...The Onion uses sarcasm and satirical remarks throughout its article to help deliver its message. The use of reversals bring out the sarcastic word play in the article. “Creates room for some fresh new up—and—coming state sponsors of terrorism.” (The Iranian Nuclear Deal) The message here was presented under the “approving” side of the argument for this deal. The use of this reversal argues the point of the opposing side of the deal. This is one way the article delivers its information with satirical means. While this is The Onion’s way of delivering the information, Weber’s article delivers its contents in another form. The article uses analogical reasoning to help back up one of its assertions, “Any agreement with Iran was going to have to allow the Iranian government to argue that they’d gotten a good deal. Likewise, any agreement was going to be opposed by Israel and Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Arabia’s satellites in the Gulf region.” (Peter Weber) This assertion is supported by the scenario given. Along with scenario given by Weber, he makes a hasty generalization in this argument approving the deal. The way this is delivered is completely different than how The Onion’s article; it is purely fact...
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...Alain de Bottoms Satus Anxiety argus that the use of humor is not only for intertanement purpose only,like cartoons.In this case it’s use to alleviate the stress of the speaker,when they are addressing something serious to their audience.which is something many people are’t capable of just stating or addressing the people directly. The use of humor for this purpose have existed since the time of Canterbury tales ,still prevalent in todays time.An example of the use of humor to help the function in society ,by reducing the pressure on a person when delivering a serious topic or event are Jonh Olivers Satire on televangelis,the Onion piece on magnasoles and lastly the millers tale fro Canterbury tales. In the show with jonh olivers satire on...
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...relationship of darkness and light in humor. Throughout the article she reinforces the idea multiple times that a twist is needed in jokes. The arguments she offers to support her thesis that comedy requires just as much shadiness as it does enlightenment rely on her research, studies, and experiences. I will argue that Khazan’s argument succeeds because of the overflow of the compelling evidence she provided in support of her claim. Olga Khazan believes that majority of people find jokes with a little controversy in them to be funnier than those without it. In order for people to laugh at someone’s joke there needs to be some kind of wicked jerk. Peter McGraw believes the best jokes “take something awful and make it silly. Go purely light-hearted and you risk being toothless. Too edgy.. you’ll make people uncomfortable” (Khazan). With this McGraw is saying that it is okay to offend people to a certain degree with jokes. It should be part of the joke. But it should have an equal amount of “feel-good” to it. For example, when the attacks on September 11th happened the whole country stopped. People needed ways to cope. Comedy was nowhere to be found because no one wanted to offend anyone and they did not think anyone would appreciate any comedy. But The Onion thought differently and began to print articles joking about the terrorists. They were not sure how it would go but the issue was a smash. In response, the people overwhelmed The Onion with fan mail because they “seemed to...
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...The Onion The Onion is an American news satire organization. It is a newspaper and a website featuring satirical articles reporting on international, national and local news. Most of its humor depends on presenting everyday events as newsworthy and by playing on commonly used phrases. The Onions satire of brand obsession of Mac user’s gullibility may not be so effective to most PC users because of its excessively sarcastic caricature of macheads. The Onion introduces the latest of Apple’s gadgets the macbook wheel, a revolutionary laptop that does away with the keyboard. Replacing the keyboard is a huge button like the ones seen in apples iPod’s. At first glance it might seem that the laptop would fit apples modo of “simpler is better” however the onion plays with sarcasm stating “everything is just a hundred clicks away.” They also introduce Alex Zalban an apple fanatic who spent forty five minutes writing an email only about three sentences long with a vast amount of grammatical errors. The macbook geek speaks about the macbook wheel and says he likes how at the end of the email it says “sent from a macbook wheel”, that way people know you have one. This again is the onions creative way of making fun of macheads. Another way the onion excessively makes fun of macheads is by the price of the device which is just under twenty six hundred dollars for the lower end macbook wheel. Alex Zalban the machead then states, “I’ll buy anything that’s shiny and made by apple.” Shortly...
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...A satire as defined by Google is “the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.” The Onion, a satirical news company, is famous for making a mockery out of political issues that arise is all levels of news. The article titled EPA Urges Flint Residents To Stop Dumping Tap Water Down Drain, was published to The Onion on April 28, 2016 to mock the heavily publicized water crisis in Flint, Michigan. The Onion criticizes the governmental lack of concern for their people by creating a “government on the losing end” situation. In some satires, it may be said that over exaggerations are made in an attempt to point out major flaws within the situation, but this is not the case within this article. First is point about the health and safety risks for the infrastructure and ecosystem, and it is directly related to public health and safety. Having water coming from the river was detrimental to both humans and the piping in Flint, as the high levels of chlorine and lime created a chemical reaction within the lead pipes. This goes hand in hand with the disposal of the tap water, where the article states that “the waste treatment facilities are not capable of purifying the corrosive liquid..” The same was true in Flint, as the waste treatment plants were only putting lime into the water in an attempt to make it softer, which could have possibly made the lead...
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...1. What elements of satire did you notice upon your first read of the article? The Onion uses a satirical tone to draw attention to the public’s gullibility and the advertising industry’s power. There is a touch of humor throughout the article that mocks the exaggerated diction advertisers use in real life. The article even goes as far as to make up its own scientific diction including the change of neutrons into “comfortrons” and nuclei to “pain-nuclei.” 2. What rhetorical strategies contribute to the satire? How are they effectively used? The use of numerous hyperboles throughout article brings awareness to the fact that advertisements do the same thing, over-exaggerations. The article in its entirety is ironic, it is an advertisement making fun of advertisements, which adds some humor to the criticism. 3. What are the key differences between student response 2A and student response 2B? How do you account for the three point difference in scores? The difference between 2A and 2B is that essay 2A provided evidence and explained in detail the rhetoric devices and how they were used effectively; 2B on the other hand simply just answered the prompt. 4. Explain the score received by the writer of 2C. Where do you think this writer might have missed an opportunity to craft a much stronger essay? Where are the opportunities for improvement? I believe the writer could’ve crafted a much stronger essay if they thoroughly understood what the prompt was asking. It seemed...
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...Due to the increasing availability and consumption of fast food and sugary snacks circulating in America, there had been a correlated steady growth of Americans becoming overweight and obese; The Onion uses a patronizing but humorous tone to grab the attention of the public and address the nation’s rising obesity crisis in hopes to resolve the growing concern of the nation’s health. Through the article’s exaggerated humor, it creates extreme examples about the troubles obese people often encounter when trying to commit suicide. One example given by the article emphasizes obese people “can’t find a butcher knife thick enough to reach the arteries under [the] rolls of wrist flab,” This statement exaggerates the size of an obese person as it asserts...
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...predecessor to this book What Einstein Told his Cook. I was looking for something that would entertain me and perhaps educate me as to the actual scientific processes to cook. Actual explanations that go beyond the simple answers of what works well together or not just learning that oil and water can emulsify by using eggs but why on the molecular level that these things happen. I was pleasantly surprised by the method and technique employed by the author in teaching me a multitude of culinary answers to simple everyday questions people have from “Why are champagne corks shaped the way they are” or “why are sweet onions sweet” to even the mundane “why do beans give us gas?”. In the second installment of his Einstein books the main premise is too answer these questions and many more with technical and scientific fact to demystify these culinary quandaries while also employing humor to make what can be a pretty dry subject more palatable. The author wants us to grasp the subjects in question during the various chapters which revolve around answering questions regarding vegetables or desserts to the best kitchen cleaning products by giving practical reasons for why chefs do things the way they do from taste results to financial benefit and recipes that allow us to actually do the methods explained and experiment for ourselves so we can see with our eyes and touch and not just read it on the pages. This allowed me personally to learn a few culinary secrets that frankly I never knew...
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...overall news flow. When a newsbreak is completely used up, and the reader is still interested in it, it becomes possible to fill the vacant space with excogitation, and sometimes to make everything up from scratch. And thus pseudonews are born - materials that replicate the style of information resources, but they differ from the real news by satirical content. The graduation thesis is devoted to pseudonews in the modern media space. In the framework of this thesis web sites and printed sources with pseudonews content, which are located in the U.S., Europe and Belarus are analyzed. The applicability of the graduation thesis is determined on the one hand, by constantly presenting interest in news, and, on the other hand, by growing needs in humor and satire. There is...
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...sentence is not necessarily the best line of prose in my collection it is however both my favorite line and a reflection of a subgoal I was working on for this writing portfolio. This subgoal puts emphasis on my voice as a writer and how I want my writing to be perceived by my audience. I wanted a distinguishable voice and this line of prose has both a personal and distinguishable voice. It comprises my thoughts in the sarcastic manner in which I often speak outside of writing. It is in no way misleading because it’s implications are straightforward and readers are able to comprehend what I am saying. On its own (without context) readers are able to perceive the tone and humor I attempted to craft....
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...Grandma, only God knows how much we really miss you. We will never forget your love, smile, laughter, cooking, wisdom and sense of humor. Or the days when you were an active Grandma, the kind that got up, and went outside, played ball, badminton and jumped rope with us. You took care of us even when you were sick and always slipped us some change ($20 bills) on the sly when our parents turned their heads. You also always had some type of gravy going on - tuna fish gravy, tomato gravy, chipped beef gravy, turkey gravy... anything you could serve over toast....and it was sooo good! And we definitely won't forget your fried apples, onions and potatoes as staple dishes on Sunday mornings before Church! You were a fun Grandma, always full of life! You led by example all the way til the end. Even dementia had no power over you. At times, you may have forgotten who we were in those last hours but you never forgot the Word of God! In fact, we recognize that it was the only consistency in your world. It was a reminder that once the Word is in you - it never leaves you and we are so thankful that God chose us to be the recipients of such a remarkable matriarch for our family. Grandma, we truly mean it when we say that you were one of God's best gifts to us. You will always be a special part of our lives. We thank you for being a mentor, a confidant and also a friend. But the most important thing you taught us was how to love God and be an unconditional, consistent servant of the...
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...the body were believed to be derived from | |sin. It was generally accepted to find the relief of ailments in disease through prayer, meditation, religious pilgrimage and | |ritualistic practice. Many practicing physicians were priests or clerics and it was common to find hospitals treating illness to be on | |the grounds of monasteries and churches. As the body was seen as part of a universal whole, the concept of atonement of sin to | |eradicate one's health maladies was commonplace. The general belief of practitioners was that diseases were part of the original four | |humors relating to specific body fluids, blood, phlegm, and black and yellow bile, coordinating with elemental properties of fire, | |water, earth, and air. The generally accepted view was that all needed to be in balance for homeostasis and optimal health. An | |imbalance in one's humor would be treated often by bloodletting, vomiting or sometimes induced sneezing (Sayre, 2012). Practitioners | |and lay people alike were unaware of the impact of disease prevention and process, the benefits of a healthy diet or environmental...
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...MKGT 370 01/28 -Superbowl: Favorite, least favorite, 02/04: Exam: 50 MC, TF, 1,2,5-7 What’s on ADS: humor, animals, sex, products. Chapter 1: 1. Definition: Delivering VALUE, focus on products 2. Needs and wants: Need food, drinks. Want entertainment. 3. Marketing entails an EXCHANGE: product (what it is made of), price (quality based on price), place (where), promotion (everything you do to sell ur products) * Products: Good (things can touch, shoes), Service (Taxi, atm, doctor, very important to US, 80% of service because other countries can make cheaper), Ideas (animals, green environment, sthing we consume or sell) * Price: Everything buyer gives up in exchange for the product. How willing customers to pay and can earn profit. Complicated. How u find prices? Price= Value. Ex: Pay more for saving time, energy… * Place: Where u buy it. When customers want it? Right time, place. * Promotion: INFORM, PERSUADES, REMINDS potential buyers abt services or products. 4. Marketing can do individually or organizationally 5. Marketing impacts various stakeholders-> Society, customers, employees, supply chain. 6. Marketing helps create value: Production era (old fones), Sales era, Marketing era (home fone), and value based marketing era (cell fones) 7. How do firms become value driven? Sharing info, Balancing benefits w costs, building relationships w customers (CRM=customer relationship management= very important). 8. Why...
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..., Jain Irrigation Systems Limited Corporate Social Responsibility Report and Analysis Corporate Social Responsibility Division C, MBA Core, Trimester-I ChaitanyaBh K K (C009) Rahul Gupta (C018) SameeraMunipalli (C030) PratheekMuriki (C032) Sunil Ramavarapu (C041) RabindraVerma (C060) Table of Contents Agriculture Sector 2 Agriculture Sector in India 2 Jain Irrigation Systems 3 CSR Activities of JISL 4 Work Place 4 Market Place 5 Community Development 5 Environment Sustainability 6 Critical Analysis 7 Analysis of JISL’s CSR initiatives and activities 7 Analysis of CSR activities at Workplace 7 Analysis of CSR activities at Marketplace 7 Analysis of CSR activities at Community 8 Analysis of CSR activities at Environment 8 JISL CSR and its alignment with MDGs & NVGs 9 Recommendations 10 References 10 Agriculture Sector Agriculture is the world's largest industry. It employs more than one billion people and generates over $1.3 trillion dollars worth of food annually. According to the World Bank, 70% of the world's poor who live in rural areas and agriculture is their main source of income and employment. Depletion and degradation of land and water pose serious challenges to producing enough food and other agricultural products to sustain livelihoods here and meet the needs of urban populations. Thus, the need for sustainable resource management is increasing rapidly. Demand for agricultural commodities is rising...
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...Cultural Heritage Grand Canyon University: NRS -429V-OL191 Cultural Heritage The concept of disease is a multifaceted understanding of why people select traditional folk medicine is an awareness of how the simple person defines disease. The word disease generally signifies any organic illness. All cultures have systems for classifying diseases on the basis of etiology, signs, symptoms and treatments. Multiple cultures both modern and past have defined illness when a person’s system is out of balance. Doctors have often seen patients that when they feel well – they believe they are well. This type of patient may have denial or a delay in diagnosis and treatment. Conferring to the utilitarianism of applying the heritage evaluation in to aide in assessing the requirements of the entire patient is useful in peering into the client’s culture and beliefs. Mainstream society has placed the importance of raising awareness and being culturally competent as a key factor in the health care industry. Culture itself has a prominent voice in society and demands to be heard and raises concerns within health care. Therefore the rise in public attentiveness place on competent medical attention, preventative care, and treating diseases has sparked interest from the medical community in which to provide appropriate, competent, and excellent care. Executing the Heritage Assessment toll is a great mechanist to obtain a clear foundation of a diverse individual before implementing a plan...
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