{"id":248,"date":"2024-08-12T13:52:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T13:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/?page_id=248"},"modified":"2025-06-02T01:57:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T01:57:21","slug":"humor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The humor project was a lighter way to end out he year for English. We learned about many humor techniques by analyzing various things many of us found funny. In the case of Mr. Grecko, that meant reading Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s <em>Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children&#8217;s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death<\/em>. We then drew from our own inspirations to create our own humorous production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My production was a mock speech. Inspired by the relatable character building of <em>Calvin and Hobbes<\/em>, and the normal yet poisoned structure of <em>The Onion<\/em>&#8216;s satire, I wanted to take on the role of a new principal. Both Mountain View and Los Altos got new principals recently, and there were many unpopular changes made. Even if intentions were good, they failed to communicate why the students should think the changes were positive. I picked an absurd change for the shock factor, while trying to make my character feel as misguidedly well-intentioned as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Humorist Analysis &amp; Proposal<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Avrahami_Noam-Humorist-Study.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Avrahami_Noam-Humorist Study.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-afc4cb8a-702a-4e5b-a372-c5d6bae62382\" href=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Avrahami_Noam-Humorist-Study.pdf\">Avrahami_Noam-Humorist Study<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Initial Script<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Avrahami_Noam-Humor-Script.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Avrahami_Noam-Humor Script.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-339d6144-4367-4ee1-811d-2fbb0a6e4094\" href=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~NoamA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Avrahami_Noam-Humor-Script.pdf\">Avrahami_Noam-Humor Script<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Final Performance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"24 25 p9 Humor Celebration NoamA\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3s9x6w89l10?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The humor project was a lighter way to end out he year for English. 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