THE RELEVANCE OF ART AND POPULAR CULTURE IN SHAPING AFRICA’S PRESENT AND FUTURE COMEDY “Humour is a feat way for us to have evolved so we don’t hit each other with sticks”, says Scott Weems, a cognitive neuroscientist, and author. (O’Hara,2016). Stand-up comedians seek to appeal their audience. Audience hit rock bottom when the tendency of humor hits them hard and provokes laughter. Humour controls human health and emotions. Listeners get to release stress and are relaxed because they are amused
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Gibson-Graham(2006) defined globalisation as”a set of process by which the world is rapidly being integrated into one economic space via increased international trade,the internationalisation of production and financial markets,the internationalisation of comedy culture promoted by an increasingly networked telecommunication system”(p.120) Globalization is a link between nations and local regions.Ther exists a connection social and economic relationshipsGlobalization can refer to those spatial and temporal
concept LIKE (same as). On this basis, interpretation of color terms can be paraphrased as follows: X is red - the color of Х is like the color of blood X blue - the color of Х is the same as the color of sky” (Wierzbicka 1992:358-359). Analyzing the studies by Kay, Mc Daniel et al., one might think that the essence of focal colors reflects certain psychological aspects and mechanisms of human perception. Other explanations connect focal colors with certain universal phenomena such as day and night (black
family is a basic social institution with multi-purpose functions. It has biological, psychological, economic, religious and cultural functions (Murdock, 1949). Emphasizing the importance of the study of family in the context of India’s modernization D. G. Mandelbaum writes: Whatever else the sociological study of society may encompass it must include family roles and relations. It is one of those centraltruisms, so obvious that it is easily overlooked, that each person lives usually for most of his
A critical study has been carried out in the earlier chapters to explore Flannery O'Connor's fictional works with respect to the study of human relationships and the nuances of the truth-seeking concerns exemplifying interesting realities. The study recorded in this thesis illustrates that there is a repetition of retreat patterns in human relationships on the canvas of the familial, societal and spiritual altitudes. In O’Connor’s fiction, human relationships are understood to be perverted and strange