https://padlet.com/Mr_Feheley/12thNighIntroPM en-us 2017-11-15 17:30:41 UTC 2017-11-28 17:02:46 UTC hello@padlet.com Mr_Feheley https://padlet.com/Mr_Feheley/12thNighIntroPM/wish/207329108 As a group, create your own box and post your answers to each of the following questions. Each answer should be at least 3 sentences and include examples from fiction. For each answer, include one source that helped you create your definition and explanation of why it is reliable. For the question of what makes something funny, include an example that you think demonstrates your definition.  We will discuss them as a class.

1) What makes something funny?



Example:

Source:
Why it is reliable:

2) What makes someone fall in love?


Source:
Why it is reliable:]]> 2017-11-15 17:33:20 UTC https://padlet.com/Mr_Feheley/12thNighIntroPM/wish/207329108 s300045380 https://padlet.com/Mr_Feheley/12thNighIntroPM/wish/209530429 Things that makes other things funny: A statement or action that the audience perceives as comical due to the context of the scenario.

Why do people fall in love?
With an irresistible cocktail of chemicals, our brain entices us to fall in love. We believe we’re choosing a partner. But we may merely be the happy victims of nature’s lovely plan. It’s not what you say...Psychologists have shown it takes between 90 seconds and 4 minutes to decide if you fancy someone. Research has shown this has little to do with what is said, rather 55% is through body language. 38% is the tone and speed of their voice. Only 7% is through what they say

The 3 stages of love
Helen Fisher of Rutgers University in the States has proposed 3 stages of love – lust, attraction and attachment. Each stage might be driven by different hormones and chemicals.
 Stage 1: Lust
This is the first stage of love and is driven by the sex hormones testosterone and oestrogen – in both men and women.
 Stage 2: Attraction
This is the amazing time when you are truly love-struck and can think of little else. Scientists think that three main neurotransmitters are involved in this stage; adrenaline, dopamine and serotonin. Adrenaline. The initial stages of falling for someone activates your stress response, increasing your blood levels of adrenaline and cortisol. This has the charming effect that when you unexpectedly bump into your new love, you start to sweat, your heart races and your mouth goes dry. Dopamine. Helen Fisher asked newly ‘love struck’ couples to have their brains examined and discovered they have high levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine. This chemical stimulates ‘desire and reward’ by triggering an intense rush of pleasure. It has the same effect on the brain as taking cocaine! Fisher suggests “couples often show the signs of surging dopamine: increased energy, less need for sleep or food, focused attention and exquisite delight in smallest details of this novel relationship”. Serotonin. And finally, serotonin. One of love's most important chemicals that may explain why when you’re falling in love, your new lover keeps popping into your thoughts.
Does love change the way you think?
A landmark experiment in Pisa, Italy showed that early love (the attraction phase) really changes the way you think. Dr Donatella Marazziti, a psychiatrist at the University of Pisa advertised for twenty couples who'd been madly in love for less than six months. She wanted to see if the brain mechanisms that cause you to constantly think about your lover, were related to the brain mechanisms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. By analysing blood samples from the lovers, Dr Marazitti discovered that serotonin levels of new lovers were equivalent to the low serotonin levels of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder patients. Love needs to be blind. Newly smitten lovers often idealise their partner, magnifying their virtues and explaining away their flaws says Ellen Berscheid, a leading researcher on the psychology of love. New couples also exalt the relationship itself. “It's very common to think they have a relationship that's closer and more special than anyone else's”. Psychologists think we need this rose-tinted view. It makes us want to stay together to enter the next stage of love – attachment.
Stage 3: Attachment 
Attachment is the bond that keeps couples together long enough for them to have and raise children. Scientists think there might be two major hormones involved in this feeling of attachment; oxytocin and vasopressin. ]]> 2017-11-22 18:51:59 UTC https://padlet.com/Mr_Feheley/12thNighIntroPM/wish/209530429 https://padlet.com/Mr_Feheley/12thNighIntroPM/wish/209530454 1. Something is funny when you can relate to it. Something can also be funny if it is random, stupid, or just plain silly. 

Example: Mean Girls, Napoleon Dynamite

2. Personalities aren't too similar, but they don't clash. You see your partner through a filter, you don't look at anyone else the same. You can't picture life without them, you love all their imperfections and flaws. It's easy for you to talk to them, you trust them with anything because you know they love you as much as you love them. ]]> 2017-11-22 18:52:08 UTC https://padlet.com/Mr_Feheley/12thNighIntroPM/wish/209530454 https://padlet.com/Mr_Feheley/12thNighIntroPM/wish/209530484 1
Something is funny when it's silly, over exaggerated or relate-able.  ]]> 2017-11-22 18:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/Mr_Feheley/12thNighIntroPM/wish/209530484 https://padlet.com/Mr_Feheley/12thNighIntroPM/wish/209530670 using different mediums in a comedic way like politics







example:
friends, the office, how i met your mothre]]> 2017-11-22 18:52:51 UTC https://padlet.com/Mr_Feheley/12thNighIntroPM/wish/209530670 https://padlet.com/Mr_Feheley/12thNighIntroPM/wish/209530699 1. What makes something funny? 
When it is dumb, random or you can relate to it
Example:  Nepoleon Dynamite
Source: movie
Why is it reliable?:

2. What makes someone fall in love?:
Example: 
Source:
Why is it reliable?: ]]> 2017-11-22 18:53:01 UTC https://padlet.com/Mr_Feheley/12thNighIntroPM/wish/209530699 https://padlet.com/Mr_Feheley/12thNighIntroPM/wish/209531384 When something is over exaggerated or impractical  it makes it more funny. Also, most styles of humor tend to be more funny when mixed with another style of humor such as farce comedy, situational comedy, and physical comedy. 

What makes someone fall in love

]]> 2017-11-22 18:56:26 UTC https://padlet.com/Mr_Feheley/12thNighIntroPM/wish/209531384 Mr_Feheley https://padlet.com/Mr_Feheley/12thNighIntroPM/wish/209966951 Exaggeration 

Context/Relatable (audience must understand the joke)

Punchline 

Violates norms in a non-threatening way

What Makes People Fall in Love:

Physical Attraction

Shared/similar goals/values

Emotional/Personal Connection, able to be yourself


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