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PLEASE REVISE THIS ESSAY OF MY ROUGH DRAFT. I ALSO ADDED ANOTHER PAGE THAT PROVIDES THE THESIS STATEMENT NEEDED AT THE END OF THE INTRODUCTION PARAGRAPH. I WANT TO CHANGE THIS ROUGH DRAFT BY TALKING ABOUT HOW COMEDY AFFECTS SOCIAL CHANGE ESPECIALLY WITH SOCIAL ANXIETY, ETC. FAILURE TO WRITE EXACTLY WHAT IS NEEDED WILL RESULT IN A NEGATIVE REVIEW. PLEASE READ EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![Last Name] 1 Oksana Villeda Nicole Warlich English 100 03/09/2021 Essay 1 Rough Draft In the Rhetoric of Humor, In the article, “Native American Stand-up Comedy.” It’s fascinating to know that comedians objectives are more than just to make people laugh, they also use their humor to influence others to acknowledge the true realities of what goes on in the world today. Using humor, especially irony and sarcasm, it helps advocate critical thinking to open debates about serious situations that are not discussed openly. Often, a comedian may use topics such as racial inequalities in their act to spread awareness on racism. Take Comedian Dave Chapelle for example, in his show, “The Chapelle’s show,” he exemplifies humor as a tool of social advocacy in response to the climate and the historical legacy of racism in the United States. In this quote, he states, “The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.” And it is true, in order to spread awareness on an issue, you have to push boundaries, you have to make the people uncomfortable. It’s the only way that makes people think because it forces them to look in the mirror and confront the realities that we’d usually prefer to ignore. In the article, “Perspectives on Comedy and Performance as Radical Disability Activism,” The writer has chosen comedy and humor as a way of bonding with an audience to promote critical thinking and dialogue around the meaning of disability. He talks about the unemployment rates of people who suffer with impairments and disabilities and explains how https://www.inspiringquotes.us/quotes/xSCq_I6UnY3JK https://www.inspiringquotes.us/quotes/xSCq_I6UnY3JK Nicole Warlich 77740000000059040 Source? The specific source of this quote needs to be cited Nicole Warlich 77740000000059040 Be sure to give the essay itself a title (not the title of the assignment). No italics or underline on title Nicole Warlich 77740000000059040 Thesis statement? Im having a hard time identifying a specific thesis statement in this draft. Be sure that the last sentence of the introduction paragraph directly answers the question of the prompt Nicole Warlich 77740000000059040 Dont summarize the text in the topic sentence of a body paragraph. Introduce your claim. What specific point of argument in support of your topic sentence will be proven in this body paragraph? Nicole Warlich 77740000000059040 Confusing paragraph development. It seems like you have two introduction paragraphs here instead of just one. The second paragraph is also focused on introducing your topic/point, not proving it. Remember that you should have one introduction paragraph introducing your topic/argument and that contains your thesis and every body paragraph should directly prove your thesis statement Nicole Warlich 77740000000059040 This paragraph reads like an introduction paragraph, not a body paragraph. If you keep this content in your essay, it should be pN ,-.... < - - \J\ -- ~ )( ~ I\ - ~ ~ • ~ N \) U\ -· ~ NWhen the Truth Hurts, Tell a Joke: Why America Needs Its Comedians Roger Cohen and Ryan Richards Humanityinaction.org “Humor is a rubber sword – it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.” -Mary Hirsch, Humorist In perhaps his most famous sketch, African-American comic Dave Chappelle plays Clayton Bigsby, a blind white supremacist who has never learned that he’s black. In one scene, Bigsby rants about hating African Americans: “First of all they’re lazy, good for nothin’ tricksters, crack smokin’ swindlers, big butt havin,’ with their wide noses breathin’ all the white man’s air. They eat up all the chicken, they think they’re the best dancers, and they stink.  Matter of fact, my friend Jasper told me one of them coons came by his house to pick his sister up for a date.  He said ‘look here n*****, that there is my girl. If anyone is going to have sex with my sister it’s gonna be me!’” Many people see comedy like this as merely funny, but there’s more there than just a laugh.  Beneath the humor lies a rich layer of social commentary about race relations in the United States. While comedians will make everyone uncomfortable at some point, good comics are playing an important function in society by holding up a mirror and forcing us to confront realities that we would often prefer to ignore. For minority groups, humor also serves as a tool to neutralize the power of stereotypes that obstruct their path to equal participation in society.  Stand-up comedy can give social critique and instigate transformation in a way that leaves many audience members wanting more. Comedy, especially stand-up comedy, regularly draws criticism for being offensive and for perpetuating negative stereotypes. This, however, is a sign of a healthy comedy culture because it means that comedians are pushing social boundaries. Stories and expressions that are normally unacceptable are met with laughter and agreement when they are told on stage. The fact that the content is encrusted in humor is like a sugar coating to bitter medicine. The laugh takes away the sting. “Comedy is a tradition with deep historical roots,” explains Dr. Cynthia Merriwether-de Vries, a sociology professor at Juniata College who specializes in humor, music and popular culture. “Evidence of jokes based on race and other groupings can be traced back at least as far as ancient Europe, with court minstrels mocking the stench of the Visigoths. We have memos from Medieval Europe warning that a certain jester’s jokes about the Habsburgs were going too far and beginning to affect political relations.” In today’s America, the minstrel still performs his duty, only now his audience has expanded from kings and courtiers to the general public.  Venues such as Comedy Central, a cable television station dedicated exclusively to humor, have gained an enormous viewership in recent years.  Proof of the prominence of comedy in popular culture has been the enormous success of Dave Chappelle’s Show on Comedy