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    Satirical Obesity

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    America’s Obesity Epidemic The nation’s scales are going up and it’s clear that we have an obesity health crisis on our hands. So what can we do about America’s obesity epidemic? It’s not just a case of telling people to eat fewer doughnuts and walk around the block each day. Over 25 percent of adults in 10 states are obese‚ including in Mississippi‚ Alabama‚ West Virginia‚ Louisiana‚ Tennessee‚ Texas‚ Michigan‚ Kentucky‚ Indiana‚ and South Carolina. This is an individual problem. It’s little

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    Not Enough Drinking Water Pop culture has recently become obsessed with trying to provide clean drinking water to those who do not have it. This is a pathetic issue to choose to fix. These poor people are a waste of space and need to learn how to fix their own problems instead of turning to the reach to fix them. Do you think the rich got rich by relying on other people? No. They found easy solutions to their difficult problems. People have wasted tons of money on giving these people clean water

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    Satire in Swift and Pope

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    COURSE 5: The Issue of Bad Writing in Swift and Pope The eighteenth century witnessed a major revolution‚ in some ways more profound than the Civil War‚ the Printing Trade. It was a state of anarchy within which struggling writers‚ who came from the lower strata‚ were writing in journals‚ newspapers‚ magazines etc. Great consumption of these kinds of writings led to the formation of the Grub Street (a London Street inhabited by literary hacks such as writers of small histories‚ dictionaries and

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    Theodore Roethke’s poem “Elegy for Jane” shows the speakers affliction towards the death of his former student Jane. Roethke uses personification‚ imagery and metaphors as well as other devices to show the love and sorrow the speaker feels for Jane. The personification used by the speaker‚ when he says “leaves‚ their whispers turned to kissing” and “mold sang in the beached valley under the rose” is a representation of Jane’s presence‚ for bad and good her presence delighted them. The speaker uses

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    demand. Explore the consequences of having demand for products created by corporations rather than through the choice of sovereign consumers. Perhaps suggest solutions for the problem (if it is a problem!). This is an ideal topic to explore in a satirical manner. Research the nature of satire. Irony Hyperbole Ridiculous Elements of Corporations Positives of Corporations They enable cheaper prices in industrial nations They enable great revenue for the government by taxing the corporations They

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    Abbott and his Asylum seeker policy I have chosen a relevant cartoon by Cathy Wilcox‚ published in the Sydney Morning Herald on the 22nd of December 2013. I’ll firstly outline the cartoon’s contextual information‚ after which I’ll explore the satirical elements used by Wilcox to persuade the readers of her perspective. Finishing with an evaluation of the cartoons effectiveness. Firstly‚ to the context of this cartoon. The cartoon addresses the desperate and dangerous situation of asylum seekers

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    Elegy for my father’s father James K. Baxter Basic – First Impressions: * Different kind of title – very direct * Written in past tense – reflection * Written is second person – author describing the death of someone else * Idea of ‘Death’ – universal idea * Poem is one stanza long (written on two pages but actually one stanza) * Tone is dull and slow * References to nature and water * Free Verse * Ideas of poem (general): * Death – natural process

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    Yennadim Medina The Wanderer and The Wife’s Lament: Nostalgia in Anglo-Saxon Elegies. Whenever we read an Anglo-Saxon elegy‚ we may notice a feeling of sentimental longing for a better past‚ which is portrayed by the poet. This feeling is called nostalgia‚ and it is present in many –if not all- early English poems‚ specially in Anglo-Saxon elegy‚ and it is often used in order to convey the ideas of belong to nowhere and having nobody to rely on are worse than death itself. This belonging

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    My favorite piece of music is “Elegy‚” composed by John Williams for a solo cello and orchestra. In this piece that was written for the memorial service of two young children‚ Williams brings the raw emotions of grief to life‚ imitating the sorrow of a mother who has just lost her world. Through the chilling precision of each note’s placement on the page‚ Williams conveys a message without words‚ and communicates the significance of lost innocence through music. In the first line of the piece‚

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    Outlining a Satirical Argument First off‚ before we get any further into this argument and things are stated‚ I must make it very clear – I’m a 100% against trying to put any type of force against our right by the Constitution to bear arms. The biggest question I have that pertains to this subject is always “Do people seriously think gun control is going to make any type of positive affect on this country?” I mean‚ seriously‚ think about it. No‚ I don’t mean think about it in a way that you actually

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