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A Good Bullet Comedy Violence And All The Terrible Things That Make Us Laugh
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Download or read book Good Bullet written by Freddy Syborn and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bullets are violent. Jokes are violent. Can either be used for good? What is 'good'? A Good Bullet will make next to no effort to answer the last question because it's too hard. But it will have a crack at asking why and how sex, war, history, death, insecurity, hatred and loss - all the good stuff - make people laugh.
Download or read book The Nurses written by Alexandra Robbins and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller. “A funny, intimate, and often jaw-dropping account of life behind the scenes.”—People Nurses is the compelling story of the year in the life of four nurses, and the drama, unsung heroism, and unique sisterhood of nursing—one of the world’s most important professions (nurses save lives every day), and one of the world’s most dangerous, filled with violence, trauma, and PTSD. In following four nurses, Alexandra Robbins creates sympathetic characters while diving deep into their world of controlled chaos. It’s a world of hazing—“nurses eat their young.” Sex—not exactly like on TV, but surprising just the same. Drug abuse—disproportionately a problem among the best and the brightest, and a constant temptation. And bullying—by peers, by patients, by hospital bureaucrats, and especially by doctors, an epidemic described as lurking in the “shadowy, dark corners of our profession.” The result is a page-turning, shocking look at our health-care system.
Book Synopsis How to Tell a Joke by : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Download or read book How to Tell a Joke written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everyone knows that Marcus Tullius Cicero was one of the great statesmen, lawyers, and effective orators in the history of Rome. But did you also know he was regarded as one of the funniest people in Roman society as well? Five hundred years after his death, in the twilight of antiquity, the writer Macrobius ranks him alongside the comic playwright Plautus as the one of the two greatest wits ever. In this book, classicist Michael Fontaine, proposes to translate selections from Cicero's great rhetorical treatise, On the Ideal Orator (De Oratore). That larger work covered the whole of rhetoric and effective public speaking and debate. However, contained within it, is a long section focused on the effective use of humor in public speaking. In it, Cicero is concerned not just with various kinds of individual jokes, but with jokes that are advantageous in social situations. He advises readers on how to make the most effective use of wit to win friends, audiences, and achieve their overall ambitions. Cicero wants to teach his readers how to tell a joke without looking like a buffoon, and how to prevent or avoid jokes from backfiring. Hence, he does give scores of examples of jokes-some of which are timeless and translate easily, others that involve puns in Latin that challenged the translator's creativity. But overall, this work brings to the fore a little known, but important part of Cicero's classic work."--
Book Synopsis On the Translation of Swearing into Spanish by : Betlem Soler Pardo
Download or read book On the Translation of Swearing into Spanish written by Betlem Soler Pardo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audiovisual translation has attracted the attention of many researchers in the years since it became recognised as an academic discipline with an established theory of translation. For its part, cinema is one of today’s most powerful and influential media, and the vast number of US films translated for Spanish audiences merits particular academic attention. This book presents an analysis of the insults from seven films directed by the North American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino – Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill (vols. I and II), Death Proof, and Inglourious Basterds – and how these insults have been translated from English into Spanish. One of the main reasons for building a corpus of this nature was to document the way Tarantino’s work is dubbed, and, using concrete examples, to describe the reality of translation and provide linguistic material with which to study dubbing, the most widespread translation modality in Spain. In an analysis of this nature, Tarantino’s films offer an interesting opportunity from a social perspective because of the exceptional number of insults they contain: 1526 insults have been recorded, classified and analysed in the preparation for this book. The magnitude of this figure is evidence of Tarantino’s constant use of swearwords, regardless of what his audiences might think, and whether or not they might sometimes prefer not to hear such a steady stream of foul language. Furthermore, his popularity has been achieved precisely because he refuses to allow distribution companies to alter his dialogues in any way, or modify the violence of his scenes, making Tarantino’s films of particular interest to the reader.
Book Synopsis Stray Bullets Vol. 5 by : David Lapham
Download or read book Stray Bullets Vol. 5 written by David Lapham and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Runaway Virginia returns home to the very unloving arms of her widowed mother. An outcast at home and at school, no one can imagine just how far sheêll go to protect herself and her new friend, Leon. Collects STRAY BULLETS #31-41
Book Synopsis Anthology of Black Humor by : André Breton
Download or read book Anthology of Black Humor written by André Breton and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first publication in English of the anthology that contains Breton’s definitive statement on l’humour noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism, and his provocative assessments of the writers he most admired. While some of the authors featured in The Anthology of Black Humor are already well known to American readers—Swift, Kafka, Rimbaud, Poe, Lewis Carroll, and Baudelaire among them (and even then, Breton’s selections are often surprising)—many others are sure to come as a revelation. The entries range from the acerbic aphorisms of Swift, Lichtenberg, and Duchamp to the theatrical slapstick of Christian Dietrich Grabbe, from the wry missives of Rimbaud and Jacques Vache to the manic paranoia of Dali, from the ferocious iconoclasm of Alfred Jarry and Arthur Craven to the offhand hilarity of Apollinaire at his most spontaneous. For each of the forty-five authors included, Breton has provided an enlightening biographical and critical preface, situating both the writer and the work in the context of black humor—a partly macabre, partly ironic, and often absurd turn of spirit that Breton defined as "a superior revolt of the mind." "Anthologies can aim to be groundbreaking or thought-provoking; few can be said to have introduced a new phrase—or a new concept—into the language. No one had ever used the term "black humour" before this one came along, unless, perhaps, it was from a racial angle."—The Guardian Andre Breton (1896-1966), the founder and principal theorist of the Surrealist movement, is one of the major literary figures of the past century. His best-known works in English translation include Nadja, Mad Love, The Manifestoes of Surrealism, The Magnetic Fields (with Philippe Soupault), and Earthlight. Mark Polizzotti is the author of Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton.
Book Synopsis The Batman Who Laughs (2018-) #6 by : Scott Snyder
Download or read book The Batman Who Laughs (2018-) #6 written by Scott Snyder and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True happiness begins in the heart. Our memories and emotions can play tricks on us, though, and divert oneÕs reality into something completely different. The Batman Who Laughs has based his entire worldview on this very concept, and it is in this moment that he must finally confront the one man who stands in his way, the one man who could complete or halt his planÉthe last Bruce Wayne. It is here, on the home turf of Wayne Manor, that Bruce relives the happiest moment of his lifeÑthe moment he became the Batman Who Laughs. Will Batman be able to outthink the Dark Multiverse version of himself and stop his most sinister end? Or will the original Dark Knight succumb fully and let go of his morality? While good almost always wins, this issue is the start of something moreÉsetting up a larger plan based in the ultimate betrayal of infection, loyalty and true happiness. This is not the endÉitÕs only the beginning.
Download or read book The New Witness written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995 by : Clinton, William J.
Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995 written by Clinton, William J. and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Book Synopsis Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States by : United States. President
Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States written by United States. President and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton by : United States. President (1993-2001 : Clinton)
Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton written by United States. President (1993-2001 : Clinton) and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1995, Bk. 2, July 1 to December 31, 1995 by :
Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1995, Bk. 2, July 1 to December 31, 1995 written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the papers and speeches of the 42d President of the United0 States that were issued by the Office of the Press Secretary during the period July 1 to December 31, 1995.
Download or read book Chambers's Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts by :
Download or read book Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Youth Violence Prevention by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Download or read book Youth Violence Prevention written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document presents witness testimonies and prepared statements from the Senate hearing on youth violence, strategies for its prevention, and the appropriate role of the federal government. The hearing stresses the need for a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach for youth violence prevention strategies and more coordination by the federal government. Opening statements are included by Senators Glenn and Akaka. Witnesses providing testimony include: (1) Louis Stokes, Representative from Ohio; (2) Gregory McDonald, U.S. General Accounting Office; (3) Carol Beck, high school principal; (4) Marc Wilkins, Police Chief's Youth Task Force, Washington, D.C.; (5) Curtis Artis, Police Chief's Youth Task Force, Washington, D.C.; (6) Leonard Eron, University of Illinois at Chicago and American Psychological Association on Violence and Youth; (7) Adele Harrell, The Urban Institute, Washikngton, D.C.; (8) Donald Schwarz, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; (9) Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Harvard University; (10) Gail Breakey, Hawaii Family Stress Center; (11) Ray Miller, Ohio House of Representatives and Ohio Commission on Minority Health; (12) Ronald Slaby, Education Development Center, Newton, Massachusetts and Harvard University; and (13) Renee Wilson-Brewer, Education Development Center, Newton, Massachusetts. Prepared statements of the witnesses; a prepared statement of Chukwudi Onwuachi-Saunders, Centers for Disease Control; relevant articles from the "New York Times"; and charts submitted from the Centers for Disease Control are appended. (NB)
Book Synopsis Laughing Fit to Kill by : Glenda Carpio
Download or read book Laughing Fit to Kill written by Glenda Carpio and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reassessing the meanings of "black humor" and "dark satire," Laughing Fit to Kill illustrates how black comedians, writers, and artists have deftly deployed various modes of comedic "conjuring"--the absurd, the grotesque, and the strategic expression of racial stereotypes--to redress not only the past injustices of slavery and racism in America but also their legacy in the present. Focusing on representations of slavery in the post-civil rights era, Carpio explores stereotypes in Richard Pryor's groundbreaking stand-up act and the outrageous comedy of Chappelle's Show to demonstrate how deeply indebted they are to the sly social criticism embedded in the profoundly ironic nineteenth-century fiction of William Wells Brown and Charles W. Chesnutt. Similarly, she reveals how the iconoclastic literary works of Ishmael Reed and Suzan-Lori Parks use satire, hyperbole, and burlesque humor to represent a violent history and to take on issues of racial injustice. With an abundance of illustrations, Carpio also extends her discussion of radical black comedy to the visual arts as she reveals how the use of subversive appropriation by Kara Walker and Robert Colescott cleverly lampoons the iconography of slavery. Ultimately, Laughing Fit to Kill offers a unique look at the bold, complex, and just plain funny ways that African American artists have used laughter to critique slavery's dark legacy.
