Essays Tagged: "Laugh"

Fickle Fisherman

t it was fair sized.But the guy beside me didn't seem to think so he looked at it and gave a little laugh and kept on fishing. I really didn't know what to think, was he laughing at something i didn't ... k a look. The fish was about half the size of mine but it was a carp not a catfish. I gave a little laugh and continued and he tried to explain....'well you see boy, a carp is a hell of alot harder to ...

(2 pages) 25 0 4.8 Sep/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Happiness, definition

happiness.One meaning can be explained when someone tells a joke. If one finds the joke funny, they laugh. This condition of happiness is the most temporary one, for it only lasts a moment. No one wil ...

(1 pages) 772 13 3.7 Mar/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

A trip to El Salvador

the usual names; William, Victoria,Anna, Maria and Joseph. It was so enchanting to see their faces laugh when they heardme say their name. It is so nice to know you are welcomed in another country.It ...

(2 pages) 136 1 3.6 Mar/2002

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays > Travel Descriptions

Death of the Superstars

ething to see what the music of today would be like. I was reading a book awhile back. Don't laugh, I read sometimes. It was a book from I'm sorry to say, Stephen King. All right I'm not sorry. ...

(5 pages) 101 0 4.6 Mar/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

"A Day in the Death of Joe Egg" - Joe Penhall 'As a director, explain how you would create comedy for your audience from the serious subject matter presented in this extract.'

g out the comedy in this extract by, firstly, casting two people who have an ability to make people laugh by doing hardly anything. There are people who can send an audience into fits of laughter by s ... Bri's reaction of 'whisky first, Freddie after' is easy for the audience to empathise with and thus laugh at. I would ask the actor playing Bri to say this line as if it were preposterous that the whi ...

(2 pages) 97 1 4.4 Apr/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

This essay talks about evil, and how it's inside all of us. It makes references to Macbeth and Lord of the Flies

Since the beginning of time, people have pondered the existence of evil. What makes people laugh at other peoples' mistakes? What makes a little kid relentlessly pick on the outcast? What fue ...

(3 pages) 44 0 3.0 Sep/1995

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Lord of the Flies" by Sir William Gerald Golding

Shylock Antisemitism

inter and summer/ as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?/ If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you/ poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" -Shylock, II.i. ... The images of Jews as blood-thirsty murderers of Jesus who snatch innocent Christian children for slaughter in bizarre Passover rituals seems to provide a potent back-drop for the demonic traits heap ...

(4 pages) 77 1 4.0 May/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

David Letterman

em.' He was never good at anything until high school. 'All I ever knew how to do was to make people laugh. In high school I was the class clown, making fun of everything and everyone.' This personalit ... inding him he was going to fail, and not encouraging him to take his natural ability to make people laugh to their limits. She hated the idea of him going to California to work in a comedy club there, ...

(4 pages) 47 0 4.7 Jan/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

The Person Behind The Mask

morning a big parade was held in main street. He could see the clowns walking around making people laugh. He would watch the clowns` faces as they walked by. The big noses and the funny walks made hi ... he was supposed to be «Baltasar». Like normal he became a great success with everybody laughing of him, including the company's employees.The very next day, his colleagues were whispering ...

(3 pages) 43 0 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

The Subtle Humor of "Pride and Prejudice", by Jane Austen

idicule, and Austen makes thereaders view themselves in a way which makes it easy for the reader to laugh at themselves. Sheintroduces caricatures and character foils to further show how ridiculous a ... ich Mrs. Bennet places herselfinto. Mrs. Bennet's harsh tongue and simple mind causes the reader to laugh, because it is soexaggerated that the reader thinks that such a person cannot exist. Mr. Colli ...

(4 pages) 130 1 3.7 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

Greenpeace

e detestable. Pictures and video-recordings were manipulated with and information, that we can only laugh at, were feeded to the public.The questionable procedures that have been used in the campaigns ...

(3 pages) 57 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

This is an essay on the person who has influenced my life the most. It is titled "The Ideal Woman".

, and people were drawn to her because of it. One thing about her that stands out in my mind is her laugh. Her laugh was contagious, and when she laughed you couldn't help laughing with her.My grandmo ... so many lives was no longer with us. I would never see her smile or be able to hear her contagious laugh again.My life would not be the same without her influence. Four and a half years ago I was dia ...

(3 pages) 218 1 3.8 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

The French: creative, witty, humorous expository essay on the French people and culture, the prof. found it hilarious. Needs readeability improvements.

knowledgeable they are. They will generally break out into a triumphant cry of "Fromage!", and then laugh. Or worse, they'll itch their head and pose the question: "In Kansas, right?" Unfortunately be ...

(7 pages) 106 1 4.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Bigraphy: Bill Bojangles Robinson, his life, times and influence on the world of tap.

ew him as Mr. Bojangles, a man who would dance and smile. "He talked of life, he talked of life, He laugh-slapped his leg a step. He said the name, Bojangles, and he danced a lick, he jumped up high, ... aid the name, Bojangles, and he danced a lick, he jumped up high, He clicked his heels. He let go a laugh, he let go a laugh, I heard someone ask him please Mr. Bojangles ... dance!" (Mr.Bojangles)."M ...

(6 pages) 79 0 4.7 Dec/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts

The Scarlet Letter (Little Pearl's role in the story and how unrealistic Hawthorne made her)

s little girl, very curious as well. Even as a baby, she would point to Hester's scarlet letter and laugh, tormenting her mother. Hawthorne even says that the first thing that the baby Pearl noticed, ...

(4 pages) 61 0 5.0 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Measure Of Friendship What defining qualities in a person can measure the strength of your friendship with him or her? Loyalty, Humor and Kindness.

mor. Can your friend take a joke or will they always be insulted by what you say? Can they make you laugh and feel better when you're down? Once again you must see if they measure up to your basic sta ...

(1 pages) 155 4 3.1 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

a piece about a murder, written for my advanced writing class

ry own . . . you choose your own fate . . ."I know that."Maybe someday you'll look back on this and laugh . . . or we could all be realistic . . . after all, it's not every day somebody commits this k ...

(3 pages) 61 1 4.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Madness seems to be just around the corner..

is mind, he he just can't. And so these things just trouble his mind and his soul. And he begins to laugh, to cry, then laugh again -- for no definite reason. He loses his sanity.No one ever thought h ...

(1 pages) 720 31 3.6 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing

This is an essay about medeival medicine

at.1 Today, if someone were to go to a physician who prescribed those treatments, they would either laugh or file a complaint, because they know that those cures are ridicules and would never work. Th ...

(7 pages) 51 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Scarface. The rise and fall od a drug lord and it's protrayal of the american dream

rdinary street smart gangster, he was more, a character that audiences could at times, sit back and laugh at. His humor and passion gave him even more of a personality, and made it easier for the peop ...

(1 pages) 123 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis