Laugh College Essays Samples For Students

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 ...

Whose Line is it anyway is a comedy game show popular in the US and in the UK. It is a lively game that combines comedy and acting. TV games are becoming a popular form of entertainment in public. Witty acting games such as this one usually takes time to be created to ensure full success. The host of the game show, Maisha Tyler is well-adapted to her role as the host of the game. Fast paced music makes the show lively and enjoyable; the sound effects of the cheering crowd also adds to the show’s appeal making ...

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 ...

APPLICATION FOR REVIEW OF RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN SUBJECTS

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Thesis

In making this application, I certify that I have read and understood the guidelines and procedures developed by McNeese State University for the protection of human subjects and that ...

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. ...

Introduction

It is customary for the non-native speakers to substitute the correct pronunciation of the words with their versions of vowels and consonants. There are patterns of pronunciation of words in every language and it is believed that the non-native speakers utilize their habitual pronunciation of the new language. These patterns in language may persist at different levels. Some of the non-native speakers tend to learn new language faster, the others retain the traces of native language in their patterns of pronunciation through the years. This may root in different factors, such as the duration of practice in new language, ...

I am a specialist in early childhood development, and I visited a colleague in her offices. She is a pediatric consultant, and we were seated in the waiting room. The waiting room had three people, and one of them was a young mother with her two-year-old girl and supposedly her nanny. The waiting room is colorful and has friendly objects that children can use to play. A television set is also available and with the kids’ songs playing. The child has been brought for a general check-up, and her weight is somehow below average.
I sat there for more ...

Molière and Voltaire are thought to be the masters of satire due to their outstanding literary artworks. Their stories usually focus on the modern society, which is usually full with flaws. The authors are responsible for making those flaws not only obvious to the readers, who are not always educated, but also showing them in a humorous way. This genre was very popular back then, but it can still be seen in on TVs and in the modern books. However, nowadays, people are free to express their dissatisfaction with the world. Back then, it was often dangerous to ...

The genre of dark comedy is a fascinating subset of the standard comedy film, combining elements of drama and dark subject matter with comedic elements of the absurd and ironic to create unique works that poke fun not only at the foibles of mankind, but the inherent silliness of extremely serious things. Dark comedy can take many forms, and both American and English sensibilities in particular have their own attitudes and characteristics in their own examples.
Two of the most well-regarded dark comedy films of recent years are 1996’s Fargo (directed by the Brothers Coen) and 2008’s ...

My friend Ali is the friendliest person I have ever met in my life. Without exaggeration, I can say that we are not just the best friends, but we feel so close like genuine brothers. We met in the last years of the high school, both of us transferred to a new school and plunged into a new environment. Ali and I have stayed friends ever since, and our ongoing friendship is lasting almost for ten years now. The best way to describe Ali is to imagine a mane of black, thick hair, and a long and cute beard. As a fact, he always ...

Certain individuals truly inspire people, making them to stay focused to achieve their own goals, reinforcing in them the belief that it is possible. Such heroes, the lives they led, their hardships and sacrifices, serve as a major link between people and their ambitions. One such individual who continues to inspire people is comedian Jim Carrey, who is my personal hero.
Jim Carrey was born in Ontario, Canada on the 17th January, 1962 and later shifted to Los Angeles to make a career as a comedian. He first starred in a television movie, Introducing Janet, which was later renamed as Rubberface after ...

GENDER REPRESENTATIONS IN BOLLYWOOD CINEMA: exploring heterosexuality in Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003) and queerness in Dostana (2008)

Introduction

In India’s populist film industry, mostly known as Bollywood, male sexual friendships and depictions are still fairly new. usually, the female is the primary focus of lust and sexual attention (resulting in an extremely male gaze), but since the arrival of handsome, chiseled actors like Amitebh Bachchan in the 1990s this has started to change. The concepts of yaar and yaari now play an important role in the fabric of Bollywood buddy comedies; the yaari is a kind of relationship that ...

Book VII - On Shadows and Realities in Education

SOCRATES - GLAUCON
AND now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: --Behold! human beings living in a underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads. Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will ...

In his book, A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare uses humor of different types throughout the play making the book rib cracking. The characters are given attributes that make them seem foolish and not everything they do goes according to their expectations. This ere are three different types of humor he employs when writing the book and they ate seen in either the scenes or in the characters themselves. The first kind of humor he applies in his work is the use of oxymoron. This is through their foolishness portrayed throughout the book. The book is full of foolish ...

Good Vibrations is a cartoon short about social responsibility and the cost of being complacent

The plot of the story is very simple and there’s no dialogue, it basically tells the story of an office worker noticing a road worker with a jack hammer has caused a pavement tile to come loose across the street, and it’s tripping people up as they walk.
The bored office worker finds this quite funny and he begins to watch as all different types of people are tripped up by the pavement slab instead of helping them or warning them. All the while more and more of his office are also noticing what he’s laughing at and ...

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 ...

In preparing this short talk I worked out that I had spent over 17,000 days on the planet, but this is the story of the one day I will never ever forget. It was mid-July and the sky just after dawn was that pale duck egg blue with not a single cloud in sight which promised a perfect Midwest day: by afternoon that pale blue would change to a deeper almost turquoise hue and the perfect weather matched my perfect mood. I had just graduated from high school, had a part-time job at the local A& P and on this particular Saturday ...

Short Answers

In my opinion, Alan Watts (n.d.) means that search of significance for an individual is not just a process but a state of mind, which leads the person further. Alan Watts (n.d.) gives an example of photos of peeling paint on old doors. By providing this example, Alan Watts (n.d.) is trying to say that photographers, who shoot this kind of photos do not follow a purpose to show the viewer the qualities of paint or the door either, what they are trying to show is that this process exists as it is. It is just there in a ...

Demonstration and Return Demonstration Module

Instructional strategies
These are devices teachers adopt when making decisions on how to present a topic to the class. For example, in the module pertaining to demonstration and return demonstration when teacher a social studies lesson regarding values education such as respect for parents, teachers and elders a useful strategy would be using a discussion session asking students how they perceive parents in the home. Building upon this values education through an open discussion session, the instructor can allow students to write down what they have understood about in the group on pieces of paper (Ford, 2013). When this ...

Okay now promise you won’t laugh. You see what inspires me the most is my cat. All 20 pounds of pure softness that bundles up a personality that makes me laugh more in a day than anything or anyone else I encounter. This boy thinks he is a baby, yet he is quite large. He thinks the whole world loves him and worships him at the same time.
So how can a ball of fur be so inspirational, you ask? Well, because he does something that is hard to find in this crazy world we live in. He ...

One of the most popular means of communication and spreading information around the globe is by means of social media. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and many other social media applications have overtaken the means by which people have communicated in the past such as the television, radio, and telephonic conversations. Not that these are not used to the present day, but they have been replaced by the kind of trending communication present only on social media applications. People tend to communicate in short, terse phrases, selective jargon and use different methods to convey a message, which then trends on ...

It has been a long time since movies have become an unalienable part of entertainment. Nowadays, going to the cinema is more a social event that cultural one. People become huge fans of their favorite movies and actors, keep track of all the news and become obsessed with them. Whomever you ask, every person must have at least one favorite film, which touches this person’s heart and makes him or her experience great feelings while watching. There are many people, who became so depended on movies that they cannot imagine their lives without them and organize different events ...

Societal pressures can often force one into isolation, low self-esteem, and even self-hatred. Why is there so much pressure, and what can we as a whole society do about it? I’m glad you asked.
Particularly, the topic of beauty is prevalently manipulative. The problem is widespread. Society has built a lie.
You are more beautiful than her. You are uglier than him. This is the common voice of societal competition.
Why give in to it? Why not fight the fight? Is it because we don’t believe it is a fight we can win?

Is it not us? ...

What is a Friend? A Friend is a person who is willing to take you the way you are (Ashton). The word ‘friend’ traces back to England in the early 12th century and continues to be utilized throughout the world today. Though, it was originated from German where it is called as “Freund.” Having too many friends can be stressful and dramatic at times, but they can also help resolve personal issues, assist in loneliness, and help you in your overall emotional and physical well-being.
Friends are those people in your life that you can rely on when a ...

The article ‘The Fatalism of Gun Worship’ by Colin Dickey tries to highlight how centuries of permissiveness towards guns and their possession and use by civilians has led not only to a lax mind-set about the dangers of guns but has also altered public psyche in a negative way. Dickey quotes Manseau and states that the way that gun-related deaths are reported has caused the public to accept such incidents with a certain kind of fatalistic melancholy.
This analysis of the article will assert that even if one grants the apparent pessimism of the American public, there is no ...

The Day of the Locust is Nathanael West’s forth novel written in 1939. Like all West’s previous works, this novel makes a vivid emphasis on social issues, such as spiritual and material degradation of the American society at the time of the Great Depression. It is a story about a frustrated American Dream, about life in which the perception of the reality does not correspond to the reality itself. Researchers say that the idea of the corrupt American Dream introduced by Nathanael West in his stories resulted in the coinage of “the term "West's disease" to refer ...

Edgar Allan Poe is one of America’s most famous writers, arguably the prince of horror stories. His oeuvre covers a wide range of work, from poetry to prose, the Arab world to 19th century America, and detective fiction to horror stories. His 1845 poem, The Raven, made him a sensation and is regarded as one of the genre-defining works of American literature. His life and career were deeply troubled, but his legacy has enshrined him along with the greats.
Poe’s stories are stylistically unique – displaying a huge diversity of elements taken from all over English and world ...

In Ernest Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”, the writer touches upon a number of themes. The plot of the short story is driven mainly by the dialogue that takes places at a café by a young waiter and an older waiter, who are waiting for an elderly customer to finish his shot of brandy so they can close for the evening. As the narrative progresses, Hemingway subtly explores the relationship between aging and faith. This theme permeates the text, shedding light on the broader interplay between aging and faith in modern society, as well as evoking memories of ...

The anti-Semitic sentiment set in motion by Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta and the near Satanic equation of Barabas had buttressed the plan of a play Shakespeare conceived in the commercial town of Venice with its life-loving gentry. The gentlemen of Venice who paraded themselves in gondolas in the romantic canals and waterways were instantly cut out for popular sympathy and affection, as the very opening seems to suggest. The dolour of Antonio and the volley of indulgent comments and cajoling coming in response proves it beyond doubt. To add to it are the fancies of the wastrel ...

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 ...

How do you visualize a monster in your imagination? People might say “It is very horrible!” Conversely, if anyone has seen “Monsters University”, his or her thoughts would be changed. This film is definitely a funny and excellent movie, including its animation, characters, scene and acting. They naturally make the entire movie noticeable and attractive. The film’s director Dan Scanlon got an inspiration from Monsters, Inc., which Pixar first presented in the year 2001, to create his current movie.
Monsters University uses two main characters - Mike Wazowski, a monster with one big eye and a little green body, and James ...

Part 1: Social Behavior Media

The biggest loser is the show I have chosen to comment on. It is a competition whereby participants are rewards each week for losing the most weight. The ones whom loose the least are eliminated each week and the winner becomes the person who loses the most during the competition.

Do you feel these shows help or hurt public health?

These shows in my opinion have nothing to do with a public health agenda. They are pure entertainment, but producers feel that they have a moral, obligation to the public to indulge in popular issue. Obesity is popular whether from a public health perspective or not. Beauty perception is consistent a particular weight, shape ...

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 ...

Voluptuous Mors

It is a matter of prominent curves running through a black veil that flows beneath them. A game between the lights and the angles. Seven models position themselves to form a skull as the artist stands on the side with an alarmed gaze. Salvador Dali, a Spanish painter, partners with photographer Philippe Halsman to create a surrealist human skull (1951). The image depicts Dali standing next to the models with an "enfreaked gaze” as Ann Millett would write. He is looking at the possible third spectator, implying that there is something in the image that should be looked at awareness, if not caution. This ...

Variations in culture theory has demonstrated how scholars differ in how they have analyzed and evaluated how advertising and television-watching has mapped human values. Researcher Lauren Zalaznick, in thinking about popular (pop) TV, posits her theory that television literally holds or reflects the idea of human conscience. In relation to Zalaznick’s ideology, the task herein is to analyze whether the weight of her arguments and concepts bear out collected evidence, in terms of her thesis holding up in light of the observer’s personal viewing habits. In addition to contributing findings that may support or refute her ideas, a ...

A few years after Doris Lessing’s wrote the Grass is Singing, Richard Wright releases yet one of the most compelling novel the depicts the story of an African American fugitive slave—The Man in the Underground (1945). In this novel, the lead character, Fred Daniels attempts to escape from a corrupt history and a corrupt society. From a privileged house servant, Fred Daniels character develops into an underground criminal. In the course of Daniel’s journey, Wright reveals a layer of racism above ground. This novel is also quite similar to Ralph Elison’s Invisible Man. However, Wright argues more about slavery ...

Q A
The Doorman in The Last Laugh demonstrates a character of resilience. Even though he had been demoted from his position as doorman, he still carries himself around with a high level of confidence managing to deceive people in the neighbourhood into believing that he still holds his position. In contrast, Immanuel Rath is a person who easily gives up. He is not as resilient as the Doorman. Immanuel Rath quickly resigns from his position as an educator at the local Gymnasium when he realizes that the principal is displeased with his behaviour. Both characters are ridiculed by people whom ...

Canadian History

Thesis Statement: America's sweetheart “Mary Pickford”, who was a strong, career oriented women and significantly contributed to Canada's society as she helped change the role of women in the “1920's”, and was known as a trend setter in fashion and influenced the American life and culture in Canada.
The contribution of Mary Pickford in Canadian history goes a long way. Pickford became one of the well-loved artists of all time, as she became instrumental in establishing United Artists in the year 1919. She started to join the theater at age seven and was identified by the name “Baby Gladys Smith” and adopted ...

Interpretive

• What effect does Watson’s narration have on the reader’s perceptions of Holmes?
ANSWER:
Watson’s narration affects the reader’s perception of Holmes in that it makes it easier for the readers to believe that Holmes is more than just a character in a book while still maintaining the mystery of his identity.

SUPPORT:

“How on earth did you know that?” I asked in astonishment. (p 17)
Holmes was not a difficult man to live with. He was quiet in his ways, and his habits were irregular. (p 21)
My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found I found ...

There are some choices that one is forced to do and live with. In George Orwell’s essay “shooting an elephant,” he recounts some life event when he was forced to choose between two evils. Several years later this episode still haunts George. This story takes place during five unhappy years of the writer. He hates his life and when a dilemma faces him, he is forced to kill a valuable animal at work in order to save his pride. In his own thinking, George is justified in killing the animal. His character in the essay has been demonstrated as one ...

Don Juan (DJ) is a gentleman who spends his time seducing several women, flirting and dueling. He takes a challenge and even bets with a fellow young man, Don Luis, on who seduces the most number of ladies. A romantic DJ is portrayed in Zorrilla's play, Don Juan Tenorio, presenting a character who has transformed from a classical to a romantic figure. The play provides a romantic version of DJ, showing love even after life hence as variation of the classical Don Juan. He is a calculating seducer who manages to convince his bet opponent’s fiancée, Dona Ana de Pantoja, and later seduces a young nun, ...

A Compare and Contrast
A Compare and Contrast
Harry Potter, the series of J.K Rowling’s fantasy novels has been one of the most popular book-series in history of literature. Millions of readers, especially children used to wait earnestly for the release of every new book from the series. Undoubtedly, the movie series based on the novel too got extreme attention from children as well as teenagers worldwide. But, those who have read the Harry Potter books find the films to be less or different in content than the original stories. It is true that when it ...

My Deepest Memory of Childhood

Slowly but quietly, spring is coming towards us. The weather is getting warmer and warmer, branches of trees begin sprouting new leaves, and all different kinds of birds fly merrily in the sky. Color is everywhere, above all green. It stays lighter longer, a wonderful respite from the dull, dark, dreary days of winder. Flowers begin to blossom. A new year, full of life, has begun.

Looking at the tender green leaves of the trees through the window, I can't help thinking of my childhoods. When spring is coming, wheat begins to grow after a long winter, and its small ...

In a moody August weather last 2008, certain events that had happened during the past few weeks brought a sad feeling to an otherwise breezy Sunday morning. The lonesome state and fact of not having to go somewhere made the situation even worse. Random thoughts came rushing all at once as I lay upon my bed refusing to get up with the troubles on my head.
At that time, I was asking myself, “Why did I feel so confined and so programmed?” Yet, when I dream about life, my life, I dream about the adventures, the mysteries and the surprises ...

Being born in 1588, very close to the date of the Spanish Armada, Thomas Hobbes believed that he was born “at the same time as fear.” For this reason, the subject of fear consumed his life, as well as his writing. His lifetime did span over a very violent period of world history, characterized by war, death, political unrest, and the upheaval of many citizenries. In fact, Hobbes wrote “The Leviathan” while on exile in France, since he believed that King Charles I was about to be overthrown and fled England out of fear that his beliefs would lead to his ...

Interview between a TV presenter and a presidential aspirant

Presenter: Good evening sir?
Aspirant: Good evening thank you!
Presenter: Who is Mitt Romney?
Aspirant: Romney is an American citizen, born, brought up and educated in this country. I have made a lot of contributions in this country making be the best qualified person for this job.

Presenter: what contributions have made in the lives of Americans?

Aspirant: First, I have been a dedicated business consultant with the Boston Consulting Group before venturing into the Bain Capital Equities and other sectors. Besides, I have also held senior positions in the government. My contribution to national politics also speaks ...

It is commonly said that there is power in the words we speak. This can be seen as just another saying, until an individual has an experience with the power of words spoken to him or her. At times, the words can have different meanings when used in different contexts (Naylor 1). Naylor gave this experience after observing that the word ‘nigger’ had been used so often in her presence but the reality of the word only hit her when it was spoken in a different context. The same case applies to me. Though I am blind, I never used ...

Audience: General

Shaken and Stirred
The first thing you see upon entering the corner bar on Bourbon Street are gold Fleur-de-lis ornaments hanging down from the ceiling. Walking in, you see a few tables and benches occupied with a middle-aged audience listening to one of the famous jazz bands that play every other night. The cozy bar creates a warm and welcoming atmosphere with pictures and posters of musicians on the bricked walls. Usually, there are two bartenders working behind the bar. They joke around, flipping plastic cups over their heads, imitating “flair bartending.” I sit down at the bar in one of ...