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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"funny"”.
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The Funny Thing About Leadership
Humor as often been an overlooked and underutilized management tool. The relationship between leader humor expression and trust is explored herein through the theoretical foundations of social exchange theory and signaling theory. It is posited that leader humor expression leads to greater degrees …
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Consciousness In Comatose Clowns: No Funny Business
<p>Consider the tragic case of four circus clowns whose pie-to-the-face gag effectively knocks each one into a cream-pie coma. In each of the four cases, motor capacities (voluntary speech, limb movement, etc.) Are not available to the patient's conscious control. Although none of our apparently …
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Funny Games: o cinema cru de Michael Haneke
… narrativas e estéticas articuladas no filme Funny Games (1997), do diretor austríaco Michael Haneke, a fim de causar determinadas sensações no espectador. Pretende-se identificar de que forma o estupor causado por este filme, considerado violento e cruel, ao invés de sentenciar o Haneke a um …
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Seriously funny : a look at humor in televised presidential debates
The purpose of this study is to understand how humor was used in U.S. Presidential Debates and what kind of coverage it garnered in the press. A content analysis was done on the general election presidential debates from 1960-2004 and a newspaper sample of post-debate news stories to see the …
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"It's Kind of a Funny Story...": Exploring Sexual Storytelling Among College Students
Sexual health among college students is in jeopardy. College aged men and women face risks associated with sexuality because of college attendance and gender. Through storytelling, college students convey their sexual experiences to their friends and peers, though this process is predominantly …
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The serious art of funny business: a critical study of comedy in dance
There is an untapped wealth of information in both the theory and praxis of comedy in the embodied realm of dance; it is a subject worthy of serious deliberation. Tills dissertation discusses the evolution of comedy and comedic theories as they relate to modem dance and narrative ballet Comedic …
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"That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore": Humor and Trauma in Postcolonial and Black British Texts
This dissertation examines the ways in which humor and trauma function in some of the most acclaimed postcolonial and black British novels, films, and television series. Unlike other studies that focus on satire and how humor is used to establish or diminish power or defuse conflict, this study …
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What is Really Funny: Humor Ahead of Its Time in the Twentieth Century American Novel
… of who and what are allowed to be considered funny. Zora Neale Hurston’s <em>Their Eyes Were Watching God</em> (1937) gives readers a woman whose struggle for a Black female voice lands her on an informal standup comedy stage. <em>Lolita</em> (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov walks a tightrope of …
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What'S So Funny?: Satire And African American Literature And Culture In The Twenty-First Century
This dissertation analyzes the use of satire in African American literature and culture in forming a new understanding of racialization in the 1980s through the 2010s. This "post-soul" moment, defined by authors who came of age post-Civil Rights Movement, in particular necessitates humor and the …
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Funny in a Man's World: Women Comedians' Use of Political Satire at the White House Correspondents' Dinner
<p>Satire and politics are typically considered masculine fields within the societal constructs of the United States. Wanda Sykes and Cecily Strong both navigate these male-dominated worlds with their addresses at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. This analysis views these addresses through …
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Effects of retrieval instructions on children's retention for bizarre and nonbizarre pictures
… nouns as interacting in an uncommon or bizarre (funny) manner with one another whereas the other 10 pictures depicted component nouns as normally (nonfunnily) interacting. Type and timing of instructions to learn the paired-associates were manipulated. Funny-group subjects were provided with …
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"if More Women Knew More Jokes...": The Comic Dramaturgy Of Sarah Ruhl And Sheila Callaghan
… the tired question of whether or not women are funny. Conclusions usually range from, "They're not" to a few token funny women whose exceptional wit proves the rule that, in fact, women are not funny. Or, if women are funny, they have a specific, feminine brand of humor that has an almost …
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The good, the bad and the immoral : a study on morality in Icelandic comedians
… focused on giving insight into what is perceived funny, why we find something funny and the people behind the hilarity. The morality behind comedy is explored as well as the possible benefits of immorality in comedians. Furthermore, how the line can be considered as very fine between being immoral …
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Doctoral thesis recital (trumpet)
… -- Stompin' at the Savoy / Edgar Sampson -- My funny valentine / Richard Rogers/Lorenzo Hart -- Hot house / Tadd Dameron -- Joshua / Victor Feldman -- Libertango / Paquito D'Rivera.
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The Role of Attachment in the Use of Positive Emotion Regulation After Stress
… attachment dimensions. Participants saw both funny and unfunny cartoons and rated them based on preference and enjoyment. Then participants were randomly assigned to see more of either the funny or unfunny cartoons at the end of the experiment and then performed mental arithmetic. Finally, …
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Lymphomania
… again. It looks at the bright, the dark, and the funny side of illness while challenging the reader's sense of his own mortality. This blog (<a href="http://www.seegirlwrite.com">www.seegirlwrite.com</a>) will continue indefinitely and will also eventually become the backbone of a creative …
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You Didn’t Have To Be There: Evidence of Humour in the Creation and Use of Material Objects From the Near East, Eastern Europe and Mediterranean, From the Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age
… why it is important to find our shared funny bones. Through humour we gain sympathetic understandings with each other in a way that goes beyond words; indeed humour may have preceded language in our evolutionary development and has been seen in primates. Such longevity of humour suggests …
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Fantasy Library
… design as supremacy of authority, there is no funny and relax atmosphere, it's so hard to get alone with them. I wonder if there has a library can be a garden, I am trying to combine some Chinese classical garden element to my library design, create a comfortable environment for people who …
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The Toaster That Toasted The Golden Toast
… overall vision of the movie as being a genuinely funny action film produced with a high production value, and these decisions are discussed at length. Documented feedback from test audiences is also reviewed in an attempt to objectively critique the final film
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