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..The judgement of taste is not a cognitive judgement...and hence, also, is not grounded on concepts, nor yet intentionally directed to them." The judgement of taste on the "Blue Collar Comedy Tour" is that which produces laughs, not that which necessarily matches up with the values expounded by syndicated radio host "Dr. Laura" or "Miss Manners" in the newspapers.
James P.T. Fatt, "Why do we laugh?" Communication World 15.9 (1998): 12-15.
Jeroen Vandaele, "Humor Mechanisms in Film Comedy: Incongruity and Superiority," Poetics Today 23.2 (2002): 221-228.
John Morreall, Taking Laughter Seriously (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983) 15-16.
Jeffry H. Goldstein & Paul E. McGhee, The Psychology of Humor (New York:...
Saam Trigvedi, accessed 26 Sept. 2006 at http://www.aesthetics-online.org/ideas/trivedi.html.
Michael Clark, "The Rejection of Humor in Western Thought," Philosophy East & West, July 1989: 39.3, 243-265.
Sigmund Freud, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (New York W.W. Norton & Company, 1960) 96-98.
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement, "First Part: Critique of Aesthetic Judgement; Section 1. Analytic of Aesthetic Judgement; Book I. Analytic of the Beautiful; First Moment. Of the judgement of Taste: Moment of Quality. SS 5. Comparison of the three specifically different kinds of delight."
cited in turn."
In this case, the mentioning of Astroglide also comes under the "relief" theory of humor, as obviously, the panning cameras on the DVD production shows women putting both hands to their mouths in the body language of embarrassment.
Conclusion: To the comedian, the "agreeable" and the "good" is an audience howling with laughter, no matter whether the humor is in good or bad taste. And, along those same lines, in the words of Immanuel Kant, "Both the agreeable and the good involve a reference to the faculty of desire, and are thus attended, the former with a delight pathologically conditioned (by stimuli), the latter with a pure practical delight."
And as to Foxworthy and Engvall using material that certainly would be considered in bad taste in some social environments, Kant writes, "...The judgement of taste is not a cognitive judgement...and hence, also, is not grounded on concepts, nor yet intentionally directed to them." The judgement of taste on the "Blue Collar Comedy Tour" is that which produces laughs, not that which necessarily matches up with the values expounded by syndicated radio host "Dr. Laura" or "Miss Manners" in the newspapers.
James P.T. Fatt, "Why do we laugh?" Communication World 15.9 (1998): 12-15.
Francis Hutcheson, "Reflections Upon Laughter," Eighteenth Century British Aesthetics, ed. Saam Trigvedi, accessed 26 Sept. 2006 at http://www.aesthetics-online.org/ideas/trivedi.html.
Yellow Wallpaper and Paul's Case: Emancipation of Mental Captivity The two texts, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and Willa Cather's Paul's Case, portray the main characters with hysteria. Both cases are reactions to the pressures put on them by their families as well as the society. They seem to build mental barriers that cannot be brought down, so called safe heavens, escape from harsh realities and this puts them
Adolescent Substance Use Screening Instruments: 10-Year Critical Review of the Research Literature Over ten million teenagers in the United States admit in a national survey that they drink alcohol, although it is illegal under the age of 21 in all states. In some studies, nearly one-quarter of school-age children both smoked cigarettes and drank alcohol. Over four thousand adolescents every day try marijuana for the first time. The dangers of use,
Dangers linger in any relationship where one party holds power and the other party gives it. Any student of leadership, must recognize that tripwire, and assiduously avoid it through correctly recognizing the dangers that abuse of power can bring. Works Cited Bass, B., Atwater, L., & Avolio, B. (2008). The Transformational and Transactional Leadership of Men and Women. Applied Psychology, 5-34. Beverly Alimo-MetcalfAlban-Metcalfe, J., Bradley, M., Mariathasan, J., & Samele, C. (2008).
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Women and men vary not only in their choice of language but also in their conversational behavior. Differences have been found in turn-taking (who speaks when), expressivity, the selection of topics, and the use of humor. Men have been found to take more turns and to talk more in mixed groups, in part because they interrupt women more often and answer questions not addressed to them. Turn-taking violations may take
Children's Books Of Robert Munsch Robert Munsch is known as a children's author who writes books that appeal to both kids and adults. His universal appeal makes his books worth considering to determine how he achieves his effects. An analysis of three of Munsch's books will now be completed. These books are Stephanie's Ponytail, Andrew's Loose Tooth, and 50 Below Zero. All three of these books were illustrated by Michael Martchenko.