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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Black humor"”.
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Laughing Back: A Phenomenological Study of Disability Humor Using Culturally Responsive Methodologies
… people have not been viewed as innovators of humor because disability is associated with tragedy. My dissertation challenged the association of disability with tragedy by positioning disabled comedians as educators and ambassadors of disability rights. I reviewed the literature on disability …
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The Dilemma of Existence in the Nuclear Age: Four Views
… from various positions: theism, existentialism, black humor, and humanism. They deal with six common themes: war, God, human relationships, love, truth, and personal sacrifice. Conclusions. The central message of each of the four novels is optimistic. Although circumstances lead man near despair, …
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Šokiruojamosios reklamos retorika /
… poverty, abortion. Social advertising text has “black” humor elements; in this kind of advertisement dominate informative, direct sentences, rhetorical questions and exclamation. Commercial advertisement often oversteps ethical and moral norms. Here we can see dominating blood, death, …
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Designing Educational Video Games and Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Drill-Based Training
… endings that are realistic but with a sense of black humor. The second project was to teach vocabulary for objects located in the player’s immediate vicinity. The key design challenge was to guide learners to interact with learning materials in the physical world. To meet this challenge, I …
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Puncturing the Silence: Painting Over the Found Photograph
Set up as a visual investigation, the research explores how the addition of paint and graphite materials onto the surface of found and discarded photographs, creates a visual and conceptual disjuncture by punctuating and altering the temporal frame of the photograph. The research is positioned in …
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The fiction of Erskine Caldwell
… worst years of the Depression, yet whose rich humor demonstrated that comic perception and harsh realism were not mutually exclusive. His ribald stories of grotesque rural Americans baffled by the world about them, narrated with calculated understatement, inspired critics to link his name with …
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Potentiale des Komischen in der Holocaust-Literatur der Postmemory-Generation
… selbst hinterfragt und Kategorien wie Groteske, Humor, absurde Komik und Zynismus einer Analyse unterzogen. Diese Veröffentlichung geht zurück auf eine Magisterarbeit am Institut für deutsche Literatur der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin aus dem Jahr 2006/07.