During this satire project we learned many types of satire. Some of the different types of satire include: juvenalian, reversal, incongruity, parody, horatian, and exaggeration satire. My group worked on reversal satire. Reversal satire is when an author subverts a situation to present an inversion of how things really are back to the reader. When …
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Year review
One of my favorite and most interesting lessons that we went over was clutter. I think this was a very helpful lesson. I learned a lot that will help me in college when writing papers. It can be also be beneficial when writing resumes and doing work in future jobs. Even though clutter was my …
Brave New World
Some things in Brave New World that I learned is how society is portrayed in the novel. People in the society of Brave New World are born from test tubes in a lab and are conditioned to follow standards to which they were created. People are also always happy. There are no emotions in society, …
Hamlet vs The Lion King
In Hamlet and The Lion King there were many similarities. The main characters are sons of the rulers with uncles that want to rule the kingdom, both rulers were murdered, both sons left and then came back to do the right thing. The differences in Hamlet and The Lion King are that simba’s mother never …
Canterbury Tales
In the Canterbury Tales most of the religious peolpe have greed. One for example is the Pardoner that sold fake relics to poor people so he could keep the money for himself. Another example is the the Nun who did not share her left over food with the peoplein need but gave the food to …
Field of Dream
In both Beowulf and Field of Dreams both charaters followed their instincts. People doubted them on their jouney but they continued anyways. Field of Dreams the setting is in Brooklyn NY and Beowulf takes place in Denmark. In Beowulf most of thier journey took place on foot and on boat. In Field of Dreams their …
My First Blog Post
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.