WHY I WILL FOREVER BE STUCK CLEANING THE LITTERBOX-youtube link

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WHY I WILL FOREVER BE STUCK CLEANING THE LITTERBOX

For my WEPO project

Satire..,why sensitive people shouldn't read it

A satire is essentially a way for people to ridicule a shortcoming of a thing, idea, person etc. with the intent of shaming that said item into improvement. This differs from regular humor and parody. Humor is just that...meant to make us laugh without really seeing the issue involved or to let us laugh at an issue without really trying to solve it. Parody essentially will make mock, make fun, or parodize something that has already been created (think about my keyword assignment and the examples I used. That essentially is a parody).

I would assume that an author would use a satire to get his point across even more than just the use of humor. By using humor, you're only slightly pick at the pathos argument. Using a satire you are literally THROWING your opinion of an issue into someone's face and ridiculing that issue in the hopes that the reader will get them to change the issue.

However there are some drawbacks. One is, is that they won't take you seriously and just laugh it off before going onto something else. Another would be that you would appear cynical and people would end up getting defensive over the issue and try to find flaws in your argument. There is a thin line between getting the point across or just shoving it into the face of the reader to the point where they will get annoyed and toss the argument out the window.

The job of people who use satire is to find that line and stay on it.

Laughter is the best kind of medicine

What do I find funny? Oh the stuff I could list.
But I can say that dry humor seems to fit me the best. I love the sarcasm associated with it and how most of the time it is normally voice by a British guy (their accents are SO adorable) or actor/actress. But I do love any type of humor...though I tend to stay away from gross humor. I can do slightly gross, but extremely gross and *shudder* bleugh. I would think that the rhetorical value of humor is more of a pathos argument to get the audiences attention and to persuade them through the use of laughter.

However there is a time and place for humor. You can't expect to have an argument about 9/11 and then joke about it. People are likely to be offended and won't take the rest of your argument, no matter how logical or ethical it gets. 

Doctor Cat comic strip analysis

(Doctor Cat comic)

I've read comic's ever since I was a little girl. I was always interested in the ideas of superhero's and extreme battles that no human could ever do without snapping their backs in half. Even now I love reading comics, though now I mostly read manga and plenty of webcomics (one for example is the one shown above). The comic above in using the terms I learned, the images are definitely more iconic than realistic. The faces are simplified to show a more cartoonish. I would think it would have been difficult to have drawn realistic images of Doctor Cat, and the minor human characters and the humor involved with a cat who is a doctor. The simplified cat also becomes a cute icon, which I doubt would be as cute if the cat looked realistic. I believe that what the artist used in transitions, was mainly action-to-action and subject-to-subject. In this strip the text and the words work together to show Doctor Cat's problem and insecurities of being a cat who is a doctor and is unable to use hands to do a surgery, however it also shows his resolve to prove those in his past wrong. The text is also simplified almost in an iconic way so it doesn't seem too show-offy. The text also tells the story of this page.

Hypermediacy

In Bolter and Grusin’s chapter Remediation: Understanding the New Media they consider remixing (called hypermedia) to be the artist’s way of defining a space through the disposition and interplay of forms that have been detached from their original context and then recombined, while the consider remediation to be the defining characteristic of the new digital media by identifying a media in a different spectrum; digital. Now that is a complete difference to Walter Benjamin in our previous readings, who saw the idea of media being reused and mass produced  as a negative (but unfortunately for him a necessary) thing. Bolter and Grusin however see it as a positive connotation and a way to express to the audiences that are consumed by hypermedia. They also differ from their belief. Benjamin believed that an audience needed to take in the art work and fast paced moving art didn’t affect the audience. Bolter and Grusin believed that because of the population and their need to get things done, that they want their art to affect them quickly. And I agree with Bolter and Grusin. We live in a face paced society where the time to slow down is very rare in a person’s life. As much as I would like to “lose myself in a painting” society won’t let me.

Good Ol' Uncle Sam

In the poster Uncle Sam, the message to join the military is clearly stated. He points at the observer or the audience to draw them in and make them feel singled out and as though Uncle Sam is talking directly to the audience. Then the text posted on the poster is all in caps-lock as though to scream his message across to the audience and makes them feel even more singled out.