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    Street art may be interpreted as nonsense‚ a violation of property or it could be seen as one of the most vibrant‚ influential‚ and media based form of communication in society. People may struggle to perceive street art to be a form of art‚ questioning its existence to give any significance at all. (Trinity News‚ 2008) Street art is popular because people can view it while going about their daily activities. Surely enough street artists are voicing their opinions an+d are in turn prompting the audience

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    created a vivid vision of Darwin in Maestro. In Maestro‚ Paul Goldsworthy also has used different features of narrative to communicate the vision of Keller. Keller’s appearance and character are contrasted through the use of descriptive language‚ humour and metaphors. Goldsworthy used a lot of descriptive passages in Paul’s first impression of Keller “the red glow of his face…The pitted‚ sun-coarsened skin – a cheap‚ ruined leather” and “migrant-height‚ European-height‚ wop-height” to contrast a

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    Kubrick’s ‘Dr Strangelove: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the bomb’ was released in 1964 that a morbid representation of the potential sufferings was propelled into popular culture‚ ironically in the form of satire. The use of satire‚ or rather humour in the film is used to push the edge of believability (O’Connor‚ Jackson‚ Schlesinger‚ et al.‚ 1979‚ p.226) .

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    ENGLISH FAIRY TALE ADAPTATION SPEECH You will all be familiar with the fairy tale of the three little pigs‚ were in the fairy tale the pigs are cute and cuddly‚ and the wolf is big and bad. But what if we looked at it from a different point of view? What if the three little wolves were cute and cuddly and the pig is big and bag? These questions‚ Members of the committee‚ will be answered if you choose to include modern adaptations of fairy tales in our anthology of literature. Adaptations of classic

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    The Adventures of Huck Finn-The Controversial Ending The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has stirred up much controversy over such topics as racism‚ prejudice and gender indifference‚ but the brunt of the criticism has surrounded itself around the ending‚ most notably with the re-entry of Tom Sawyer. Some people viewed the ending as a bitter disappointment‚ as shared by people such as Leo Marx. The ending can also be viewed with success‚ as argued by such people as Lionel Trilling

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    MARKETING IN PRACTICE ADVERTISING DESIGN: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS AND TYPES OF APPEALS • The creative brief Designing an effective advertising message begins with understanding the objective of the ad and the target audience. Then‚ the advertising group agrees on the message theme‚ which is the outline of the key ideas the commercial will convey. The account executive or client must provide the support and documentation for the advertising theme or claim. Finally‚ the creative must be

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    Name: Trupti Kolvekar Essay: Twelfth Night Candidate number: Centre Number: 12286 How does the theme of decorum contribute to the comic world of “Twelfth Night”? Decorum means that one is highly regarded and exhibits socially correct behaviour. This has been showed throughout the play ‘Twelfth Night’ by three types of persona: Characters with decorum‚ characters with no decorum and character that step out of their social class. They play a big role in the comic world of ‘Twelfth Night’ with their

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    readers. Throughout the play‚ Wilde gives Algy witty lines and epigrams that displays his humour and disrespect towards the society. “Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see‚ if one plays good music‚ people don’t listen‚ and if one plays bad music‚ people don’t talk.” here is Algy’s wit and wisdom being displayed as he is trying to say people do not appreciate good music. He would even praise his own humour from time to time: “It’s perfectly phrased”. All through the play‚ he acts similar to

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    the short story ‘The loaded dog’ the plot concerns 3 gold miners and their dog‚ and the farcical consequences of leaving a bomb cartridge unattended. Henry Lawson shows language features such as adjectives‚ verbs‚ and dialogue‚ metaphors‚ similes‚ humour and graphic descriptions. This story is written in third person. The language used is colloquial and idiomatic‚ for example when he uses the line ‘your dorg’s run orf inter the srub’. Some examples of adjectives he uses in the short story are‚

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    themselves‚ which was a force in opposition to urbanity‚ decorum‚ and civilization itself. Satire and humor Laughter is not an essential component of satire; in fact there are types of satire that are not meant to be "funny" at all. Conversely‚ not all humour‚ even on such topics as politics‚ religion or art is necessarily "satirical"‚ even when it uses the satirical tools of irony‚ parody‚ and burlesque. Even light-hearted satire has a serious "after-taste": the organizers of the Ig Nobel Prize describe

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