audience are introduced to the play’s characters: the most important of those being the four young lovers who have a complicated love triangle. Equally as important are the fairies that, arguably, represent the changeable nature of love through Oberon and Titania’s (the fairy king and ...

The movie challenged the way I feel about the personal life of George Bush Jr. because in the documentary it has been shown that he is a top class politician whose main agenda on the campaign trail is to get votes through socialization. The film is mainly based behind the scenes of George Bush’s campaign trail in the 2000 presidential elections. The person recording the unscripted and unpolished life of Bush is an ABC news reporter called Alexandra Pelosi who interviews the politician throughout the road trip. Throughout the road trip, it comes out that Bush is a marketer ...