One joke that i’m sure everyone here knows is why did the chicken cross the road.(pause) Why’d he do it? Was it a choice that he made? Was there something on the other side that it was going for and it wanted to reach it?(pause) No matter what the reason was, what if this road was middle school and the chicken was one of us. I came to McAuliffe in 6th grade but a little late in the school year, not knowing anyone except one or two people, and still was barely friends with them. And I didn’t really
What effect does a question about a chicken crossing a road have? The question of why a chicken crossed a road appears to have first been posited in the New York periodical, Knickerbocker in 1847. Written then, as follows, “There are 'quips and quillets' which seem actual conundrums, but yet are actually none. Of such is this: 'Why did the chicken cross the road? Because, it wants to get to the other side” (Anon). The question seems valid, the answer seems apparent. Suggesting a futility of effort
waiting for my wheels to be re-rubberized. When I mentioned a discount because of the tires I traded in, the dealer shook his head without emotion and handed me the bill, which included a five dollar disposal fee! I was getting an education on the road courtesy of the hard knocks of experience. I wanted my van painted, but aside from the cost, it would require sanding, and I would have to lay over a couple of days. I decided to save time and money and suffer the consequences. Kingman was my destination
father went hunting , and did not return. " Where is my mother?" Hiccups muttered, over and
Activity Center. Of course I did not want to go down to that old, creepy, cold building after hours. It was a Friday night, and those torturous finals had finally came to an end. Spending the first night of that long, difficult semester at that place was not my plans. Sleeping, eating, and watching television was the kind of night this college student had in mind, but mother had other boring plans for her child. Hearing my mother’s nagging voice was not an option. If I did not come, she would have been
questions to force their pupils to slough reason in favor of sudden enlightenment. Koans are designed to be nonsensical, shocking, or humorous. So are koans serious or fun? Another good question, but a strikingly Western one. Why must seriousness and fun be mutually exclusive? Why are we so serious about whether seriousness and fun are mutually exclusive? All koans. We Americans can learn a lot by studying these little buggers. Pure Reason has failed to answer questions of how, or more importantly, whywe
Dynasty. The Silk Road was a network of trade routes and the first marketplace that allowed people to spread beliefs and cultural ideas across Europe and Asia. Merchants and traders of many countries traveled technologies, diseases and religion on the Silk Road; connecting the West and East. They also imported horses, grapes, medicine products, stones, etc. and deported apricots, pottery and spices. The interaction of these different cultures created a cultural diffusion. The road consisted of vast
realized that I was a chicken. (M) I was both a bird that can’t fly and a human that is too scared to face reality. I knew I couldn’t ride down that hill and I knew that stealing was wrong yet I was too scared to stop myself and did it anyway. I spent the rest of the trip watching the other kids play and when I returned, my friends swarmed me asking what had happened. When I told them, they all laughed at me, everyone expect Karma. I didn’t look Karma in the eyes but when I did I felt like crying because
rehearsed soliloquy for my constipated consumption (usually in iambic pentameter) to which I’d stoically cluck: “Uh-huh.” It’s best for the chicken hearted not to wave one’s wattles or ruffle too many feathers, when walking on eggshells;
weapons. Soon the peasants became what you know now as ninjas! And over time the peasants took control over their land again. Ninjas were known for having supernatural powers such as walking on water or even teleporting! No one knows for sure how they did these tricks, but there are many theories on how this happened. Ninjas will be forever remembered for their braver and their super natural abilities! Now the Chinese have much more folk lore! There are some Chinese zodiacs that will tell
this. But, then I would have to tell Luke he was right and that is one thing I did not want to
Vietnam where he was captured and held as a P.O.W. The red convertible symbolize the relationship that Lyman and Henry had together. The brothers purchase the red Oldsmobile together that represents their relationship and sense of adventure. “Don’t ask why because we never mentioned a car or anything, we just had all our money. Mine was cash, a big bankroll from the Joliet’s insurance. Henry had two checks-a week’s extra pay for being laid off and his regular check from the Jewel Bearing Plant (134-135)”
other countries. A good example is that China is notorious for its dog-eating culture. Dog-eating is strictly prohibited by laws in America whereas it is absolutely acceptable in China. People in China think dogs are the same as other animals, like chicken and cows which can be eaten. In contrast, pet culture is well-known in western countries, and we think dogs are adorable so they have to be protected. Hong Kong, as an independent part of China, does not support but strongly discourage the dog-eating
Spanish music, paired with other string instruments can be heard playing in the background. As the scene develops the audience gets more cross cuts and close up shots of what looks to be the preparation of a meal; carrots peeling, water boiling, chickens getting skinned and other things of that nature. Turns out that the blade was actually being used to kill chickens for this meal, suggesting that the film must take place in rural area or somewhere far from civilization where the people must fend for
read when his father took him to a phrenologist who predicted he was going to have a career in food. In 1917 Ray Kroc, only 15 years old at the time, lied about his age to join the Red Cross as an ambulance driver. While in the Red Cross he was in Company A, which was the same company as Walt Disney. He did not make it to Europe, however, because the war ended too soon. After the war he became a piano player. In 1922 he had also become a salesman for the Lily Tulip Cup Co. While a salesman he
life. Almost simultaneously the reader is introduced to older brother Henry Junior and the shiny red Oldsmobile convertible they bought on the spur of the moment together. The rising action of the story begins when the two take off one summer on a road trip that ends them in Alaska. When they arrived home, it was conveniently just in time for Henry to be drafted for the army. Just months later in early 1970 Henry was fighting in the Vietnam War and Lyman was had the red convertible in his possession
amusement are combined to give both frightening and funny atmosphere. The identity of Stanley is destroyedby a torrent of verbal abuse from Goldberg. Such serious accusations like “He killed his wife” are put against trivial and ludicrous one like “Why do you pick your nose?” this creates a combined effect of bathos and comedy simultaneously. Pinter effectively blends the comic overtones with latent brutality in this play; therefore, comedy and menace coalesce at the level of dramatic situation. To
so afraid of dentists that when he walked into his checkup, he fainted. He thought to himself and was very embarrassed that he fainted. He would cuss himself out and hit himself. Finally, he told the dentist he had a monster toothache. The dentist did not see anything wrong but Lemon kept insisting. The dentist then pulled out a perfectly good tooth. Lemon was all smiles after his experience. This shows that Lemon was neglected as a kid when he went to the dentist. He was cruel to himself and just
CHAPTER- 2 COMEDY OF MENACE: FORMS OF REPRESENTATION The term ‘comedy of menace’ is applied to a group of plays in which comedy is intertwined with elements of tragedy. The term was first used by David Campton as a subtitle of one of his plays, The Lunatic View: A Comedy of Menace. Though both comedy and tragedy are based on incongruities and contradictions, the driving force in comedy is humour and the driving force in tragedy is horror and menace. In comedy the humour is generated through dramatic
them to be. On any account the distance assumes that the runner does not get lost, which is a rarity at the Barkley. The course is run on a variety of surfaces, none of which come close to ideal . Around 10% is run on rough dirt roads while 10% is run on old dirt roads which are now overgrown with grass. Approximately 20% is run on rough trails with 40% being on old abandoned trails which are said to be easily mistaken for the deer trails that are actually better. The remaining 20% is run on no