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    see a horse and a carriage ride up to the café. On the balcony of the cafe we see multiple white tables with wooden chairs and a street lamp on the wall under a mezzanine. Van Gogh uses many shapes such as a rectangle to outline the pillars of the building or the outlining of a door and its window. Van Gogh also uses violet and blue in the sky and the stars are painted yellow with a light blue tint around them. The wall of the café gleams of yellow from the light in the lamp. The shutters of the

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    and the present. One person’s secret can lead to countless more secrets and problems‚ and before once can realize it‚ they could be living their lives in a lie. The character Jack‚ also known as “Ernest” creates a lie about himself in the Importance of Being Earnest that ultimately causes there to be chaos. While Jack chooses to continue his lie‚ it results in others to lie‚ and he causes people to change how they view him. When one person deciders to take the path of secrecy‚ it will consume

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    as well. Huck and Jim run across each other on the Mississippi River and grow together morally day by day as they trek across the Mississippi River to the free states. Huck and Jim’s encounters with people ranked all over in society and Twain’s use of satire exaggerates the faults in these people‚ who are representative of society.

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    Satire is a sort of glass‚ wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own” (Swift). Jonathan Swift‚ a satirical writer during the eighteenth century‚ made an excellent metaphor revealing that satire is written in such a way that the author exposes only what they want the reader to know. This same metaphor reigns true even today in modern satirical writing within the structure‚ tone‚ and what the writings are used for; dependent upon the point of view‚ I personally choose

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    The Purpose of Satire

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    The Purpose of Satire In most of the Franklin’s biography Franklin utilizes the humor and creates satires in order to help the public review certain norms in their society. Franklin employs humor as tact to point out the flaws in the obvious of certain policies‚ ideas‚ and concepts. For Franklin‚ his spec writings often point out issues he sees in the norms by describing them to the extremes. Humor is a gentle technique to get people or followers to certain ideas‚ activities or to look deeper

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    Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray

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    Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray received immediate criticism when it was published in 1890‚ being described as contaminated‚ unclean‚ and nauseous. The criticism stemmed from the challenges that were made by Oscar Wilde regarding Victorian morality. The novel was written in the aesthetic era‚ an era where authors attempted to reverse the role of art‚ to have no purpose besides being beautiful. Critics of the novel did not like this idea‚ fearing that it would corrupt readers‚ specifically their

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    Thank You for Smoking is a both fierce and sophisticated satire written by Jason Reitman. The moral of the film is on the matter of cigarettes and cancer and how it is associated with the responsibility of choice. Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart) leads as a lobbyist for Big Tobacco who will fight to protect America’s right to smoke -although it may kill him and others. Nick does not take sides in the matter‚ but rather spins the situation around in which makes all others wrong. Although the realistic

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    Horace’s Satires

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    Horace’s Satires Writing satires established Quintus Horatius Flaccus‚ poet and philosopher‚ as the quintessential free thinker during the time of Augustus (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus). Horace’s satires‚ apparently humorous‚ tackle social issues in such a way that his said satires have remained of interest from when it was first published to modern day. The reason I refer to Horace’s satires being apparently humorous is that I find it difficult to detect the humour. British humour

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    Environmental Satire

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    Environment Satire It has come to my attention that our nation is in the middle of earthweek. At a time when we all stop‚ as Americans‚ and take a look at all of the great accomplishments we have made that we could have possibly overlooked while running around with our busy schedules. We recognize our efforts to create powerful industries and production plants that produce endless chemical compounds and new materials. The discovery and use of fossil fuels‚ of which has fed our automobiles and

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    In his novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ Mark Twain uses satire to criticize different aspects of society. The book follows an unruly boy named Huck and a slave named Jim throughout their adventures. During one episode‚ Huck lives with a wealthy family called the Grangerfords. While living with them‚ Huck is informed of a feud between the Grangerford family and the Shepardson family that had been going on for some 30 years. Over that time‚ many people from each family had been killed in the name

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