{"id":23361,"date":"2023-07-07T18:25:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T18:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/onsider-how-your-personal-experience-of-comedy-and-humor-has-affected-the-way-you-meet-challenges-in-your-life\/"},"modified":"2023-07-07T18:25:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T18:25:44","slug":"onsider-how-your-personal-experience-of-comedy-and-humor-has-affected-the-way-you-meet-challenges-in-your-life","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/onsider-how-your-personal-experience-of-comedy-and-humor-has-affected-the-way-you-meet-challenges-in-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"onsider how your personal experience of comedy and humor has affected the way you meet challenges in your life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 5px 0px; font-size: 13.333332061767578px; cursor: auto;\">For this assignment, please write a brief, but focused, discussion in which you<strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>consider how your personal experience of comedy and humor has affected the way you meet challenges in your life<\/strong>. Specifically, share an example of an instance when humor helped you (or failed to help) in a challenging situation, using the ideas we have encountered in our reading for this class to explain why.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px 0px; font-size: 13.333332061767578px; cursor: auto;\">Your essay should refer specifically to<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">at least (3) comic theories or strategies described in the readings from the first 3 weeks,<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong>that explain or contextualize your response to the situation you\u2019re describing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 5px 0px; font-size: 13.333332061767578px; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Essay Specifications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; font-size: 13.333332061767578px; cursor: auto;\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 6px; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">3-4 pages in length<br style=\"cursor: auto;\"><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 6px; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Write in standard English<\/strong>&nbsp;and try to make sure each paragraph has a specific topic sentence and point. (If your example contains offensive language, it&#8217;s OK to reproduce it. Only I will read these. But please approach the material in a mature, academic manner.)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 6px; cursor: auto;\">For this essay, it\u2019s acceptable to use the first person.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 6px; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Make logical connections<\/strong>&nbsp;between the articles you&#8217;re referring to and your own discussion.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 6px; cursor: auto;\">If you quote directly from the articles (you don\u2019t have to, but you may), use MLA format and cite the appropriate page number.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 6px; cursor: auto;\">Create a&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Works Cited&nbsp;<\/strong>page listing each of the readings you refer to.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 6px; cursor: auto;\">Give your essay a&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">title<\/strong>&nbsp;that says something about your specific thesis.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 6px; cursor: auto;\">Convert&nbsp;your document into a .pdf file and upload via the above title link.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this assignment, please write a brief, but focused, discussion in which you&nbsp;consider how your personal experience of comedy and humor has affected the way you meet challenges in your life. 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