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    Children'Day Speech

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    Children build the nation sound and strong. Todays children play a very vital role in developing the country or a nation. One may question how can these tiny tots can change the nation .Yes because todays children are tomorrows responsible citizens of the country. For a country to develop lies in the hands of a child. Children should imbibe the values of discipline‚ silence‚ sense of order‚ cleanliness‚ beauty and other such values in them to become a good person in the society. The foundation

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    psychological laboratory in 1879 in Leipzig. Wundt’s views of nature of psychology became framework with which could organize facts and theories. * Darwins Theory of Laughter (Charles Darwin) 1809-1882 “A physical/physiological continuum exists in laughter ranging from the most excessive laughter‚ through moderate laughter‚ to the broad smile‚ and finally to the faintest smile‚ where all these series of movements are expressions of pleasure to differing degrees” (Darwin) A expression of satisfaction

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    In the opening paragraphs‚ the author defines humour as a disjunction between the way things are and the way they are represented in a joke. Critchley believes humour defeats our expectations by changing the situation in which we find ourselves. Based on my understanding of the reading‚ expectation has a lot to do with jokes in the sense that it keeps us‚ the audience at the edge of our seats thinking or assuming one way and then suddenly turning that thinking or assumption around. As a result‚

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    of literature give life to the story and are a gateway of expressing different emotions and personality traits. The characters of “Twelfth Night” provide laughter and distinct opinions on love. Malvolio‚ Olivia and Viola are three main characters that have completely different perspectives on love but‚ have one thing in common: providing laughter to readers. Malvolio is a targeted character that provides amusement and causes readers to dislike him. He oozes self-love and that has become the root

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    A Point of View: Is there a secret to a happy marriage? Nobody can explain the secret to a happy marriage‚ says Adam Gopnik‚ but it doesn’t stop people trying. Anyone who tells you their rules for a happy marriage doesn’t have one. There’s a truth universally acknowledged‚ or one that ought to be anyway. Just as the people who write books about good sex are never people you would want to sleep with‚ and the academics who write articles about the disappearance of civility always sound ferociously

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    McMurphy arrives at the mental institution with vivacity and happiness. He enters the ward by being boisterous and full of laughter. His laughter is noticed by all the patients because it is the first laughter they have heard in years. Chief Bromden recalls that his relatives used to mock the government officials by laughing and comments “I forget sometimes what laughter can do‚” (pg 95). McMurphy is noticeably different than the other patients at the ward. Most of the patients are languid and

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    False Diagnosis of Insanity In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey‚ the false diagnosis of insanity is used as a manipulation tool that will result in the patients’ control over the ward. Throughout the novel Nurse Ratched and her staff presume that many patients in the ward are mentally ill and the state of insanity was highly encouraged. The author does however imply that the big nurse possessed an awareness of their sanity through her persistence with forcing medications and

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    “India is not a nation‚ nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.” ― Muhammad Ali Jinnah “A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks‚ he becomes." ― Mahatma Gandhi “What is done cannot be undone‚ Knowing that‚ face it but do not run.” ― Rupansh Gupta “Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.” ― Jawaharlal Nehru At the stroke of the midnight hour‚ when the world sleeps‚ India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes‚ which comes but rarely in history

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    for children‚ but this time it turns into a creepy‚ Cheshire cat smile. The clown does not have as many colors on its clothing‚ and now they are toned down. All of the colors seem to have a gray tint to them. The clown that was once used to cause laughter‚ is now haunting. Throughout many haunted houses are clowns chasing every victim and awaiting a chance to scare even more‚ instead of performing tricks to light up children’s faces. Haunted houses aren’t the only things that have popularized clowns

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    Journal of American Medical Association‚ 282. 875-880. du Pre ’‚ A. (2000). Communicating about health: Issues and perspectives. Mountain View‚ CA: Mayfield Publishing Company. Granick‚ S. (1995). The therapeutic value of laughter. USA Today Magazine‚124‚ 1-6. Walsh‚ J. (1928). Laughter and health. NY: Appleton.

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