Humor Argumentative Essays Samples For Students

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During the 1940’s and the 1950’s, the people had various opinions about the purpose of comic books. While a section of the society believed that comics had a huge negative impact on the children as they instigate criminal behavior, yet a larger section of the society asserted that the comics had a positive impact on children and worked as a source of education. In the articles, Why 100,000,000 Americans Read Comics and Seduction of the Innocent, the authors have put forward various ways in which the comics can contribute towards educating children or polluting their minds. Wertham, the author of ...

The “Catch me if you can” movie is one of the most outstanding movies built on a true story. This movie revolves around Frank Abagnale, junior who genuinely adores his parents. Frank’s father is a conman, with several victims in different scam instances. As Frank grew up, he is aware of the existence of scam business. At the age of 16, Frank’s parents get choose to divorce, and Frank is requested to make the one he would leave with after the divorce. This becomes a terribly hard decision for him, and he runs away from any of the parents. ...

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Abstract
“Twelfth Night” is one of the most coveted comedies written by William Shakespeare. The element of the comic entwined with the tragic, calls for an intriguing plot which, the beauty of which is further enhanced by the accompaniment of music. This paper comprises of a critical response to Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” and the central theme of comedy which permeates the plot. It is a characteristic feature of most of the most of the plays of Shakespeare that what appear to be comic turns out to be wise and the seemingly wise characters, more often than not, end up ...

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Roger and Me is a documentary film, chronicles of the efforts of General Motors, one of the world’s largest corporation. Michael Moore makes the social catastrophe, happened in his native city Flint (Michigan) as the theme of his first documentary. This catastrophe happened after the General Motors’ direction decided to close all their enterprises, situated in that city. The entire film Michael Moor chases Roger Smith, the head of this corporation to tell him about the consequences of this decision that led to absolute unemployment. It is hard to imagine, but over 30 thousand of people (from the 150.000 ...

Is a Picture Really Worth a Thousand Words

In Art Speigelman’s graphic novel Maus I and II we get many actions illustrated in pictures instead of words. The novel portrays his father holocaust survival story and relationship with Vladeks. The comic book style pages show a powerful message through symbolism and the mimics. The novel begins with generalizing the Jews, the Polish, and the Germans with different animal characters. The Jews as mice, the Germans as cats, and the Polish as pigs. His novel depicts cat and mouse gaming struggles. The Jews were suffering, when were closed in this circle being sent into concentrations camps by the ...

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While the laugh track of the live studio audience will irritate anyone watching this show to no end, the portrayal of women in its first season would have women rights activist suing all the life out of the show, the mistaken pop culture references every now and then and the feeling that Hollywood has once again taken a shallow look at a long and evolving culture can make people rethink that The Big Bang Theory is really not a show that portrays nerd culture properly, it also cannot be denied that it has gotten a lot of things right more than it got ...

The play entitled Corpis Christi was a communal effort which lasted quite long. It was seen as a day-long celebration which dramatizes the moments in the Bible. This play only has five main characters, four soldiers and Jesus. Everyone who has watched the play, or has seen one using the same plot knows how it ends. These plays are questioned because of their “lack” of Biblical depth, not telling the story how it was really told in the Bible. This was seen in a more dramatized, at times comedic and highly gruesome kind of point of view. The focal characters were really ...

Tartuffe is the most famous play written by Moliere. In the view of many contemporary literary critics, Moliere qualifies as one of the world’s greatest comic playwright (Kasparek, 1977). The other famous play by Moliere is called The Misathrope. The two comprise of Moliere’s greatest pieces. Tartuffe’s plot revolves around wealthy bourgeois Orgon religious piety that almost destroys him but luckily, the pretender Tartuffe is discovered before he completely takes advantage of Orgon. Moliere’s Tartuffe has been a subject of controversy since its writing. The play generated a great deal of discussion owing to its perceived mockery ...

In 2007, America woke up to a revelation, by the Pew Research center, on the most admired journalist; At number four, was Jon Stewart tied with Brian Williams, Tom Brokaw (NBC), Dan Rather (CBS) and Anderson Cooper (CNN). The question that got the attraction of many Americans was who is Jon Stewart a journalist or a comedian, as most of his shows are comic? What is it that he does that is different from, traditional mainstream, press? A close analysis of the show indicates that Jon Stewart has a significant impact on dialogue with Americans but the contents of the show cannot be ...

The Canterbury Tales is one of the greatest pieces of literature because of Chaucer’s story-telling techniques. He weaves together various stories and characters to create this memorable tale that continues to be studied and examined throughout the ages. However, some of the pilgrim’s tales are more engaging to the readers than other ones. For instance, the Knight’s Tale is filled with courtly love, jousting and war scenes, as well as the time honored knight’s code. It can be considered a tale of courtly love as well as an epic due to its writing style. Despite ...

Literature often offers a social commentary on the time period during which it is created. Many of the world’s most classic and revered pieces of literature are satirical in nature and represent many larger issues facing the world at the time. Shakespeare, one of the greatest writers in the English language, often made social commentary on themes such as feminism, classism, and racism. Humor is a classic technique used by some literary geniuses such as Mark Twain, and is still used today as a prominent device in connection to satire. “The Simpsons” is one of the most popular ...

The ideal and real roles of women depicted in the plays The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare and The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Women have been the subject of greater literary interest since times immemorial. They frequently serve as the means to replicate contemporary society. During the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, women were largely portrayed as the victims of a patriarch society. Modern feminism was nonexistent until the 19th century and female voice was completely subdued. “Feminists’ scholars regarded the 18th century author Mary Wollstonecraft as the original harbinger of feminism, a ...

Alan Moore`s Watchmen may be considered to be one of the most controversial but capturing comic-book series ever made. Quotes from this comic book along with some characters have merged with pop culture forever, thus proving its uniqueness and gripping beauty. Moreover, this exceptional comic book presents reader with extraordinary portrayal of superheroes. Moore completely distorts all superhero clichés instead depicting real people with all their flaws and anxieties and without outstanding superpowers, the exception makes only Dr. Manhattan. Moreover, by manipulating and speculating with turning points in history of the US, like the Vietnam War or ...

The theme of morality and marriage in terms of aristocratic and anti-Puritan ideology are central themes for Restoration comedies in English literature of the late 17th century. It is a period when worked one of the most famous English playwrights – William Wycherley. His best-known comedy play “The Country Wife” is the work, where are interwoven important issues of the morality, the marriage and the image of woman. In his work, the dramatist shows marriage as that conditional social norm, which is of no value, while women are treated as an object and seen as inferior as men. From comedians ...

Popular television shows often reproduce and have a connection to real life gender, class, relationships, political ideas, religious identities among other issues (Dines & Humez, 2003). One needs to be attentive to television shows for a better understanding of how they portray these issues. This paper is going to focus on the television show Strangers with Candy which is a Comedy Central comedy series, and how it encodes real life issues such as the ones above. Strangers with Candy boldly covers difficult subjects ranging from alcoholism to mentally retarded persons having an affinity of baked deserts. The three main issues ...

Do zombies represent the white collar criminals from the financial crisis? That is the question I was asking myself after reading Torie Bosch’s article “First, Eat All the Lawyers.” zombies highly populate our pop culture. From movies to novels to television our world has become seemingly overflowing with zombies. Surprisingly sometimes there are even more zombies than there are vampires. Bosch tries to persuade us that the zombie craze is pop culture’s device to help us deal with the economic crisis. If the economic crisis has brought us zombies in our entertainment, does that mean the zombies ...

Nowadays luxuries are rapidly growing in popularity in the world. Due to high consumer demand, more fake bags are coming out to satisfy a group of people whose living standards are not very high and will hence not afford original bags.
Fake bag companies that make exactly what real bags look like are considered illegal for the piracy. There are controversial issues about whether a fake printed bag is illegal.
Recently a new Taiwanese brand “Banane Taipei” comes into fashion trend in Taiwan, which is known for fake printed bag. Ironically, some people might not be familiar with the fake ...

Margaret Atwood is the promising Canadian author who has written a number of famous poems and novels. She is mainly known as a great novelist and champion of the cause of Canadian literature. Atwood focuses on the binarity of existential experience in Canada. Land and mind, wilderness and civilization, alienation and identity are the opposing elements in Canadian life and she has immensely tried to create a sense of existential experience in her works. She “spent much of her early life in the northern Ontario and Quebec bush country” (Oxford Companion 31). Atwood’s famous dystopian fiction, The Handmaid's ...

People are used to putting tags on other people, like “sloppy” and “neat”, and applying concepts on one another based on gender roles. For example, a woman’s role is to be a good housekeeper, while a man will observe details in a house only when it is absolutely necessary. Those characterizations and gender roles usually go with an approved behavior. Sloppy people are usually careless and women clean the house. Neat people are well organized and men could die for a beverage at hand while watching the World Series. However, if one attempts to scratch the surface and see beneath, they will realize ...

Psychological disorder is a disorganization of the central nervous system work. A personality disorder is sustained template of standing and conduct that differs from templates that are regarded as normal by a human’s culture. Symptoms of any personality disorder stay the same in various situations and become apparent by early matureness. These symptoms induce anguish or make it hard for a person to act normally in public. (Claridge, 60) The aim of this paper is to research the paranoid personality disorder, its symptoms, environmental and biological causes and possible treatment methods, and finds out the prognosis and prospects ...

Surrounding the issue of people getting smarter or dumber in the present age, there is a great conflict in deciding definitely whether people are getting dumber with the passing time or is technology and modernity making them smarter. It is chiefly to determine what smartness or dumbness is, and this is marked by the ability to use the present technological advances to mark one’s intellectual capabilities. Therefore, it can be said that people today are not getting dumber, in fact, they are getting smarter, and their mental capabilities are enhanced because of the use of technology in everyday ...

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be. Childish memories remain vivid, no matter are they good or bad. A child cannot choose his parents and accepts anything that happens to him in the early years. After becoming a grown-up he can look at his luggage of hurts, attitudes, and false assumptions and decide, as a mature personality, which of them he really wants to discard in order to obtain internal harmony. However, there are memories that you want to carry through your whole life and keep them ...

Documentary film is one of the most difficult genres of cinematography, firstly, because of its structure as well as due to the large number of approaches to the implementation of the idea. This genre originated over a century ago and nowadays it is undoubtedly one of the most difficult genres, since it is necessary to analyze a huge amount of material to identify the authenticity of historical facts in order to create a professional documentary film. The advent of documentary films made the cinematography a more profound art form, which became a part of the scientific world too.
Documentary film was the beginning ...

Introduction

The legalization of Gay marriage has stirred a lot of controversies in America, and the world in general. Traditionally, marriage has been rooted in many cultures, practices and even traditions, as the union of a man and a woman. Same sex marriages or relationships have been prohibited all along, and people that went against these practices were often termed as outcasts. But in the recent years, the rate of gay marriages and relationships has been on the rise. This has stirred a lot of debate on whether they should be legalized or not. Movements and societies have been formed to protects the gay ...

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Essence of ‘To Live’
Historical accuracy and sensitivity is one of the most important aspects that weigh heavily on the film To Live (1994), which is directed by Zhang Yimou. From a viewer’s point of view, the film is an interesting event-raveling depiction of what occurred half a century or so ago in China. This put the sequence of events into an epoch when the country was under what can be said to be a transformation characterized by a series of both political and social changes. By then, China was run by the political regime headed by Mao Zedong and this ...

Violent media is good for kids

Thesis statement
The negative impacts of violent media as opposed to the opinions that will be brought forward through a critical analysis of “violent media is good for kids” by Gerald Jones

Introduction

We live in an environment where media forms the basis of our lives. It affects our thinking, interactions and social behavior. Media can be used for positive or bad purpose, depending on the kind of media an individual is exposed to. Gerald Jones, in his article, seeks to argue on the effectiveness of violent media as a means of shaping a child’s character. He encourages parents to expose ...

Many scholars admit that the study of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an exploration of the American society. The book revolves at the very heart of the American physical geography, political beliefs, and moral consciousness. In addition, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn probes readers to redefine the meaning of the conventionally held perceptions about civilization, freedom and the concept of right and wrong. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in 1885 and documents the stories of a pre-civil war society and the controversy over slavery. The central conflict is the permeable idea of freedom is questioned in relation ...

Archilles and Dante are epic heroes in the stories HOMER, The Iliad and Dante, The Divine Comedy, Inferno respectively. Archilles is a war hero and enjoys great prowess in the art of war. Through Archilles, the archaeans are able to conquer to Trojan in battle. On the other hand, Dante is a prolific writer whose main message in Inferno is the need for morality in the Christian faith. As epic heroes both characters exemplify extraordinary skills and successes in their various fields (Martin 29). Despite this phenomenon both Achilles and Dantes are heroes based on how they handle and overcome the ...

The comic author Gerard Jones famous for writing for many of the big comic book companies including marvel and dc, hypothesizes that media violence is good for children and not detrimental as it teaches them to control their anger. But is this hypothesis valid, I will be analyzing Jones’ argument try to answer the question is violent media really good for kids?
The purpose of Jones’s essay is to establish that violent media do not in fact cause violence but in fact is a way of socializing children and teaching them how to react to their own conflicts. ...

1) What happened? You need not describe the event in substantial detail. At the same time, you also need to include enough information so I can understand the nature of the action. Usually, this part will not exceed one-half of one single-spaced page, although it may extend further if necessary.
Some time ago, I learned that two people were stealing money from the homeless shelter they were managing. I won’t go into all the details about when and where this occurred, but basically it was a husband and wife who ran this shelter and started bragging to me ...

People are social beings. The whole life we are surrounded by other people. That is why when someone does something, she/he is always waiting for the support or critique from others. This is how we create some limits. We often hear about the generalizations and really believe that they are not true but still cannot resist categorizing people and things. We like to sort all information and ideas that we have into the groups. As Courtney (2009) maintain, “How we think affects what we do.” Eventually, human life is solely determined by some of these ruinous stereotypes that we ...

David Hernandez’s poem Pigeons is a comparison piece. Hernandez compares the activities and treatment of pigeons to those of Hispanics. He uses symbolism, imagery and tone as techniques in conveying his theme of racism. Overall, it is an accessible poem with a clear subject matter.

Hernandez uses the first line of the poem as a statement: “Pigeons are the spiks of Birdland” (Hernandez 1023). This provides a sound introduction to the theme and the tone of the rest of the poem that is to come. Hernandez was Hispanicwhich somehow makes the word ‘spiks’ even more shocking; this was, no doubt, intentional. He ...

The presentation of love throughout Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is as a concept that brings a lot of upset and hurt to the characters. As a romantic comedy, this plot is immediately juxtaposed with the genre as you would expect there to be a greater amount of joy and happiness in a comedy. Many of the characters consider love to be something which is imposed upon them; something that they do not wish to have to endure because of its inevitable heartbreak.

It is Orsino’s opening line, “If music be the food of love, play on” (Twelfth Night 1. 1. 1) that sets ...