This poem uses the idea of giving and taking orders, but it turns it into something funny. It is funny because he is throwing the words back in the ladies face in a way. ... In the poem the lady was probably also testing his patience, by not saying anything and that's why when he asks "what next" that's why she says now its your turn to give the orders, showing him just to wait. ...
John Stossel, with ABC News, conducted a test with the help of researcher Campbell Leaper, of the University of California. The test showed how boys and girls deal with people differently. ... They also tried another test by wrapping a "disappointing gift," which was a pair of socks and a pencil, in nice paper. ... The girls generally said that they were, "nice," when the boys described themselves as, "talented," "smart," "good at math," or "funny," but rarely said nice" (Stossel). According to Witt, "both funny and nice are good, but often girls are too eager to be nice, and boys too direc...
When asked why she was laughing, the young girl replied that it was an object in the room or a person in the room that had done something funny. ... In the cartoons, there were cartoons determined to be funny by a previous control panel, as with all of these humor tests. Included with the humorous cartoons, were ones that were not meant to be funny or evoke a humor related response. ... The left posterior group scored well on all tests. ... It was also noted that they could not choose the correct, funny punch line out of the four choices available to them. ...
In this essay, I will indulge your senses and fill your mind with some of the most funny, memorable, moments in my life. ... At first I hadn't meant to be funny, but when everyone started laughing I realized what I had said and began to laugh as well. ... These few ways to make people laugh were tested and proven to work by me, so don't frown, be a class clown. ...
Now I find it funny that our own U.S. armed forces doesn't buy it's pharmaceutical products from the U.S. but from Mexico and Canada. ... I know from first hand experience that this program is really just slowing down teachers even more because instead of getting the children where they need to be they have to implement all these new strategies and try to prepare these children for this test. ... So let us say that we get an influx of Hispanic students that speak very little English but they still have to take the test in English with no translator and no on...
The movie Bruce Almighty is a perfect example of a well done comedy because of the acting of Jim Carrey, the funny situations and well thought out theme. ... Carrey's flawless acting and style leads to many funny situations in the movie. ... Since he had just received his powers, he decided to test them out a bit. ... A movie that only tells jokes or only puts people into funny situations, leaves the audience with nothing but a witty punch line to use on the first person they see. Bruce Almighty however, uses brilliant acting, funny situations and a well thought out theme that bring...
The Simpsons exploit problems of the world today in a funny way, which allows people to relate to many of the issues. ... Hopefully the children can laugh at the characters for doing funny and crazy thins, while the sarcastic issues are only understood by the mature viewer. ... In the middle of the test, Bart switches his with the test of the class nerd. ... Then, after a very bad science experiment, Bart reveals to his new principal that he cheated on the test. ...
An example is when some colleges are saying no to hundreds of white males and then admitting hundreds of minorities with lower grades and test scores and who are not even college ready. ... More specifically, "The university's law school is the defendant in a reverse discrimination class-action lawsuit over the practice of admitting minority students with lower grades and test scores than whites" (Internet). ... On a side note, a funny thing is, when the affirmative action law was passed, is it known that those very lawmakers exempted themselves? ...
Many may say that that isn't true, but believe me, when everyone's laughing at Homer, for giving his son Bart a twenty dollar bill after failing a math test, or when Marge leaves Maggie in a shopping cart and totally forgets about her. ... It seems that the major T.V. networks are trying to support these funny, dramatic, and simplistic sitcoms about dysfunctional families. ... It is clear that the whole basis of the sitcom's humor lies in the contrast between the American image and reality, which is funny, because not to many families are that different than Malcolm's, whic...
Dwayne was a new type of creature being tested by the creator of the Universe. ... Dwayne seeks an answer from Trout and he finds it in one of his novels: "Dwayne Hoover read on: "You are surrounded by loving machines, hating machines, greedy machines, unselfish machines, brave machines, cowardly machines, truthful machines, lying machines, funny machines, solemn machines," he read. ... He reads the following: "You are surrounded by loving machines, hating machines, greedy machines, unselfish machines, brave machines, cowardly machines, truthful machines, lying machines, funny machin...
The audience that I shared the pleasure of attending this outrageously funny version of history telling was a very diverse group. ... Having studied history on and off through my academic years I have learned that I would do the required amount of memorization and forget the tables of facts right after the test. ... All cultures and experiences are in history and the more we as a people know about the history of the world, even if funny or comedic, history and its mistakes will not repeat themselves. ...
Although reading books is not my favorite thing to do, and I usually only read books because I have a quiz or test over them, Fallen Angles was a book that I could really get into and I ended up reading every chance I had because it was so intense and I wanted to see what was going to happen next. ... The book was very sad at times, when people that you got close to in the story died, but the story was also very funny at times because Peewee was so goofy. ...
For our social psychology experiment we decided to test if talking loud in a quiet environment will get people to respond to that break in the social-norm. ... Did you find this situation funny? ... Did you find this situation funny? ... He said that he did not find the situation funny because they were being rude. d. ... She said that she found it a little rude that they were yelling so loud and that it was not funny. e. ...
Schools are no longer teaching to the student, they are teaching to test. This brings into play the commercialization of education and the amount of money that is being spent on the current standardized tests and teaching for these tests. ... Another point to be made regarding the standardized testing is that these tests cost money. ... In the same form, students need to be educated, not prepared for a test. ... He is thorough, funny and to the point. ...
Even though his grades were poor in junior high, when he took the standardized tests he was accepted to Central High School, which was a school for all the gifted children in Pennsylvania. ... He soon traveled to New York to test out his real comedy skills. ... He soon signed a contract with Warner Brothers to make a comedy album called, ABill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow . . . ... He is very funny and I want to be like him some day. ...
The results found that amongst teens drug use has gone down and for eighth graders its been the lowest since 1993 and for sophomores since 1995. 2 The which this study tested were ecstasy , lsd, nicotine, alcohol and marijuana. ... For example teens might answer to try to be funny or impress peers around them. Teens also might get nervous or scared that others might see the results thinking what if my mom sees these results I could get in trouble this would cause them to alter the results of the test causing them to give the end result poor validity.3 Studies or evidence found in the pas...
Year in and year out, millions of school aged kids across America read through their school's required reading list with the anticipation of agonizing essays and treacherous tests. ... Salinger's novel which The New Yorker calls, "A brilliant, funny and meaningful novel," is the second most taught book in American high schools. ... The Catcher in the Rye deserves this standing because it withstands the test of time by still being relevant to the modern day teenager . ... The Catcher in the Rye deserves the standing of being the second most taught book in American high schools beca...
The answer to this riddle is an animal that has undergone chemical testing. I know that that wasn't funny, but I needed some sort of attention grabber. ... The question on animal testing was posed as early as the 17th century. ... A major issue of today is the cruel acts against test animals in class rooms and labs. ... Scientists continue perform inaccurate and outdated tests that prove no benefit to humans or animals. ...
Many times the people convicted as witches were given tests to see if they were really witches. One of their test was to take a broom and jump off an edge of a hill. ... Another test that was some what the same as the broom test was the water test. ... No test that was given was a fair test because the person always was killed. ... In the town where Sawyer lived, any funny activity that happened to people, animals or even their land was looked at as an act of witch. ...
Guillermo in a funny and maybe in a silly way, started waving the ticket pretending that he would not give it to her. ... Guillermo never got a blood test to check up the alcohol level in his blood, but this did not stop the policeman to press charges against him under this argument. ...
There is a stereotype in this country that effects young drivers. This stereotype is factored in especially during the pricing of car insurance. Every video and movie you see with young people driving a car they are required to listen to the over bearing parent telling them oh about 1000 rules on ...
When a student who just aced a test hears people talking about how they did horribly on it, he or she will feel good about themselves and might want to brag about it. ... So when the students who did bad on the test hears the student bragging about how well they did, it may motivate the student who did bad to do better so that they can brag about how good their score was the next time. ... Funny to think how one thing can change all that......
