Satire
Overview
In the North Shore Central School District on Long Island,NY, English students in the High School have the option of doing an Honors by Achievement Project. For this project, the topics and finished products vary greatly. My name is Aaron Greenberg and I am sole editor of this page. I am currently (99/02/25) a sophomore at North Shore and for my English Honors Project I chose the topic of satire.
The Project
In September, students were given the opportunity to be Honors candidates. The requirements to achieve Honors, is to have an overall average of above or equal to 87 and to complete the Honors Project. The Honors Project is chosen on an individual basis, and must be approved by your English teacher. My topic is satire. The focus of my project is a comparison of satirical ancestors such as Jonathan Swift, to biting comedians like George Carlin. This page will give an analysis of the chosen satirists and their works, and will give a brief history in order to broaden your knowledge on them, and it should also help to give you an understanding of their views. This is also a project in conjunction with Computers.
For the computers part, we were required to pick a topic, and do all the writing for it in a text-editor. Then we put it into ClarisHome page and were graded on the text edited pages, and the final project. The work involved in this project was rather extensive. For primary sources I read books, such as Candide and Gulliver�s Travels, and listened to comedy routines by George Carlin and Denis Leary. I also read several secondary sources, which mainly consisted of analysis and opinion of their work. I enjoyed this project, because it was a motivation to learn HTML and it also made me less ignorant to these great satirists/authors. I anticipate that I will read more of their work in the future, and I look forward to more comedy routines by George Carlin and Denis Leary.
E-mail me with any comments/suggestions/questions [email protected]
The links below go to the respective pages that they indicate.
Home
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Voltaire (1694-1778)
George Carlin (1937-)
Denis Leary (1955-)
About Me (1983-)
Overall Analysis (What I Learned)
Works Cited
Two notes to the user:
1) This web page may contain offensive language to the type of people who support a government that burns books and kills its political enemies. If you are offended by free speech, leave.
2) To use the audio files on this page your browser must support MPEG3 files. If it does not, the program can be obtained here ftp://209.0.254.40/pub/winamp/winamp222.exe. It is a rather small file (632K), and I recommend it to anyone who us