Many may say that that isn't true, but believe me, when everyone's laughing at Homer, for giving his son Bart a twenty dollar bill after failing a math test, or when Marge leaves Maggie in a shopping cart and totally forgets about her. ... It seems that the major T.V. networks are trying to support these funny, dramatic, and simplistic sitcoms about dysfunctional families. ... It is clear that the whole basis of the sitcom's humor lies in the contrast between the American image and reality, which is funny, because not to many families are that different than Malcolm's, whic...

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I sat there in the midst of my father's shadow, I watched him as he spoke to an unknown man about the papers he held out. Black slacks, a white collared shirt with a black tie, he seemed professional. The pen scribbled along the bottoms of the paper. "I'm sorry, the man mumbled, lowering his eyes to...

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At the end I had to deal with racism and stereotyping that other kids think is funny because you don't fit in. ... When they went to school in Pakistan they had to study day and night out of the textbook and still flunk the test and then they would study more. ... Whenever I had a big test or something they would have told me to go to my room for like a week and stud and after the test was over they would tell me study some more for no reason. ... Later on it became a very helpful excuse if I did not want to do any chores or go anywhere I would just simply tell them that I have a test tom...

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But the funny thing is, I don't remember walking into a hospital and telling a nurse there was something wrong with me. ... A nurse walked in and decided to check on everybody and do a blood test. ...

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I believe that our earliest childhood memories play a part in influencing our future career; it's certainly true for me. Every summer my family and I used to take a camping trip on Fourth of July weekend. The summer camping trip in 1990, was the year my career path was put in place. Music to my ear,...

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During Lear's test of love, she calls out her sisters, claiming that they couldn't possibly love the king as much as they say because they already have husbands; "why have my sisters husbands if they say they love you all?... The fool was expected to be controversial, to voice is opinions in funny clever ways. ...

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