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Ugly Americans

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Student Reflection & Course Assignment

 When Creativity, Mythology, and Postmodernism are added the results are most often Humor. How does a postmodern multi genre object take on the significance to be enjoyed and to also cajole the political truths in the magical postcolonial universe? If we pay attention to how the elements are interrelated we then learn that Humor is away to navigate the tricky political problems of early twenty first century life. We then might find many of our political ideas unsettling. In this essay I look at how Mythology, Magic realism and humor can be deconstructed and interrelated to arrive at an understanding of the others in a fantasy milieu.

 The outcomes from this artifact:

Organization skills

Decision-making skills

Description Course Assignment:

 Humor Journal Assignment

Resources Needed:               Various sources of comedy; sense of humor

Assignment Overview:

This project is a humor journal that you will keep throughout the course. Each week, students will record those experiences, stories, television shows, pictures, comics (and so forth) that they find humorous. Students will describe, analyze, and evaluate these examples of humor. Students should be prepared to share some examples with the class.

Assignment Detail:

Part One:

1. Pay attention to humor throughout the week.

2. Record those experiences, stories, television shows, pictures, comics (and so forth) that you find humorous. Include the example in your journal when possible.

            a) Describe or summarize the experience, event, or media.

            b) Evaluate how the experience, event, or media made you feel.

            c) List the characteristics of this experience, event, or media that made this funny to you.

3. Prepare to share at least one example each week with the class.

4. Bring item to class, when possible.

Part Two:

1. Discuss one of the following questions in your journal each week. In two or three paragraphs, analyze and evaluate your perspective on a different question for each week.

            a) What is the role of tension in humor?

            b) How might the “chemistry” of personal interactions become sources of humor or laughter?

c) What personality characteristics account for the behavior of “clowns” or humorists who initiate comic experiences?

d) Why are some people more responsive than others to potentially funny events, showing their appreciation by laughter?

            e) How do we know whether someone is actually responsive to humor?

f) Are the characteristics of those who initiate humor different from those who appreciate humor?

g). Do the different forms and purposes of humor have different effects on their intended audiences?

h). What circumstances quash the humor of a situation? 

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