Satire

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Satire

Satire is something like irony in a sense but it is not. Satire is a critique gesture towards persons to help change bad habbit or ways. In the small essay of "The the impotence of proofreading" by Taylor Mali proofreading and grammer is being satirized by not knowing how to check over your work. The way it is being satirized is by the person who wrote the story did not learn from his or her mistakes there for is made a joke of in the selection because of repeated mistake. The change that was needed to be expected was to not keep current habits with grammer and spelling so that you wont be seen as a idiot in the future when people already criticsized you for the better in which he or she should change. One example from "The Impotence Of Proofreading" would be when he stated "I needed a place that would offer me intellectual simulation, I really need to be challenged, challenged dentally." That made absolutely no sense by the gramatical error the reader loses focus in what you are really trying to say. Or in some cases the reader might pick up a different meaning in what you are really trying to say for example "So I needed to improvement or gone would be my dream of going to Harvard, Jail, or Prison". What the reader was trying to say was he was going to improve so he can have a chance at is dream colleges Harvard, Yale, or Prinston. Just by his grammatical errors it led to him naming them jails and would make the reader think that's where he wants to go ( jail , prison ) if he doesnt improve his mistakes. Yet that isn't the case he beleives in not changing his bad habbits therefore you start to find his mistakes humorous.

In the article "Onion" my reaction towards this is a little furious. The reason why is because this article explains a deadly virus called Ebola and while CDC director Thomas R. Frieden led the emergency press conference about this virus he couldnt find a good side to this tradgesty so he then finds a alternative to a better side by offering free ice cream to everyone in attendance of this free giveaway of ice cream basically making people lose track of what's really going on. The change for me that will need to be expected is to stop digging ino the ice-cream and start digging into a answer for this deadly virus. Our lives are at stake the last thing I would want to be worried about is some milky neopolitan while my life is at stake.

In the article "Advice to Youth" Mark Twain 1882 he is very specific in all the advice he hands out and is very literal and if not he stressed the wrong morals. For example when he gives advice about violence and guns he gives a example of a kid picking up a old gun that isn't loaded and points it at a sibling at point blank range but nothing happened because it wasn't loaded. The satire I see in this example is that Mark Twain stresses the moral of staying away from old guns rather than staying away from guns in general. He loses the main focus trying to be specific within the example he has given. Another example would be when he expresses that you should wake up with a lark everyday.It was hard to tell whether he meant wake up early with the bird or wake up with the intention to be spontaneus and go out on a limb. He doesn't express that therefore it is entirely bad advice.In conclusion he wasn't making his messages clear to children for them to grasp and make use of it.

In the article from Newshoggers it shows a man accused of being a terrorist for no real evidence rather than his nationality. This stemmed of the paranoia the U.S had of terrorist being able to make nuclear weapons. The torture they put this man through is unbearable and is very unfair. They sent him to several torture prisons just of the strength of suspicion. I find this satirical because they didn't handle their situation correctly and now they have a prisoner who is totally innocent while a potential terrorist can be roaming.

This cartoon is satirical because it shows how U.S was supposed to help Sudan with the genocide that is going on. As expressed in this cartoon the U.S thought they said they were called on for "pesticide" as an excuse for why they took so long too send help too them. This is very creative.