Imagine Cervantes writing a parody today. Select some form of written communication that you image he would relish lampooning, and then write a parody of your own. You many choose from such forms of writing as the memoir, the business memo, the advice-column letter, the political-campaign speech, or a Facebook page entry. Before you begin writing your parody, decide what the target of your satire will be. Then, use one or more of Cervantes's tools--exaggeration, verbal irony, incongruity, humorous imitation--to write a parody of you
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Daren A.
12/2/2012 11:22:47 pm
A response to the Presidents signing of H.R. 1540
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Luke Narug
12/3/2012 03:51:08 am
The teachers are to blame for what is happening to our teenagers. Teens these days are out of control. Running around in the streets, doing drugs, having sex, All because teachers don"t care enough. Teachers just give hours and hours of homework a night, and the actually expect the students to do it!! All they are doing is making our teens rebellious. The parents complain because the students don't want to go to school, and have no motivation to get good grades. The guardians are saying that they have lost control of their kids, and that they try to talk to them and counsel them but nothing works. " Punish them?? how could we? they are just kids" Teachers, you are the reason our kids don't graduate and go to college. Not the parents, not the media, not even the students themselves, YOU!
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River S.
12/3/2012 06:58:42 am
Long curly ginger hair, it’s quite ridiculous. Where is the sense of fashion in that? It looks like a mop dipped in orange, yellow, and red paint. Any person with hair like that must be the most non-athletic, country loving, golf playing person on the planet. They probably wouldn’t know anything about skateboarding or real football (soccer). A person with this look on his head would most likely be short and obese, a person who probably could barely walk, someone who isn’t creative, or funny, or nice and wants to be friends with all. This sounds like the most repulsive person that has ceased to exist.
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Michelle
12/3/2012 09:55:15 pm
Such a person cannot exist. A being who acts differently than they feel. It is impossible! No one can hide their true thoughts, ideas, and feelings from the rest of us. A person acts how they feel. So, we all know the feelings of the people around us. How could anyone have a deeper meaning...a second layer...other thoughts than what we all observe? No! Everyone is what they seem, simple to understand, everyone is truthful to others and themselves. We are just that simple.
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I am an African-American, Mexican-American: I am blaxican. My only purpose in this world is to make white Americans feel inadequate by being more athletic, having more opportunities, being favored as a rare minority and doing their jobs for a cheaper rate. Yes I come with all the best qualities of the two cultures; I have the strength of 5 men, I can jump a fence in a single bound, I cook, I clean, I can read and pic up languages such as Spanish, French, and English quicker than a white man can. I even come house broken. But wait there’s more; I come pre-motivated to provide quality work so as to afford spinning gold rims for my grandfather’s beat up old truck. I may attract more gangs than an oversupply of drugs, but I make up for it by being a great shot despite having seemingly poor eyesight when you ask me to find something. Your valuables may go missing but that’s a small price to pay for a smooth talking athletic arm candy to show off to your neighbor Clarisse, whom you know intentionally didn’t send you a Christmas card last year, (that skank). Garden work, pool cleaning you name it I’ll do it, and in the cheapest ways so as to earn your favor. As well I am not responsible for any flirting your teenage daughter or her friends conduct with me and will most likely not spurn their advances and may even, and I admit in poor judgment, be persuaded to buy them alcoholic beverages for the sake of intimate favors: as I have not been with a women the entire time I've been in your employment, to the best of your knowledge.
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Aldon P.
12/5/2012 03:09:03 am
With woo of a thousand men I succeed in my work. To be able to manipulate and get what I want somewhat like a troll under the bridge. It’s my way or the highway, it’s because I am never wrong. Standing as tall and proud among my peers my confidence soars like a chicken gliding through the skies. How can I never be wrong I sometimes ask myself, as if writing this I could possibly be straying from the task. No, never if I am doing this it must be correct. You win in life from never being weak, from never taking anyone’s garbage. I take what I want and don’t let others get in my way. In some words to describe it quoting a famous scholar Charlie Sheen “I am winning”, this is my view on life. I love doing all my work spending hours on end studying the material even if it’s useless. Who needs things that could help me in life when I could learn how to calculate to the exact millisecond for how long it will take for my coffee to cool? This is where real success is, kids in foreign countries go to college to study exactly what they are majoring in, but they are missing out on the fun of all those other classes and courses that they won’t need for their job future. Me I just love work, in school my favorite times are when teachers give me stuff that is unimportant. I just feel more motivated than a sloth to get right on that. And nothing compares to the quality of teaching our American society is given the rest of the world is going to be so far behind if there ever is a job in making music videos, or at least that’s what I learned from my amazing geometry teacher. All and school is my favorite place to be its my temple of studying, the one thing they could do to ever improve it would be remove my social disruptions from my studies.
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De'Jean Clement
12/5/2012 06:57:38 am
He's a hero and everyone's their own of villain, but school is everyone's maze. He fights off the government quiz with flying colors, but only prepares for the next battle. Hero sharpens wooden spade to surely mark his foe. One must mark the correct vitals to ace the beast. Four dungeons a day he roam, and the train hist take back to haven.
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De' Jean Clement
12/5/2012 07:04:59 am
He is a hero and everyone's their own villain, but we all travel through education's roof. He slays gov test with flying colors, but he must prepare for his next encounter. Sharpens wooden spades to mark his thin foes; one must aim and mark a beast's correct vitals to ace its monstrosity. Four realms a day he roams, and noon time takes his train to his haven.
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Sarah S.
12/5/2012 08:12:37 am
A #firstworldrelationship
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Hayle S.
12/5/2012 11:40:24 pm
A memoir:
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Grace
12/6/2012 03:05:08 am
A message from the Landfill political party:
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Monica B
12/10/2012 09:30:39 pm
The Modern Society
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Nicholas
12/11/2012 03:28:37 am
Car company "US AUTOs," the largest manufacturer of both economic and gas guzzling vehicles, recieved grants to build cars that drive themselves on crowded highways. CEO of US-A, John Smith, said that his "idea which will turn the whole America for the better, and was completely [his] idea, is of astronomical proportions and will set all other not American auto companies behind twenty steps." The Cars are noted for their excellent performance at low speeds and excellent crash results (45% of crash subjects were able to go home from the hospital after only six months), and also noted for only having just 72 out of 100 rides with malfunctions. The US government allowed 23 billion dollars in research for US-A, and CEO John Smith says "the money was used very efficiently, with 100(cough-cough)% of the money (cough) used for the right purpos(COUGH)es. This car is seen as one of the possible best cars ever to hit the American pavement, and return at least 45 out of 100 people home after a family trip!
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Patrick S.
12/11/2012 05:47:46 pm
Stranger #1
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Deniz Ozer
12/12/2012 06:02:40 am
It was a myth they had said. Nothing could surpass the current they had said. There is no possible thing that could surpass this beautiful creation. Many said “What he have now is sufficient”, “If there is any change, It could change the way people see the world”. But this new plan, was not only diabolical and set to enslave yet another generation into its technology. It was also going to be the biggest change in a previous product that has ever occurred before. So without further ado, we are now presenting to you the most innovative product of 2012, the IPhone 5! With all new features, including a screen that is now a colossal inch larger than the IPhone 4S, three more completely useful applications for your leisure and a whole new design on the back of the phone to create a more dynamic grip! What else would you need than more grip on your phone? Yes, you thought of it, another color for the phone! We have now also designed a new hue that is not just grey, but it is so aesthetically pleasing that even we did not want to release it. So throw away the phone you bought over this long period of one year, and come spend your 600 dollars most efficiently on this epic design!
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Josh Y.
12/17/2012 05:25:09 am
#Technology
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Ryan Patten
12/19/2012 06:45:12 am
Response to the world ending, 21st of Dec.
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Konnor W
12/20/2012 10:25:58 pm
The generation today is brilliant. No other way to put it. They have a firm grasp on the world around them, with each individual adding to the creative assembly of the minds with deep insights into the world around them. Examples of modern day philosophers can be found spanned across the global net, with special books designed to pull the text from such a web. Certain spots on the web such as the "Book of Faces", The "Tube of Yoo", "BirdNoise", and "YourPlace". At such a place, each scholar will give daily insight into the thoughts on the life that they are experiencing, letting each of the readers learn from the situations at hand. I feel that without the daily comments of such wizened people, that the life we live would be dull, monotonous and full of lackluster episodes.
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