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
Much Ado about Nothing: A Comedy of Love and Marriage Much Ado About Nothing. A play written at one of the high points of Shakespeare's career as well as one of his most popular. Now seen as prototype for fleshing out his styles, plots, and character types in his later tragedies and comedies, Much Ado About Nothing includes many fantastical characters and underlying themes. A story progressing through the invention and passing-ons of misunderstandings tying in to a young woman's marriage scandal
just stories made up in their head that is constantly being manipulated my media and societies teachings. A famous philosopher Walter Lippmann once said “The only feeling that anyone can have
(point) By depicting the gods that the audience so devotedly believed them at their lowest beneath the supremacy of birds, the play provoked a response from the audience that went beyond simple comedy. (evidence) After explaining how the new city is blocking sacrifices from reaching Olympus, Prometheus informs Pisthetaerus that, “The barbarian gods, who are dying of hunger, are bawling like Illyrians and threaten to make an armed descent upon Zeus…
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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