What is Humor?

Interviews: What is humor? What makes you laugh?

Humor is anything that makes you laugh.
Other people's embarrassing mistakes make me laugh (ex- a lady walked into my meeting this morning and sat down and then realized it was the wrong meeting. Once she laughed we all cracked up). Also, corny jokes make me laugh.

Humor is a trait that someone can have to make other people laugh.
People with funny facial expressions make me laugh. Comedians make me laugh, especially the inappropriate ones. Politicians also make me laugh, especially the ones who make promises, don't follow through, and then make the same promises four years later.

Humor is anything that's funny.
Sarcasm makes me laugh. I also laugh at my own jokes a lot. I think I'm hilarious.

Humor is what makes life enjoyable. If you don't have a sense of humor you're not fun to be around.
Other people's physical pain makes me laugh. Like the stuff on Tosh.0, I can't watch that show without laughing. Also, my test grades tend to make me laugh sometimes because they're so bad. You know what they say, if you're not laughing you're not living.

What is Literature and Civilization?

These were videos. I uploaded them and everything. Then I found out that my speaker on my phone is broken so the videos won’t do much good. So here are the interviews written out…

Interview 1

What is Literature?

Anything in written form such as books or maybe movie scripts and music and stuff

What is civilization?

Anything having to do with the culture of people living in the same area or social developments

How do they relate?

Civilization is the evolvement of human interaction so in order to have that happen you need literature

Interview 2

What is literature?

The written way that people express and their ideals no matter how abstract so that they can fulfill their desire to find themselves

What is civilization?

A group of people who come together around common goals or common laws or rules to accomplish the simple task of survival

How do they relate?

Literature is what arises as a way for you to describe your civilization

Interview 3

What is literature?

The study of old time English such as poets and Shakespeare

What is civilization?

Humans populating the earth. Wherever there are concentrations of people there is a civilization such as the Mayans and Aztecs

How do they relate?

To build your civilization you have to understand literature and the language of the times so that everyone can communicate and understand each other

Interview 4

What is literature?

Hmm what is literature. Obviously writing. It’s a pretty modern kind of thing. It’s the writing of different cultures mainly for entertainment or to get a message across so it’s not just writing in itself  because say I’m taking notes in class, I wouldn’t count that as literature but the notes that I’m taking on books, the Iliad, To Kill a Mockingbird, Holes, those are literature. Those are good books. So yah I’d say anything like inspirational kind of stuff that’s literature. Mainly books. I would say books.

What is civilization?

Civilization, that’s a tough one. I’d say civilization started when people stayed in one spot. Because before, I’ll give you a little history lesson, before, they would follow their animals, so they wouldn’t stay in one spot. I wouldn’t count that as civilization because they didn’t leave any records or anything like that. So I would say civilization is maybe a city, a bunch of people working together, a permanent location. That’s what I would say civilization is.

How do they relate?

Wow. That’s a trick question I did not see that one coming. Ok, civilization so as you have different literatures in different cultures and different styles and stuff, you can see how they would be different just by looking at their civilization see. Say like one civilization in South America, their entire civilization effects their literature. So I would say the connection is that literature really depends on where and what kind of area you live in and who you live with. Because a lot of say literature is religious and different civilizations have different religions. Some civilizations have different laws for different people so maybe some people couldn’t read literature in some civilizations and others could. So really it’s all one in the same literature and civilization.