Essays on Witty

Digital marketing is a type of modern marketing that mainly involves the use of the internet. Using mobile phones for this purpose is an upcoming trend in this industry. Recently, the influence of social media has increased significantly in our social life, and the companies have come to realize its importance to maintain their reputation and to solve customer queries on time. Digital marketing includes activities like search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM), content marketing, e – commerce marketing, social media, etc. Search Engine Optimization is the process of analyzing the people’s choice of search on the ...

Commedia dell’arte is literally translated as a comedy of crafts, meaning the crafts of improvisation. According to David L. Hurst, “The word arte implied the incorporation of the dramatic arts; it brought together those who were authorized to perform for the counts, dukes, etc” (Nikole). The comedy is thus performed by the professionals, meaning, actors who are capable enough to improvise or perform at least self-impromptu. The quality of the play would thus by no means suffer because of its off-hand nature. Developed in Italy during the 16th and 17th centuries and flourishing since them, it may confidently ...

Even in nonfiction prose, authors find many different ways to tell us about themselves. They may directly describe their personality traits or they may indirectly show these traits through their word choice, their attitudes towards the subject matter and their reported (or admitted) behavior. As such, the personality of the author becomes evident in their works and social interactions. What is commonly referred to as “personality” in a real person is called “persona” in writing. This essay describes the persona of David Foster Wallace’s authorial persona as evidenced in his essays and his social life and interactions with ...

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The Way of the World is an English play written by William Congreve. The play’s story is centered on the affair between two lovers Mirabell and Millamant. Both of whom were in love with each other. For most of the scenes in the play, they were planning for their future married life. In the presented excerpt from The Way of the World, love was presented in a unique way. The presented text centered on the plans of the two after their wedding. To be more specific, they were planning what to call and what not to call each ...

Anderson, J. “Letter from a Freedman to his Old Master,” New York Daily Tribune, 22 August 1865, p. 7. After the Civil War, numerous former slave owners tried to contact their slaves and convince them to return and work on the plantation as tenant farmers. In 1865, Jourdan Anderson received such invitation and decided to write a letter back to his former master where he explains the terms on which the ex-slave would return. At that time, Jourdan was residing in Ohio, working on a decent job, free and quite independent. Anderson writes a remarkable and brilliant letter, which ...

Films like Tootsie (1982) and Victor/Victoria (1982) belong to genre that is called gender farce which is a subgenre of comedy films. More often than not they portray people who have to pretend to be someone else, most of an opposite sex, in order to overcome some life obstacles. Thus Tootsie and Victor/Victoria present viewer with light and entertaining farce that depicts the silly situation with cross-dressing and living a double life. However, besides witty and humorous remarks lay serious topics of gender identity and roles which are dressed in irony and sarcasm. Moreover, both directors manipulated and played ...

Today in the world of choreography there are not that many names, at the mention of that, people would say "yes, I know him, I saw his production of "Swan Lake", it was unbelievable". But such choreographers exist and it is a fact. This choreographer nowadays is Matthew Bourne. The name of these individual more than once adorned the headlines, the front pages and covers of glossy magazines. Tickets for his performances are sold of shelves in the blink of an eye, and the number of awards, nominations and prizes are hard to count on both fingers on your ...