this article reflects the mythical story of “kaveh and zahak” from ferdowsi’s shahnameh in the “rajol-e siāsi” short story, written by sayyed mohammad jamalzadeh in his “yeki bood-yeki nabood” (“once upon a time”) collection, and discusses the similarities of the two. the foundation of the “kaveh and zahak” tale is the eternal battle between “good and evil” and, as the greatest and the most pal...

The roasting technique is a joke that aims to comment on or criticize people in an entertaining style. This study analyze the delivery of criticism through stand-up comedian Kiky Saputri state officials. qualitative research method uses virtual ethnographic approach by conducting interviews with six informants. researchers were participatively involved comment’s column YouTube account Stand-Up ...

You may have seen (and ignored) reports in the popular press regarding an article purporting to discuss the relationship between the upcoming American election and strategies in a well-known card game [1], proving that Poe’s law is alive and well. However, this work by Jonathan Falk and Andrew Gelman is a satire of the biases and framings found within certain types of offending research that st...

Written in 1931 and published the following year, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a dystopian—or anti-utopian—novel. In it, the author questions the values of 1931 London, using satire and irony to portray a futuristic world in which many of the contemporary trends in British and American society have been taken to extremes. Though he was already a best-selling author, Huxley achieved intern...