Satire is not only common in essays, but is also used a lot in various forms of media. It is very frequent in movies, advertisement, the internet and on television. Through satire, a person is able to make fun of a serious problem to bring out the seriousness of it. Satire also makes a silly problem appear to silly to all. Satire is the use of sarcasm, or irony to scorn of deride a particular subject.
Satire is very common in various forms of writing. Satirists use this form of writing to bring out the stupidity in many different subjects. This form can also enhance a serious subject. For example in the essay, “A Modest Proposal,” it suggests that the people of Ireland eat babies in order to stop poverty and stop the overpopulation. The author makes the idea plausible by using a serious tone and facts that make the suggestion seem like one that would work. This essay is a clear example of satire in modern society.
“The Onion” is also a satirical piece of writing. “The Onion” is a newspaper that has a sole purpose to mock and make a joke out of popular subjects in society. The newspaper can take a simple subject and show all the flaws in it. This newspaper also takes a certain subject or person and makes a completely new situation out of it.Important and news worthy events are riddle with unusual humorous writing style-the Onion drips with sarcasm in every of its report. The stories are not for the faint heart. No wonder they state it on their website that the newspaper is not intended for people under 18years old...you have to be mature enough to digest the content right. As Cuthbert Zweibel, VP of Client Relations of The Onion explained in his PR release: “… please keep in mind that the Onion is not like other newspapers. We do not bow to ignorant and self-righteous notions of censorship. We don't knuckle under to pressure from the community unless it is sufficiently profitable. In short, we refuse to be manipulated, and we absolutely refuse to be stupid. There is also an excellent chance we harbor intense hatred for our readers.”The Onion newspaper is “America’s finest news source”. With 2,251,643 followers on Twitter, you have no argument about how much people actually read it. It is a newspaper for the sad eyes. When feeling depressed by CNN news burst and the almost non-stop trickles of bad news on the normal media, pick up something unusual- read a copy of the Onion newspaper and celebrate the Press Freedom in the US. But remember, you are not to fall for the stories hook, line and sinker. But allow them crack you up. As you flip from page to page, you might find tears welling up your eyes because of the ridiculousness of the stories. Like a cut onion, it will bring tears to your eyes.
There is a great Reddit thread on The Onion’s migration from Drupal to Django. The Onion was one of the companies that I interviewed for the Drupal for Publishers report. One of the things I mention in the report is that The Onion was running on an early version (4.7) of Drupal. The Onion was one of the first high traffic sites to adopt Drupal and the team had to hack the Drupal core to achieve the scalability that they needed. While versions 5 and 6 of Drupal made substantial performance improvements, The Onion’s version was too far forked to cleanly upgrade.
Still, The Onion benefited greatly from using Drupal. They were able to minimize up-front costs by leveraging Drupal’s native functionality and adapt the solution as their needs changed. Scalability was a challenge but it was a manageable one. Even though forking the code base was not ideal, it was a better alternative than running into a brick wall and having to migrate under duress. The Drupal community also benefited from the exposure and learning that came from The Onion using Drupal. Everybody won &mdash how often can you say that?
I can understand the choice of Django 1.1 (current) over a hacked version of Drupal 4.7. Having built sites in both Drupal and Django, I can also see the appeal of using a Django over Drupal 6.16 (current). Django is a more programming-oriented framework and The Onion has programmers. Django is designed to be as straightforward and “Pythonic” as possible. Drupal tries to make it possible to get things done without writing any code at all; and if you can avoid writing code in Drupal, you should. As a programming framework, Drupal has more indirection and asserts more control over the developer. The Onion’s staff of programmers clearly appreciate the programmatic control that Django affords and they are quite happy with their decision.
Satire is not only common in essays, but is also used a lot in various forms of media. It is very frequent in movies, advertisement, the internet and on television. Through satire, a person is able to make fun of a serious problem to bring out the seriousness of it. Satire also makes a silly problem appear to silly to all. Satire is the use of sarcasm, or irony to scorn of deride a particular subject.
Satire is very common in various forms of writing. Satirists use this form of writing to bring out the stupidity in many different subjects. This form can also enhance a serious subject. For example in the essay, “A Modest Proposal,” it suggests that the people of Ireland eat babies in order to stop poverty and stop the overpopulation. The author makes the idea plausible by using a serious tone and facts that make the suggestion seem like one that would work. This essay is a clear example of satire in modern society.
In conclusion, the use of satire in modern society has increased more and more in the past few years. To express the satire in a persons essay, they will use various tools such as tone and diction. Satire can be good or bad depending on the subject it covers and how effective it is.
